born 1972
Works with organizing sound within a conceptual and physical framework and with a focus on force and energy. This approach which draws on mulitple references to both music and visual art is evident in all of Tobias Kirstein’s works whether it is sound installation, radio soundpiece, scores for various emsembles or free form settings. He works with a diverse range of material, from computer created sinus tones and tone generators to the sound of the raw power of electricity in open tape recorders and beyond that he plays noise guitar and drums (or the aluminium ladder as shown on the photo above).
Working with sound and music as a organising energy Kirstein’s drumming escapes orthodoxy, e.i. is freed from the traditional parameters of the beat, and becomes an expression of brute force. His sound installations are based on interferences between sinus tones and uses the power of volume as a way to ‘energize’ the room.
Sound stuff (not mentioning concerts)
2007 Improvised sound performance with KWOK-The frogking (China) Louisiana, Humlebæk
2006 IMPERIA in Marmorkirken, the Marble Church (with Jacob Kirkegaard), An installation of sound recordings that we made in the Swedish nuclear power plant Barsebäck.
2006: directed and choreographed the performanceinstallation LYSALLERGI /ALLERGY TO LIGHT for live-soundart, dance and light design in Prøvehallen.
2005: Installation for infra- and ultrasound ”Four Corners” in Sofiebadet at Christianshavn.
2004: Infrasound installation ”Sightings” in an abandoned air raid shelter as a part of the. series called KNOX
2004: Installations for infra- and ultrasound ”New Species” and ”Always Call Their Bluff” in abandoned air raid shelters in Copenhagen as a part of the. series called KNOX
2003: created the collective sound installation for odl hi-fis and loud speakers. In Dandruff, copenhagen and in Rundetårn/the round tower.
Different Activities
Started the Club Kontakte that organizes multispeaker avantgarde concetrs in Copenhagen (2006 Keiji Haino, Zbigniew Karkowski, Merzbow and others) (2007 Bernard Parmegiani)
Plays in and co-organizes the mobile multispeaker orchestre The Ghettoblaster Ensemble.
Plays in the conceptual electric band LIGHTS PEOPLE (www.lightspeople.org)
Organizes concerts and performances in copenhagen since 2000
Has a radioprogram called THE BROKEN EAR that focuses on avant-garde noise, poetry, underground labels and all that doesn’t even fit into said categories (see www.myspace.com/detknusteoere)
Colabs:
Sune T.B. Nielsen (ubass, sinus, elektronics); Jacob Kirkegaard (gtr./electronics); Rasmus Brandt (bass, feed); Sture Ericsson (sax) Jørgen Teller (gtr.), Peter Kyed (gtr.), Per Buhl Acs (gtr.); Jakob Draminsky Højmark (laptop); Rex Casswell UK (gtr.); Stuart Lynch (song, dance); Anders Elberling (pix); Anne-sophie Millet F (Oboe, reel-to-reel and radio ); Cyril Hory F (Oboe) Troels Holmstrøm (gtr.); Alain Wergifosse B/E (electronics); Jakob Riis (laptop); Johan Seegerberg (doublebass); Søren Gorm (bas/doublebass); Nicolas F. Kauffmann (gtr.), Sara C. Czerny (bass). Christian Stadsgaard (Gotha-electronix); Jonas Olesen (Laptop); Janus Kodal (poetry); Jean-Louis Huhta S (laptop); Søren Raagaard (sampler); Kim Cascone US (Laptop); Morten Carlsen (sax); Jakob Brandt-Pedersen (laptop); Vagn Olsson (keys); Niels Winther (gtr; reeds); Toke Tietze Mortensen (electronix); Anders Christiansen (dance); Signe Andersen (dance); Lene Boel (dance); Morten Lerhard (food); Karoliina Heiskanen (Tapdance). Erik M F (turntables, electronix); Geraldine Keller F (voice); Tisha Mukarji(I/F) Kristian Vester/Mainpal/Goodiepal. Fjernsyn Fjernsyn (dk); Leif Elggren (s), KWOK the frog king (performance), Johs Lund (sax/fx)
Concerts:
Copenhagen, Svendborg, Aarhus, Gerlesborg, Halmstad, London, Toronto, New York, Göteborg, Vesterås, Stavanger, Louisiana – Humlebæk.
Releases:
DEAD EYE + Johan Segerberg: Issue at Hand; DEAD EYE: Optics Welcome; Insects: No-way Ticket; Lights Duo: I; Lights Duo: II; Lights People iii; Lights People iiii; Jørgen Teller and The Empty Stairs: Like a Crush + House of Rainbows + Wunderswim, The Ghetto Blaster Ensemble box m. 7 ”3 CD’s. mm.
www.lightspeople.org, www.ssshhhhh.dk, www.nonono.dk/knox
_ artists:
_ masayuki akamatsu
_ ricardo caballero
_ fried dähn
_ friedrich förster
_ anja füsti
_ philpp geist
_ paul hubweber
_ kasumi
_ tobias kirstein
_ mark l. kysela
_ thomas maos
_ vj oxygen
_ solu
_ sabine weissinger
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