Rothkamm
Rothkamm
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About Rothkamm
frank ROTHKAMM (born Frank Holger Rothkamm on July 2nd, 1965 in Gütersloh, Germany) is a composer and conceptual artist who started as an actor at the German castle theatre in Moers. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles in The Wilshire Royale, a former hotel. Guided by the "quasi-mystical principles of a philosopher-cum-musician" (e|i), he is the progenitor of the aesthetics of supermodernism, sci-fi serialism, and IFORMM; the tri-fold unity of tuning system, synthesis method and physical instrument. His "charmingly eccentric" (Rare Frequency) and "enigmatically unpigeonholeable" (Touching Extremes) semi-autobiographical work probes notions of the hidden within the dialectics of commercial and underground culture, a concept that critically clones and multi-tracks the role of the composer in society and, as "he never seems to do the same thing twice" (Vital Weekly), gives testament to a utopian-scientific artform. The architectural formula of this work will express a continuous sequence of events or a series of space dramas. The plan for the pure and applied electronic music of supermodernism calls for the randomization of man and machine, so that the boundary between them won't be told with certainty and the randomization of music and time, so that no absolute placement in linear historical terms can be made. Until 2002 ROTHKAMM provided rhythm synthesis for the Hardkiss Bros., Peter Scherer, Corin Curschellas, Elliott Sharp, Alfred 23 Harth, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Lesa Carlson, and DJ Spooky; sonic concepts to Rodney Graham, Harald Fuchs, Diane Thater & T. Kelly Mason and DJ Glove; remixes for the Cranberries, Zeena Parkins, Tyrants in Therapy, and Rebekka Bakken, commercial underscores for Levi Strauss, Sears, and Philips; web integration for Warner Bros., Hewlett-Packard, Ford, BMC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Philharmonic; track licensing under the Mrs. Blowpop, Speed Genius Overdose, Frank Genius, and Flux Records moniker; and produced soundtracks to film experiments in 3-D projection technology, among them George Lucas' "Star Wars". Following an epiphany in Hollywood during the summer of 2002, ROTHKAMM designed the Turing Machine of sci-fi serialism : IFORMM ; that descended from his software emulation of Iannis Xenakis' UPIC for Science World of British Columbia in 1988. Since 2005 his prototypical works have been published in a series of compact disc concepts: the teenage tape recovery of "Moers Works (1982-1984)", the machine trilogy of "FB01","FB02 (Astronaut of Inner Space)"& "FB03 (E Pluribus Unum)" (2002-2007), the Y2K reenactment in LAX (1998-2007), the story and long-player of "just 3 organs" (2003-2008), the piano-forte "Opus Spongebobicum" (2005-2008) and his latest digital cantata "Frank Genius is Star Struck" (1990-2009). He is currently at work on TETRALOGY, a 3CD + 1DVD to be released on 10/10/09, 11/11/09, 12/12/09 and 01/01/10.
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