Asmus Tietchens
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Asmus Tietchens who also records under the monikers Hematic Sunsets and Club of Rome, is a German composer of avant-garde music
.
Tietchens became interested in experimental music
and musique concrète
as a child, and began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instrument
s, synthesizer
s and tape loop
s. In the 1970s he met producer Okko Bekker, and the two formed a decades-long partnership. Peter Baumann
(of Tangerine Dream
) heard a recording of Tietchens' music and offered to produce an album; the result was Nachtstücke, Tietchens' 1980 offering on Sky Records
. His early recordings feature more accessible synthesized music, but beginning with Formen Letzer Hausmusik, his 1984 release for Nurse With Wound
's label United Dairies, he began moving toward more abstract sound collages. He has taught acoustics
in Hamburg since 1990.
His work has also appeared on over 100 compilations
.
Avant-garde music
Avant-garde music is a term used to characterize music which is thought to be ahead of its time, i.e. containing innovative elements or fusing different genres....
.
Tietchens became interested in experimental music
Experimental music
Experimental music refers, in the English-language literature, to a compositional tradition which arose in the mid-20th century, applied particularly in North America to music composed in such a way that its outcome is unforeseeable. Its most famous and influential exponent was John Cage...
and musique concrète
Musique concrète
Musique concrète is a form of electroacoustic music that utilises acousmatic sound as a compositional resource. The compositional material is not restricted to the inclusion of sounds derived from musical instruments or voices, nor to elements traditionally thought of as "musical"...
as a child, and began recording sound experiments in 1965 with electronic musical instrument
Electronic musical instrument
An electronic musical instrument is a musical instrument that produces its sounds using electronics. Such an instrument sounds by outputting an electrical audio signal that ultimately drives a loudspeaker....
s, synthesizer
Synthesizer
A synthesizer is an electronic instrument capable of producing sounds by generating electrical signals of different frequencies. These electrical signals are played through a loudspeaker or set of headphones...
s and tape loop
Tape loop
In music, tape loops are loops of prerecorded magnetic tape used to create repetitive, rhythmic musical patterns or dense layers of sound. Contemporary composers such as Steve Reich and Karlheinz Stockhausen used tape loops to create phase patterns and rhythms...
s. In the 1970s he met producer Okko Bekker, and the two formed a decades-long partnership. Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann
Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...
(of Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream
Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
) heard a recording of Tietchens' music and offered to produce an album; the result was Nachtstücke, Tietchens' 1980 offering on Sky Records
Sky Records
Sky Records was a Hamburg, Germany based independent record label specializing in Krautrock/Kosmische Musik and electronic music. Some of their releases could be classified as progressive rock or art rock, experimental music, industrial, ambient, or New Age...
. His early recordings feature more accessible synthesized music, but beginning with Formen Letzer Hausmusik, his 1984 release for Nurse With Wound
Nurse with Wound
Nurse with Wound is the main recording name for British musician Steven Stapleton. Nurse with Wound was originally a band, formed in 1978 by Stapleton, John Fothergill and Heman Pathak...
's label United Dairies, he began moving toward more abstract sound collages. He has taught acoustics
Acoustics
Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of all mechanical waves in gases, liquids, and solids including vibration, sound, ultrasound and infrasound. A scientist who works in the field of acoustics is an acoustician while someone working in the field of acoustics...
in Hamburg since 1990.
Discography
- 1978: 1. Liliental (with Liliental)
- 1980: 2. Nachtstücke
- 1981: 3. Biotop • 4. Musik aus der Grauzone
- 1982: 5. Spät-Europa • 6. In die Nacht • 7. Musik im Schatten • 8. Musik an der Grenze
- 1983: 9. Litia • 10. Musik unter Tage
- 1984: 11. Formen letzter Hausmusik
- 1985: 12. Seuchengebiete • 13. Cripple Story • 14. Große Statik (as Club of Rome)
- 1986: 15. Geboren um zu dienen • 16. Watching the Burning Bride (with Terry BurrowsTerry BurrowsTerence Ashley Burrows is an English multi-instrumental musician and author based in London. Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of books relating to music tuition, technology, business, popular psychology and history - including KISS Guide...
) - 1987: 17. Zwingburgen des Hedonismus • 18. Notturno
- 1988: 19. Aus Freunde am Elend • 20. Face to Face, Vol. 1 (Split with Die FormDie FormDie Form is a French post-industrial and electronic band formed in 1977-78. The name 'Die Form' means ' form/shape' in German, like the Bauhaus diary and is a play on the English homonym 'deformed' and on the French homonym 'difforme' ....
) • 21. E (with Okko Bekker), first ed. with bonus-7" U • 22. Linea - 1989: 23. Abfleischung • 24. Marches funébres
- 1990: 25. Stupor Mundi
- 1991: 26. Sinkende Schwimmer • 27. Grav (with PGR and MerzbowMerzbowis the main recording name of the Japanese noise musician , born in 1956. Since 1979 he has released in excess of 350 recordings.The name "Merzbow" comes from German artist Kurt Schwitters' artwork, "Merzbau”. This was chosen to reflect Akita's dada influence and junk art aesthetic...
