Premiere - at 'ohrenhoch' exclusively
in the concert series handbag electronics
LIVE on 11 December 2011, 9 pm
'killamor' is a duo with Knut Remond and Daniel Buess. The performance on 11 December will be staged for 'ohrenhoch - the Noise Shop' exclusively.
Due to the small space of the sound gallery the number of visitors is limited. For booking please e-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
Admission: 5 Euro
The performance will be webcasted live on ohrenhoch.tv
Composer in the literal sense, performer_multimedia.
He studied electronic music with David Johnson (who was an assistant of Karlheinz Stockhausen and John Cage) and percussion with Siegfried Kutterer. He is an autodidact with conviction!
Knut Remond is renowned in contemporary, experimental and improvised music, as a composer, performer and sound-space installer, and for his special percussion sets (big drum f.i.) and electronics (Imagineering portable set).
He was co-founder of the formations M.I.T., TV-Totem, 16/17, Westblock, and played some years with Voice Crack and Borbetomagus. Releases, concerts, participation in internationally renowned festivals.
He created numerous musical and multimedia works - electroacoustic, instrumental and for voices - including the trilogy COSMICS Vol.1-3, 1992-2000; commissions by X-Quartett and Ensemble Phoenix Basel 2006 and 2009; "Erhebe Deine Stimme" 2010, award-winning oratorio for the 20th anniversary of the German Unity, developed and performed with pupils from Berlin, premiered at Philharmonie Berlin.
Founder, artistic director and curator of the sound gallery 'ohrenhoch, the Noise Shop' in Berlin.
Founder and director of the 'ohrenhoch-Kids', unique school for electroacoustic music and sound installation for children and young teenagers of age 5-14.
Daniel Buess studied at the Musikhochschule Basel with Siegfried Schmid and with Isao Nakamura in Karlsruhe. Studies in traditional southindian percussion-music, specially the Mridangam from 1995 till 1998 and in Arabic percussion music during a three months residency in Cairo, Egypt from Nov. 2007 till Jan. 2008.
Daniel was and is still involved in various groups and Ensembles in the realm of experimental and improvised music, like “Ensemble Phœnix Basel” (core-member and solo-percussionist), “CORTEX”, “16-17”, “HOW2”, “Katarakt”, “B&B”, MIR, Buggatronic. His collaborations include artists like Alex Buess, Hany Bedair, Knut Remond, Zbigniew Karkowski, Kasper T.Toeplitz, John Duncan, Michael Wertmüller, Phill Niblock, Julio Estrada, Stephan Wittwer, Volker Heyn, Thomas Lauck, Tim Hodgkinson, Iancu Dumitrescu and many others.
At his regular tours through Europe, Asia and Australia, he performed at the most highly recognised festivals for experimental music as well as at several underground-places, open spaces and independent venues.
In most of his own independent projects and performances which preferably happen at unusual places like car-workshops, Daniel makes an extensive use of his self-made percussion devices, built of different materials and electronics.
He has various Radio and CD productions to his credit.