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2010:
17.12.10_ trio with thomas lehn/analogue synth, michael vorfeld/percussion, m. renkel/acoustic guitar, live electronics at quiet cue berlin
december 2010 MEK online release on homophoni/London
2.12. 10_ duo m. renkel/acoustic guitar, live electronics, mat pogo/voice, festival donauwellen - berlinwieinwien at ausland berlin
26.11.2010_ duo rebecca_ kai fagaschinski/clarinett, m. renkel/ac. guit., preparations at ausland, berlin
15.11.10_ trio phono_phono, with sabine vogel/flutes, magda mayas/piano, m. renkel/acoustic guitar, live electronics at naher osten berlin
13.11.10_ trio with joerg maria zeger/electric guitar, chris abrahams /dx7, m. renkel, electric guitar, live electronics plus nicolas wiese/video animation at quiet cue, berlin
06.11.2010_ duo luca venitucci/accordion, m. renkel/ac. guit., preparations at quiet cue, berlin
22.10.2010_activity center, b. beins, m. renkel. acoustic this time together with sven åke johansson at sowieso , berlin
24.09.2010_activity center (renkel/beins), acoustics & elctronics live at echtzeitmusik festival, berlin, elisabeth kirche
18.09.2010_duo axel doerner: tp, electr. m. renkel: ac. guit. electr. at miss hecker, berlin
17.09.2010_phosphor (b. beins: perc, a doerner: trumpet a. krebs: el guit. r. hayward: t uba, i. schick: turntable, a. neumenn: inside piano, m. renkel: ac. guit. live electronics) live at echtzeit musik festival berlin
04.09.2010_trio, axel doerner, bertrand gauguet, m. renkel at ausland, berlin
arnold schoenberg, 4. streichquartett op. 37 played as an autonomous interpretation (with nicolas wiese, heidrun schramm: computer. laura mello: piano, viola, voice, m. renkel: ac. guit., electronics, concept)
quartet: john hughes:bass / lars scherzberg: sax / m renkel: ac. guit., live electr. / nicolas wiese: laptop festival blurred edges hamburg
quartet: axel doerner,tp / m. renkel:ac. guit., perc. / kim myhr: ac. guit., objects / nils ostendorf:tp at quiet cue berlin
Jan.: Creation of the Quiet Cue Concert series in Berlin Neukoelln
2009:
summer tour 2009 exclusively in Berlin Kreuzberg with the MEK ( M. Renkel: electric guitar, B. Beins: Mini drums, Derek Shirley: bass)
concert tournee of the Ensemble phono_phono to the festival Expozice Nové Hudby in Brno
release of the variation no. 12 by the duo rebecca (with Kai Fagaschinski) on esquilo records
double duo tour with Activity Center and MoHa (Denmark,France, Belgium, Holland) together with light show of Idan Hayaosh and Anu Vahtra
december 2008- february 2009 : journey to Indonesia, Medan, Jakarta, Bali
since 2008: BEGOO - Berlin Electric Guitar Unit (with Jörg Maria Zeger,g, FX,
and Tobias Vethake,g, vc, electr.)
www.myspace.de/begumusic
classic guitar / percussion duo with Sven Åke Johansson,
release: Kalte Welle 102 (Kning Disk, Sweden)
artistic direction and managment of the Berlin CD and vinyl label
absintRecords (www.absinthrecords.com)
Field recording pieces – Schallspiele – a kind of sound - travel – diary
e.g. from Bandung, Medan, Surabaya, Yogyakarta (Indonesia) Barcelona
2008 :Concert tournee of the Ensemble Phosphor to the festival Expozice Nové Hudby in Brno, supported by the Goethe Institut Prague
Composition Solar Environment for 1 - 9 solo players: electro-acoustic piece performed inbetween the installation Errorkoerper Environment.
2007 :
First sound installation Errorkoerper Environment with spacious objects,
solar modules and live electronics, an interactive work involving the audience –
playing music together with the audience.
Dec. 2007 – Jan. 2008 : Errorkoerper Environment at TAG in Dan Haag.
The Genome Project : composition - experiment with genetic processes, DNA sequences – musical parameter are controlled via generation, mutation, hybridization and coding.
Since 2007:
Noise Duo Marée Noire (with Gilles Aubry,laptop)
resumption of the work with the already 1989 built amplified stringboard
2006:
Phosphor: week-long workshop and performance of the video composition Screenplay by Christian Marclay.
