Chris Mann (composer)

Chris Mann ( born 1949 in Melbourne) is an Australian poet, composer and performer.

Biography

The son of Jewish refugees from Germany studied until 1969 Chinese Studies and Linguistics at the University of Melbourne. In 1977, he was coordinator of a UNESCO project on the acoustic grammar of natural languages ​​. Since the 1980s, he lived in New York.

Man who describes himself as a " compositional linguistics ", published poetic and onomatopoetic works and experimental compositions. Above all, he was known as a performer sounded poetic works as a soloist or in collaboration with artists such as Tom Buckner, John Cage, David Dunn, Gary Hill, Johnny Klimek, Annea Lockwood, Larry Polansky and the groups Machine for Making Sense and The Impediments, where he - often humorous - particularly interested in the spoken Australian English, including the slang.

His performances were the SFB and the ORF transmitted by broadcasters such as the BBC London. He performed at numerous festivals, including the Paris Autumn Festival (1983 ), the Anzart Festival ( Hobart, 1983), Ars Electronica (Linz, 1989), the Festival de la Batie (Geneva, 1989, 1997), voice tone type (Berlin, 1989), the Brisbane Biennial (1990 ), the V2 Festival (Rotterdam, 1991), the Urban Aboriginal Festival ( Berlin, 1993), the Taklos Festival ( Geneva, 1994), the International Festival of sound Poetry (Berlin, 1996 ), Experimenta ( Buenos Aires, 1999) and the Adelaide Festival (Adelaide, 2000).

Works

  • Words & Classes ( Melbourne, 1978),
  • Doin 2s (Melbourne, 1982)
  • Doin 2s (Paris, 1983)
  • Word for word (New York, 1983)
  • Subjective beats metaphor (Melbourne, 1985), MC
  • LA DE DA (Melbourne, 1985)
  • The rational (Melbourne, 1986), MC
  • Da- dum (Melbourne, 1987), MC
  • Of course (Melbourne, 1988)
  • Tuesday (Melbourne, 1989)
  • Birth of Peace (Melbourne, 1990), MC
  • 62 Composers on Chris Mann (Hannover, 1997)
  • Working hypothesis ( Barrytown, 1998)

Discography

  • 38'37 '' A Machine for Making Sense (Melbourne, 1990)
  • On second thoughts ( Sydney - New York, 1994)
  • Talk is Cheap ( Potts Point, 1996)
  • Consciousness ( Potts Point, 1999)
  • Chris Mann and the Impediments (New York, 1995)

Weblink

  • Homepage of Chris Mann

Swell

  • GLUKHOMANIA.RU - Electronic Museum Of Lingua -Acoustic Space - Chris Mann
  • Society for New Music Münster - Klangzeit
  • Open Systems 2005 Festival of Contemporary Music - Chris Mann
  • Schott Music - Chris Mann
  • Minnesota Public Radio April 1, 2005 - "Artist Chris Mann to vocalize his new work to St. Cloud "
  • Vox Novus - Chris Mann
  • Author
  • Poetry
  • Australian composer
  • Performance artist
  • Australian
  • Born in 1949
  • Man
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