Martyn Ware
Martyn Ware ( born May 19, 1956 in Sheffield ) is a British musician and music producer as well as co-founder of the formations The Human League, British Electric Foundation and Heaven 17
Life
Ware attended King Edward VII School in Sheffield and met Philip Oakey know. Ambitions, pursue higher education after graduating from Oxford University, he was in favor of a commercial training on in a supermarket. He joined the Sheffield Youth Theatre Project Meat Whistle, which included Richard H. Kirk, Ian Craig Marsh, Adi Newton and Glenn Gregory. The Metwhistle was a project to experimentation with theater and musical performances. This is influenced by the literature William S. Burroughs and the glam rock music of Roxy Music project first emerged the Performance Music Group Musical Vomit, of the goods for a time belonged, before he formed the band The Future with Newton and Marsh. First, the progressive rock related parties resulted in the summer of 1977, the music of the album Trans Europe Express the German band Kraftwerk to Ware and Marsh to the desire itself to produce electronic music. After the departure of Newton and the recording of the band in Oakey The Human League renamed. As a composer goods to titles like Being Boiled Empire State Human and Chase Runner was involved and produced the first two albums Reproduction and Travelogue with. After the break with Oakey In 1980, Ware and Marsh, the production company British Electric Foundation and later with Gregory the band Heaven 17, at their most successful single Temptation, he co-wrote.
Many of his titles have been used in film and television productions, including in Electric Dreams and Trainspotting - Neue Helden. In addition, he produced, among others, for Tina Turner, Terence Trent D' Arby, Marc Almond and Erasure. In 2001 he released the goods along with Vince Clarke album Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle.
Ware is a visiting professor at Queen Mary College, University of London, from which he also holds an honorary doctorate, and a member of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts ( BAFTA ) and the Royal Society of Arts. He is married and has two children.
Publications
- 2011: Spectrum Pursuit Vehicle ( with Vince Clarke)