Karl Friedrich Gerber
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Title
Karl Friedrich Gerber
Subject
he/him/his
Name
Karl Friedrich Gerber
Role
Composer
Creator
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Contact
kfg@improvise.de
Biographical Text
Composer Karl F. Gerber began playing the electric bass autodidactically. In 1975, he attended musicology lectures with Riethmüller in Freiburg as a guest student.
After turning to jazz, he studied double bass with Adelhard Roidinger in Munich. He has a M Sc. in physics from the LMU Munich.
As a composer he is self-taught, but attended courses with H. W. Erdmann, Cort Lippe, Robert
Rowe, Carola Bauckholt, Götz Tangerding, Alex Grünwald, Joe Haider and Joe Viera.
He has performed live algorithmic performances, including a co-improvisation with the University of Michigan Dancers at the 1998 ICMC in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This featured live formula editing, an anticipation of live coding.
"Beautiful Numbers" was awarded the electronic "Music for Dance" award at Bourges.
Since "Loops" for solo piano, he has also created works in traditional notation without electronics such as "VC3e" for harpsichord four hands.
After an invitation to the 2017 Kontakte Festival at the AdK Berlin, his "computer music without loudspeakers" has also attracted international interest. For example, in the Boston Berklee and South Korea, Seoul 2019.
His installation "Violinautomat" was selected by the ISCM for the World Music Days in Tallinn, Estonia. The critic of Dagens Nyheter wrote "fascinating both technically and sonically". He received the "Award of Distinction" at Matera Intermedia 2020 in Italy and the Best Music Award of the CMMR, Tokyo.
His current projects are an automaton for alto recorder, a bowed psaltery with 16 bows, an extended snare drum and a hammer zither.
After turning to jazz, he studied double bass with Adelhard Roidinger in Munich. He has a M Sc. in physics from the LMU Munich.
As a composer he is self-taught, but attended courses with H. W. Erdmann, Cort Lippe, Robert
Rowe, Carola Bauckholt, Götz Tangerding, Alex Grünwald, Joe Haider and Joe Viera.
He has performed live algorithmic performances, including a co-improvisation with the University of Michigan Dancers at the 1998 ICMC in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This featured live formula editing, an anticipation of live coding.
"Beautiful Numbers" was awarded the electronic "Music for Dance" award at Bourges.
Since "Loops" for solo piano, he has also created works in traditional notation without electronics such as "VC3e" for harpsichord four hands.
After an invitation to the 2017 Kontakte Festival at the AdK Berlin, his "computer music without loudspeakers" has also attracted international interest. For example, in the Boston Berklee and South Korea, Seoul 2019.
His installation "Violinautomat" was selected by the ISCM for the World Music Days in Tallinn, Estonia. The critic of Dagens Nyheter wrote "fascinating both technically and sonically". He received the "Award of Distinction" at Matera Intermedia 2020 in Italy and the Best Music Award of the CMMR, Tokyo.
His current projects are an automaton for alto recorder, a bowed psaltery with 16 bows, an extended snare drum and a hammer zither.
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“Karl Friedrich Gerber,” COMPEL Omeka Dev, accessed September 8, 2024, http://compel-dev.vtlibraries.net/items/show/788.
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