Ludger Brümmer
Ludger Brümmer (born 1958 in Werne) is a German composer of electroacoustic and computer music, also working with dance and video. He studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith, was a visiting scholar at CCRMA at Stanford, and from 2003 headed the Institute for Music and Acoustics at the ZKM in Karlsruhe. Brümmer wrote the tape music for Ruhrort, a choreography by Susanne Linke. In 2017 he was appointed professor of composition for digital media at the Hochschule für Musik Trossingen. His The Gates of H.
Spheres of Resonance
Eight electronic works by Ludger Brümmer on two CDs, made with granular synthesis and the physical-modelling software GENESIS and produced for up to 42 channels; a ZKM Karlsruhe production in Edition ZKM, 2022.
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For decades, Ludger Brümmer has represented a unique, courageous, and often instantly recognisable voice in electronic, algorithmic, and computer music. He develops structures that lead to aesthetic experiences normally found, if at all, only in the most expressive of instrumental works.
Ludger Brümmer’s music is dominated by processes. All processes are on a trajectory towards a climax or evolve from a climax to a minimum. Ultimately, a complete lack of orientation is to be achieved in the clim…