Asmus Tietchens

ASMUS TIETCHENS
JOS SMOLDERS
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ZONDAG / DIMANCHE / SUNDAY • 28 NOV • 15:30 • 5€

NL / Op onze derde namiddag met ‘Rare Muzieken’ nodigen we 2 componisten uit die zich de afgelopen 30 jaar met sound design hebben beziggehouden.  ASMUS TIETCHENS begon met tape experimenten in de jaren ’60, om vervolgens te flirten met musique concrète. In de jaren ’80 kwam hij verrassend tot een electropop geluid - een donkere versie van kraftwerk zeg maar - om nadien zich weer te focussen op geluid en geluidsdesign. Zijn debuutplaat werd geproducet door Peter Bauman van Tangerine Dream en hij had verschillende releases op Sky Records, United Dairies, Dom,... Tegenwoordig geeft hij geluidsles aan de Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften. Openen doet JOS SMOLDERS. Een Nederlander die zich focust op sounddesign. Hij was o.a. 6 jaar co-redacteur van Vital Magazine en richtte het online magazine Earlabs op alsook het elektroakoestische ensemble THU20.

EN / ASMUS TIETCHENS (Germany, 1947) is a fully self-taught sound artist who started his first experiments with tape machines, soundgenerators and concrete sounds in the mid 60's. In the 70's he met producer Okko Bekker and got involved in some recordings of Cluster and Liliental. His first solo album 'Nachtstücke', produced by Peter Baumann (Tangerine Dream) got released in 1980. After 4 electro-pop albums on Sky Records Tietchens gets back to irregular patterns of sonic abstractions suspended in gray drones to create cold textural voids. Following this aesthetic he produced countless albums for labels as United Dairies, DOM, Esplendor Geometrico, A-Mission through which he got seriously acknowledged in the world of post-industrial avantgarde music. In the mid 80's he starts working with the Fairlight CMI and does various lectures/concerts in South America. Since 2000 he reanimates his electro-pop vibe as Hematic Sunsets (another Asmus Tietchens anagram). His music is often inspired by and refers to the texts of the philosopher E.M Cioran. Tietchens also teaches sound design, communication design and sound research at the Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Hamburg and won some awards from the German Radio (SWR).  
 
 

JOS SMOLDERS (The Netherlands,1960) studied architecture at the Delft Technical University but quit and continued the musical tape experiments of his childhood. He started musicological studies of electronic and recorded music, was six years co-editor of Vital Magazine. Active in the underground electronic scene, founding member of the renowned Dutch electroacoustic ensemble THU20, he released his own music on cassette, LP and CD. He now works as a sound designer and composer in Tilburg (The Netherlands). Smolders is also founder of online magazine and mp3 label Earlabs.