) • 28. Monoposto (with C.V. Liquidsky) • 29. Raum 318 - 1992: 30. Seuchengebiete 2 • 31. Daseinsverfehlung • 32. Five Manifestoes (with PBK)
- 1993: 33. Das Fest ist zu Ende. Aus • 34. DBL_FDBK (with Arcane DeviceArcane DeviceArcane Device was the recording name of musician David Lee Myers from 1987 to 1993. He has collaborated with musicians such as Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, and Kim Cascone.-Discography:* Devices 1987-2007 double CD...
) - 1994: 35. Die Nacht aus Blei
- 1995: 36. Eisgang • 37. Asmus Tietchens. Vidna Obmana (with Vidna ObmanaVidna ObmanaVidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music...
) • 38. Itineraire (with Frans de Waard, Achim Wollscheid, Giancarlo Toniutti and Bernhard GünterBernhard GünterBernhard Günter is a German post-Cageian composer associated with microwave and lowercase movements or styles of minimalist composition. He is influenced by Morton Feldman....
) - 1996: 39. Ptomaine • 40. Das Vieh und sein Vater • 41. Speiseleitung (with Arcane DeviceArcane DeviceArcane Device was the recording name of musician David Lee Myers from 1987 to 1993. He has collaborated with musicians such as Asmus Tietchens, Tod Dockstader, Marco Oppedisano, and Kim Cascone.-Discography:* Devices 1987-2007 double CD...
) • 42. Rattenheu • 43. Papier ist geduldig - 1997: 44. Dämmerattacke
- 1998: 45. Seuchengebiete 3 • 46. Burning the Watching Bride (with Terry BurrowsTerry BurrowsTerence Ashley Burrows is an English multi-instrumental musician and author based in London. Best known as a performer under the pseudonym Yukio Yung, Burrows is also a prolific author of books relating to music tuition, technology, business, popular psychology and history - including KISS Guide...
) • 47. Repetitive Movement (with Achim Wollscheid) • 48. Musik aus dem Aroma Club (as Hematic Sunsets) - 1999: 49. Glimmen • 50. Motives for Recycling (with Vidna ObmanaVidna ObmanaVidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music...
) • 51. 6.9.1998 • 52. Stockholmer Totentanz (with Okko Bekker) • 53. Was bleibt • 54. Phosphor • 55. Von Mund zu Mund 1 • 56. Untitled (Split with Robert Rutman) - 2000: 57. Rendezvouz im Aroma Club (as Hematic Sunsets) • 58. Von Mund zu Mund 2 • 59. Alpha-Menge • 60. Von Mund zu Mund 3 • 61. Kapotte Muziek by Asmus Tietchens • 62. The Scorpions. Studio-Outtakes 1–6, 7–15 (Split with Felix Kubin)
- 2001: 63. Kontakt der Jünglinge 1 (with Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
) • 64. Beta-Menge • 65. Flussdichte (with David Lee Myers) • 66. Kontakt der Jünglinge 0 (with Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
) - 2002: 67. The Shifts Recyclings (with Vidna ObmanaVidna ObmanaVidna Obmana is a pseudonym used by Belgian composer and ambient musician Dirk Serries. The name Vidna Obmana, a phrase in Serbian, literally translates to "optical illusion" and was chosen by Serries because he felt it accurately described the music...
) • 68. Gamma-Menge • 69. Leuchtidioten • 70. Kontakt der Jünglinge -1 (with Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
) - 2003: 71. Sieben Stücke (with Jon Mueller) • 72. Heidelberger Studien 1–6 • 73. Kontakt der Jünglinge n (with Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
) • 74. Delta-Menge • 75. Hunde I (with Xyramat and TBC) • 76. FT+ - 2004: 77. Frühruin (with Thomas KönerThomas KönerThomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies...
) • 78. 60:00 (with David Lee Myers) • 79. Zu Gast im Aromaclub (as Hematic Sunsets, with Gästen) • 80. Hunde II (with Jetzmann and TBC) • 81. Weihnachten im Aroma Club (as Hematic Sunsets, with Okko Bekker) • 82. Eine ganze Menge - 2005: 83. Epsilon-Menge
- 2006: 84. Verstreutes 2 • 84a. Zwei Stücke • 85. Zeta-Menge
- 2007: 86. 4K7 • 86a. Musik hinter Glas • 87. Fabrication (with Richard ChartierRichard ChartierRichard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Chartier is works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.-About:Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for...
) • 87a. Prefabrication • 88. YAK (with Y-Ton-G und Kouhei Matsunaga) • 89. Weihnachten im Aroma Club 2007 (as Hematic Sunsets) • 90. Acht Stücke (with Jon Mueller) • 91. Eta-Menge - 2008: 92. Teils Teils
- 2009: 93. Aroma Club Paradox (as Hematic Sunsets) • 94. Eine Menge Papier • 95. 3 Wishes (Split with Stefanie Ressin) • 96. Flächen mit Figuren
- 2010: 97. Fabrication 2 (with Richard ChartierRichard ChartierRichard Chartier is a sound/installation artist and graphic designer. Chartier is works in reductionist microsound electronic music, a form of extreme minimalism in which the music is sometimes very quiet, sometimes very sparse, often both.-About:Since 1998, Chartier has created recordings for...
) • 98. Abraum
His work has also appeared on over 100 compilations
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
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External links
- Official Website
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