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Nico Sauer

Nico Sauer (born November 9, in Munich) is a German composer, performance artist and multimedia artist.

Life and education

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Nico Sauer studied composition with Wolfgang Rihm and Markus Hechtle (BA, University of Music Karlsruhe, 2010–2015), Michael Jarrell (University of Music Geneva 2012–2013), Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch (MA, Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, 2015–2018).

During his education, his work was exposed to audiences in Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Japan and Russia.[1]

Work

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Nico Sauer's work combines instrumental and electronic music, video art, performance art and theater.[2] He seeks artistic antagonists which are supposed to endanger a perception of art to a degree at which a new perception is made possible. The artist as a social sculpture plays an important role in the presentation and communication of his work.[3]

In NeueMusik24-TV and on NeueMusik24.de, music is reduced to a literary form of sound ideas which are marketed and communicated as anti-capitalist products.

Deutsch-Afrika (2014, National Theatre Karlsruhe) is a critical introspective on the contemporary music scene and European supremacy and colonialism.

In Composing Life (2015, Karlsruhe, Essen) Sauer performed a motivational coach, preaching the liberating power of contemporary music,[4] a Millennial grotesque of Joseph Beuys.[5]

Love Me  (2016, German Hygiene Museum, Dresden) is a concert-installation on artistic identity, reproduction and masquerade, involving over a hundred clones of the composer and a super slow motion version of an Elvis Presley song.[6]

Salary Music (2016, ZeitPunkt, Osaka) is a series of 'invisible pieces' to be performed in public spaces and everyday life situations.[7]

Lab 317 (National Theatre Stuttgart, 2017)  is a performative theatre-installation that picks up the discourse on European cultural centralism by claiming to breed a super-race of musical geniuses.[8]

wwwwwwwf (Sprechsaal Berlin,[9] La FDP Paris, 2018) is the performed artistic encounter of Tanya Wenczel (Australia) and Sauer in a trans-humanistic wrestling match.[10]

With Taxi Boat Nico (Berlin, 2019) Sauer founded Berlin's first private water way transportation enterprise, a disguised series of artistic advertising campaigns and real-life performances on the questions of being and living as a contemporary artist.

In 2020, he co-founded the non-profit production organization bigger space[11] Isabell Ohst and Vincent Wikström, where he is working in artistic direction and production. In 2020, bigger space produced a music podcast named Musikmusikmusik (in German) in which composers, musicians and performers talk about their favorite music. In 2021, bigger space is realizing a virtual festival on the moon, which is premiered in summer '21.

Since 2020, he is frequently working in Paris[12] and Strasbourg.[13]

Works (selection)

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  • Der barhändige Wanderer singt in der Anwesenheit des Diebes,[14] Ensemble piece, 2014
  • Suite für Snare and 128 instruments,[15] Solo for snare drum and electronics, 2013
  • Deutsch-Afrika 2014,[16] Chamber opera with electronics, voices und computer voices. Commissioned by the National Theatre Karlsruhe[17] and the Hoepfner Foundation, 2014.
  • Composing Life, performance, Essen, Karlsruhe,[18] 2015.
  • Labor 317,[19] Music theater, Staatstheater Stuttgart, Labor Nord. Commissioned by SKAM, 2017[20]
  • LOVE ME,[21] Music theater, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, El Perro Andaluz, commissioned by Ernst-Werner von Siemens Foundation,[22] 2016
  • On Yellow Pyramids And Learning To Fly Them, Solo Performance, white noise, Stuttgart,[23] Agora, Berlin.[24] Commissioned by SKAM, 2017.
  • The AcouSuit[25] , Installation/Performance[26]. Commissioned by Spor Festival, Aarhus, Denmark[27]
  • Teleform Centrum.[28] Commissioned by Festival Musica, Stasbourg, France, 2018 [29][30]
  • Accelerando[31], UA mit Isao Nakamura. Commissioned by the German Nation Radio, 2015[32]
  • Reel B Music, Mini compositions on Instagram Reels, since 2021
  • Ears of a Composer,[33] Monthly radio show on Cashmere Radio, Berlin, since 2020
  • Moonbreaker 2121, a music festival on the moon. As composer and artistic director. Funded by Musikfonds, 2021

