Rupp, Olaf / Dahlgren, Chris


Olaf Rupp a început să cânte muzică improvizată ca autodidact de la vârsta de 12 ani, cu timpul dezvoltând o tehnică personală la guitară pe care o denumeşte “analog granular synthesis” sau “sonic pointillism“. A susţinut numeroase concerte, inclusiv în România, şi a editat în nume propriu sau în colaborare cu alţi muzicieni (Lol Coxhill, Michael Wertmüller, John Zorn, Joe Williamson, Paul Lovens, Butch Morris, Tony Buck ş.a.) câteva zeci de albume.
 

Chris Dahlgren s-a născut la New York unde la vârsta de 6 ani a început să studieze violoncelul. Interesat de improvizaţie şi jazz şi negăsind înţelegerea necesară într-o şcoală dedicată numai muzicii clasice a trecut la studiul contrabasului şi absolvit în 1986 College-Conservatory of Music din Cincinnati şi în 2003 a obţinut M.A. în Composition and Experimental music la Wesleyan University. Din 2004 s-a mutat în Germania unde activează ca muzician şi predă la Institutul de jazz din Berlin. A scos mai multe albume solo sau în colaborare cu alţi muzicieni, două dintre ele la Soft Records, Intelligence is all around în 2010 şi La margine de Bucureşti în 2011.

 
 


Olaf Rupp started at the age of twelve as an autodidact to play what might be called today Improvised Music. His way of holding the guitar in an upright position is inspired by chinese Pipa players. He refined some playing techniques like rasgueados, arpeggios and tremolos in such a way that they can be used for overtone and cluster effects to create new, “virtual” sounds. He sometimes describes his music as “analog granular synthesis” or “sonic pointillism” because the intrinsic colour of every note or a group or notes is more important than the melodic or harmonic burden we may or may not put on them. He played among others with Lol Coxhill, Michael Wertmüller, John Zorn, Joe Williamson, Paul Lovens, Butch Morris, Tony Buck.
 

Chris Dahlgren was born Nov. 13, 1961 in NY, NY. He began playing cello at the age of six, but gave it up after being severely reprimanded for making up his own parts when playing the music of Classical composers in his elementary school ensemble. At twelve, Chris switched to the bass and began playing rock, jazz and improvised music. He went on to graduate from the College-Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati in 1986. After releasing several recordings of his own music he returned to graduate studies for an M.A. in Composition and Experimental music from Wesleyan University in 2003. Chris moved from New York to Berlin, Germany in 2004 and has been living there since, actively composing, performing and recording, as well as teaching at the Jazz Institut Berlin. He recorded several solo albums and in collaboration with other musicians, two of them at the Soft Records, Intelligence is all around in 2010 and La margine de Bucureşti in 2011.

 



ALBUME:

  1. STRALAU - CD (2013)