What are the challenges and benefits of today's digital music scene?Ģ002 "Wrapped Islands" with Polwechsel ErstwhileĢ005 "Erstlive 004" with Peter Rehberg, Sachiko M and Otomo Yoshihide ErstwhileĢ007 "On a desolate shore a shadow passes by" Touch - download onlyĢ008 "Saffron Revolution" Touch - download onlyĢ011 "Fearless" Thrill Jockey - contribution for the Benefit for the Recovery in Japan compilationĢ003 Remixed "Tomorrow Never Knows" and "The Future Sound Of Music" titled "Only the Poor have to Travel" by Ulver on 1993-2003: A Decade In The Machines Jester RecordsĢ005 Remixed "Weight" by Isis on Oceanic Remixes Vol. recently i enjoyed playing a `62 höfner archtop guitar.
What's your fetish device in the sound chain?Ī few things. biggest respect, but its not my favorite art form, same goes for theater. What is your relationship with other disciplines such as painting, literature, dance, theater. I´m not an esoteric person at all but music has a healing effect on me. i like "seven stars", even if it didn´t get recognized much.
every work was important for me at the time. Which work of your own are you most proud of, and why?ĭifficult to say. One thing do you have learned with effort through the guitarĭon´t practice too much. Listening to the wind and the water and hearing jimi hendrix for the first time.Īt the age of 9,10 it just seemed to be the coolest instrument. Which was the first approach to sound do you remember? In November 2013, Fennesz will play the final holiday camp edition of the world famous All Tomorrow's Parties festival in Camber Sands, England. This release was later remixed by Stefan Goldmann and released as Goldmann vs. The following year Fennesz released Szampler, a cassette containing his sample collection on the Tapeworm label. In 2009 Fennesz teamed up with Mark Linkous (Sparklehorse) to create In the Fishtank 15. Fennesz performed with singer Mike Patton at the 2007 Moers Festival - marking the first time the two have performed together on stage in Europe, as they have performed in 2006 at the Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville, and will continue to tour Europe together into June. Fennesz and Sakamoto released a collaborative album entitled Cendre in March 2007 on Sakamoto's new Commmons label, via Touch. Fennesz also remixed Ulver on the album 1993-2003: First Decade in the Machines, as well as appearing on their 2007 album Shadows of the Sun.įennesz had ties with the Vienna-based label Mego, and is now signed to Touch in the UK.
He has also worked alongside Peter Rehberg and Jim O'Rourke in the improvisational trio Fenn O'Berg, and with British singer David Sylvian - Sylvian sang on Fennesz's album Venice while Fennesz composed the music for "A Fire in the Forest" from Sylvian's album Blemish and made contributions to Sylvian's "When Loud Weather Buffeted Naoshima". Since the 1990s, Fennesz played live with Ryuichi Sakamoto, with British electroacoustic improvisation icon Keith Rowe, and with American pop group Sparklehorse. From there on, he began to collect his own equipment and produce music based loosely around guitar and synthesizer sounds. He became involved in the Viennese techno scene of the early 1990s. He started playing guitar around the ages 8 or 9. They resemble sensitive, telescopic recordings of rainforest insect life or natural atmospheric occurrences, an inherent naturalism permeating each piece.įennesz was born and raised in Austria and studied music formally in art school. His lush and luminant compositions are anything but sterile computer experiments. "Imagine the electric guitar severed from cliché and all of its physical limitations, shaping a bold new musical language." - (City Newspaper, USA). Fennesz uses guitar and computer to create shimmering, swirling electronic sound of enormous range and complex musicality. Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian guitarist active in electronic music, often credited on albums simply as Fennesz.