Born in Freiburg im Breisgau on 13 September 1976; Roman Pfeifer combines instrumental and electronic composition with contemporary music theatre. After his Abitur he began studying musicology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg in 1996; from 1998 he studied at the Folkwang Universität der Künste in Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith; he teaches music theory and electronic composition there. In 2012 he founded the company Kammerelektronik, whose concert performances bring together sound, instrumental gesture, dance, voice, light and space. In “drawing a straight line in a curved universe” for seven instruments, dance, electronics and light he took up Merce Cunningham’s idea of an electronic dance notation. His early works include “Wie… heilige Saiten” (1999) for string quartet and piano and the dance piece “aus.der.fremde” (2000), created with Hannes Galette Seidl. On the Cybele album ex machina Vol. 6 – The Nineties (2001) he is represented with “Dem Grau der Nacht enttaucht” (2000) for two-channel tape: spectra filtered from five piano tones are composed into movements of colour through three-note complexes, whose common “grey point”, the noise, becomes the second element of the piece.
Roman Pfeifer
Composer / Performance artist
