Norbert Walter Peters (born March 17, 1954 in Stolberg, Aachen) is a German composer, sound artist and author for Radio Art.
Biography
Early years Norbert Walter Peters finished his musical education at the Aachen academy of music in the subjects of guitar, singing and Renaissance lute in 1981. The subjectmusic theatrespeech training, dramatic lesson, piano; performance Theatre Aachen 1975-06-15: Carl Orff - Die Kluge as well as scientific research worksMusic of the Spanish Renaissance (1538-1576), 1980 // scientific assignment Comparing Analyse of the Fuga for lute G-minor BWV 1000, the Fuga for violin G-minor BWV 1001, the Fuge for organ D-minor BWV539 of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), 1981 had been a further main point in his musical education.Finish: Instrumental Pedagogy. He completed his education with studies of composition.lecturer from 1974 to 1981: Prof. Tadashi Sasaki (guitar/lute); Prof Else Bischof-Bornes (singing); Prof. Peter Maßmann (opera); tutor Werner Mönch-La Dous (speech training); tutor Leonie Renoldi (dramatic lesson); tutor Vera Kucerova (piano); Prof. Wolfgang Breuer (analysis); Prof. Herbert Nobis (composition), 1981–1984. Beside his pedagogic and artistic work Peters was just so active as music reviewer and free journalist.Aachener Nachrichten since 1977.
Career Peters composed music for ensemble and made concerts as lute player until he 1987 came in contact to fine artists from the milieu of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He received significant inspiration through contact and exchange with the Danish Fluxus artist Henning Christiansen and the visual US-artist and sound art pioneer Terry Fox. Peters created more and more sound performances and sound installations just as picture objects. Some pictures of him are represented in collections and in the Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum of Aachen.Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Peter and Trude Lacroix - Another Collection, 2006-02-04 - 2006-04-30, Two works on paper, catalog page 272, image 20.
Also in this time Peters organized two events with international artists: the sound art event ...KLÄNGE at the castle of Stolberg (Rhld.)Performance/Sound Installation, artist 1989: Henning Christiansen, DK; Terry Fox, USA; Rolf Julius, D; Johan Goedhart & Paul Panhuysen, NL; Norbert Walter Peters. Aachener Volkszeitung, Professor musiziert mit zwei Schafen (Professor makes music with two sheep), Eckhard Hoog, 1989-09-30 / Aachener Nachrichten Kultur Es heult und grollt in allen Tonlagen (It howls and growls in all tones), Michael Karhausen, 1989-10-03 and the performing arts event of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein of Aachen.http://www.neueraachenerkunstverein.de/content/1990/ausstellungen/?lang=en Archiv 1990 Thomas F. Fischer, D, 1990; Ron J. Meyers und Gershon Berkowitz, USA/Israel, 1990; Tersa Murak, PL, 1991 Afterwards he was guest lecturer at the Saarbrücken Academy of Fine Arts (composition and space experience). From December 2020 to May 2023 he was artistic director of the successful streaming event series #coronawinter 2020/21/#klangraumFinkenberg 2021/22 / #klangraumFinkenbergZwei 2022/23 (streaming-hybrid) on the YouTube channel Stolberg Evangelisch in the Protestant Finkenberg Church in Stolberg.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDV39WvY4Yc&list=PLd0UpjZbCkz85jdNEuLkumORTAwMf2p1S // https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVYhRyuT8kQ&list=PLd0UpjZbCkz8a8wqLIGgpU4x4u3HfBJAR
