Ludger Brümmer · Composing

BIOGRAPHY

Ludger Brümmer is Professor of Composition with Digital Media at the Trossingen University of Music, Head of the Hertz Laboratory at the ZKM Karlsruhe and a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. He has a master's degree in education and composition. Brümmer works in the fields of physical sound modelling, algorithmic composition, spatial sound and interdisciplinary art. Many of his works attempt to connect electronic music with historical sources in music through composed granulated structures. In this context, he works with mathematical models such as fractals and cellular automata. He composed the music for the Amazonas Opera for the Munich Biennale, where he collaborated with Peter Weibel (text and direction) and Bernd Lintermann (visuals).

1978–1983
Music, art and education studies

1983 and 1989
Composition studies with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at Folkwang Hochschule Essen

1991 and 1992
Collaboration with the choreographer Susanne Linke and with the Nederlands Dans Theater. Performances at computer music conferences in San Jose, Tokyo, Banff and Thessaloniki

1995 and 1996
Member of the jury of the Prix Ars Elektronica. Composition commissions from the Akademie der Künste Berlin, the ZKM Karlsruhe, Klangart in Osnabrück and the ICMA for the ICMC 1997 in Thessaloniki

Prizes: including the Folkwang Prize, Essen; Busoni Prize of the Academy of Arts, Berlin; DAAD scholarship: Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustic (CCRMA) Stanford University between 1991 and 1993; Golden Nica at the Ars Electronica, Linz and Grand Prix - Pierre d'or in Bourges 1997

Lectureships at the electronic studio of the TU Berlin, at the Institut Archimedia in Linz and at the ICEM of the Folkwang Hochschule Essen

Between 2000 and 2002 he worked as a Research Fellow at Kingston University London and from April 2002 was Professor of Composition at the Sonic Art Research Centre in Belfast.