Thomas Lehn
Thomas Lehn is a German pianist and synthesizer player, born in 1958 in Fröndenberg, who works in free improvisation and contemporary music. He trained as a sound engineer in Detmold and studied piano in Cologne. His main instrument is the analogue EMS Synthi A, with which he has built his own language of live electronic music, playing it alongside acoustic musicians. Thomas Lehn formed the improvising group Konk Pack, recording Big Deep (1999), Warp Out (2001) and Off Leash (2005). He is a member of the electronic orchestra M.I.M.E.O.
Rabbit Run
Keith Rowe: tabletop guitar, electronics Thomas Lehn: analogue synthesizer Marcus Schmickler: digital synthesizer, computer
Les protorythmiques
This recording is taken from a live concert which took place at the Musique Action Festival in France on Thursday the 26 of May 2005. Initially Luc Ferrari and erikm were invited to present "Les Protorythmiques" at Musique Action 2005, a work composed around a new 'open working process' in which sounds and compositional parts could be substituted and transformed in an almost improvisational setting, this however was not to pass due to Luc Ferrari's health, at which point Thomas Lehn was invited …
Dach
"Living," wrote John Cage in 1952, "takes place each instant and that instant is always changing. The wisest thing to do is to open one's ears immediately and hear a sound suddenly before one's thinking has a chance to turn it into something logical, abstract or symbolical." Many improvising musicians today pay lip-service to Cage, but very few perform music which really lets sounds be themselves. Since 1993, trombonist and composer Radu Malfatti has been exploring "the lull in the storm", craft…