| forest jackson aka hanno leichtmann: comes from jazz and free jazz.plays drums and all kinds of electronics. performed with many international free improvising and electronic musicians, among others: connie and johannes bauer, lars rudolph, tony buck, john zorn, toshi nakamura, european string quintet, hannes strobl, sam auinger, rupert huber, christof kurzmann, ronald lippok, stefan schneider, etc. founded different projects in berlin: Ich schwitze nie (trikont rec.), paloma (mehrwert rec.) and dj attachee vs. the beige oscillator (charhizma rec) in the last years mainly active under the name static (www.city-centre-offices.de), paloma (fabrique rec.), white hole (kyo-rec.de) and vulva string quartet (www.combination-rec.de), making electronic pop music. also works for theatre (sasha waltz and guests dance company) and radio (deutschlandradio, wdr, orf) lives and works in berlin. |
| selected discography: 2001: static - static one 12" (audio.nl), static - relaxed therein 12" (sonarkollektiv), beige oscillator and dj attachée - waiting for wood (charhizma rec.), static - headphones 7" (city centre offices) 2002: static - eject your mind (city centre offices), static - turn on switch off 12" (city centre offices), paloma - sometimes we love you truely (fabrique rec.) 2003: static - flavour has no name (city centre offices), static - ghost boy 12" (city centre offices), white hole - holy ghost 12" (silke maurer) 2004: white hole - pink album (kyo rec.), vulva string quartet - death cab for bootsy 12" (combination) 2005: static - re : talking about memories (city centre offices), static - this morning without waking 7" (earsugar), vulva string quartett - out of sight 12" (combination) next releases: hanno leichtmann nuit du plomb cd (karaoke kalk) |
| events 1996-2004 (selection) 1996-98: different works for theatres and film: e.g. sasha waltz and guests: "allee der kosmonauten" dance piece and film soundtrack for arte/zdf, live performances at taktlos jazz festival in bern, ch 1999: artist in resident at podewil, berlin with hannes strobl as paloma, concerts with hans platzgumer, rupert huber, sam auinger, bruce odland, electronauten, lukas ligeti and others 2000: berlin-hongkong festival in hongkong with ich schwitze nie, dj attachée and b.o., paloma live at salzburg jazzit, jazzfestival, static live performance at sonarkollektiv night 11-2000 volksbühne berlin, ich schwitze nie and dj attachée & beige osc. live performances at festival of vision, hongkong 2001: static vernissage concert at the exhibition "fernsehturm" telecafé, alexanderturm, berlin, dj attachée and beige oscillator live performance at kunstherbst berlin opening party, static live performance at sonarkollektiv night volksbühne berlin, ich schwitze nie concert at staatsbank berlin, "20 jahre gelbe musik" 2002: static live performance at sonar festival barcelona, spain, static 10 day tour with morr music, ms john soda, guitar 2003:static portugal tour: dj attachée and beige oscillator play robert ashley: remix project for sonic arts lounge, märzmusik, festival für neue musik, berlin, white hole dj set at theater treffen berlin, static and white hole curate the magazin of the one-week radio from volksbühne berlin, static concert at club neustadt, berlin with prefuse73, at volksbühne berlin, dj attachée and beige oscillator, live show at the donaueschinger musiktage, static show with ronald lippok at centre pompidou, paris, white hole and static perform with sasha waltz and guests at the 10 years s.w.&g. festival in bordeaux, france 2004: static 2 month stipendium at museumsquartier, vienna, hanno leichtmann plays drums in an ensemble conducted by john zorn in a 2004 version of cobra at märzmusik berlin, 26th march, 10 days static tour in japan, tokyo, osaka, static live at benicassim, spain, 30 days static southamerica tour with goethe institute (cuba, brasil, argentina, columbia, venezuela) |
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