30.11. KONTAKT DER JüNGLINGE, Köln

[kubu]

aufabwegen presents:


30.11.2008, 20.30h
sonic objects #2

KONTAKT DER JüNGLINGE
(= Asmus Tietchens + Thomas Köner)
vs.
Karlheinz Stockhausen

Kulturbunker Mülheim
Berliner Str. 20 - 51063 Köln
http://www.kulturbunker-muelheim.de

sonic objects ist ein neues Veranstaltungsformat in Köln, in welchem die komponierte elektroakustische Musik auf die zumeist frei gespielte oder improvisierte, vorwiegend aus dem popmusikalischen Kontext stammende Laptop-Musik trifft. Die Reihe geht dabei vom Abenteuer des Hörens aus, das keine akademische Vorbildung braucht: Es wird zu beweisen sein, dass auf klanglicher Seite sich die Komponisten und Musiker beider Lager extrem viel zu sagen haben und die soundästhetischen Unterschiede nicht so groß sind, wie es oft den Anschein hat.
Mit Asmus Tietchens und Thomas Köner treten zwei der wichtigsten Klangkünstler Deutschlands in einen Dialog mit der Musik Karlheinz Stockhausen. In liebevoller Hommage an Stockhausen nennen die beiden ihr Duo Kontakt der Jünglinge. In einer Einführung durch Dr. Marcus Erbe vom Musikwissenschaftlichen Institut der Universität zu Köln wird die Brücke zu Stockhausens berühmter elektronischer Komposition „Hymnen“ geschlagen.


Thomas Köner

Thomas Köner attended the music college in Dortmund and studied electronic music at the CEM-Studio in Arnhem. Until 1994 he worked for the film industry as editor and sound engineer.
He extended his concept of time and sound colour to images, resulting in video installations, photography and film works. 2000 the Montreal International Festival New Cinema New Media awarded him the "New Media Prize". 2004 the Prix Ars Electronica awarded him the "Golden Nica", and he was awarded the "Produktionspreis WDR / Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis" (german sound art award). His media installation "Suburbs Of The Void" received the Transmediale 2005 award in Berlin and was presented at La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro La Fenice as a live performance in the same year. Köners video "Nuuk" received the Tiger Cub Award (best short film) during the International Filmfestival Rotterdam 2005.His point of departure was composition of sound in which aspects of a performance and visual language were gradually integrated.At first in the collaboration with film artist Jürgen Reble and the live performance Alchemie (1992). Following this, he started to compose film soundtracks and music to accompany historic silent films for the Louvre Museum and the Musée d'Orsay, Paris. The Rimbaud Museum commissioned Thomas Köner five permanent sound installations for five rooms of the "Maison Rimbaud" in Charleville-Mezières, France.
Several significant museums acquired his audiovisual works for their collection.

1965 born in Bochum, Germany
1985-1990 studying electronic music at CEM Studio, Arnhem
1987-1992 Conservatory of Music, Dortmund
1992-1994 Avid Operator, cutter- and soundassistant, Ruhr Sound Studios, Dortmund
1995 – working as independant artist with sound, installation, film, photography, music, video, theater and radio art

Permanent installations:
Musée Rimbaud / Maison Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières

Work in public collections:
Centre Pompidou Musée national d'art moderne Paris, France
Musée d'art contemporain Montreal, Canada
Comunidad Pamplona Collection, Spain
Comunidad Madrid Collection, Spain
Fundacio La Caixa, Barcelona,Spain
Skulpturenmuseum Marl, Germany
F.R.A.C. Limoges, France

Commissioned works:
2008 25th Music Biennale, Zagreb
2007 Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas
Metro Santiago de Chile
2004 Musée Rimbaud, Charleville-Mézières
2001 Centre d’art contemporain, Rennes (with yann beauvais)
2000 Hayward Gallery, London (with Max Eastley)
1998 Musée National d'art moderne, Paris (with yann beauvais)


Asmus Tietchens

3.2.1947 Born in Hamburg, Germany.
1965 First experiments with tape machines and electronic sound generators (rhytm machines, sine tone generators) and with concrete sounds.

1971 Starts working with the Minimoog. Complex results through the use of 8-channel tape devices.

1975 Marks the decision, to compose and realize electro-acoustic music "for a living".

1980 First LP-release ("Nachtstücke") in France, produced by Peter Baumann ("Tangerine Dream").

1982 Discovery of stylistic affinity to Industrial Music. LP "Formen letzter Hausmusik" (1984) is released on the british label "United Dairies". Through to 1989 numerous LP releases on labels of the international Industrial scene such as Esplendor Geometrico, Hamster Records, Multimood, A-Mission a.o., presenting works with prepared piano, water sounds and various other concrete material.

1985 Experiments with the Fairlight CMI.

1986 First travels to Brasil to present his work in the form of lecture-concerts uopon invitation by the Goethe-Institute.

Since 1989 Teaches sound design, communication design and sound research at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg (HAW).

1991 Second concert journey to South America invited by the Goethe-Institute, this time going to Argentinia, Chile and Uruguay.

Since 1991 Various CD-releases on international labels such as Staalplaat, Soleilmoon, Selektion, Mille Plateaux and more. Collaborations with other composers of the so-called noise scene like Merzbow, Achim Wollscheid, Thomas Köner, Vidna Obmana and more.

2003 Awarded the "Karl-Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst" by Südwestrundfunk (SWR).

2006 Again awarded the "Karl-Sczuka-Preis für Akustische Kunst" by Südwestrundfunk (SWR).
Until today more than 50 LP- and CD-releases and numerous public performances in Germany and abroad.
No studies, no academic education no scholarships just pure learning by doing = self-taught appropriation of creative skills and handling of analogue and digital studio technology. I am my own Tonmeister.