Ulrich Fischer (musician)

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Ulrich Kaon Fischer (2019)

Ulrich Fischer (born October 29, 1971 in Kassel ) is a German musician and composer . He lives in Berlin.

Life

Ulrich Fischer went to school in Eschwege in northern Hesse . After graduation in 1990, he started community service in 1991 first a study of chemistry in Marburg, but moved in 1994 to the University of Giessen for the Institute for Applied Theater Studies , which he with the 1999 Diploma left. During his studies, he had the opportunity to work on projects with Heiner Goebbels , Bobby Baker, Richard Schechner , Jean Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet , while taking singing lessons from Anselm Richter. From 1998 he worked as an assistant director for various independent theater groups in Berlin, such as the Berlin men's ensemble ( Die Bakchen nach Euripides ) and Morph 2026. In 1999, after completing his studies in Giessen, he finally moved to Berlin.

During an apprenticeship as a sound engineer at the SAE School Of Audioengineering in Berlin from 2002-2003, he began to work for the music software company Ableton AG , where he worked in sales and trainer certification until 2009, most recently in a managerial position. After further training in the applied voice physiology course at the Lichtenberg Institute and as an NLP practitioner, master and trainer in the years 2008–2012, he has been self-employed since 2010 as a coach, voice and communication trainer.

In 2011–2017 he was also a lecturer at the Chair for Theater and Media Studies at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

Fischer has a younger sister.

Artistic career

music

Ulrich Fischer is known as a musician and composer under the name Kaon from the Gothic scene of the 1990s. Today he also uses the stage name Ulrich Kaon. In addition to singing, the cello was his preferred instrument at that time, today he works mainly with electronic sounds and guest musicians. He began taking cello lessons at the age of 5 and was a boy soprano in various choir and orchestral ensembles during school . His voice today is baritone , he trained his voice from 2007 in Berlin with Jule Unterspann and Schirin Zareh.

In 1993 the first text settings were made in collaboration with Christian Dörge. As a founding member of the band Syria produced by Christian Dörge, he worked as a guest musician on the cello and co-arranger on studio recordings in Basel from 1993 to 1994 .

In 1994 Fischer met Tilo Wolff and Anne Nurmi from the Lacrimosa music project through Dörge . Wolff contributed settings to Christian Dörge's 1993 CD Lycia . Wolff engaged Fischer in 1994 as a cellist for studio recordings for the maxi CD Schakal (1994) and the album Inferno (1995) as well as for an acoustic gig in 1996 on the occasion of the presentation of the Alternative Rock Music Awards given to Lacrimosa by the Zillo music magazine.

After the separation from Syria in 1994, the work on his own song material began during the several months' stay in Basel in the summer of 1994. Texts and recordings for the solo album followed in 1995 in Gießen. In 1996 Kaon - Random Walk was released on the German label Discordia. In addition to eight own songs, the album also contains a cover version of Say Hello, Wave Goodbye by the British synth-pop duo Soft Cell . Intro critic Klaus Schneider attested the “debut CD” to a “high level”: “ Sometimes recorded with classical instruments such as cello and oboe, Random Walk is the finest avant-garde pop, the most striking (sic!) With Wolfsheim and yours Lackeys is to be compared. "

Since 2017 there has been a collaboration with the Berlin producer Enrico Tiberi (Nrec) for new song material. The release of a second solo album by Kaon is planned for the course of 2020 after a break of more than 20 years.

Theater and performance

In July 1997 Fischer had a short guest appearance during the festival for 12 hours in a performance by his fellow students She She Pop under the title Schlammbeißers Reisen .

In the cross-genre performance project with Manuela Weichenrieder Uli & Manu: A song for the notary , Fischer combined his musical roots with theater training in 1998. Apart from some biographical theater passages, the multimedia evening included film projections. In addition to the action, Fischer contributed vocal passages and cello playing. It was shown at the student theater festival Theatermaschine 98 with performances in Gießen and Marburg.

In 2005 Ulrich Fischer took over the design of the sound design for the documentary theater project Samtmann - Family Evening, 5 years later in the direction of Nicola Unger and Regina Wenig in the Sophiensaele in Berlin and in 2009 again sound design and sound engineering for Unserdeutsch - a documentary South Seas fairy tale directed by Nicola Unger. After the premiere in 2009 at the Akademie der Künste Berlin as part of the Languages ​​Without Borders festival , it was shown in Rotterdam, The Hague, Hamburg and Dresden. In addition, Ulrich Kaon Fischer performed as a singer in 2014 with the cabaret duo Die MIME * sissies .

