Wolfgang Seidel (musician)

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Wolfgang Seidel, 1970
Wolfgang Seidel, 2013
Eruption concert flyer 1969

Wolfgang Seidel (* 1949 ) is a German musician of vanguard and founding member of the German rock band One Ton . Since 2005 he has also worked as an author and journalist .

Life

Seidel grew up in Berlin-Kreuzberg , where he still lives today. At 16 he played drums in a beat band . In 1970 he was a musician at the apprentice theater Rote Steine and co-founder of the socially critical rock group Ton Steine ​​Scherben . He played the drums on the 1971 single "Macht kaputt was dich kaputt" and the first album "Why is it so dirty?" In 1972 he left the band and joined the group Eruption founded by the Joseph Beuys student and intermedia artist Conrad Schnitzler . He said of this change:

“The music of Ton Steine ​​Schorben didn't keep me captivated for long. That's why I left the band early. I was much more fascinated by the music performance club Zodiak Free Arts Lab run by Beuys' student Conrad Schnitzler. The zodiac consisted of a white and a black, empty room. "

Cooperation with Schnitzler lasted until his death in 2011. At that appeared in the 1980s albums consequence I + II and Con3 Seidel was under the stage name Sequenza represented. It was also during this period that he founded the Popular Mechanics group . In the 1990s, Seidel withdrew temporarily from music and earned his living as a graphic artist. Since the turn of the millennium he has been active again as a drummer and synthesizer player in the field of improvised music. In the spring of 2005 his book about the "broken glass" was published. In 2015 the CD "Five Eyes" with Alfred Harth came out.

Discography

With clay stones shards

With Alfred 23 Harth

With popular mechanics

  • Sharp Cut (single, 1981)
  • Popular mechanics (MC, 1982)
  • Beat the Whites with the Yellow Wedge (MC, 1983)
  • Collection 03 (CD, LP, 2015)

With Carrie

  • Rising of Scorpio (EP, 1995)

With Conrad Schnitzler

  • On the Black Channel (1979) (EP)
  • Con 3 (1980)
  • Consequence (1981)
  • Consequence II (1986)
  • Vulcano (2009, recorded in 1971)
  • Admira (2009, recorded in 1971)
  • 10 kW / h (2010, recorded in 1973–1977)
  • Klusterstrasse 69-72 (8 Lp-Box, 2012)
  • kWh 01/03 (2016, LP "a tribute to anthony braxton", with Pyrolator , Commissioner Hjuler , Mama Baer and others)
  • 4'33 - 0'33 = X (2016, LP "John Cage & Helmut Kohl", with Commissioner Hjuler , Mama Baer , Franz Kamin and others)

With Bernhard Wöstheinrich

  • Cobblestone (2016)
  • Kreuzberg Polyphony Session, Ep. 4 (2017) with Volker Lankow (percussion)

Publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eruption was originally the name of a series of events that was located between free improvisation and Fluxus action, the core of which included the group Kluster , which Schnitzler had founded with Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Dieter Moebius . After Schnitzler's departure in 1971 there was confusion about the rights to the band name, which is why Schnitzler initially continued under the name Eruption. Roedelius and Moebius later changed the name of their group to Cluster , and the rights to the name Kluster returned to Schnitzler.
  2. ↑ 11.03.2017 A Long Night over Conrad Schnitzler Sometimes it degenerates into music By Beate and Stefan Becker Deutschlandfunk / Deutschlandfunk Kultur March 11, 2017
  3. ↑ Blurb of the LP Popular Mechanics compiled by Holger Hiller [1]
  4. ↑ https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/115/scherben
  5. ↑ https://www.ventil-verlag.de/titel/1735/wir-muessen-hier-raus
personal data
SURNAME Seidel, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1949