RAM microsystems

Artist name:

Johannes Kreidler

Category:

Audiovisual performance

URL:

http://www.kreidler-net.de/ram.html

Bio:

Johannes Kreidler was born in 1980 in Esslingen /Germany. Musically trained since he was four, he had his first piano lessons at the age of eight. In 1989 he began composing, since 1990 he got lessons in composition and music theory at the Musikhochschule Stuttgart. Additionally, he began playing the violin and organ.

2000-2006 he had been studying composition and music theory at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, composition with Mathias Spahlinger, theory with Eckehard Kiem, organ with Helmut Deutsch, piano with Felix Gottlieb and electronic music with Mesias Maiguashca and Orm Finnendahl. Courses with Brian Ferneyhough and Richard Barrett.

Johannes Kreidler was award winner at the 14th and 15th national competition “Sch�ler komponieren” 1998/99 and 1999/00. In 2000, he won the first prize at the composition competition “Hans-Stieber-Preis”, and in 2004, he won the first prize at the german hochschulwettbewerb.

Works of Johannes Kreidler are published at the Hoche-Musikverlag.

Johannes Kreidler also performs as an improvising musician with electronics. He is founder of the improvising formation "Endphase" (2004) together with Alberto C. Bernal and Joكo Miguel Pais.

Johannes Kreidler is living in Berlin.

Statement:

Random access memory (RAM) is the working storage of a computer, so to say his short-term memory, where data can be edited in high speed. There, operations always develop systematic coherences, for instance when working out separated domains in successive blocks. That is not very different from the human brain.

In this performance, a computer reads out permanently from about 350 samples. As improvised material, they will be staggered and transformed with the self-designed intrument haptles, a reprogrammed flight simulator joystick to have a haptic control over samples.

Software:

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