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Christian Wolz
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.
Christian Wolz’s vocal art is a self-developed vocal technique borrowed from forms of glossolalia (speaking in tongues). Glossolalia stems from the field of the psychology and is a self-created language of symbols, new word creations (neologism) and lingual sounds. The combination of such avant-garde vocal techniques with conventional styles of music makes his compositions one of a kind.
Christian Wolz is not a vocal performing show-off, but rather a convinced artist in a symbiosis of art forms: photographer, instrumentalist, singer, actor and director all in one. For years Christian Wolz has been fine-tuning his own form of expression. Bizarre, avant-garde, experimental, emotional and intimate. An allegory of his soul and his life.
Living in Berlin, his work deals with the cycle of birth, life and death. Regardless of whether its a performance on stage, a photo exhibition or a CD, every artistic detail is a facet of this basic theme and is embedded into his complete works, which deal with daily existence and its customary madness.