Friedemann 'Fried' Dähn (DE)

The cellist, sound-artist and composer is working
in classical , contemporary and electronic music as well as in media and video arts.
Between 1990 and 1993 he has been cellist of the well known Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, where he had the possibility to work with K.-H. Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman and Frank Zappa, to mention only a few. At the same time he developed an electric cello and started his own musical projects in the fields of improvisation, electronic and jazz as well as projects combining different genres of art as sound and language or music and visuals. Since 2004 he owns a professorship for audio design and sound arts at the University for applied sciences in Schwäbisch Hall. Tours brought him to people´s republic of China, Russia, USA, Brazil, and to all important centers of music all over Europe. He has been artist in residence at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2003. In 2004 he was invited to Subtropics – Festival for experimental music in Miami. 2007 he was invited for workshops and performance to Malaga, Spain. In 2008 he got the commission writing and producing the soundtrack for a new dance piece by choreographer Freddie Opoku – Addaie from the Robin Howard Foundation in London. Together with Thomas Maos he is artistic leader of the Camp – Festival, international Festival for Visual Music, taking place every two years in a different location.

Releases: Cuento (CD, 2009), The Brains – Endorphine (CD 2009), Scope (DVD-Video 2007), Stuttgart Nachts (DVD - Video 2006), Score (DVD – Video 2006), Sektor A/B (CD 2005), Voyages (DVD – Video 2005), Aqua (CD 2003), Nachtmusik (CD 2001), 9Q (CD 2001), 43:49 (CD 2000), Cantus Lapidum (CD 1999), the Soul of Classic (CD 1999), Kiss my Guarneri (CD 1997), zwischen jetzt und dort (CD 1996), la noce blanche en fleur (CD 1995).

 

[http://www.friedstyle.com]

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