Awards and scholarships

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Writings

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References

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  1. ^ "Klang Stream — STUDIO FOR NEW MUSIC". www.studionewmusic.ru. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  2. ^ "Nico Sauer | ZKM". zkm.de. Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  3. ^ "Sauer, Nico | SWR Classic" (in German). 2015-06-23. Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  4. ^ "Composing Life (Nico Sauer)". Auf dem Sperrsitz (in German). 2015-07-21. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  5. ^ huflaikhan (2015-07-21). "Composing Life (Nico Sauer) • musik|kultur|unrat". musik|kultur|unrat (in German). Retrieved 2022-09-26.
  6. ^ "Das ist Schauspiel, das ist Drama!". Musik in Dresden (in German). 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  7. ^ "働くあなたに贈る ゲンダイオンガク勉強会". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  8. ^ "K-R-A-M 2017–02 | LABOR317 – S-K-A-M e.V." Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  9. ^ "WwWwWwWwF Wrestling Fight Event – no losers, welcome!". Sprechsaal (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  10. ^ "WwWwWwWwF à Paris Le FDP". www.facebook.com. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  11. ^ "bigger space". bigger space (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  12. ^ "[La Muse en circuit] Julien Desprez, Myriam Van Imschoot, Béla & Marc Ducret, etc" (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  13. ^ "FESTIVAL MUSICA 2019. CE QUE COMPOSER VEUT DIRE". artpress (in French). 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  14. ^ "NACHTKLÄNGE 2 – ANKLANG | Programm | Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe | Spielzeit-Archiv 2014/15". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  15. ^ "Konzertarchiv 2019 | Sankt Peter Köln" (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  16. ^ "Nachtklänge 2 Verfehlte Siege" (PDF) (in German). Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  17. ^ "DAS MAGAZIN Nr. 11 – Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe – concert". doczz.net. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  18. ^ "die Anstoß e.V." Die Anstoß e.V. (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-06.
  19. ^ C. T. M. Festival. "Unease". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  20. ^ "K-R-A-M 2017–02 | LABOR317 – S-K-A-M e.V." Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  21. ^ "Das ist Schauspiel, das ist Drama!". Musik in Dresden (in German). 2016-08-21. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  22. ^ "Composition Commission issued to Nico Sauer". www.evs-musikstiftung.ch. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  23. ^ "K-R-A-M 2017 02 | BOITE DE NUIT : Shifting – S-K-A-M e.V." Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  24. ^ "GULLY HAVOC". Agora Collective. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  25. ^ "The AcouSuit – Dress Up for Good Sound" (in Danish). 2017-04-28. Retrieved 2021-02-03.
  26. ^ Cook, Amanda (2017-06-06). "SPOR Festival 2017 Call for Proposals Presents Music as Sound Art". I CARE IF YOU LISTEN. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  27. ^ "UK-Archive". SPOR festival (in Danish). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  28. ^ "Teleform Centrum Ep 1 – Guitare (2018) 3'05". Festival Musica (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  29. ^ "Teleform Centrum Ep 1 – Guitare (2018) 3'05". Festival Musica (in French). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  30. ^ "FESTIVAL MUSICA 2019. CE QUE COMPOSER VEUT DIRE". artpress (in French). 2019-10-07. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  31. ^ "Wenn die Dichterinnen trommeltanzen | Ausgabe: 5/15 | nmz – neue musikzeitung". www.nmz.de. Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  32. ^ "Forum neuer Musik 2015 – Ostasien Modern 17.-19 April 2015". Deutschlandfunk (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  33. ^ "Ears of a Composer". Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  34. ^ "Wolfgang-Rihm-Stipendium | Hoepfner Stiftung" (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  35. ^ "Preisverleihung | Kaske Stiftung". Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  36. ^ "Wir präsentieren: die Gewinner des Your-Turn-Wettbewerbs 2016". blog.youtube/intl/de-de (in German). Retrieved 2021-02-09.
  37. ^ "Positionen – Texte zur aktuellen Musik". Retrieved 2021-02-03.
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