Name Michael Renkel Role Guitarist | Albums Still | |
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Similar People Burkhard Beins, Axel Dorner, Alessandro Bosetti, Ignaz Schick, Andrea Neumann | ||
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Michel Renkel (born 1965) is a German concert guitarist who extends his instrument via live electronics and computer.
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Life and works
Michael Renkel was born in Celle. At the age of eight he began to learn playing concert guitar (lessons); he studied at the Hamburger Konservatorium classical guitar (1990–1994) and developed his own style since 1989 using preparations and advanced playing techniques.
He is engaged in aleatoric composition, variable forms and structures as well as notation. Influences are (amongst others): John Cage, Morton Feldman, Hans Werner Henze, Helmut Lachenmann, Violeta Dinescu, Derek Bailey, but also old lute music. He was the first musician transforming the concert guitar by means of computer patches and live processing.
Renkel works exclusively in long standing projects developing a very own group aesthetics and language: since 1989 Activity Center with Burkhard Beins, the electro-acoustic trio phono_phono, the ensemble phosphor with Axel Dörner, Ignaz Schick, Robin Hayward, Annette Krebs, Andrea Neumann, the Berlin Electric Guitar Unit and the duo with Sven-Åke Johansson. He performs Europe-wide on several festivals, including musique action, nous sons and LEM Festival/Spain, Expozice Nové Hudby, Czech Republic or International Art Bienale in Poland.
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The performance of Michael Renkel's playing is characterized by an unbelievable acuteness and sophistication
Renkel is some kind of genius, too a guitarist who can be described as 'post-Bailey'...