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Tom Rojo Poller (* 1978 in Osnabrück ) is a German composer.

Artistic career

Poller studied composition in Detmold as a young student at the HfM, in London at the Royal College of Music and with Walter Zimmermann at the Berlin University of the Arts, from which he also graduated and graduated as a master class student . He also completed a master’s degree in German, philosophy and musicology at the Humboldt University in Berlin.

His works have been performed by various ensembles at home and abroad. He has a particularly close collaboration with the Ensemble Adapter, with whom the portrait CD “geht” was created.

music

Poller's music often arises from dealing with theoretical and conceptual issues, whereby the focus is always on the sensual experience of the sounding phenomenon of music. He is particularly interested in the subject of “time” and the relationship between music and language.

More recent works pursue an approach that tries to integrate external and foreign musical material recognizably into the work structure; in this way works were created that are based on Stravinsky's and Schönberg's audio documents or on readings of texts by Alexander Kluge .

In addition to the tradition of occidental music (and here especially its lesser-known sides such as the Ars subtilior ), Poller is also known through non-European music and other contemporary music practices such as B. influenced by electronic music. In 2006 he took part in the intercultural project “global interplay”, in 2013 a piece was created based on Korean Sanjo music , and Poller composed a remix of the track Caffeine for acoustic ensemble for the Berlin techno project Brandt Brauer Frick .

Awards and grants

• 2013 Villa Aurora, Los Angeles
• 2012 German Academy Rome / Casa Baldi
• 2011 Elsa Naumann scholarship
• 2010 artist houses Lukas and Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2009 Cité des Arts Paris
• 2002 Gasag Young Talent Award
• Composition grants from the Berlin Senate

Selection of works

• Music by Numbers 1 (Stravinsky Rework), 2 (Schoenberg Rework) and 3 (Schoenvinsky Rework) (2013)
• OH SOLITUDE | OOIUE after Henry Purcell (2013)
• Rescattered Melodies - Sanjo Remix (2013)
• The groping ear , video (2013)
• Overwrite machine , musical theater miniature based on Franz Kafka's letter to his father (2012)
• Speech machine | Original sound , audio piece based on a text by Rainer Maria Rilke (2012)
• THE SCIENCE OF TIME according to Alexander Kluge (2011/12)
• CAN FEE IF (Caffeine-Remix) (2011)
• Raudau um K. based on a radio play by Walter Benjamin (2010)
• Steinhof for orchestra in four sections (2010)
• El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan [The garden of paths that branch out] by Jorge Luis Borges (2008/09)
• Hyperborea (2007)
• Going to Thomas Bernhard (2006)
• Aporie (About Time) based on a poem by Durs Grünbein (2006)
• Arboretum (2005)
• Constellatio splendens (2005)
• Nomoi (2004)
• Motetus (2004)

Web links

• Homepage of Tom Rojo Poller

Individual evidence

1. ↑ trpoller.de
2. ↑ http://www.ensemble-adapter.de/2-0-Aufhaben.html
3. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated November 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ trpoller.de
6. ↑ http://trpoller.de/Musik.html