Marcus Schmickler

Marcus Schmickler
Birth name	Marcus Schmickler
Also known as	Pluramon
Born	1968
Origin	Cologne, Germany
Genres	Contemporary classical music, Computer music, Postmodernism, New Complexity, New Simplicity
Occupations	composer, producer
Labels	A-Musik, Mille Plateaux, Editions Mego
Associated acts	Pluramon, MIMEO, Thomas Lehn, John Tilbury, Julee Cruise, Hayden Chisholm, Peter Rehberg
Website	www.piethopraxis.org

Marcus Schmickler (* November 15th 1968 in Cologne) is a German composer, musician and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon.

In 1968 he was born as the son of an industrial salesman and a baker's daughter in Cologne. Soon his parents moved to Kuerten where he met the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1991, after spending a year in London, he started studying music in Cologne and became a member of the seminal collective Kontakta. 1992 his first solo release appeared with the French label Odd Size. In 1995, he was co-initiator of the A-Musik record store and the DJ collective Brüsseler-Platz-10a-Musik, together with Georg Odijk and Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars).

Since 1995 he works as a composer, for film^[1][2] theater^[3] and radioplay.^[4] In 1996 he released one of the first fully digitally produced post-rock albums under the pseudonym Pluramon on the German label Mille Plateaux. After a concert in Cologne, in 1998, he became a member of the 12-piece electro-acoustic ensemble MIMEO (Music in Movement Electronic Orchestra). In 1999, he completed his studies in electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert and the composition with Johannes Fritsch with a thesis on Gottfried Michael Koenig.

In 2000 he published jointly with Thomas Lehn the CD Bart, which enjoys a reputation to be one of the most impressive synth-improv performances ever made.^[5] With Lehn thereupon follows a long musical collaboration. In September 2001 he recorded the Pluramon album Dreams Top Rock with American singer Julee Cruise, and went on an extended tour through South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela) on the initiative of the Goethe-Institut in 2003 . Since 2004 he has been working on various theater projects, with among others, Felix Ensslin^{[citation needed]}. He created numerous works of electronic music, and compositions for choir, chamber-ensemble and orchestra. In 2009 he composed Bonn Patternizationon on behalf of the International Year of Astronomy 2009 and the German Music Council, an electronic music with projections based on astrophysical data^{[citation needed]}, which attempts an epistemological exchange between the arts and sciences.

Marcus Schmickler has received prizes and scholarships, including the Ars Electronica ^[6], the state of North Rhine-Westphalia^{[citation needed]} and curated festival programs in the Berliner Akademie der Künste^{[citation needed]} and the ZKM^{[citation needed]}. He was a longtime member of the jury of the Deutscher Musikrat (German Music Council, a member of the International Music Council). As an author, he wrote articles on various topics of electronic music.^{[7] [8]}

Partial discography

Solo Palace of Marvels [queered pitch], Editions Mego, 2010 Altars of Science, Editions Mego, 2007 DEMOS for Choir, a-Musik, 2005 Param, a-Musik, 2001 Sator Rotas, a-Musik, 1999 Wabi Sabi, a-Musik, 1996 Onea Gako, Odd Size, 1993 As Pluramon The Monstrous Surplus, Karaoke Kalk, 2007 Dreams Top Rock, Karaoke Kalk, 2003 Bitsand Riders, Mille Plateaux, 2000 Render Bandits, Mille Plateaux, 1998 Pickup Canyon, Mille Plateaux, 1996 With MIMEO Wigry, Bolt Records, 2010 Sight, Cathnor, 2008 Lifting Concrete Lightly, Serpentine Gallery, 2004 The Hands of Caravaggio, Erstwhile Records, 2001 Electric Table & Chair, Grob, 2000

Collaborations Schmickler/Gratkowski/Nabatov Deployment, Leo Records, 2010 Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn Navigation im Hypertext, a-Musik, 2008 Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn Kölner Kranz, a-Musik, 2008 R/S One(snow mud rain), Erstwhile Records, 2007 Marcus Schmickler with Hayden Chisholm Amazing Daze, Häpna, 2007 Marc Ushmi Doshhammer Mixes (without Label), 2007 Claudio Bohorquez, Solo and Accompaniment, Aulos, 2006 Marcus Schmickler/John Tilbury Variety, a-Musik, 2005 Schmickler/Lehn/Rowe/Nakamura Untitled, Erstwhile Records, 2004 Schmickler/Lehn Amplify Balance 7 CD Box, Erstwhile Records, 2004 Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn / Keith Rowe Rabbit Run, Erstwhile Records, 2003 Marc Ushmi meets Reverend Galloway Mein Kopf verlor ein Dach, Whatness, 2003 Soundcultures, Suhrkamp, 2003 Marc Ushmi/Thomas Brinkmann Chevrolet Corvette Max Ernst, 2001 Marcus Schmickler/Thomas Lehn Bart, Erstwhile Records, 2000 2:3 Oswald Wiener zum 65. Geburtstag, Supposé, 2000 Prix Ars Electronica Cyber Arts 2000 Ars Electronica Center, 2000 Brüsseler Platz-10a-Musik Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, WDR, 1998 Brüsseler Platz-10a-Musik sT, Sieben, 1997 Brüsseler Platz-10a-Musik / Agentur Bilwet 1000 Fehler, Supposé, 1996 Pol Baby I Will Make You Sweat Odd Size, 1995 Pol Transomuba, Odd Size, 1994 Kontakta s/T, Odd Size, 1992

References

1. ^ de:Der große Ausverkauf Der große Ausverkauf
2. ^ [1] Die Anwälte, eine deutsche Geschichte
3. ^ [2] ARTE Felix Ensslin inszeniert „Die Räuber“ in Weimar
4. ^ [3] WDR3 Akustische Kunst: E-UROPAS
5. ^ [4] Published in Spex (Magazine), Oktober 2008
6. ^ [5]
7. ^ [6] kunstMusik: Autorenliste
8. ^ [7] Ensslin, Blumenstein: zwischen zwei toden

External links

• http://www.piethopraxis.org/ Official Site
• Homepage of Pluramon
• Marcus Schmickler exclusive generative audio piece for the Composing with process series on Ràdio Web MACBA
• Marcus Schmickler's "Ontology of vibration: economics, music and number" podcast on Ràdio Web MACBA
• Marcus Schmickler discography at Discogs
• Marcus Schmickler at the Internet Movie Database

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