Hendrik Weber (born 1975 in Bad Wildungen, Germany),Hendrik Weber (Pantha du Prince), villa-aurora.org, retrieved 23 April 2014 better known as Pantha du Prince, Panthel, and Glühen 4 is a German producer, composer and conceptual artist for electro, techno, house, minimal, and noise, affiliated with Dial Records,Charles Ubaghs (May 5, 2010). "Hear It In The Electricity: Pantha Du Prince Interviewed", The Quietus.Aaron Leitko (June 2010). , The Washington Post. and Rough Trade Records.Sam Thorne (Issue 129, March 2010). "Music. Black Noise. Pantha Du Prince" , Frieze Magazine.

Career

Weber's style evolved from the harder end of the house music spectrum and minimal techno to something he described himself as "sonic house," and incorporating acoustic elements, electronically altered field recordings,Charles Ubaghs (February 11, 2010). "Review. Pantha Du Prince. Black Noise", The Quietus. and shoegazing references.Michaelangelo Matos (April 7, 2010). "Pantha Du Prince: Techno Music A Rock Fan Can Love", NPR Music. He launched his Pantha du Prince identity in 2002, with the four-track 12" "Nowhere".Jason Birchmeier. "Pantha Du Prince. Biography", allmusic.com. His first full-length album Diamond Daze (2004), featured hard-edged club songs, with samples of The Chills' "Pink Frost" on the track "Circle Glider".Andy Kellman. "Review. Diamond Daze. Pantha du Prince", allmusic.com. Writing for allmusic, Jason Birchmeier also detected an affinity for shoegaze bands such as My Bloody Valentine and Slowdive, as well as stylings of Detroit techno producer Carl Craig.

Weber's 2005 remix 12" "Butterfly Girl Versions" and the 2006 "Lichten/Walden" 12" were again published on the German label Dial. In 2007, Weber released This Bliss where he explored travel, time, and the joy of forward motion. Commenting on the album's juxtaposition of ethereal melodic elements and a dance music backbone, Tim Finney gave it 7.7 out of 10 in a review for Pitchfork.Tim Finney (June 18, 2007). "Reviews. This Bliss. Pantha Du Prince", Pitchfork. The New York Times critic Jon Caramanica described This Bliss as Pantha du Prince's "high-water mark, [and] a pensive, slender and tough album".Jon Caramanica (January 6, 2010). "Tastes of Mariachi and Alabama. Pantha du Prince", The New York Times.

In 2010, Weber switched to Rough Trade Records before releasing his third album Black Noise, where he sought to "incorporate a wide range of sounds — field recordings, atonal noise, and stray percussion," as part of a "period of musical exploration in the Swiss Alps." Unlike a totalizing experience of This Bliss, some saw tracks on Black Noise as a more compartmentalized treatment of moods and textures that retained Weber's "gift for generating heavily melodic mazes of sound." Featuring Animal Collective's Noah Lennox and LCD Soundsystem's Tyler Pope as guest artists, and following the aforementioned label change, Black Noise was met with more excitement than Weber's previous work.

In 2012, Pantha Du Prince collaborated with Stephan Abry of the band Workshop; the duo formed the project Ursprung (after an Austrian town), and released an album Ursprung on Dial. In 2013, Pantha du Prince and the Norwegian percussion five-piece The Bell Laboratory released their collaborative album Elements of Light.. The ambitious project was a symphony for electronics, percussion and bell carillon, a three-tonne instrument comprising 50 bronze bells.Rough Trade Records (January 9, 2013). "Pantha Du Prince & The Bell Laboratory Release Video For 'Spectral Split'". When asked if there was anything he wanted listeners to take away from Elements of Light, Weber said, "It was intended to be listened to in one piece [...], more like a DJ mix."

Due to his integral approach, Pantha du Prince manages to unite different areas of cultural production including popular music, performance, and fine arts to one artform. Weber's installations coalesce sounds, architecture, and objects into a transcendental space.

Discography

As Pantha du Prince Albums 2004: Diamond Daze 2007: This Bliss 2010: Black Noise 2013: Elements of Light (with the Bell Laboratory) 2016: The Triad 2017: The Triad Remix Versions 2017: The Triad Ambient Versions 2020: Conference of Trees 2022: Garden Gaia

Singles/EPs 2002: "Nowhere" 2005: "Butterfly Girl Versions" 2006: "Lichten/Walden" 2009: "Behind the Stars" 2009: "The Splendour" 2010: "Stick to My Side" 2010: "Lay in a Shimmer" 2015: "The Winter Hymn" 2017: "Mondholz : Remixes & Canons" (with Arash Safaian)

Compilations 2011: XI Versions of Black Noise 2011: V Versions of Black Noise 2017: Coming Home

As Glühen 4 Albums 2003: Das Schweigen der Sirenen

As Ursprung Albums 2012: Ursprung

As Hendrik Weber Albums 2021: 429 Hz Formen von Stille

Selected exhibitions and shows Single exhibitions 2004: Death by a light of a phonograph at Nomadenoase, Hamburg 2007: Eisenkaute at Nomadenoase, Hamburg 2010: Transitory Triplet at Splace Berlin, Fernsehturm am Alexanderplatz, Berlin 2010: Pantha du Prince at Gallery of Modern Art Brisbane, Australia 2013: Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory at Queen Elizabeth Hall, South Bank Center London

Group exhibitions 2005: No competitive offers Dial at ARTIS, Den Bosch, Netherlands 2010: Based in Berlin at Kunstwerke, Berlin 2013: in C by Terry Riley, Pantha du Prince & The Bell Laboratory im Barbican, London

Curatorial engagement 2011: Kunst als Klang at Vittorio Manalese, Berlin

Awards 2011: Echo in the category "Kritikerpreis" 2014: Musicboard Berlin – Grant Recipient of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles

References

External links

Official Website Official Myspace [ Pantha du Prince] at Allmusic Pantha du Prince on Discogs