Marcus Schmickler

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Marcus Schmickler
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Background information
Birth nameMarcus Schmickler
Also known asPluramon
BornNovember 15, 1968
Cologne, Germany
Origin Cologne, Germany
Genres Contemporary classical music, Computer music, Postmodernism, New Complexity, New Simplicity
Occupation(s) composer, producer
Labels A-Musik, Mille Plateaux, Editions Mego
Website www.piethopraxis.org

Marcus Schmickler (born November 15, 1968, in Cologne) is a German composer, musician, and producer. His music was also published under the Pluramon moniker.

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Background

Schmickler merges computer music, ensemble composition, performance and scientific subjects. His multi-channel works have been performed internationally, creating unique auditory spaces. He explores techniques like Shepard tones and ring modulations, deepening his compositions through data sonification and otoacoustic emissions.

In 1991, after spending a year in London, he started studying musicology at Cologne University and electronic music and composition Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with H.U. Humpert and Johannes Fritsch. The same year he became a member of the seminal collective Kontakta. 1992 his first solo release appeared with the French label Odd Size. In 1995, he was co-initiator of the DJ collective Brüsseler-Platz-10a-Musik, together with Georg Odijk and Jan St. Werner, associated with the A-Musik record store and label.

Since 1995 he works as a composer, for film [1] [2] theater [3] and radio play. [4] In 1996 he released one of the first fully digitally produced post-rock albums under the pseudonym Pluramon on the German label Mille Plateaux. In 1998, he became a member of the 12-piece electro-acoustic ensemble MIMEO (Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra). In 1999, he completed his diploma in electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert and the composition with Johannes Fritsch with a thesis on Gottfried Michael Koenig.

In 2000 he published jointly with Thomas Lehn the CD Bart, which was reviewed to be one of the most impressive synth-improv performances ever. [5] In September 2001 he recorded the Pluramon album Dreams Top Rock with American singer Julee Cruise and went on an extended tour through South America on the initiative of Goethe-Institut in 2003. Since 2004 he has been working on theater projects, with Felix Ensslin. [6] [7] He created numerous works of electronic music, and compositions for choir, chamber ensemble, and orchestra. In 2009 he composed Bonn Patternizationon on behalf of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and the German Music Council, a sonification with projections based on astrophysical data. [8] Since 2015, Schmickler has worked as faculty at Bard College in Annandale-On-Hudson, [9] at California Institute for the Arts in Los Angeles County, at Robert-Schumann Hochschule Institute For Music and Media in Düsseldorf and at Institut für Elektronische Musik und Akustik (IEM) der Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz. In 2016 he collaborated with Gerhard Richter and Corinna Belz and Ensemble Musikfabrik on Richters Patterns, [10] a chamber-music concerto with film based on a painting by Richter. In 2022 he premiered Entwurf einer Rheinlandschaft, [11] a large scale, long-distance performance for 60 musicians across the Rhine.

Marcus Schmickler has received prizes and scholarships, including the Rome Prize of the German Academy Villa Massimo, [12] Ars Electronica, [13] from the state of North Rhine-Westphalia [14] and curated festival programs in the Academy of Arts, Berlin [14] and the ZKM. [14] He was a longtime member of the jury of the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council). As an author, he wrote articles on various topics of electronic music. [15] [16]

Partial discography

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  1. ↑ de:Der große Ausverkauf Der große Ausverkauf
  2. ↑ Die Anwälte, eine deutsche Geschichte
  3. ↑ "Felix Ensslin inszeniert "Die Räuber" in Weimar | Metropolis, Samstag ab 17.30 Uhr | Kultur entdecken | de - ARTE". Archived from the original on 2012-04-03. Retrieved 2010-10-27. ARTE Felix Ensslin inszeniert „Die Räuber“ in Weimar
  4. ↑ WDR3 Akustische Kunst: E-UROPAS
  5. ↑ Archived 2011-07-20 at the Wayback Machine Published in Spex, Oktober 2008
  6. ↑ "Performance « Amphibious Thoughts" . Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  7. ↑ "Schreber songs arbeitsbuch-Work book. Studio 3 2022/23". www.libreriauniversitaria.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  8. ↑ "Graham Foundation > Events > Marcus Schmickler". www.grahamfoundation.org. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  9. ↑
  10. ↑ https://www.musikfabrik.eu/en/sound-image/concert/marcus-schmickler-richters-patterns/
  11. ↑ https://kaput-mag.com/rainbow_en/monheim-triennale-2022-lets-set-sail-for-new-musical-worlds/
  12. ↑ https://www.villamassimo.de/de/stipendiaten/marcus-schmickler.{{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  13. ↑ "ARS Electronica | Prix Ars Electronica". Archived from the original on 2012-01-22. Retrieved 2011-08-23.
  14. 1 2 3 "Marcus Schmickler". Akademie Schloss Solitude. 2020-03-26. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
  15. ↑ kunstMusik: Autorenliste
  16. ↑ Ensslin, Blumenstein: zwischen zwei toden
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