Thomas Köner
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Thomas Köner is a multimedia artist whose main interest lies in combining visual and auditory experiences. He's been noted for his use of low frequencies. The BBC
, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between installation
, sound art
, ambient music and as one half of Porter Ricks dub techno.
During his exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, the museum called him a major innovator in the contemporary music scene, as well as noted his collaborative practice which has led to his working with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists on installations and sound performances, and to his creation of six video works produced in two cycles, starting in 2003.
2006 Köner produced Station Eismitte, a work inspired by Alfred Wegener
's 1930 arctic expedition and named after the expedition's site
.
2009 Köner created The Futurist Manifesto, a digital opera, to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the famous manifesto published in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
. This work has been performed live several times in festivals across Europe with Carl Faia
and Iris Garrelfs.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
, in a review of Köner's work in 1997, calls him a "media artist," one who works between installation
Installation art
Installation art describes an artistic genre of three-dimensional works that are often site-specific and designed to transform the perception of a space. Generally, the term is applied to interior spaces, whereas exterior interventions are often called Land art; however, the boundaries between...
, sound art
Sound art
Sound art is a diverse group of art practices that considers wide notions of sound, listening and hearing as its predominant focus. There are often distinct relationships forged between the visual and aural domains of art and perception by sound artists....
, ambient music and as one half of Porter Ricks dub techno.
During his exhibition at the Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, the museum called him a major innovator in the contemporary music scene, as well as noted his collaborative practice which has led to his working with musicians, filmmakers and visual artists on installations and sound performances, and to his creation of six video works produced in two cycles, starting in 2003.
2006 Köner produced Station Eismitte, a work inspired by Alfred Wegener
Alfred Wegener
Alfred Lothar Wegener was a German scientist, geophysicist, and meteorologist.He is most notable for his theory of continental drift , proposed in 1912, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth...
's 1930 arctic expedition and named after the expedition's site
Eismitte
Eismitte, in English also called Mid-Ice, was the site of an Arctic expedition in the interior of Greenland that took place from July 1930 through August 1931, and claimed the life of noted German scientist Alfred Wegener....
.
2009 Köner created The Futurist Manifesto, a digital opera, to coincide with the 100 year anniversary of the famous manifesto published in 1909 by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Filippo Tommaso Emilio Marinetti was an Italian poet and editor, the founder of the Futurist movement, and a fascist ideologue.-Childhood and adolescence:...
. This work has been performed live several times in festivals across Europe with Carl Faia
Carl Faia
Carl Faia is an American composer and live electronics designer and performer.Faia studied composition at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Florida State University and the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark on a Fulbright grant...
and Iris Garrelfs.
Discography (incomplete)
- 1990 Nunatak GongamurNunatak GongamurNunatak Gongamur is the first album from German Ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It contains only one electronically manipulated source of sound - gongs...
(Barooni) - 1992 TeimoTeimoTeimo is the second solo album from German Ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Köner has fully developed his unique drone style here and despite the fact that tracks are rather short for ambient music, they really show it off...
(Barooni) - 1993 Permafrost (Barooni)
- 1995 AubriteAubrite (album)Aubrite is the fourth album from German Ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It was recorded between April 1994 and March 1995. Roland Speckle helped with production of the album....
(Barooni) - 1997 Teimo/Permafrost (re-release by Mille PlateauxMille PlateauxMille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...
) - 1997 NuukNuuk (album)Nuuk is the fifth solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1997 as a part of the Driftworks 4 CD box set , it was re-released in 2004 by Mille Plateaux with a DVD containing films made from still images to accompany the music.Nuuk is the capital city of...
(part of the Driftworks box) - 1998 KaamosKaamos (Thomas Köner album)Kaamos is the sixth solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It is also the first album Köner released on the label Mille Plateaux."Tabula Smaragdina" was recorded live in Auditorium du Louvre, Paris, France in October 1997...
(Mille Plateaux) - 2001 Unerforschtes Gebiet LP picture disc (Die Stadt)
- 2002 DaikanDaikan albumDaikan is the eighth album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. It contains one hour-long track recorded at the 2000 European Media Arts Festival in Osnabrück, Germany."Daikan" means "coldest" in Japanese.Catalogue number: MP 107 CD....
(Mille Plateaux) - 2003 Zyklop (Mille Plateaux)
- 2003 Unerforschtes Gebiet (CD release) (Die Stadt)
- 2004 Nuuk (re-release)Nuuk (album)Nuuk is the fifth solo album from German ambient music producer, Thomas Köner. Originally released in 1997 as a part of the Driftworks 4 CD box set , it was re-released in 2004 by Mille Plateaux with a DVD containing films made from still images to accompany the music.Nuuk is the capital city of...
CD/DVD (MillePlateauxMediaMille PlateauxMille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. It is known for mostly releasing minimal techno, glitch music and other experimental electronic music.-History:...
) - 2009 La Barca (Fario)