Michael Bach (musician)

Michael Bach ( born April 17, 1958 in Worms ) is a German cellist, composer and visual artist. As an author, he published under the name Michael Bach Bachtischa.

Biography

The cellist appeared at solo concerts around the world, among other things, at the Donaueschingen Music Festival, the Festival Musica Strasbourg, the Akiyoshidai Festival in Japan, Carnegie Hall New York, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, the Alte Oper in Frankfurt / Main.

He contributed significant contributions to the art of contemporary cello playing. His book publication Fingerboards & Overtones (1991 ), designs ideas regarding the obertönigen and polyphonic play the cello. From 1990, he developed an arch ( BACH.Bogen ) for violin, viola, cello and double bass, the simultaneous brushing several strings allowed by its high curvature, so sonorous, by sustained chords are possible. The presentation of the BACH.Bogen was held in 2001 in Paris, at the invitation of Mstislav Rostropovich, who accompanied this new development from 1997 to 2001.

John Cage, Dieter Schnebel, Walter Zimmermann and Hans Zender have composed in collaboration with Michael Bach for this arch. Michael Bach describes his own work as "free of compositional conventions ". They contain not only the pitches usually no temporal information. An exception is his live electronic concepts which often a strict tempo presuppose ( NURHAUFFÜGUR, tube pieces ).

In cooperation with the visual artist Renate Hoffleit he has realized strings installations and sound installations in public space, often resound with specially written compositions and performances.

His cellist and compositional work has been awarded with the Gaudeamus Amsterdam, Crane Stone Darmstadt, Record Academy Prize, Japan, Millennium price Würzburg.

The BACH.Bogen was awarded the 1st prize of the exhibition project " BACH PASSES - Johann Sebastian Bach traces in the modern age " in Arnstadt, Germany, 2012.

Michael Bach's works include visual Fingerboards, photo collages, drawings and sculptures. They are shown at international exhibitions. The special stamp to "75 Years of Donaueschingen Music Days, Germany in 1996 " uses the visual- acoustic work 18-7-92, records to Ryoanji (1992).

More recently, experimental video productions, among other things, the ZKM Karlsruhe ( "video cello " ) or the Musée Chagall, Nice were shown arise.

Compositions

• Untitled ( 1992) for cello and tape ribbons, UA Donaueschingen Music Days 1994
• Notation 2 for 15 STRINGS and 5 Players ( 1992), UA Donaueschingen Music Days 1994
• 55 Sounds ( 1995) for cello, UA Monrepos, Ludwigsburg, Germany in 1995
• 50 Sounds for Accordion, UA ZKM Karlsruhe 2010
• Murbach for cello, SWR Printemps Rhénan 2000
• AEGC for Microtonal Piano, UA International Music Academy Kapfenburg 2000
• Karpfens'bug for String Players and Singers, UA International Music Academy Kapfenburg 2000
• Karpfens'teich for wind instruments, UA International Music Academy Kapfenburg 2000
• 57 Sounds for Organ, UA SWR Rhine Spring 2001
• Notation for Chamber Orchestra, UA SWR Rhine Spring 2001
• NURHAUFFÜGUR 1-7 for cello and live electronics, UA Donaueschingen Music Days 2000
• 5 pitches, 13 Notes (2005) for cello, UA MANCA Festival, Nice, France 2005
• 18-7-92 (1992 /2004) for cello and pre-recorded media, UA Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
• Namen.los for Clarinet, UA meeting Rotebühl, Stuttgart 2008
• ONE13 for Cello and pre-recorded Media ( co-author: John Cage), UA Other Minds Festival, San Francisco 2008
• Versbrechen - a Fingerboard for Kirchner ( 2010) for cello, UA Galerie Stihl Waiblingen 2010

Premieres

Publications

• Fingerboards & Overtones, images, foundations and designs a new cello playing, spangenberg edition, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-89409-063-4
• The BACH -Bogen, in: Neue Zeitschrift für Musik, Mainz, Germany 5/1996
• The Cello Suites by Johann Sebastian Bach, in: The Orchestra, Mainz 7-8/1997
• New timbres and nuances at play, in: Neue Musik Zeitung, Regensburg 5/1997