Memberships

Discography

As a guest musician & arranger

  • 1994 Legacy of the sun . Lacrimosa : Jackal , Hall of Sermon / Deathwish Office
  • 1994 Structure (Extended Remix) . Syria: Giving Ground , Detroid Music
  • 1995 Structure and Fragments . Syria: Ozymandias Of Egypt , Derrière Records / Black October Records
  • 1995 Legacy of the Sun. Lacrimosa: Inferno , Hall of Sermon / Deathwish Office
  • 1999 Legacy of the sun . Lacrimosa : Inferno / Jackal, Irond

Sampler contributions

  • 1996 Space . Sampler: Taste This 6 , Discordia
  • 1997 Whispers . Sampler: Zillo - Mystic Sounds Vol. 06 , EFA

Solo albums

  • 1996 Kaon - Random Walk (Discordia)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ person | ulrich-fischer.info. Accessed February 1, 2020 (German).
  2. ↑ Volker Trauth: lust for life against reasons of state. In: neue-deutschland.de. February 16, 1999, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Ulrich Fischer: top notes. In: Communication & Seminar. Junfermann Verlag, May 1, 2013, accessed on February 1, 2020 . P. 31.
  4. ↑ Ulrich Fischer: Well tuned. In: Communication & Seminar. Junfermann Verlag, February 1, 2011, accessed on February 1, 2020 . P. 36.
  5. ↑ Thomas Tijang (tt): Universities: How does creativity work? In: wim-magazin.de - Economy in Middle Franconia. IHK Nürnberg, October 1, 2012, p. 59 , accessed on February 1, 2020 .
  6. ^ A b Claus Müller: Kaon "Random Walk" . In: Orkus . No. 6 . Zoomia Media Group, Glashütten / Taunus 1996.
  7. ^ Christian Dörge. Biography. In: last.fm. Last.fm Ltd., accessed February 1, 2020 .
  8. ^ Peter Boßdorf: Kaon . In: Zillo . Lübeck 1997, p. 76 . Edition March 1997
  9. ^ Laut.de biography: Lacrimosa. In: laut.de. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Interview with Kaon in: Claus Müller: Kaon . In: Orkus . Zoomia Medien-Gruppe, Glashütten / Taunus 1996. Issue July / August 1996
  11. ^ Rüdiger Freund: Kaon: "Random Walk" . In: Zillo . Lübeck 1996. Edition July / August 1996
  12. ^ Klaus Schneider: Kaon: "Random Walk" . In: Intro - InRegio Rhein-Main-Saar . 1996. Edition June 1996
  13. ↑ Ulrich KAON Fischer - Singer / Songwriter / Producer. In: soundbetter.com. Retrieved February 1, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Mudbiter's Travels. In: sheshepop.de. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Nikola Herweg: Guildo Horn even storms the student theater . In: Gießener Anzeiger . Giessen May 27, 1998, p. 11 .
  16. ↑ af: Dared the leap from Katja Ebstein to Ingeborg Bachmann . In: Gießener Allgemeine . Giessen May 27, 1998.
  17. ↑ bright: There is more family between crisis and an ideal world than we can imagine. In: welt.de. February 18, 2005, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Kunst-Stoff e. V .: Unserdeutsch - a documentary South Sea fairy tale. In: kunststoff-verein.blogspot.com. June 30, 2008, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Petra Lambeck: “Hey Alfons, are you going where?” In: Deutsche Welle - dw.com. June 22, 2009, accessed February 2, 2020 .
  20. ^ Profiles: Ulrich Fischer. In: dvnlp.de. German Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming V., accessed on February 1, 2020 .
  21. ^ Syria - Ozymandias Of Egypt. In: discogs.com. Accessed February 1, 2020 .
  22. ↑ Kaon. In: musik-sammler.de. Carsten Henkelmann, accessed on February 1, 2020 .
  23. ^ Petra Lindner: Random Walk. Kaon. In: intro.de. August 11, 1996, accessed January 30, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES KAON
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and composer
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel