Ute Wassermann
Ute Wassermann (* 1960 ) is a German voice artist, composer and sound artist.
Life
Before she discovered the voice as the essential part of her work, Wassermann studied fine arts with a focus on sound installations and performance at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts a . a. with Henning Christiansen and Allan Kaprow . This was followed by a degree in fine arts, music and singing at the University of California, San Diego . From 1993–1994 she received a scholarship from the Akademie Schloss Solitude and in 2015 she received a scholarship from the Civitella Ranieri in Italy.
Create
Ute Wassermann has developed vocal techniques that she uses in very different forms such as vocal performances, compositions, improvisations and installations. The human voice is expanded in different directions by Aquarius. This also leads to the use of bird's voice and palate whistles as well as various resonance and loudspeaker objects.
She is a co-founder of the artist collective Les Femmes Savantes in 2005. This collective is a composer-performer ensemble, other members are Sabine Ercklentz , Andrea Neumann and Ana Maria Rodriguez. She plays with Richard Scott and Emilio Gordoa in parak.eets and with her quartet speak easy ( Phil Minton , Thomas Lehn and Martin Blume ). She also played as an improvisation duo with Aleksander Kolkowski , Rhodri Davies , Joke Lanz , Birgit Ulher , Els Vandeweyer , Charlotte Hug , Richard Barrett and John Russell .
Wassermann also performed compositions by Chaya Czernowin , Henning Christiansen , Hans-Joachim Hespos , Salvatore Sciarrino , Luciano Berio , Simon Steen-Andersen , Matthias Kaul , Cathy van Eck and Richard Barrett .
Works
- Main gauche - souffle - main droite , installation / performance for flute, contact microphones and 2 loudspeakers (1986)
- Windy Gong for voice, microphone, prepared loudspeaker and gong (1995)
- fausse voix for voice, electrified gong, bird whistle (2006)
- Soledades , vocal performance with bird whistle in Plänterwald in Berlin (2014)
- InPutOut for microphones, loudspeakers and metal plates (2015)
- Pneuma for voice and speaking machine (2016)
- Strange Songs for voice and bird whistle (2016)
Discography
- Ute Wassermann, Birgit Ulher Kunststoff (Creative Sources 2004)
- Ute Wassermann Birdtalking (Only / Not / Only 2007)
- Ute Wassermann, Richard Barrett Pollen (Creative Sources 2007)
- Alex Kolkowski , Ute Wassermann Squall Line (psi 2011)
- Ute Wassermann Ute Wassermann - A Retrospective Tribute | 1984-2012 (Audition Records 2011)
- Ute Wassermann, Birgit Ulher Radio Tweet (Creative Sources 2015)
Web links
- Website Les Femmes Savantes
- Website parak.eets
- Video interview of the Agosto Foundation with Ute Wassermann
literature
- Reimar Reetz: Experiments with inner and outer spaces. The voice performer Ute Wassermann. In: positions No. 70, (2007), ISSN 0941-4711.
- Julian Cowley: Ute Wassermann - The German Improv vocalist pushes her body to extreme limits to generate multiphonic ululations. In: The Wire . No. 284, (2007), ISSN 0952-0686.
- Cathy van Eck: Between Air and Electricity. Microphones and Loudspeakers as Musical Instruments. Bloomsbury Academic, New York 2017. ISBN 978-1-5013-2760-5 ( Windy Gong by Ute Wassermann: Singing through the gong pp. 153-155).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Les Femmes Savantes site Les Femmes Savantes. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
- ↑ parak.eets website parak.eets. Retrieved December 21, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Aquarius, Ute |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German voice artist, composer and sound artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1960 |