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Stefan GoldmannDE

Stefan Goldmann<sup>DE</sup>
Stefan GoldmannDE

Changing techno from within, Stefan Goldmann has created his uniquely own form of contemporary art music. Neither constrained by the limits of electronic club music functionality nor by those of academicism, his work topics range from micro details of production to macro concepts, exposing terminal points of entire genres, formal characteristics or technical formats. His investigation into remixing might serve as an example, including both, a remix that does not change the work's score at all while cutting up dozens of recordings (Stravinsky: Le Sacre Du Printemps), and one that replaces every sound bit until the original is no longer present except for a ghostly structural shadow (Fennesz: Remiksz).

In an environment in which supposedly everything has been done he keeps uncovering and capturing new artistic possibilities. These may be structural, such as in his investigations of tuning systems, irregular metres or loops, or at the crossroads of technology and culture such as the preset worlds of the 'Industry' project or his format-specific works for vinyl or analog/digital-conversion. Intriguingly, this process has also yielded a string of poll-winning underground techno hits along the way: 'Sleepy Hollow', 'Lunatic Fringe', 'The Maze’.
The scope of his work seems vast, yet it all is ultimately derived from the core parameters of techno: grid, loop, sample, edit, track. Unified by a sharp focus in defining distinct aesthetic phenomena and an evolutionary approach to creating new variants within techno, seemingly disparate outings form a cohesive, nearly hermetic body of work: What are the inner workings of electronic music? Which formal devices can be extracted from techno and re-applied to wider contexts?
These are the main lines of inquiry Stefan Goldmann has followed decisively. For this reason, DJing straight-up techno sets is an activity pursued with the same rigor as collaboration with ensembles, choreographers, visual artists and film makers or
running the Macro label together with Finn Johannsen.
Stefan Goldmann performs worldwide, including at the SXSW, Mutek, Time Warp and Club To Club festivals. He received major commissions from Berlin’s Radialsystem cultural centre, the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, BASF and Only Connect Festival in Oslo. At the LACMA museum in Los Angeles and Kyoto's Honen-In Temple he performed site-specific concert formats.
A special relationship has formed with Berlin's Berghain club, at which Stefan Goldmann has been DJing since 2006. He conceived the 'Elektroakustischer Salon' events and writes a column for the club's monthly flyer program. He also published the book 'Presets' and has taught electronic music theory and composition at universities in Germany and Switzerland. For 2020 he has been appointed curator of the Berlin Philharmonic's Strom Festival, where he will also perform a new AV set.

Stefan Goldmann s’est donné pour mission de toujours se démarquer du lot par sa tech-house futuriste, ne se contentant pas de productions uniquement tournées vers la piste de danse. Musicien vétéran de la scène berlinoise, il a débuté comme l'un des rares DJ allemand de drum ‘n’ bass avant de trouver son sillon comme producteur versatile de « musique artistique contemporaine », s’assurant ainsi un véritable culte.

Ses compositions avant-gardistes sont très éclectiques mais ont toutes en commun une inébranlable volonté de déconstruire, remixer et dénaturaliser les paramètres rythmiques. Au-delà de ses réinterprétations conceptuelles, allant du Sacre du printemps de Stravinsky à Arcade de Santiago Salazar, Stefan Goldmann a sorti des productions très séductrices sur Perlon, Classic et Cocoon et a dûment rempli son rôle de curateur au cours des années avant de finalement lancer l’étiquette Macro en 2007. Cette étiquette avant-techno de premier plan a propulsé la carrière de certains de ses pairs, tels que Peter Kruder, KiNK ou encore le groupe de techno analogue, Elektro Guzzi.

Le musicien nommé aux Grammys allemands développe une carrière solo impressionnante, pavée de succès underground. Il a composé la musique d’un ballet pour le compte du Nationaltheater Mannheim, en plus d’enregistrer un brillant album live lors d’une résidence au Honen-In Temple de Kyoto. Depuis 2011, cet auteur et théoricien de la musique tient aussi une résidence au mythique Panorama Bar/Berghain, pour lequel il écrit des chroniques. Choix unanime des programmateurs de MUTEK, Stefan Goldmann va livrer une prestation live dans le cadre de EM15.

Étiquettes

Macro Recordings, Cocoon Recordings, Perlon

Projets récents

Tacit Script (2019)

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