biography
Christian Wolz • ARTISTBIOGRAPHY
- born in 1967 in Berlin
- Christian Wolz is vocal artist, composer and performance artist
Christian Wolz is a vocal artist, composer and a physiotherapist. He combines new styles of singing and language with the musical structures of medieval and non-European cultures to form a new means of communication for avant-garde art, hereby applying electro-acoustic means. Originally intended as tools for assistance, things such as microphones and effect processors become unique musical instruments. His way of working uses both methods of composition and improvisation combined into one. The result is a huge room of association where communication is developed as a deep, emotional and pristine form of conveyance.
Since 1988 Christian Wolz created numerous concerts, vocal perfomances, sound installations, radio plays, Cds and multimedia-performances. In 1995 he founded „Wolz – New Music Theatre“ and collaborated with various musicians, choreographers and directors. He created compositions for dance companies and theatre productions. He performed and worked in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Luxemburg, France, Greece, UK, Denmark and New Zealand.
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2011
- EMOTION 15 - soloproduction / concert-performance and CD release 2011 / First Premier: 21.09.2011 in Berlin
- The Bog Forest - composition und live-vocal art für Steptext Dance Project 2010-2011 / Premier: 10.03.2011 in Bremen
2010
- soloproject Rausch Research - improvisational concert for voice and electroaccoustics - start up of the trilogy RAUSCH (HIGH) - a concert project in four phases - 22. April 2010 in Berlin
- A One M(ORG)AN Show - collaboration with Morgan Nardi / Premier: 24.06.2010 at Tanzhaus Düsseldorf
2009
- Atropa Bella Donna – solo concerts in Wellington - Adam Music Room: 11.09.2009 and in Christchurch - School of Music: 15.09.2009 in New Zealand
- Street Songs – vocalart – collaboration with Jeff Henderson, sax-player and STROMA Ensemble Wellington / New Zealand / production: September 2009 in Wellington / Premier: 10.09.2009 - Ilott Concert Chamber Hall, Wellington
- VOID – composition and vocalist - collaboration with dance company „Steptext Dance Project“ and the choreographer Helge Letonja in Bremen / production: June till August 2009 / Premier: 27.08.2009 -Schwankhalle Bremen
- ECO – composition and vocalcoaching – collaboration with Ivan Marcos, performanceartist / Spain-Galicia / production: March and April 2009 in Santiago De Compostella / Premier: 17.04.2009 - Centro Dramatico Galego
2008
- release of "Associare-Acustica"
- radio feature "Shyreziin" joint with Elisabeth Nehring (author)
- "Atropa Bella Donna" - Performance at Giving Voice Festival
2007
- Joint project with the visual artist Martin Müller „ASSOCIARE“ a live-performance-project premiere: 30.Juni 2007 in Würzburg / Johanniskirche / Germany
- First premiere „Atropa Bella Donna“ 7. März in Antwerpen / Arenberg
2006
- Part of the performance "Atropa Bella Donna" in Dartington College of Arts
- workshops at Dartington College of Arts / UK
- Performances with Eva Karczak "indefinite continued progress / the shape of time" in Hamburg and Berlin
- SILVAN - Performance in Athens (GR)
- Artist in Residence "m&de - Dartington Hall" April 2006
- release of the limited edition CD „SILVAN“
- some different radioprojects
2005
- Joint audiovisuell project with the artist Oliver Spott „Religio-worktitle“
- Joint project with the author Jörg Karweik „audiobook“
- „SILVAN“ – live performance / first premiere in December in Bremen
- Joint project with Gilles Aubry (CH) „Camp Victory“ – first performances in November in Lausanne (CH)
- „SILVAN“ – radioplay and cd production
- work in progress: "StimmUngen ST3" - performances in Bremen und Antwerpen
2004
- CD release of „Ratarr“ and CD Release of „StimmUNgen ST1“
- Joint project with the director Norbert Mauk „1PS-Im Schatten der Kraft“ – first premiere in july in the Wasserspeicher Prenzlauer Berg, Berlin
- Joint project wih the composer Bernd Schultheis and the conductor Frank Strobel „concert for one voice and orchestra“
2003
- CD production "Ratarr"
- Live-Performance „StimmUngen ST1“ – first premiere / Kryptonale 9 im Dezember in Berlin
2002
- Solopiece "HIV+2", Première: Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- "AIDS.2002" project in Berlin
