CFR. nn. Arch.184.2, 185.2
Titolo:
Hoffnug (with Michaela Ehinger)
Player:
Partecipanti:
Oliver Augst
Friedrich Tietjen
Città:
Frankfurt am Main
Country:
Germany
Year:
1998
Durata:
1' 00"
Numerazione:
183.2
Info brano:
Hope is a limited edition collection of one-minute soundworks by international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Contributors were invited to create an original recording of one-minute duration for the CD on the
Supporto:
a
Posizione:
06/06
Materiali:
Track 2 del CD "HOPE, A Collection of Minute Sundworks" (T.T. 68' 00"), 1998 Audio Research Editions. Devised and Designed by Colin Fallows. All rights to the soundworks remain with the individual artists.
Informazioni tecniche:
mp3 - It's recommended to use the random play bottom on the CD player.
Descrizione:
OliverAugst born 1962, is a performer, composer and set-designer and has been working in several fields of art: music (electronic, noise, improvisation), media-theatre/performance, radio plays and sound installation since the early 90s. He studied visual arts with emphasis on stage design at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, and popular music/performance at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg.
He has received numerous grants and scholarships, such as the studio grant from the artists’ house Mousonturm (Frankfurt 1991–93), a DAAD grant for free art (Vienna 1994) as well as a grant for composition at the Schloss Solitude Academy (Stuttgart 1995). In 1997, he was a prize-winner at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music, where he and the French composer Marc André showed the première of their collaborative piece "Un Fini".
His collaborations together with Blixa Bargeld (singer of the famous German band "Einstürzende Neubauten"), the "electronic music theater" (with Ehinger, Daemgen, Korn), the technoise formation "Freundschaft" (with Beck/Daemgen/Cobra), the trio "Blank" (with Rüdiger Carl, pioneer of the European free jazz movement, and Christoph Korn), the Japanese artist On Kawara (Dokumenta11) and the American art star Raymond Pettibon led him to numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media-art (x-tract/Podewil Berlin, Taktlos Bern, Bregenzer Festspiele, Intermedium/ZKM Karlsruhe, Dokumenta11 Kassel, Ars Electronica Linz, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, Knitting Factory New York, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, WienModern Wien)
Oliver Augst was a curator and organiser of the "pol" festival of new music in the Mousonturm artists’ house in Frankfurt (1999-2003).
He is a lecturer in Performance Art, Audio-Visual Installation, Set Design and Aesthetics and Communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach and the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt.
Currently he is co-curating the monthly "HörRaum - audio art series" at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt.
He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main.
