Asmus Tietchens

Asmus Tietchens ( born February 3, 1947 in Hamburg; pseudonyms Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome) is a German electronic music composer and sound artist.

Some of the albums Asmus Tietchens ' can the Industrial Noise or music be attributed. In addition to his solo work, he has published numerous collaborations with composers such as Merzbow or Arcane Device (David Lee Myers ). Together with Thomas Köner he forms the duo Contact the youths.

Life

Tietchens was born in 1947 in Hamburg. With ten years he learned musique concrète and electronic composition know through the night program of the Norddeutscher Rundfunk. In 1964 he began an apprenticeship as a shipping agent and shipping agent, but then he never worked in this profession. Instead, he worked as a copywriter in 1968. Since 1975 he has been a freelance musician; In 1980 his first solo album. He is also part of Radio Gagarin, a consignment outdoor Sender Kombinat Hamburg. From 1989 to 2009 he taught sound research and sound design at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, 2010-2013 Sound Design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg. He lives and works in Hamburg.

Tietchens as early as 1965 began to experiment with a tape recorder to record tape loops and consolidate it to collagen. In 1971 came to synthesizer. After a short rhythmic- harmonic interlude in the early 1980s (eg biotope, 1981; late - Europe, 1982) appeared in 1984 on United Dairies with forms last house music a regular Industrial album, which first formulated Tietchens ' primary musical interests valid: The noises processed, thereby sometimes alienated beyond recognition and put in new adequate contexts. The finished composition arises not least from the nature of the starting material. Tietchens has a wide variety of sources for his method explored, including water ( series of infected areas, as of 1985), human voices ( from mouth to mouth 1-3, 1999/2000) and manually drawn over the head tapes ( existence misconduct, 1992). Since the turn of the millennium he was again concentrating with the synthesizer, the Tietchens but uses as pure sound source for its reductionist terse compositions (volume series, from 2000). In addition, there is a pronounced musikparodistischer approach which manifests itself for example in the titling of individual pieces, but also in the design of entire albums. Here are Tietchens ' publications classified as Hematic Sunsets, who see themselves as a parody of the swing, but can also be heard as oblique Lounge ( Music from the Aroma Club, 1998).

Tietchens ' work is to own a skeptical gesture, not least shows up on his recordings in the regular quotes the philosopher EM Cioran. He has repeatedly expressed in essays on his work and the corresponding musical environment (for example, in Confessions of a former Soundscapers, 2005).

So far Tietchens was twice awarded by the Southwest Broadcasting (SWR ) and granted Karl Sczuka Price: 2003 for Heidelberg studies 1-6 and 2006 for Trois Dryades.

Discography

There are also over one hundred publications of individual items on compilations.