Since 1999 Peters conceived hear pieces for the Radio Arts. Norbert Walter Peters has been able to realize a number of his sound installations,Heidelberger Kunstverein 1993/94, Injunktion- Sound Installation, Studio, curator: Dr. Hans Gercke; assignment of the Deutscher Musikrat; Rhein Neckar Zeitung, Zum Ausklang des laufenden Jahres (At the end of the current year), 1993-12-01, Heide Seele.Donaueschinger Musiktage 1999: Vasí on, curator: Armin Köhler; https://www.swr.de/swr-classic/donaueschinger-musiktage/programme/1999/werke/peters-norbert-walter-vasi-on/-/id=2136902/did=3615370/nid=2136902/mxdurk/index.html Musikprotokoll 2001: CavæTóna, Hotel Three Raven, chamber 315, Graz, Kurator: Christian Scheib; https://musikprotokoll.orf.at/projekt/cavaetona-ausstellung // Österreichischer Rundfunk Ö1 Zeit-Ton, CavæTóna, 30-10-2001, Feature, Susanne Niedermayr; Vecer (The evening), Slovenia Nenavadno o navadnem (Unusual about the ordinary), 2001-10-16, Lojze Smasæk; catalog musikprotocol 2001, page 8-10, Christian Scheib/Annette Siffrin/Norbert Walter Peters, ORF. radio pieces,CavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor Wolfgang Korb, Premiere: 2000-05-23. theatreproduction Theatre Aachen mÖrgens, mériterechkîma radiophonic theatre- und space project (stage design/direction), 2005-06-04, with: Guy de Bièvre, Gent, B (electronics); artistic director: Paul Esterházy/music director: Marcus Bosch and instrumental concertsBavarian Radio/Bayern2Radio Laboratory for Music / t-u-b-e Gallery for Radiophonic Art, con'tinuo, live 2001-12-14, editor: Wolf Loeckle.Bavarian Radio Laboratory for Music / Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Mouvement, nota.thión - The Lament of the Repentant Heart, Town Gallery Saarbrücken Forum New Music - live 2005-10-13, editors: Wolf Loeckle (BR)/Wolfgang Korb (SR); curator (Gallery): Ernest W. Uthemann.Mouvement Festival for New Music Saarbrücken American Dreams - Amerikanische (T)Räume, beau son.ge - An Electric Fayerie (Hommage to Jimi Hendrix), assignment: Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken/Kaiserslautern (SR/SWR), live 2009-05-23, editor: Wolfgang Korb; Neue Musikzeitung (nmz) Sich von amerikanischen Träumen bewegen lassen - Die New York School of Music zu Gast in Saarbrücken (Let yourself be moved by American dreams - the New York School of Music visits Saarbrücken), Peter Schroeder, nmz 7-8/2009. by orders for composition. By radiophonic productions of the Deutschlandradio Kultur BerlinDeutschlandradio Kultur Werkstatt / Südwestrundfunk SWR Baden-Baden, né-tchr - a music story, editor: Dr. Götz Naleppa, premiere: 2004-01-16, http://sonosphere.org/de/sammlung_de/kuenstler_de/detail_de/items/113.html.Deutschlandradio Kultur Klangkunst, dépôt de beau songe, editor: Marcus Gammel, premiere: 2010-03-05, https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/depot-de-beau-songe-ursendung.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=173870. and Radio France Culture Paris.Atelier de Création Radiophonique / DLR Kultur Werkstatt, nota.thión - après le Déluge, editors: Philippe Langlois RFC / Dr. Götz Naleppa DLR, premiere: 2005-03-27, https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nota-thion-nach-der-flut.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=173603; https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nota-thion-nach-der-flut.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=173672.
