Konrad Sprenger & Marcus Pal
The composer, artist, music producer, and instrument maker Konrad Sprenger, born and raised in Lahr, comes from Berlin to his old home.
Konrad Sprenger
Konrad Sprenger is the pseudonym of the Berlin-based composer, artist, music producer, and instrument maker Joerg Hiller.
In his own work and in numerous collaborative projects, Hiller works at the intersection of performance, installation, composition, and research.
Through the seamless merging of physically modeled synthesis with the sounds of his own acoustic innovations as an instrument maker, Hiller's work is characterized by a gradually unfolding structuring of precisely controlled harmonic and rhythmic structures.
His recent works include multichannel live performances revolving around a computer-controlled electric guitar that is continuously tuned and excited by electronically driven mechanisms.
Since 2017, Hiller and his collaborator Philip Sollman have been developing and presenting the Modular Organ System, a large-scale sound installation that integrates both conventional organ pipes and extended pipes and horns of their own design. After several site-specific implementations, the duo released their first archival recording of the project in 2023 on Hiller's own label Choose Records.
Other long-term collaborations include work with Arnold Dreyblatt, Ellen Fullman, Oren Ambarchi, Rom, Ei, Ethnostress, and the artist collective Honey-Suckle Company. As a producer and sound engineer, Hiller has also worked on solo recordings for Ambarchi, Dreyblatt, and Fullman.
Hiller's works have been presented in exhibitions and performances at Moma PS1, Artist Space, and Gavin Brown's Enterprise in New York, at KW, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berghain, and Sprüth Magers in Berlin, at Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Frankfurt Art Association, Kunsthalle Basel, at Sonar and Primavera in Barcelona, at ina GRM in Paris, as well as at the Vienna Festival and ICA London.
Choose Records was founded by Hiller in 2001 and has since released works by Terry Fox, Walter Marchetti, Robert Ashley, Ellen Fullman, Robin Hayward, and by Hiller himself (as Konrad Sprenger), as well as many others.
Marcus Pal
Marcus Pal (*1991) is a sound artist, composer, and theorist who works with harmonic sound. Pal's work focuses on the phenomenology of intensity, clarity, and possibility as they manifest in the perception of tones, chords, harmony, and other forms of harmonics. Pal extensively works with just intonation and composes for both acoustic instruments and digital sound synthesis. In 2013 and 2014, Pal studied with La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela while living in the Church Street Dream House in New York. Between 2014 and 2024, Pal worked closely with Catherine Christer Hennix.
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