Ludger Brümmer

Born in Werne in 1958; Ludger Brümmer is a composer, video artist and acoustician. After studies in Dortmund and composition studies with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang Hochschule he worked at the interface of instrumental music, electroacoustics and digital sound art. He is professor of composition with digital media at the Musikhochschule Trossingen and works with spatial sound, sound synthesis and algorithmic composition. In 1983 he completed a course of study in psychology and sociology; the composition studies in Essen lasted from 1983 to 1989, after which he taught composition and analysis there for eight years. He was a visiting scholar at the CCRMA of Stanford University from 1991 to 1993, and from 2000 research fellow at Kingston University London and lecturer at the Sonic Arts Research Centre of Queen’s University Belfast. From April 2003 he directed the Institut für Musik und Akustik at the ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe and later the Hertz-Labor; he is a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. His distinctions include the Golden Nica of the Prix Ars Electronica (1994), the Pierre d’Or of Bourges (1997 and 2001) and the Busoni-Preis of the Akademie der Künste Berlin. For the choreographer Susanne Linke he wrote “Ruhrort”, for the Nederlands Dans Theater, with the video artist Silke Braemer, “Lizard Point”; on the opera “Amazonas” he worked with Peter Weibel and Bernd Lintermann. Four albums connect him with Cybele. Three belong to the ex machina series, which the label devoted to electroacoustic composition: le son qui s’arrête le son éclaté and tangent (both 1996) and The Eighties (2001). His teacher Dirk Reith is likewise represented on all three. To these is added a contribution to the audiobook production Weht ein Stadtspaziergang durch den Traum (2014).