Bernhard Günter

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frozen moment two ( for terje ) 02:08 Tools
Heiwa no Tame no Haiku 01:00 Tools
changing 01:19 Tools
Crossing the River (Night Music) 31:26 Tools
Haiku for Mu 11:00 Tools
count this! 03:36 Tools
Iki No Kaiga 10:26 Tools
Kernel Panic 10:26 Tools
Untitled II/1996 14:33 Tools
Untitled 1/96 20:19 Tools
Whiteout (For Tanaka Takahiro) 20:19 Tools
Vertige Hasard 12:01 Tools
Monochrome White 44:03 Tools
Monochrome Rust 44:00 Tools
Time, Dreaming Itself 40:34 Tools
Elliptical Entropy 09:55 Tools
01 40:34 Tools
Then, Silence 37:47 Tools
Four Grey Paintings 22:19 Tools
Brown, Blue, Brown On Blue (For Mark Rothko) 38:31 Tools
The Ant Moves / The Black And Yellow Carcass / A Little Closer 28:24 Tools
Fuyo No Ame (For Morton Feldman) 37:47 Tools
Differential 44:00 Tools
Stone Circles 21:34 Tools
impossible grey 18:36 Tools
Four Grey Paintings (For Jim O'Rourke) 23:02 Tools
Untitled 1 96 20:19 Tools
late night loop 25:43 Tools
Slow Gestures / Cérémonie Désir (For Heike) 23:13 Tools
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- Untitled 1/96 -- Night Pass 23:13 Tools
fake jazz 03:57 Tools
stone circles (for richard long) 21:29 Tools
Listen To What You See (Audio Sample Of Location Of All Koblenz Photos) 06:02 Tools
Particles / Waves (For Steve Roden) 18:05 Tools
Écriture Automatique 20:52 Tools
Redshift 31:47 Tools
03 21:29 Tools
Brown, Blue, Brown on Blue ( For Mark Rothko ) 38:28 Tools
frozen moment one 08:47 Tools
04 31:47 Tools
Abschied 20:50 Tools
infinity, the guitar way 20:52 Tools
un lieu pareil a un point efface, 1 partie 15:04 Tools
Polychrome w/Neon Nails 44:02 Tools
Entwined 10:33 Tools
03. 00.09.57.046 ( for Richard ) 09:56 Tools
écriture automatique (for giancarlo toniutti) 18:05 Tools
Oto Dake 47:56 Tools
un lieu pareil a un point efface, 2 partie 15:27 Tools
Fuyu No Ame (For Morton Feldman) 24:01 Tools
Fuyo no Ame (For Morton Feldman 24:01 Tools
The Ant Moves The Black And Yellow Carcass A Little Closer 28:24 Tools
hungry ghosts 28:17 Tools
vertige hasard 11:58 Tools
Les voix du passé / Chantent l'avenir / Clair de lune 14:44 Tools
Listen To What You See 06:02 Tools
Untitled 15:24 Tools
Polychrome w/ Neon Nails 44:02 Tools
un lieu pareil à un point éffacé, part 2 15:24 Tools
Deceptive Likeness 19:58 Tools
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[Untitled III/92] 14:32 Tools
Ecriture Automatique 15:24 Tools
Fuyo no Ame 24:01 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Un Point Effacé, 1ere Partie 00:30 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil Á Point Effacé, 2eme Partie 15:27 Tools
un lieu pareil à un point éffacé, part 1 15:24 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Point Effacé, 1ère Partie 15:24 Tools
Whiteout 27:00 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil Á Point Effacé, 1ere Partie 15:04 Tools
[Untitled IV/92] 16:32 Tools
[Untitled I/93] 20:24 Tools
Listen To What You See (Audio 12:33 Tools
un lieu pareil à un point effacé, 1ère partie 12:33 Tools
Change for guitar 04:47 Tools
Infinity for guitar 05:45 Tools
count this 03:09 Tools
Slow Gestures / Cérémonie Désir 23:10 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Un Point Effacé, 2eme Partie 00:30 Tools
Untitled I 27:00 Tools
Frozen Moment Two (For Terje) 02:38 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Point Effacé, 2ème Partie 27:00 Tools
Crossing the River 31:26 Tools
Buddha With The Sun Face / Buddha With The Moon Face 21:42 Tools
Polychrome With Neon Nails 15:27 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Un Point Effacé, 2ème Partie 16:32 Tools
Untitled II 21:42 Tools
untitled iii 15:27 Tools
Ecriture Automatique (For Giancarlo Toniutti) 15:27 Tools
the ant moves / the black & yellow carcass / a little closer 00:30 Tools
Untitled I92 08:59 Tools
Untitled 1·96 15:27 Tools
Ecriture Atomatique 00:30 Tools
- Crossing... (Night Music) -- Crossing the River (2001) -- A5821-GUNTER-CRSSRIVR-NN-DV 15:27 Tools
00.09.57.046 [For Richard Chartier] 00:30 Tools
