Andrea Neumann is a German performing musician and composer. Andrea Neumann plays the "indoor piano", a modified piano of her own design.
Andrea Neumann is a German performing musician and composer. Andrea Neumann plays the "indoor piano", a modified piano of her own design.
Neumann studied piano at the Berlin University of the Arts. She has been a member of the Berlin improvisation scene since 1995. Since 2000, she has been a co-organizer and curator for the Labor Sonor series for experimental music, film and performance in Berlin. In 2008 she was a fellow at the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles. In 2008 she received an award from Prix Ars Electronica for the Video Performance of Videobrücke Berlin – Stockholm (5 Punkt 1) along with Sabine Ercklentz. [1]
Neumann plays on an "indoor piano" made for her by the piano maker Bernd Bittmann. Inspired by Zeena Parkins' prepared harp, she designed the indoor piano to consist of only the soundboard and the strings. [2] She prepares the piano with everyday objects, such as cutlery, razors, or a potato masher.
Since the indoor piano does not have keys, it is played not only with fingers but also with various types of drum sticks, and violin bows. [3] The instrument also incorporates a metal shelf and a mixer. The sounds are recorded with contact microphones and guitar pickups. The amplification of the instrument is adjusted during the performance. [4]
In 2005 Neumann co-founded the artist collective Les Femmes Savantes. The collective calls itself a "composer-performer ensemble"; other members are Sabine Ercklentz, Ute Wassermann and Ana Maria Rodriguez. [5]
In addition to compositions by the other members of Les Femmes Savantes, she also recorded works by John Cage, George Brecht, Heather Frasch, Robin Hayward, Phill Niblock, and Chiyoko Szlavnics. Neumann has also worked with musicians such as Burkhard Beins, Axel Dörner, Sabine Ercklentz, Annette Krebs, Ana Maria Rodriguez and Ignaz Schick. [6]
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