Born in Berlin in 1952; Matthias Kirschke is a composer of electronic music and a guitarist. He studied astrophysics, art and communication science and completed a training in short-term therapy. He has played the guitar since 1962; in 1982 he founded the jazz group Monsun, which existed until 1992. Since 1981 he has devoted himself to electronic music, above all for sound installations and galleries, such as “Klangmaterie” (1983) and “Steinwasser” (1984), for art videos such as “Barcode” (1986) and “Sandbänke” (1989) and for a film by Konstantin Schmidt (1989). Since 1993 he has worked with the Chinese artist Qin Yufen; their joint works have been shown at the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, the Istanbul Biennial, the National Museum in Oslo, the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg and the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, among others. “Dune” (1993) was premiered at the Beijing Art Palace in 1994, and in 1996 he wrote dance music for the Hebbel-Theater and the dance company of Cesc Gelabert and Lydia Azzopardi. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 4 – Ausbruch Aufbruch (1998) he is represented with “Masae” (1995), premiered in Mons in March 1996 in the series “une heure concrète”.
Matthias Kirschke
Composer