Elaboration of an essayistic music and first interest in systemic processes and cybernetics. Performance of the Montaigne Project by the trio phono_phono
together with the actrice Fernanda Farah and Sven Åke Johansson as speakers.
(supported by the Initiative Neue Musik, Berlin)
Cooperation with the video artist Sonja Bender – release of the DVD 7_ft. KONKA
2005 :
Composition Errorkoerper for electric guitar, FX processor and notebook –
a one hour solo piece
Cooperation: Activity Center together with the London vocalist Phil Minton
(CD of the Trio on absinthRecords)
Concert tour of the ensembe Phosphor to the festival nous sons at the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona supported by the Goethe Institut in Barcelona.
Since 2005:
Founder of the electro – accoustic trio phono_phono (with Magda Mayas, p, synth and Sabine Vogel, fl, electr.)
2004/2005:
Field recordings:
four month journey in south east Asia (Bali, Java, Sumatra)
2003:
Invitation to the Human Noise Kongreß – Festival in Wiesbaden
since 2002:
experimental classic guitar / accordion duo with Luca Venitucci (Rome)
the classical guitar is connected to the computer and live electronics
2002:
Phosphor is invited to the festival Musique Action in Vandoevre/Nancy
Since 2001:
Cooperation of the electronics duo Urbano Mistica Amplitude (with Gato Leiras
sampler) and the Pablo Ventura Dance Company:
music for the choreography: Zone (2001),
De Humani (2002), Corporis/Cluster II (2003), Fabrica/Cluster III (2004)
Urbano Mistica Amplitude plays with the video artist Gin Seng at the LEM Festival, Barcelona, the International Art Bienale in Wroclaw and the Transmediale, Berlin,
and gives a workshop at the Bitshift Festival in Ljubljana/Slowenien.
Since 2000:
Co-founder of the ensemble Phosphor (together with Burkhard Beins, perc, Axel Dörner, tr, Robin Hayward, tb, Annette Krebs, g, Andrea Neumann, inside piano, Ignaz Schick, turntable, electr.
( 2000-2005 also Alessandro Bosetti, sax)
2000:
formation of the duo Rebecca (with Kai Fagaschinski, cl)
CD on the Austrian Label Charhizma
publication of the article radikale Pluralität in the Zeitschrift für Neue Musik
Positionen (Nr.43)
1999:
promoter of the 2-13 festival : thematic focus was contemporary composed music and open methods of composition, realtime composition, supported by the Kulturamt Prenzlauer Berg
England – tour with the Sowari Quartett (with Burkhard Beins, perc, Phil Durrant, vl, Rhodri Davies, harp)
1997-2000:
2-13 Ensemble (quintet with Bettina Junge, fl, Margarete Huber, soprano, Markus Wettstein, Metall objects)
the ensemble worked between the concepts of composition and improvisation and
explored new, open methods of composition.
The group performed repeatedly the graphic score Treatise by Cornelius Cardew (1998/1999)
remittance work Isomerie, a collective composition for the festival Kryptonale (1998)
laureate 1999 of the Düsseldorfer Altstadtherbst award
1996:
Member of the quartet NUNC (with Burkhard Beins,perc. Martin Pfleiderer,sax, Wolfgang Ritthoff, voc)
NUNC plays on the festival Musique Action in Vandoevre/Nancy
1996:
publication of a first Hörspiel in Bad Alchemy (BA 27/96)
1995/1996:
one year residency in south France – writing of the composition Albas for 9 solo instruments
1994/1995:
promoter of the Hamburger Salon concert series , which took place in the own flat.
1993-1994:
intrada:concert guitar duo with Michael Seubert
1990-1994:
studies of the classical guitar at the Hamburger Konservatorium.
1992-1994:
Punk and free jazz influenced Band Schutzraum 6 with B.Beins,perc., tapes, Holger Giese, bass, Holger Schüddelopf, sax, Muhannad Marestani, drums
1990-1995:
trio Fraktales (with Burkhard Beins, perc. and Jürgen Morgenstern,b)
later quartet with Thomas Österheld, sax,bcl)
since 1989:
Activity Center (with Burkhard Beins, perc.)
first experiments with guitar, tapes, inside piano, a self built
amplified stringboard, found objects, noise ...