Willem Schulz

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Willem Schulz (* 1950 in Hamburg ) is a German composer, cellist, performer and artistic director of interdisciplinary productions.

Willem Schulz

Life

Willem Schulz grew up in a family of musicians in Vlotho . From 1967 he studied at the Detmold University of Music . At the same time, he was influenced by Fluxus and Happening . As a schoolboy he experimented with expanding the musical concept and with free improvisation. For several years he worked with the pioneer for musical group improvisation Lilli Friedemann . Since 1972 he has been a member of NED with Gerhard Stäbler and Max E. Keller and the Ensemble Musica Negativa under the direction of Rainer Riehn and Heinz-Klaus Metzger .

In 1976, in the context of the alternative movement, Schulz founded the Wilde Rose cultural center in Melle , Lower Saxony, together with other young people . Self-determination, self-organization, holistic learning and the abolition of the separation of life and work were on their flags. He lives and works there to this day.

Since the 1980s Schulz has been developing music as an intervention , as an unusual social event, as free artistic 'research' in public, on the street, in the landscape. In 1984 he co-founded the First Improvising String Orchestra, of which he is still a member. From 1987 to 1989 he held the position of town musician in Osnabrück, where he “deleted” the three Osnabrück town music, “Atem” and “Moment Mal”.

One focus of his work was the staging of architecture, city and landscape with live musical means. For the latter, he coined the term "Musical LandArt". His interest is the encounter and crossing of new music with all possible areas of life. So he recorded z. For example, with an orchestra for a weekend at different times of the day and night in 7 concerts the island of Spiekeroog : “ting II” (1995). With his “Stadtsinfonie” he staged the centers of various inner cities. He realized a “BodenSinnfonie” with musicians and dancers in cooperation with workers and their construction machines and the like. a. at the Expo 2000 in Hanover. For the “open string quartet” he composed the cycle “weitersang” (2007), with which locations such as an empty factory, a quarry pond, a castle or a modern theater building were extensively used. With the Bielefelder Philharmoniker he worked on his decentralized composition “pointediert” (2006). And as a project for cello performance, he developed the concept “Das Haus als Partitur”, in which he interpreted over 50 completely different buildings with all rooms inside and outside as soloists.

Schulz has been the artistic director of the new music festival DIAGONALE, which he created, since 2004. In 2005 he became chairman of the Cooperativa Neue Musik eV in Bielefeld. With this association and in collaboration with the musician Marcus Beuter, he was able to realize numerous concerts and projects, such as Cage 100, "Eine Lange Nacht Musik" or the "Bielefelder Schwärme", a social sculpture with 800 participants around the Obersee.

He worked temporarily as a lecturer at the Universities of Hildesheim and Bielefeld , the Alice Salomon University in Berlin , the Bielefeld Laboratory School and the DansArt Academy.

Willem Schulz is a freelance composer and musician, works together with musicians and artists from other disciplines in numerous concerts and projects at home and abroad. a. two South America tours with the Japanese butoh dancer Minako Seki and a China tour with the musician Xu Fengxia .

Prizes and awards

Works (selection)

