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Michael Renkel
12+ albums
a guitar is a guitarfree guitar
about
Born 1965; guitar, electronics, composer. Michael Renkel's guitar lessons began at the age of 7, in 1972, later to be followed by a classical music education at the Hamburger Konservatorium. He became interested in open concepts of composition and improvisation in 1985, started composing in 1993 and has been working with live electronics and computers since 1998. His main interest is in the interface and interaction between improvisation and composition which have been pursued via exchange and collaboration with similar-minded musicians internationally. Renkel is one of the organizer's of the 2:13 Club in Berlin, founder of the 2:13 Ensemble (1997) which develops its own pieces in collective processes, for example, Isomerie, the first performance of which was given at the Kryptonale festival in Berlin in 1998. The 2:13 Ensemble have also have also given complete performances of the graphic composition Treatise by Cornelius Cardew. The Ensemble won a prize at the contemporary music competition, Düsseldorfer Altstadtherbst in 1999. Renkel has worked in a guitar/tuba duo with Robin Hayward and given experimental street performances in Berlin with a quartet including Burkhard Beins, Markus Wettstein and Robin Hayward. His current projects include: * solo - classical guitar, playing from 'the tradition' and using his own techniques and concepts * own compositions which include: Albas for 7 solo instruments published by Verlag Neue Musik Berlin spring 2000; several comp
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Errorkörper
312errorkoerper for electric guitar,FX processor and notebook-live version-excerpt
23341.988
194Activity center
135Errorkörper for electric guitar, FX processor and notebook
136Trans aronez
127Errorkoerper III
118Möwen und moos remix (excerpt)
99albas für solistenensemble (excerpt)
510Tranz aronez
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