Ignaz Schick
1972 in Tostberg/Bayern [turntablist, sound artist, performer & composer] . In his youth he studied the saxophone and performed in free jazz and avant rock bands. At the same time he was getting obsessed with multitrack tape machines, record players and effect boxes and he started experimenting with many different instruments and sound making devices. After college he briefly studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich and worked for several years as an assistent for the contemporary composer Josef Anton Riedl.
Since the late 1995 he works and lives in Berlin where he became an active and integral force of the so-called “Berlin Nouvelle Vague”
and the blossoming “real time music” scene. From the middle of the nineties onwards his interest and activities almost completely shifted towards live-electronics and after testing various instrumentations (hard- & software samplers, signal processing, contact mics, field recordings, ...) he developed his own and quite unique electro-acoustic set-up which he calls “rotating surfaces”.
Various objects and materials (from wood, metal, plastic, paper or violin bows and cymbals) are played directly on the rotating metal plate of the turntable and with the help of small motors. The vibrations are simply amplified with a small condensator microphone.
With this set-up he covers many different styles of contemporary experimental music – ranging from extreme reductionism via ambient, industrial, musique concrete, electronica to harsh noise.
Besides his favorite setting - the direct duo-confrontation with the likes of Andrea Belfi (I), Alexei Borisov (RUS), Mwata Bowden (USA), Sebastian Buczek (PL), Phil Durrant (GB), Gunnar Geisse (D), GX Jupitter-Larsen/The Haters (USA), Sven Ake Johansson (S/D), R Keenan Lawler (USA), Andrea Parkins (USA), Mat Pogo (IT), Andrea Neumann (D), Dawid Szczesny (PL), Martin Tetreault (CAN), Sabine Vogel (D) or David Watson (USA) - he is member/founder of many different ensembles like Perlonex (with Burkhard Beins & Joerg Zeger), Snake Figures Arkestra, Phosphor, Blind Snakes, Tree People (with John Hegre and Morten Olsen), BETT4 (with Joke Lanz, Dawid Szczesny & JD Zazie), The Ten Minutes Band, Decollage, Berlin Sound Connective (with Thomas Ankersmit, Clayton Thomas & Burkhard Beins), N.I.E., N.E.E., Splitter Orchestra, ....
He has collaborated with numerous international artists (most notably Don Cherry & Charlemagne Palestine) and toured and performed clubs & festivals all over Eastern and Western Europe, Australia, Canada, Israel, Malaysia, New Zealand, Russia, Ukraine & the USA. He released many albums on labels like Zarek, Edition Zangi, edition x, Irrah, Potlatch, Bad Alchemy, Charhizma, Staalplaat, Nexsound, Non Visual Objects, Improvised Music From Japan, Absinth or Ambiances Magnetiques and he was part of radio/television broadcasts and productions on Arte, ORF-Kunstradio, ORF-Zeitton, RBB, BR2, DLR, DLF, WDR3, DRS2, SR, HR, Radio Copernicus, CBC Canada, (...) Furthermore he has been curating festivals of experimental music from the early 90s onwards (FAM, Erase & Reset, Time Shifts & T.I.T.O., Echtzeitmusiktage 2010, Cage Test 2011, ...) and since 2005 has been realizing with increasing intensity sound installations and conceptual works.
http://www.zangimusic.de
http://www.myspace.com/ignazschick
http://tito.zangimusic.de
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