Georg Klein

Born in Öhringen on 1 March 1964; Georg Klein is a sound artist and composer. From 1983 to 1986 he studied electrical engineering and acoustics at the Technische Universität München and continued his training as a sound engineer at the Technische Universität Berlin from 1987 to 1991; from 1992 to 1998 he went on to study philosophy of religion, cultural studies and psychoanalysis at the Freie Universität Berlin, and from 1998 to 2001 electronic composition and sound art at the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin. He has lived in Berlin since 1987. He works with sound, video and media, often site-specifically in public space; his works include “transition – berlin junction” (2001/02), “Ortsklang Marl Mitte” (2002), the tower trilogy “turmlaute” (2006/07), “RamallahTours” (2009) and “toposonie :: spree” (2013). In 2002 he received the Deutscher Klangkunst-Preis of the Skulpturenmuseum Marl, and in 2006 the MEDIA-SPACE-Award NRW. He is professor of sound art at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where he has headed the master’s programme Sound Studies and Sonic Arts since 2022. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 8 – 90 Seconds of Reality (2005), which brings together 47 miniatures of about ninety seconds each, his piece “Ankündigung der Wirklichkeit: imperial news” (2003) opens the sequence.