Since about 2013 he has also been developing multimedia compositions, which he publishes as video art contributions on his YouTube channel. In addition to the video work Depot, a. o. t. Tide I - IV and other video works such as the multimedia composition # 137 belong to this complex of works.Depot for Space - the Brain Museum, noise music // Tide I Megacity #1 (Seoul), noise music // Tide II Megacity #1 (Madrid), noise music // Tide IV #1 string quartet // Tide IV #2 piano // Tide IV #3 wind quartet // Tide V #1 string quartet // Tide V #2 piano // Tide V #3 wind quartet // Quis dabit mihi pennas noise music // sonARA noise music // #137 noise music
Works list (selection)
1988 the composed performance DIN-S18 for the first international Xerox art exhibition of Switzerlandcatalog copy-left (page 62), Kunsthaus Palazzo, Basel-Liestal, CH, 1988. 1991 the acoustic Way of the Cross EKSIT for the Art Station of St. Peter's Church, CologneEKSIT - sound installation, Holy Week 1991-03-14 - 1991-03-29 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEB0wZiZRH8&t=352s. 1991 sound performance Rond in the Basilica of St. Vitus, Mönchengladbach, D, in the context of the ENSEMBLIA-Festival, subject is the Parikrama as an aid of locomtion or standstill.catalog ENSEMBLIA-Festival Rond 1991-06-07, 10 p. m.; Westdeutsche Zeitung Kryptische Aktion im Münster (Cryptic action in the minster), 1991-06-10, Dagmar Groß https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMlx1-jmPo&t=28s 1999 the sound installation vasí-on for the Donaueschingen Festival of Contemporary Musica; a. o. as abstracting reflection about the use of the Fibonacci Series, the Golden Section and the number five in the Nocturne Opus 37/1, No. 11 G-minor of Frédéric ChopinDonaueschinger Musiktage 1999: Vasí on, curator: Armin Köhler; https://www.swr.de/swrclassic/donaueschinger-musiktage/archiv/article-swr-2340.html // Stuttgarter Nachrichten Wechselbäder zwischen Lärm und weißem Rauschen (Alternating baths between noise and white noise), 1999-10-21, Dieter Kölmel; Neue Musikzeitung Dossier Donaueschingen, nmz 02/2002 (picture and text), Reinhard Schulz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yL3mdhdEfo&t=316s 2000 the radio play CavæTóna (voice, percussion) for the Saarländischer Rundfunk, topic is a. o. t. the special acoustics in the cave art of the Paleolithic period and the rituals of the shamanismCavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor: Wolfgang Korb, premiere: 2000-05-23; CavæTóna was broadcast over 30 times in: Australia/New Zealand, Asia, South- und Central America, Eastern- and Western Europe 2001 the picture object con’tinuo (presented in the Styrian autumn), this intermediary work refers a. o. t. to the circle figure S about the anima of the mediaeval philosopher und alchemist Ramon Llullpresentation of three picture objects resp. Imaginary Scores: IS#11 CavæTóna (930 x 930 mm, beer mat form), 1999; IS#12 p'antrogramma (210 x 100 mm, menu form), 2000; IS#13 con’tinuo (161 x 114 mm, letter form), 2001; http://2001.steirischerbst.at/deutsch/ajt.html https://werkstadt.at/ausstellungsarchiv/ https://musikprotokoll.orf.at/projekt/cavaetona-ausstellung 2005 the radio play nota.thión – after the Flood (voices, violoncello) for Radio France Culture Paris and Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin; treats a. o. t. of the tale of the Flood in the Gilgamesh Epic from the Cuneiform script in Assyrianhttps://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/nota-thion-nach-der-flut.3685.de.html?dram:article_id=173603 http://sonosphere.org/de/sammlung_de/kuenstler_de/detail_de/items/113.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_eB-_lDbzE&t=504s 2005/06 the radiophonic concert nota.thión – the lament of the repentant heart (flutes, voice, viola, to-play tape) for the Bayerischer Rundfunk, uses three fragments of texts of ancient oriental languages: oldEgyptian, Hurrian and Akkadian, which reflect three opinions of the Heart in the evolutionary principle of life, death and rebirthArchived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: 2009 the radiophonic concert beau son.ge – An Electric Fayerie (voice, e-bass, e-guitar, clarinet, violoncello, slap-e-bass, percussion, to-play tape) for the Saarländischer Rundfunk, presented by the MOUVEMENT Festival for Contemporary Music Saarbruecken AMERICAN DREAMS – AMERIKANISCHE (T)RÄUME, as hommage to Jimi HendrixArchived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: 2010 the radio play dépôt de beau songe (voices, 5stringed e-bass con arco, noises) for Deutschlandradio Kultur Berlin, uses texts of the Passagenwerk of Walter Benjamin and works with the voices of aphasic diseased people