  • Rost (1985) theater music
  • canceled (1987) Stadtmusik: An orchestra for 16 hours in the city center
  • Atem (1988) A multimedia large-area composition for 70 participants and tape
  • Klangstraße (1993) Interactive electronic room sound installation, KlangArt Festival Osnabrück
  • Rural Swamp Pony (1995)
  • Room composition for agricultural machinery and provincial sounds
  • ting II (1995) orchestral performance
  • Spiekeroog - music for an island: 7 concerts at 7 locations at 7 times
  • A & O (1996) Composition for accordion and organ
  • Odyssey (1996/97) A bus trip to 13 locations: Art in the footsteps of a region
  • 3 KlangZeit (1997) for mixed choir
  • Solo for 5 (1998) 35 solo compositions for accordion, sound poetry, trombone, tap dance and soprano saxophone,
  • arche nova (1998) An art caravan with 100 participants on the road for 1 month in 20 cities on the occasion of the 350th anniversary of the Peace of Westphalia
  • Sculptures (1999) 8 objects for piano
  • cellakk (2000) for cello and accordion
  • bodenSINNphonie (2000), a room composition on the subject of flooring for tuba, baritone saxophone, voices, drums and percussion, front loaders and tipping hangers, hexers, ram, vibrating plate, caulking hammer, flex, earth hammer, mixer, shovels and wheelbarrows, earth containers, sand, gravel and stones , Street cleaning vehicle and conductor, EXPO 2000 Hanover
  • Shouts, silence. (2001) for soprano, flutes, accordion and percussion
  • Stadtsinfonie (2001) KlangRaumKomposition for a market square, Osnabrück, Gütersloh, Lemgo, Bielefeld
  • Kamikaze (2002) New Music Theater, Theaterlabor Bielefeld, Theater Kontrapunkt, Düsseldorf
  • tune I - VIII (2002-2009) orchestral performance, staged during the development of Hamburg's HafenCity
  • listen (2002) musical LandArt, staging of the 3 km long lakeside promenade in Zurich, compositions for 350 players in 37 formations: solos, ensembles, orchestras and choirs
  • Heimat Ohneziel Namenlos (2002) Music for dance theater, Municipal Theaters Osnabrück
  • wave symphony (2003), for crossover ensemble, architecture, fireworks and light
  • Skin, salt, body. (2004) Music for dance theater, for female voice, string quartet, clarinet / bass clarinet, percussion and electronics
  • Compression and mechanical loosening (2004), for soprano, 8 trombones, 4 percussionists, 9 workers with construction machines and 4 wheel loaders in an architecture of 25 skips, Braunschweig State Theater
  • listen BI (2005) concerto grosso generatioso, musical staging in downtown Bielefeld with formations of different genres and generations
  • pointed (2006) decentralized orchestra performance, Bielefeld Philharmonic Orchestra
  • resurrection (annually since 2006) performance ritual at the beginning of spring for cello solo in the Capella hospitalis Bielefeld
  • Furthermore Gesang (2007) 18 musical sculptures for staged string quartet
  • ORION - muzyka miasta (2008) City music for Stettin, 70 musical scenarios for accordion, cello, alto saxophone, trombone, female voice, double bass, violin, viola, conductor, percussion
  • à la capella (2009) a social concert
  • Silva.Musica (2011) EINE WALDSINFONIE Musical LandArt for string orchestra, female voices, saxophone, percussion and dancer
  • Zyklon (2011) performance for hurled cello
  • Existence (2011) for butoh dance and cello performance with Minako Seki
  • Die Nager (2012) Composition for 10 fingers on classical guitar in changing positions
  • zuallen (2012) room composition for 21 musicians; 100th anniversary of John Cage's homage
  • Haus für Tuba (2012) Composition for tuba solo, flute, clarinet, trumpet, piano and percussion with choreographic instructions; for the project STATIONS with the ensemble: Hörsinn, Münster
  • The House as a Score (2013) Cello Solo Performance
  • Bielefelder Schwärme (2014) a city as a social work of art, with 800 participants from 80 associations staged around the Obersee
  • for cello (2016) cycle of 24 pieces
  • fliegend (2017) for 3 female voices
  • comunicazione (2018) fine digital-analog app composition
  • listen! la valle risuona (2018) Musical LandArt, for wind instruments, strings, percussion, singers and dancers, MonteArte / Ticino
  • WASSER - the sensible chaos (2018) for female voice, soprano saxophone, violoncello and electronics, festival “art and healthy” Bad Kissingen
  • 5 SEEN (2018) Co-composition with Xu Fengxia, for 3 female voices, 1 male voice, Guzheng, Sanxian, clarinet, cello, monochord, piano, fragment recordings and electronics

Publications (selection)

  • Senza misura (1999) The First Improvising String Orchestra
  • cello solo (2000) performance in the art kite museum Detmold
  • Kamikaze (2000) Compositions for New Music Theater
  • cello in contact (2012) 43 dialogues with the world
  • kraan gaar ak (2017) Namu 3
  • un deux trois quatre (2019) Namu 3
  • oct. 18, 2:09 am (2019) oona kastner & willem schulz
  • flying strings (2020) open string quartet & guests

Ensembles

  • First improvising string orchestra
  • Trio Dekadenz with Anke Züllich-Lisken and Gerd Lisken
  • open string quartet with Christiane Kumetat, Susanne Schulz and Johanna Geith
  • TATUNTAT with Anna Bella Eschengerd and Marcus Beuter
  • Saimaa with Anna-Katariina Hollmerus, Christian Beckers and David Herzel
  • Namu3 with Steve Gibbs and Joachim Raffels
  • Collaboration with numerous musicians of all genres as well as in numerous projects with the dancers Minako Seki , Erneste Junge and Gudrun Soujon, the photographer Maria Otte and the director Marcello Monaco.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.erstesimprovisierendesstreichorchester.de/
  2. ↑ https://www.musik-for.uni-oldenburg.de/soundscape/ting.htm
  3. ↑ https://cooperativaneuemusik.wordpress.com/die-cnm/impressum/
  4. ↑ https://www.nw.de/lokal/bielefeld/mitte/11253391_Bielefelder-geraten-ins-Schwaermen.html
  5. ↑ https://www.muenster.de/friede/d/00_homepage/arche.htm
  6. ↑ http://www.projekt-tune.de/
  7. ↑ http://marcusbeuter.de/tatuntat/
  8. ↑ https://soundingarts.wixsite.com/namu3
  9. ↑ http://ernestejunge-tanz.de/
  10. ↑ https://gudrun-soujon.de/
personal data
SURNAME Schulz, Willem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, musician and performer
DATE OF BIRTH 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg