Arnold Dreyblatt
Type | Artist Male |
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Associated person(s) | |
URLs | Artist's page Wikipedia |
Awards | |||||
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Award | 2005 | 1. Preis Internationaler Wettbewerb | Center for Holocaust and Minorities Museum | Oslo | |
Promotion | 2000 - 2001 | Artist in Residence, Center for the Arts | MIT, Cambridge | Boston | |
Promotion | 1997 - 1998 | Artist in Residence | The Felix Meritis Foundation | Amsterdam | |
Promotion | 1989 | Project and Preparation Grant | DAAD | Berlin | |
Award | 1987 | Philip-Morris-Kunstpreis | München |
Exhibitions | |||||
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Solo exhibition | 2017 | Repertoire | Akademie der Künste | Berlin | |
Solo exhibition | 2012 | Cage Cut Up | Tonspur / MuseumsQuartier | Vienna | |
Solo exhibition | 2005 | Inscriptions | The Jewish Museum | Frankfurt am Main |
Publications | ||||||||||||
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Monograph | 2003 | Kehrer Verlag | Aus den Archiven | Arnold Dreyblatt | ISBN 978-3-933257-31-4 | Heidelberg | Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken | |||||
Monograph | 2016 | Brooklyn Arts Press | Infinite Record: Archive, Memory, Performance | Arnold Dreyblatt, Louise Hojer, Wen Hui | 13: 978-1936767410 | New York | Maria Magdalena Schwaegermann & Karmenlara Ely |
Research and teaching
Kiel, Deutschland
Seit 2009 ist Dreyblatt Professor für Medienkunst – Kunst mit Medien an der Muthesius Kunsthochschule Kiel. Er ist seit 2007 Mitglied der Akademie der Künste Berlin.
Places of residence
Berlin, Deutschland
Arnold Dreyblatt lebt seit 1984 in Berlin.
Education
Middletown, Vereinigte Staaten
Wesleyan University, Studies of Composition und Ethnomusicology, (M. A. 1982), Composition studies with Alvin Lucier.
Education
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
Studies in Electronic Music with the Composer Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York Albany; Electronic Music with David Moulton, Rhinebeck, New York; Community Media Project, New Paltz, New York.
Born
New York, Vereinigte Staaten
Arnold Dreyblatt wurde 1953 in New York, NY geboren.
Arnold Dreyblatt (b. New York City, 1953) is a composer, performer and visual artist. He studied music with Pauline Oliveros, La Monte Young, and Alvin Lucier and has been based in Berlin, Germany since 1984. Among the second generation of New York minimal composers, Dreyblatt developed a unique approach to composition and music performance. As he began his music in the late 1970's in New York, he invented a set of new and original instruments, performance techniques, and a system of tuning and has formed and led numerous ensembles under the title "The Orchestra of Excited Strings". In 2007, he was elected to the German Academy of Art (Akademie der Künste, Berlin). He is currently Professor for Media Art at the Muthesius Academy of Art and Design in Kiel.
Dreyblatt has been composing music for his own and other ensembles for almost forty years. Often characterized as the most rock-oriented of American minimalists, Dreyblatt has cultivated a strong underground fan base for his transcendental and ecstatic music with his "Orchestra of Excited Strings". The New York native studied film and video at SUNY with Woody and Steina Vasulka, and earned his masters from the Institute for Media Studies at S.U.N.Y. Buffalo. In the mid-'70s, he studied composition with Pauline Oliveros and LaMonte Young, then with Alvin Lucier while completing his masters in composition, completed in 1982. By that time, Dreyblatt had already been directing his own music ensemble, the Orchestra of Excited Strings.
In 1984, he moved to Europe where, in addition to composing, he began to work in performance and the visual arts. He has received numerous grants, stipends and commissions including the Philip Morris Art Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art and from the Irish Arts Council. Musicians and Ensembles which have performed his music include the Bang On A Can All-Stars, the Pellegrini Quartet, Jim O'Rourke, Crash Ensemble (Dublin), The Great Learning Orchestra (Stockholm), and the American Indie-band Megafaun. In 1991, he created the contemporary opera Who's Who in Central and East Europe 1933 which toured European theatres until 1997. Dreyblatt has recorded for such labels as Tzaddik, Hat Hut, Table of the Elements, Cantaloupe, Important, Northern Spy, Choose and Black Truffel. Dreyblatt has taught music workshops resulting in performed compositions with musicians at The Music Gallery, Toronto; MIT Boston, Serralves Foundation, SXSW FestivalPorto, Portugal and many others. He has performed with and without his ensemble at the Whitney Museum, New York; the Maerz Music Festival, Berlin; the Angelika Festival, Bologna; The Lab in San Francisco, Jazz House, Copenhagen and countless other festivals and concert venues in Europe and in North America.
https://www.thelab.org/projects/2017/2/14/3mia4y49twcrezhrq91hx3a8ftrg8m (25. 08. 2019)
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Star Trap | 1991 | Arnold Dreyblatt | |
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The ReCollection Mechanism | 1998 | Arnold Dreyblatt | |