Christopher von Deylen

Christopher Deylen (* October 15, 1970 in Visselhoevede ) is a German musician, music producer and composer. He lives and works in Berlin and is co-founder and head of the musical project Schiller.

Career

With seven years of Deylen got from his grandfather donated a piano. The corresponding lesson followed a short time later. His piano teacher was musically very open-minded and like him. Himself a friend of the electronic music From Deylen grew up with the sound of Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, Kitaro and Jean Michel Jarre; these classic performers of electronic music formed the basis for his later compositions dar. From Deylen is fascinated by the possibilities offered him synthesizer and sequencer. At the age of sixteen he irritated the audience at a concert of classical music school: his first electronic compositions he visualized with a psychedelic slide show pictures of the first manned moon landing. Also in the Abi- band he worked as a musician and sound engineer.

After graduation in 1990 began Deylen in Lüneburg the study of applied cultural sciences. In 1992 he received his Master's in between major to music. During this time he became acquainted with the music publisher Peter Meisel know and is introduced by this in the Hamburg studio scene. In the recording studio Boogie Park and Chateau du pape collects Deylen experience in studio work.

Work

In 1994, he released his first single production under the pseudonym FLY The piece was called. Feel the rhythm. The single was not a success, what did not discourage him.

The following projects included the dance project TANK. With the piece: Can u feel the bass he succeeded in 1997, a top 20 hit in the German charts. In addition, he produced sequences for The Prince and Sin With Sebastian. For the MDR radio play Lord of the Flies, he produced a remix version of the 1980s classic Icehouse - Hey little girl and released a cover version of Art of Noise Moments in love hits.

In 1998, Deylen then the musical project Schiller. With the album world tour he succeeded in 2001, the breakthrough. It held over four weeks at number one of the German album charts, for which he 2002 and 2010 received the gold record platinum record.

In the previous eight Schiller studio albums Zeitgeist (1999) World Travel (2001), Life ( 2003), Day and Night (2005), Longing (2008), Breathless (2010 ), Sun (2012 ) and Opus (2013 ) worked from deylen among other things with the artists Peter Heppner, Mike Oldfield, Thomas D, Sarah Brightman, Isgaard brand, Lang Lang, Kim Sanders, Xavier Naidoo, Klaus Schulze and Midge Ure together. In addition, he published nor the live albums Live ( He ) Life ( 2004), Daydream (2006), Longing Live (2008), Breathless Live (2010) and Skylight (2010). His seventh album Solar was released on 5 October 2012. Musical guests include, without limitation Unholy Kate Havnevik and Meredith Call.

Another project he was the albums Mare Stellaris and BiPolar published in the years 2004 and 2006, working with Harald Blüchel with which. As the newest project of Christopher Deylen composed the music for the 'space of clues ' in the East Frisian monastery Ihlow.

His live tours were always sold out. 2010 and 2012, he was traveling with his breathless and sun - tours in numerous German cities.