FRANK
BRETSCHNEIDER :
SINTESI RESTIVAL DELLE ARTI ELETTRONICHE
FRANK BRETSCHNEIDER
Was
born and raised up in East Germany... after childhood and school
in Karl-M a r x-Stadt (now Chemnitz), graphic and painting studies...
started his first electronic music experiments in 1984 with
a strong inte rest in the interaction between graphic and music...
in 1996 co - founding the label Rastermusik (now raster-noton
with Carsten Nicolai)... lives as freelance musician and composer
in Berlin. He was always tried to explore the possibilities
of an exchange between visual art and music by various means
such as computer graphics, video or graphic composition. To
add another dimension he creates visualizations which he shows
during his live performances.
At Sintesi mainly he´ll play parts of his latest CD, released
last year as "Looping I - VI (and other assorted love songs)"
on the New York based label 12k. "Looping I-VI" shows
a bit a change in direction from his rhythmic minimalism. Its
more sparse built with slowly evolving loops and subtle changes
over time. Taking inspiration from his current immersion in
science fiction novels "Looping I-VI" plays out very
much like a story, unfolding over around 30 minutes. A kind
of sonic fiction through the world of clean tonal elements and
loop architecture. The music flows seamlessly, slowly, and creates
three distinct "chapters" marked by breaks and brief
moments of silence. Finally, for the last 10 minutes, he will
go back to rhythm and play some new, yet unreleased music.
For the visual part of his live performance he will show a movie.
Actually it isn´t a film or music video, but a visual
realization of the frequency- and amplitude behaviour of the
music. As always he tried to create complexity from simplicity.
So he built the visuals just from horizontal and vertical lines,
which - driven by and synchronized to the music - produce graphic
patterns, looking like moving testcards.