in her dream / mu is running / autumn moon (haiku for mu) 16:32 Tools
- Time, Dreaming Itself -- Time, Dreaming Itself (200?) -- A6331-GUNTER-TMDRMIT--TV 00:30 Tools
Then Silence 00:30 Tools
In Her Dream/Mu Is Running/Autumn Moon (Haiku For Mu) 00:30 Tools
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Slow Gestures/Cérémonie Désir (For Heike) 00:30 Tools
Fuyu No Ame 00:30 Tools
Un Peu De Neige Salie 00:30 Tools
- Untitled 1/96 -- Night Passage demixed (1996) -- A5308-ALAMB-NGHTPASS-NN-DRV 00:30 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil À Point Effacé, 1ere Partie 00:30 Tools
Un Lieu Pareil A Un Point Efface (Part 1) 00:30 Tools
kernal panic 00:30 Tools
Particles/Waves (For Steve Roden) 00:30 Tools
Crossing The River (Night Musi 31:26 Tools
Untitled 4/92 16:32 Tools
00.09.57.046 (For Richard) 16:32 Tools
particles / waves 16:32 Tools
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Bernhard Günter – A Short Biography Bernhard Günter, born 1957 in Irlich, Germany, begins his musical life playing the drums at age 12, then changes to electric guitar at 17. He moves to Paris in 1980, where he takes up auto-didactic studies of contemporary composition techniques in the libraries of IRCAM and the Centre Pompidou, and attends Pierre Boulez's lectures at IRCAM and Collège de France. Returning to Germany in 1986, he starts working on computer-based music in 1987; after four years of preparation and one year of work he releases his influential first CD 'Un Peu de Neige Salie' (1993), followed by 'Détails Agrandis' (1994). In 1995, he founds his own label, trente oiseaux. During the following decade, Günter releases numerous CDs and performs his music around the globe. 'Un Peu de Neige Salie' is listed as one of the "Top 100 Albums that set the World on Fire" by The Wire, one of his works receives an Honorable Mention at the 1999 PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA. After a decade of composing electroacoustic music, Günter re-discovers his interest in playing instruments and improvised music in 2004. He records two albums that combine pre-recorded electroacoustic basis tracks and improvisation with Graham Halliwell and Mark Wastell under the name of +minus, and an entirely improvised album with Reinhold Friedl and Michael Vorfeld, playing a self-devised string instrument he calls the electric cellotar. Both trios also perform live concerts. In 2005, Günter adds various bamboo flutes, the shakuhachi and the xiao among others, to his sound palette, and begins exploring a middle course between composition and improvisation that uses multi-tracking, editing, and arranging improvised parts that are exchanged between artists through the mail. The first result of this approach (which Günter calls 'compovisation') is the release of Ataraxia (2005) in collaboration with Heribert Friedl, followed by Trans (2006). Günter began playing the clarinet in mid-2006, using it for a through-the-mail collaboration project with guitarist Gary Smith. Günter and Smith have formed a duo and given it the name of Klangstaub; in Klangstaub, Günter plays clarinet, alto clarinet, pocket trumpet, duduk and bass duduk, acoustic baritone guitar, and contributes live looping and mixing to the duo. He continues exploring the synthesis of composition and improvisation, incorporating live sound processing and looping as a means for the formal organization of 'instant compositions'. Klangstaub has recorded a body of improvised music in July and November 2007, and March 2008; their first concert took place at no.signal @ Wire 25 festival – AvantJazz in London on 17 November 2007. Günter also played and recorded with the French improvisation ensemble SAP(e) in Montpellier in February 2008. In order to ensure his artistic independence regardless of economic considerations, Günter works part time as an English teacher in adult education, and as a translator. In his free time, he enjoys reading, photography, and mountain biking. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.