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If you speak to Dolge and notice in the background that you don't understand his music, he replies with a smile: "It's not my fault!" - but then he readily explains his intention to use the really huge range of possibilities of sounds that can be programmed on the computer to not only open up new worlds of sound to people with machine-programmed computer music, but also to convey emotional content through direct human influence. An optical sensor reads his movements and translates them into the three basic parameters of pitch, volume and timbre. In this way, his feelings determine a musical sound event that differs from the usual sound of our previous music only in the newness of the sounds.
Like a singer, violin or wind soloist, he stands in front of a sensor that is very similar to a film camera and is connected to the computer, moves both arms in a coordinated manner and walks backwards and forwards in the room. This creates a variety of sounds that have their origin in a timeline in which musical sound elements such as intervals, chords, tone sequences (scales), samples (sound snippets), sound sources to be used (synthesizers), etc. form the basis for the sounds of his music like a musical instrument.
People are born into the living conditions of their parents, their living area, the culture of a living space and react to these conditions with their own movements, vocalizations, thoughts and more. The former is pre-programmed like a "timeline"; under these conditions, people act more or less individually "with hands and feet". Dolge sees this as a philosophically conceivable background.
His works are actually a type of music video. While electronic art music is of course primarily about the sound experience, assigning it to the image provides an essential visual stimulus and complements the overall impression of the work being performed. The image is an element that supports the imagination in the creation of his music, which is a predominantly improvised and therefore largely unique product, and which can be just as helpful for the listener and viewer as it is for the "player". It is of course possible to switch off the visual by closing your eyes, but it is not conceivable to experience the visual by closing your ears alone. What is meant here is primarily "music".
Dolge was a long-standing member of the Center for Electronic Music Freiburg e.V., www.zem.de/aud..., where most of his work is located, and now over 50% of the pieces archived there are his. But his electronic art music can also be found on KZbin at KZbin
/ @electronicartmusic1 ) and www.electromusica.de.
Arnd Dolge was born in 1934 in Annaberg, a town near the Czech border. As a young boy he practiced the piano and violin and at the age of 15 he became a student at the music conservatory in Sondershausen. From 1953 he continued to study at the famous music academies in Leipzig and in what was then West Berlin.
In 1960 he received an invitation to teach artistic piano playing at the Ueno-gakuen Music University in Tokyo, later at the music academy in Osaka and in 1969 he became professor and head of the department for keyboard instruments at the Showa Music Academy in Atsugi/Tokyo. Returning to Germany in 1977, Prof. Dolge taught at the Bremen Music Academy and the University of Koblenz/Rhine. He was also involved as the director of two music schools.
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