Wilhelm Seefeldt

Wilhelm "Willy" Seefeldt (born April 10, 1934 in Berlin ) is a Swiss musician ( banjo , guitar , synthesizer , computer , percussion , composition ) and visual artist.

Seefeldt, who grew up in Basel since the beginning of the war in 1939 , began playing the guitar at the age of fifteen. In 1953 he came to the banjo and played for about ten years in the New Orleans band Street Creolers as well as in a duo with banjo and guitar player Peter Schmidli. In 1970 he changed the genre: he bought a synthesizer and began to deal with electronic music , but also with other sound phenomena ( wind harp ). In his main occupation, Seefeldt was a teacher and supervisor of difficult to educate young people. Then he revived the freely improvising electronics group Brainticket with Joël Vandroogenbroeck and Hans Deyssenroth , in which he was already involved in several concerts in 1972, and was involved in two of the band's albums. In recent years he has created new compositions, especially with the Max / MSP programming language and software synthesizers. As a visual artist, he also created aleatoric images and dealt with videos ( Art et Hasard 2009 exhibition in Boncourt ).

Discographic notes

• Brainticket: Adventure ( Bellaphon , 1979)
• Brainticket: Voyage (Bellaphon, 1981)
• New Age Concert (Sphinx, 1984)
• VA Mgrs Rmxs (Migros, 2001)
• Reflections on the eau

Lexigraphic entries

• Bruno Spoerri , Biographical Lexicon of Swiss Jazz CD supplement to: B. Spoerri (Hrsg.): Jazz in Switzerland. History and stories. Chronos-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-0340-0739-6

Web links

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