featuring... wolfgang kirchheim
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wolfgang kirchheim
heidelberg/germany
[q] what is your favourite sound resource?
No sound is a favourite. All sounds are favourites. There are no
right or wrong sounds if you treat them appropriately. Being a
composer, that is my job. [q] where do you get your inspiration from?
Sound! As a composer of electronic music I have the privilege to
work with sound itself and react to what I hear instinctively, without
abstraction. However, taste and memory, being advocates of the
well-known, can be a limiting influence to the imagination. Therefore,
while composing, I try to limit their influence instead. On one of my
last albums, 'Die unglaublichen Wanderungen der Thiere', I used midi files of well
known classical works as quasi-untouchable foundations for my
compositions. Thus I was able to give up some of my control over the
creative process and deal with results I would never have arrived at
by myself. [q] what project are you currently working on?
Keep an eye on me and you will see when the time has come. Me too I
guess, for I am never too sure where the journey's going.. [bio] Wolfgang Kirchheim was born in Bad Bergzabern, a small town in the
Palatinate wine region, in 1983. Being trained in classical
instrumental music during childhood and youth, he developed an
inclination for improvisation and started composing with pen and
paper. Eventually his interest shifted to electronic music production.
In early 2004 he co-founded 'Glaswald', a jam collective focussing on
psychedelic free-form ambient improvisation. It would become the
starting point for all further musical explorations. He began to
collaborate with members of the Schoenermusic netlabel in 2005 and
since then has contributed to the development of the mutual acousmatic
composing style 'Tsunami', which deals with the decontextualization
and mystification of TV or video game samples. With or without such
media content, most of Kirchheim's work has a narrative streak,
providing the listener with a musical frame for imagination and
reflection, thereby concentrating the mind and bringing it back to
itself.
http://kirchheim.schoenermusic.net/
(soundcloud / facebook / twitter)
INR: http://myspace.com/ihrnierueckwaerts
glaswald: http://myspace.com/glaswald