- CD production "HIV+2"
- "organic" - radiopiece for Deutschlandradio Berlin
- music production for dance »SOLARIS« / Unit.Control (Luxembourg)
- Première: "no-20.02" at the international festival "Words & Voices" in Heidelberg
- tour with "HIV+2"
2001
- Work on the solo production "organic•blood"
- music for dance "todaycom" musicproduction for Norbert Kliesch released in March 2001
- presentations of "aquitatus" in exhibition "the death" in May
2000
- Improvisation concerts "christian wolz trifft (meets) christian holz" in the Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- Tour with Rubato "kiss me here..." (Hamburg-Tanzplattform, Bremen, Hanover, Avignon, Berlin)
- Work on a new CD project "E INOM RAH" released in December 2000
1999
- Joint studio project with Hermann Beesten jr. "WB-R • TAMADIUM" (studio project)
- Joint project with Michael Ziffels "die botschafter • auditive diagnose" ("the messenger - auditive diagnosis) Performances in June 1999 in the Parochialkirche, Berlin
- Guest with the dance production "kiss me here (brutality of facts)" with the RUBATO dance company / Performances in October 1999 in the Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- Production of the musical radio play "aquitatus" for the Saarländischen Rundfunk and BR in October 1999
1998
- Guest with Melinda Kumbalek / CD produktion "Sweet Hallucinations of a Distant World (ashim - Sequencia - falla mangata)"
- 24 short performances "no" / Festival: Testlabor: ZivilisationAntizivilisation98, Schloss Bröllin
- CD production "AzA-DOMANA/H/ERTUM - wir leben und sterben" ("We live and die" - 2nd part of the CD trilogy "helexium i-an dIVoNDo mestrum - der mensch ist licht und finsternis")
- CD production "no/30.98" (limited edition:12 copies)
1997
- 2nd stereo acoustic performance "30" / premiere: Eimer, Berlin
- Multi-medial live performance "schmerzarie" ("Aria of Pain")/ Première: Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- CD production "schmerzarie"
1996
- Guest with "Deine Lakaien" on their tour of Germany
- Guest with the radio play "Animalia" by Grace Yoon / SFB
- Performance with "devil intus mestra de la fore" in the Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig
- Studio production with Hermann Beesten jr. "TAMADIUM - Seelenzustände" ("States of the Soul")
- Various radio features on the topic of AIDS / WDR and BR
1995
- Performances with "COR" in the Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt
- 1st stereo-acoustic performance "ASPHYXIE - drohender Erstickungstod durch ungenügende Sauerstoffzufuhr" ("Threat of suffocation due to lack of oxygen") / Première: Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- Performances with "devil intus mestra de la fore" at the Festival "Voices" in Innsbruck and in the Parochialkirche, Berlin
- Performance with "COR": Junges Theater, Bremen
1994
- Avant-garde opera "COR - Das Herz" ("The Heart")/ Première: Theater am Halleschen Ufer, Berlin
- Joint project with Irena Kulka (Butho-Tanz / CH): "Die Wand" ("The Wall")
- CD production "COR - live"
1993
- Performances in West Germany, East Germany and The Netherlands
- CD production "devil intus mestra de la fore - Lied eines Wahnsinnigen" ("Song of a mad man")
- Live performance "devil intus mestra de la fore" / first premiere: Paradiso, Amsterdam
- Performances in Bruges, Brussels and Berlin
1992
- CD production "EL CASTATA - Die Geburt" ("Birth?) (1st part of the CD trilogy "helexium i-an dIVoNDo mestrum - der mensch ist licht und finsternis" - "man is light and darkness")
- Tour of West Germany
- Performance in Kassel during the "DOCUMENTA IX 1992"
- Performance in Cologne at the "POPKOMM 92"
- Sound installation "ägide-aggression III" /exhibition:"ERST MAL WAS AUFS MAUL" / HdK Berlin
- Performance in the Lindentunnel in Berlin in cooperation with SFB
1991
- Vocal performance "ägide-aggression" (aegis aggression") / first premiere: HdK Berlin
- Improvisation concerts with various musicians in Berlin (SO 36)
- Performances in Cologne during the "Art Cologne 91"
1990
- Photo work: "NOVEMBER"
- Establishment of GIFT Studio
- Slide film: "ISOLABELLA - Die schöne Isolierte oder die schöne Insel" ("The beautiful isolated one or the beautiful island")
1989
- Photo/music project "O-CIAN-E = DIE Mutter DER (this mother the)"
- Slide film 1: "EXECUTION"
1988
- Photo/music project "CITOMA"
- Photo/music project "CO DORA" (I’m alive)