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Birgit Ulher

Birgit Ulher studied the visual arts, which still have an important influence on her music. Since moving to Hamburg in 1982 she has been involved in free improvisation and experimental music. Since then she has developed an individual musical language. She works mainly on extending the sounding possiblities of the trumpet and has developed her own extended techniques and preparations for producing these sounds.

Besides this material research she is especially interested in the relation between sound and silence and connecting visual arts with music.
Recent works include videos and sound installations.

Since 2006 she works with radiosounds, she uses extended speakers, fed with radio noise in her trumpet mutes. The trumpet functions as an acoustic chamber and modulates the radio noise, thus the trumpet is transmitter and receiver at the same time.

Her solo work contents the pieces 'Radio Silence No More', 'Matter Matters', 'Public Transport', Robo Tins, pieces with tape (Traces and splitting 21, a collaboration with Michael Maierhof), as well as compositions for sound installations like 'Reveille' for the sound- and lightinstallation 'Wake Up' by Allora & Calzadilla.

She performs solo and with her working ensembles, collaborations with dancers, visual artists, composers and one-time collaborations with musicians from around the world.

Lectures und Workshops at Haifa University, SAIC - School of The Art Institut of Chicago, Hochschule für Musik Basel, The Queen's University in Belfast, Galeria Mérida, Mexico and Anahuac 33 in Mexico City.

Collaborations with Nicolas Collins, Ute Wassermann, Lucio Capece, Gino Robair, Bill Hsu, Felix Mayer, Leonel Kaplan, Felipe Araya, Forbes Graham, Petr Vrba and Franz Hautzinger.

She has performed at festivals in Europe, the US, South America, Russia, the Middle East and Australia, like Warsaw Autumn, Szünetjel Festival in Budapest, High Zero in Baltimore, On the Outside in Newcastle, Kaleidophon in Ulrichsberg, FONT Festival in New York, The Now Now Festival in Sydney, SoundOut Festival in Canberra, Densités in Wesnes-en-Woevre, Teni Zvuka Festival in St. Petersburg, Concepts of Doing in Berlin, Tsonami Festival in Valpariso - Chile, Umbral Festival in Mexico City and Moers Festival among others.

Numerous CD releases.

www.birgit-ulher.de

 


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