Stefan Goldmann

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Stefan Goldmann

Stefan Goldmann (* 1978 in Berlin ) is an electronic music composer , DJ and producer.

biography

Stefan Goldmann grew up in Berlin and Sofia . He studied audio communication at the TU Berlin and wrote a master's thesis on the auditory perception of polyrhythms. He then studied law, also in Berlin, and specialized in commercial and intellectual property law .

First publications

From around 1999 he began to produce electronic music, mainly techno and house , but also works that were composed through electroacoustics. First singles, EPs and remixes appeared from 2001 on labels in Great Britain and the USA. Since 2005 he has published for the Perlon and Innervisions labels and began performing internationally as a DJ, especially in the Berlin club Berghain . In 2007 Goldmann founded the Macro label , which not only presents its own productions but also works by other artists. There his first album The Transitory State was released at the same time as an album of electroacoustic compositions, Voices Of The Dead . For its live presentation, he developed the "Electroacoustic Salon", which will be continued as a series of events in Berghain.

The tracks of this time are characterized by independent approaches that were new to the club-cultural context, but remained closely connected to it. So with Sleepy Hollow , Lunatic Fringe or The Maze Tracks emerged that had an avant-garde effect and at the same time achieved annual polls. The way they deal with melodies, samples and rhythmic designs makes these tracks a defining influence on what is known as post-minimal techno.

Conceptual approaches

From 2009, Goldmann began to transfer what these tracks suggested to broader publications. Since then, the greater part of his work has been shaped by concepts that focus equally on musical content (e.g. rhythm and sound systems) as well as on production-related or media-specific properties (e.g. edit and loop techniques, sampling, grids, questions of digitization and auditory perception , format properties of carrier media). These include a. his remixes for Igor Stravinsky's “Le Sacre Du Printemps” and Christian Fennesz , the mix CD Macrospective , the album 17:50 and the ballet The Grand Hemiola , which was created in collaboration with the choreographer Kevin O'day. He describes his work as “finding and closing gaps.” Some of these works are barely perceptible as techno, but are mostly derived directly from its forms. The previous restriction to electronic sound generation has been expanded through collaborations, among others. a. with visual artists, filmmakers, ensembles for new music or bands.

In addition to his appearances as a DJ, there are increasingly commissioned works for cultural institutions and festivals. These include the music theater work Alif for MaerzMusik Berlin, as well as commissions from the Mannheim National Theater , the LACMA Museum in Los Angeles, Ny Musikk Norway or the BASF cultural program. He presented special concert programs at the Centro Cultural Kirchner (CCK) in Buenos Aires, at the Mutek Festival in Montreal, at the Zeche Zollverein in Essen and with the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt. With the latter he also appeared at the f (t) festival in 2018 , which he curated at the invitation of Radialsystem V in Berlin . In 2020 he designed the program of the Strom Festival of the Philharmonie Berlin , where he also played a concert in the Great Hall as the first electronic musician. Goldmann was also artist in residence in 2012 at Villa Kamogawa in Kyoto, where he staged a site-specific concert in the Honen-in Temple, and in 2017 at Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. Further artist residencies led him to Tokyo, Thessaloniki and Cusco.

Texts and teaching

Since 2007 he has been writing influential articles on digitization and the aesthetics of electronic music as a guest author in various media. a. in Wire Magazine . He has been writing a column for the Berghain program booklet since 2011 . In 2015, the book “Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound” was published , in which he investigated the aesthetic effects of digital music technology (including in interviews with Robert Henke , Cory Arcangel , Michael Wagener and others). Goldmann was part of the collective authors of the Berghain band "Berghain: Art in the Club" . An essay on the aesthetics of techno appeared in 2016 in the volume “Techno Studies” for the symposium of the same name at the Berlin University of the Arts . As a guest lecturer, he lectured and gave workshops at the University of the Arts in Berlin, the Folkwang University of Essen and the Bern University of the Arts, among others .

Works

Albums

  • The Transitory State (Macro 2008, double CD)
  • Voices Of The Dead (Macro 2008, 5x7 "Box Set)
  • Igor Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps Edit (Macro 2009, CD)
  • 17:50 (Macro 2012, 2x12 "/ CD)
  • Live At Honen-In Temple (Macro 2013, CD)
  • Industry (Macro 2014, CD / LP)
  • A1 (Macro 2016, CD)
  • Tacit Script (Macro 2019, CD)
  • Veiki (Macro 2019, CD)

Mix CDs

  • The Empty Foxhole (Mule Electronic 2009, Mix-CD)
  • Macrospective (Macro 2011, Mix-CD), with Finn Johannsen

