Artist: Ekkehard Ehlers
Genre(s):
Ambient
Discography:
Betrieb
Year: 2000
Tracks: 17
A purveyor of digital manipulations of existing music, Ekkehard Ehlers released his debut, Betrieb, in 2000. The record drastically manipulates samples from such early 20th century composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ehlers beholding each man as a closed system with which to experiment. He has worked on a trilogy of mini-albums on which he assumes the spirit of big artists from the yesteryear and applies it to electronics. The offset in this series was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson followed by Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler, on which he manipulated compositions for violoncello. The last record in the trilogy was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes. With Stephan Mathieu, he recorded Heroin. In increase, he has recorded under the false name Auch, as well as with the duette Autopoesies and the mathematical group März.
