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Michael von Biel (born 30 June 1937) is a German composer, cellist, and graphic artist.
Biel was born in Hamburg, the son of Werner von Biel and Ursula von Biel (née Lampert). After finishing school in Canterbury, England, he studied piano, theory, and composition in Toronto (1956–57), Vienna (1958–60), New York (1960, with Morton Feldman, amongst others), London (1961–62, with Cornelius Cardew), and Cologne (with Karlheinz Stockhausen). From 1961 to 1963 he attended the Darmstadt International Vacation/Holiday Courses for New Music. In 1964 he received a commission from the WDR for the electronic piece Fassung, completed after six months of work. [1] From 1965 to 1966 he was Composer in Residence at the State University of New York in Buffalo. [2]
Since 1966 Michael von Biel has lived in Cologne sharing a flat with fellow composer Irmin Schmidt. [1] In Cologne, he came into contact with artists of the Fluxus movement. [2] His Jagdstück (Hunting Piece, 1966) for brass, contrabass, tape, and amplified barbecues was premiered in 1968. [3] [4] Following the release of Jagdstück, From 1968 to 1969, von Biel studied with Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. In the following years he created works in the visual realm especially. [1] [2]
Holger Czukay, a pupil of Stockhausen, called Biel a "real punker", and Rob Young, writing a biography for Cologne band Can, described Biel's style as "pushing compositional framework to the limits of noise, using extended techniques including excessive pressure on bowed instruments, playing behind the bridge to create overtones". [1]
In February 2023, MusikTexte, ON Cologne, and the Cologne University of Music and Dance organized "Farewell to New Music?" festival in Cologne, celebrating musical and painting oeuvre of Michael von Biel. [5]
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Karlheinz Stockhausen was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groundbreaking work in electronic music, having been called the "father of electronic music", for introducing controlled chance into serial composition, and for musical spatialization.
Process music is music that arises from a process. It may make that process audible to the listener, or the process may be concealed.
Kontra-Punkte is a composition for ten instruments by Karlheinz Stockhausen which resolves contrasts among six instrumental timbres, as well as extremes of note values and dynamic levels, into a homogeneous ending texture. Stockhausen described it: "Counter-Points: a series of the most concealed and also the most conspicuous transformations and renewals—with no predictable end. The same thing is never heard twice. Yet there is a distinct feeling of never falling out of an unmistakable construction of the utmost homogeneity. An underlying force that holds things together—related proportions: a structure. Not the same Gestalten in a changing light. But rather this: various Gestalten in the same light, that permeates everything."
David C. Johnson was an American composer, flautist, and performer of live electronic music.
Aus den sieben Tagen is a collection of 15 text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed in May 1968, in reaction to a personal crisis, and characterized as "Intuitive music"—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s). It is Work Number 26 in the composer's catalog of works.
Herbert Eimert was a German music theorist, musicologist, journalist, music critic, editor, radio producer, and composer.
Tierkreis (1974–75) is a musical composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. The title is the German word for Zodiac, and the composition consists of twelve melodies, each representing one sign of the zodiac.
Kontakte is an electronic music work by Karlheinz Stockhausen, realized in 1958–60 at the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) electronic-music studio in Cologne with the assistance of Gottfried Michael Koenig. The score is Nr. 12 in the composer's catalogue of works, and is dedicated to Otto Tomek.
Hermann Schroeder was a German composer and a Catholic church musician.
Emmanuel Nunes was a Portuguese composer who lived and worked in Paris from 1964.
Mesías Maiguashca is an Ecuadorian composer and an advocate of Neue Musik, especially electroacoustic music.
Gérard Masson is a French composer.
Robin John Maconie is a New Zealand composer, pianist, and writer.
Pierre Mariétan is a Swiss composer.
York Höller is a German composer and professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik Köln.
John McGuire is an American composer, pianist, organist, and music editor.
Carré (Square) for four orchestras and four choirs (1959–60) is a composition by the German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen, and is Work Number 10 in the composer's catalog of works.
Punkte (Points) is an orchestral composition by Karlheinz Stockhausen, given the work number ½ in his catalogue of works.
Für kommende Zeiten is a collection of seventeen text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed between August 1968 and July 1970. It is a successor to the similar collection titled Aus den sieben Tagen, written in 1968. These compositions are characterized as "Intuitive music"—music produced primarily from the intuition rather than the intellect of the performer(s). It is work number 33 in Stockhausen's catalog of works, and the collection is dedicated to the composer's son Markus.
Musik für ein Haus is a group-composition project devised by Karlheinz Stockhausen for the 1968 Darmstädter Ferienkurse. Fourteen composers and twelve instrumentalists participated, with the resulting performance lasting four hours. It was not regarded by Stockhausen as a composition belonging solely to himself, and therefore was not assigned a number in his catalog of works.