DVD + soundtrack

  • Parameters (Macro 2012, DVD)
  • A1 - A strip of Swiss road. Soundtrack for the documentary by Mike Müller and Tobi Müller, Schweizer Fernsehen 2016 (CD release: Macro 2016)

Singles & EPs

  • The Shnic Shnac EP (Classic 2002, 12 ")
  • Macroply / Submerge (Classic 2003, 12 ")
  • Pain (Classic 2004, 12 ")
  • Shimmer EP (Ovum 2004, 12 ")
  • Life Cycle EP (Front Room 2004, 12 ")
  • Blood (Perlon 2005, 12 ")
  • Sleepy Hollow ( Innervisions 2006, 12 ")
  • Aurora / Beluga (Macro 2007, 12 ")
  • Lunatic Fringe (Macro 2007, 12 ")
  • Radiant Grace (Macro 2008, 12 ")
  • Wolverine (Mule Electronic 2008, 12 ")
  • Art Of Sorrow (Victoriaville 2009, 12 ")
  • Under The Beam / Yes To All (Cocoon 2009, 12 ")
  • The Maze (Macro 2010, 12 ")
  • Remasters Vol.1 (Victoriaville 2010, 12 ")
  • The Grand Hemiola (Macro 2011, 2 × 12 ")
  • Emptying The Vaults Vol. 1-3 (Victoriaville 2011, 3 × 12 ")
  • Adem EP (Macro 2012, 12 ")
  • Ghost Hemiola (Macro 2013, 2 × 12 ")
  • Remasters Vol.2 (Victoriaville 2013, 12 ")
  • Signs Taken For Wonders (Macro 2014, 12 ")
  • Anchors EP (Macro 2015, 12 ")
  • A1 Tools (Macro 2016, 12 ")
  • Radiolarian / Streams (Olga 2017, 12 ")
  • An Ardent Heart (Macro 2018, 12 "+ CD)
  • Tears of Joy (Macro 2020, 12 ")

Texts (selection)

  • Stefan Goldmann: “Cross modulation: Drafting a Techno-Aesthetic”, in: Kim Feser / Matthias Pasdzierny (eds.): “Techno Studies. Aesthetics and history of electronic dance music ", b books , Berlin, 2017. ISBN 978-3-942214-25-4 - French translation in Audimat, No.8 (2017)
  • Stefan Goldmann: “Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound”, The Bookworm, London, 2015. ISBN 978-1-874104-02-5 , French translation (excerpt): “Le grand complot des presets”, Audimat, No.5 (2016)
  • Stefan Goldmann: Interview with Carsten Nicolai , in: Berghain 10 - Art in the Club, Hatje Cantz , Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7757-3981-8
  • “Everything popular is wrong”, published by LittleWhiteEarbuds.com , German translation: “Everything popular is wrong” in TAZ die tageszeitung , August 6, 2011; Czech translation: Umelec Magazine, September 2011; Spanish translation: Indio at archive.org , October 16, 2012
  • "Presets", published in: Groove Magazin 139, November 2012
  • “Quality is overrated”, published by LittleWhiteEarbuds.com , November 2011
  • “Out of the comfort zone - new music and techno”, published in: Groove Magazin 131, July 2011
  • "On Amza Tairov and retuning scales", published by Modifyer.com , Process series 246, 2010
  • “Berlin”, published in: Faith Magazine, November 2007

Web links

Interviews

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rob Young: Interview with Stefan Goldmann, in: The Wire, Issue 314, April 2010, London
  2. ↑ f (t) festival - official website: ftfestival.org
  3. ^ Philharmonie Berlin: Strom - Festival for Electronic Music [1]
  4. ↑ CD: Stefan Goldmann: Live At Honen-In Temple (Macro M33 CD), 2013
  5. ^ Stefan Goldmann: "Everything popular is wrong", at LittleWhiteEarbuds.com, 2010. Dt. Transfered as “Everything popular is wrong”, in: TAZ die tageszeitung, 6 August 2011.
  6. ^ Stefan Goldmann: "Presets - Digital Shortcuts to Sound", The Bookworm, London, 2015. ISBN 978-1-874104-02-5
  7. ↑ Berghain (Ed.): "Art in the Club" Hatje Cantz , Berlin, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7757-3981-8
  8. ↑ Stefan Goldmann: “Cross modulation. Draft of a techno-aesthetic. ”In: Kim Feser / Matthias Pasdzierny (eds.):“ Techno Studies ”. b books, Berlin, 2016. ISBN 978-3-942214-25-4
  9. ↑ Online version on the C3 Festival website ( Memento from October 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Goldmann, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, DJ and producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin