Volker Straebel

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Volker Straebel (* 1969 in Berlin ) is a German musicologist and composer and performer of experimental music.

Life

Straebel grew up in Berlin (West). He studied musicology , philosophy and library science at the Technical University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin (Magister Artium). As a music journalist , u. a. for the Berliner Tagesspiegel (1996–2001) and the Berlin pages of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (2001–2002), he documented contemporary music and sound art in Berlin. From 2002–2014 he was curatorial advisor to the MaerzMusik festival at the Berliner Festspiele . 2009–2014 he headed the electronic studio in the audio communication department at the Technical University of Berlin . In 2015 Straebel took over the management of the master's degree in Sound Studies at the Berlin University of the Arts , which he fundamentally reformed in 2017 as Sound Studies and Sonic Arts.

Straebel researches and publishes on the history and aesthetics of experimental music and sound art . In these fields he is also active as a composer and interpreter.

Works

Fonts

  • “Musical representation of geometric objects in Alvin Lucier's chamber music,” in: Alvin Lucier, ed. Ulrich Tadday [= music concepts 180/81]. Munich: Edition Text + Critique 2018. ISBN 978-3-86916-650-6 .
  • Volker Straebel and Wilm Thoben: "Alvin Lucier's 'Music for Solo Performer' - Experimental Music Beyond Sonification," in: Organized Sound 19: 1 (April 2014). doi: 10.1017 / S135577181300037X
  • "Media Music," in: Acoustic Basics of Music, ed. Stefan Weinzierl. Handbook of Systematic Musicology, vol. 5. Laaber: Laaber Verlag 2014. ISBN 978-3-89007-699-7 .
  • “Notes on the Sonification Metaphor in Instrumental Music,” in: Das schulte Ohr. A Cultural History of Sonification, eds. Andi Schoon and Axel Volmar. Bielefeld: Transcript 2012. ISBN 978-3-8376-2049-8 .
  • "From Reproduction to Performance: Media-Specific Music for Compact Disc," in: Leonardo Music Journal 19 (2009). doi: 10.1162 / lmj.2009.19.23
  • “On the early history and typology of sound installation,” in: Klangkunst, ed. Ulrich Tadday [= music concepts, special issue]. München: Edition Text + Critique 2008. ISBN 978-3-88377-953-9 .
  • "Technological implications of Phill Niblock's drone music, derived from analytical observations of selected works for cello and string quartet on tape," in: Organized Sound 13: 3 (Dec. 2008). doi: 10.1017 / S1355771808000320 ; in German translation: “Akustische Geographie. Composition and Technology in Phill Niblock's Drone Music, "in: MusikTexte 132 (2012)

Pieces

  • Chromatic (8 octaves over 1/8 Hz) , digital audio (silent), 2018. Released on Segmod , CD Dumpf Edition # 12, Zurich 2019
  • 101 W 18th St. (Sound Observation # 8) , sound installation, five channel digital audio, 2011/12. Group exhibition “Membra Disjecta for John Cage - Wanting to Say Something About John,” Freiraum Quartier21 International, MuseumsQuartier Vienna 2012
  • E "very promise of the soul has innumerable fulfilments." Emerson attributes , for speaker and two-channel digital audio, 2010. The Wulf, Los Angeles
  • Center and Grand . Sound Observation # 5, live diffusion of four-channel digital audio, 2010. Experimental Intermedia, New York
  • Hegenbart / Straebel: 09-11-1938 , sound installation in commemoration of “Kristallnacht”, 2008. Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin. In collaboration with Boris Hegenbart
  • Guben, 1625 , four-channel digital audio, 2001, Mex in the Künstlerhaus Dortmund
  • Mikado , solo performance with four-channel amplification, 1995. Friends of Guter Musik, Berlin

Realizations

  • John Cage: Song Books with Concert for Piano and Orchestra , opening production of MaerzMusik 2012, Berlin. Joan La Barbara , artistic direction; Ne (x) tworks; The Maulwerker; Volker Straebel, scenic dramaturgy; Martin Supper, sound direction; Harald Frings, light design
  • John Cage: Aachen Musicircus on Europeras with Europera 4 and Fontana Mix , composed realization by Volker Straebel, directed by Ludger Engels . Commissioned by Theater Aachen, 2006
  • John Cage: Urban Circus on Berlin Alexanderplatz , realization of Circus on based on Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin for speaker and 48-channel tape, 2001. Commissioned by Ultraschall Festival, Sender Freies Berlin, Berlin. Premiered by Hanns Zischler

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Volker Straebel - thoughts on music and related arts / musicological practice. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  2. ^ Department of audio communication: Electronic studio. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Sound Studies and Sonic Arts (Master of Arts) - University of the Arts Berlin. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Berliner Festspiele: MaerzMusik - John Cage / Joan La Barbara. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  5. ^ Aachen: Europeras / Online Music Magazine. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Urban Circus on Berlin Alexanderplatz: Performance: Fate rattles with a bunch of keys. Retrieved July 5, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Straebel, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musicologist and composer and performer of experimental music
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin