Gerhard
Lock
Musicologist
and Composer
gerhardlock[at]schoenberg.ee
Musicologist
Composer
Musician
Composer
Since
2003 I am dealing mostly with electronic sounds, audiovisual and
multimedia possibilities, 2003 we started also cooperation with
the painter and videoartist Rait
Rosin. My music is played in Germany
- e.g.
28.
Internationale Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik
(2006),
Estonia
- e.g. EAMT
Autumn festival Tallinn (2003-2004, 2006-2007), August-Festival of
Cultur Factory Tallinn (2006), International NYYD-festival Tallinn
(2007) and the USA
– Estonian
Cultur Days in New York (2009). I further have collaborated
with video artists Piibe Piirma and Jane Suviste, sculptor Taavi
Kolk, journalist and film director Jüri Muttika, composer
Hans-Gunter Lock, and dancer-choreograph Kaspar
Aus.
2006
Exibition-installations
„Everything is just so perfect!“ (2006, Vaal gallery,
Tallinn), „The Swan in Town“ (2006, City gallery, Tallinn) and
multimedia-concert „Utopical fugues“ (2006, August-Festival of
Cultur Factory, Tallinn).
2007
During
EAMT Autumnfestival, 25th of
September, the concert version of an installation music from 2006
„Something is different“ (2006) was played.
On 20th
of
October during New-Music-Festival NYYD '07 took place the first
performce ofthe joint multimedial project „… sügavas
hinguses leiavad kooskõla“ (… in deep breathing they
find harmony, 2007) for interactive dancer, tape, electronics and
sensors.
2008
On
9th March we organized together with Hans-Gunter
Lock and pianist Diana Kiivit concert for interactive player
piano (...ta ise mängib. Kontsert isemängiva ja
interaktiivselt reageeriva klaveriga [… it's playing itself.
Concert with interactiv Players piano]), which focused on
Jean-Claude Risset, also were first performed works of Liis
Jürgens and the organizers.
Program
Plakat
Radioclip
11.
- 23. of August in Tallinn in the Dragon gallery of Estonian
Artists' Association (EAA) the new video-installation
„lihtsaelustaarid?/simplelifestars?“
of Rait Rosin and Gerhard Lock was shown.
Trailer
(YouTube)
17th of October the new video-piece
„Käärid/Adversity“ (Rait Rosin, Ivi Rosin, Gerhard
Lock) was was shown during the new Festival of Tartu
Kultuuritehas/Tartu Art Factory as part of the performances „Abi
Kosmosest/Help From Kosmos“.
Trailer
(YouTube)
2009
11.02.2009
– 07.03.2009 cooperation in the personal exhibition „kopli
haldjad/feries of kopli“ of Rait
Rosin
(video sound Gerhard Lock, Kurator Martin Jänes), ArtDepoo
galerii (1), Tallinn (opening with Kaspar Aus' dance
performance "Paralleelne
inspiratsioon" (2008) Estonian first
performance).
11.04.2009
audiovisual artworks of Rait Rosin and myself will be presented
during Estonian
Cultur Days in New York with
the theme HOME.
Works:
Chamber
music:
Intermezzo‘s
for piano (1995-2008)
I,
II –1995; III –2000; IV, Hommage á Lepo Sumera –
2003; V – 2004, dedicated Kadri-Ann Sumera; VI – dedicated
Diana Kiivit and Hans-Gunter Lock
„Glockenklang“
(Kellahelin) (1997)
Vl
and pn
„Reflektsioon“
(1998)
Fl,
vl and pn
„Das
Jahrhundert ist zu Ende / On aastasaja lõpp“ (1999)
Text
Viivi Luik
Mezzosopr,
fl, fag, cor, vc, kb and perc
Electroacoustic
and multimedia works:
„Veelahkmel“
[At The Watercrossroad] (2003)
Vl,
quadro-fonogramm and video (ca. 7 min)
Autumnfestival of EAMT
2003
„The
Analytical Artist“ (2005)
Tape
music (ca. 13 min)
Installation music „Everything is just so
perfect!“ Vaal gallery 2006
Played
also
in concert „Helisünteesi töökoda“ in EAMT May
2005 and during exhibition „EKA diplomitööd/EKA
diploma works 2005“ in Rotermanns Salt Storage. In cooperation
with Maris-Valk-Falk we research the piece (Experimental
Study: Interaction of Music and Painting) and introduced it in
Caserta (Italy) in the international conference „Understanding
and Creating Music“ (2005) and 2006 during Pärnu
Contemporary Music Days (PNP 2006).
„The
Existential Artist“ (2006)
Tape
music (ca. 11 min)
Installation music „Everything is just so
perfect!“ Vaal gallery 2006
Played
also together with orginal painting during EAMT Autumnfestival
2006.
„Utopical
fugues“ (2006)
For
video, live-video (Piibe Piirma, Jane Suviste; Shawn Pinchbeck –
Max/MSP), fonogramm and amplified string quartet, also used music
by J. S. Bach (Ooper kvartett, string quartet of Estonian National
Opera, Tallinn) (ca. 20 min)
--
commissioned by August-Festival of Cultur Factury, Tallinn --
--
in cooperation with Society of Estonian Media Artists, MediaLab
Tallinn --
„Something
is different“ (2006/07)
(ca.
9 min), new version for 16-speaker-acousmonium. Original
version is
installation music (ca. 30 min) for Taavi Kolks sculptures during
exhibition „The Swan in Town“, Tallinn, City gallery
2006)
„aufeinander
zugehen – sich begegnen / teineteisele läheneda –
kohtuda“ (2007)
Texts
Hanna-Maria Hasenjäger
Dedicated to H.-M. Hasenjäger
For
vl., pn., fonogramm and live-electronics
Vl.
– Gerhard Lock, Klav. – Hans-Gunter Lock, Fonogramm –
Gerhard Lock, Max/MSP – Hans-Gunter Lock.
First performance
26. May 2007 in Heiligengrabe.
„…
sügavas
hinguses leiavad kooskõla /… in deep breathing they find
harmony“ 2007)
For
interactiv
dancer, clarinet, viola and electronics (ca. 13 min)
Kaspar Aus
- dance and choreography, Stanislav Maksimov – clarinet, Johanna
Vahermägi – viola, Gerhard Lock – electronics,
Hans-Gunter Lock - sensor design, Max/MSP
--
commissioned by international NYYD '07 festival, Tallinn --
--
cooperation with electronic music studio of Estonian Academy of
Music and Theatre --
Intermezzo
VI (2008)
For
player piano and computer
Dedicated
to Diana Kiivit and Hans-Gunter Lock
Diana
Kiivit (player piano), Gerhard Lock (piano), Hans Gunter Lock
(computer)
Max/MSP-patch Hans-Gunter Lock
Version for two
pianos first performed „...ta ise mängib. Kontsert
isemängiva ja interaktiivselt reageeriva klaveriga“
9.
March 2008 Eesti Muusika- ja Teatriakadeemia
orelisaal
„Käärid/Adversity“
(2008)
Video
(ca. 12 min), Trailer
(YouTube)
Rait Rosin and Ivi Rosin (Video and Fotos), Gerhard
Lock (Sound)
--
Tartu Kultuuritehas/Tartu Cultur Factory, „Abi Kosmosest/Help
From Kosmos“ 17.10.2008, Tartu --
Installation
music:
2003
„Kasvavad
näod“
[Growing
faces],
installation music for personal exhibition
of Rait
Rosin,
Gallery
ArtLine,
Tallinn.
2005
„Hommage á Lepo
Sumera“,
in cooperation with Rait
Rosin,
Estonian Academy
of
Music, Tallinn.
2005
„Analytical
artist“
and
"Pragmatic
artist",
in
cooperation
with
paintings of
Rait Rosin
(„EKA
lõputööd
2005“/„Degree
works
of Estonian Academy
of
Arts 2005“), Rotermanns Salt storage, Tallinn.
2006
„Everything is just so perfect!“
(Rait
Rosin, Gerhard Lock, Jüri Muttika), Vaal gallery
(09.02.–28.02.2006), Tallinn.
2006
„Luik linnas/The Swan in Town“ (Lilia
del Rio, Rait Rosin, Taavi Kolk, Gerhard Lock), City gallery
(30.03. – 16.04.2006), Tallinn.
2008
„lihtsaelustaarid?/simplelifestars?“
(Rait
Rosin & Gerhard Lock) Draakoni gallery (11.08.-23.08.2008),
Tallinn, Trailer
(YouTube).
2009
„kopli haldjad/feries of kopli“ (Rait
Rosin,
Gerhard Lock, curator Martin Jänes), ArtDepoo gallery
(11.02.2009 - 07.03.2009), Tallinn (opening with Kaspar Aus' dance
performance "Paralleelne
inspiratsioon" (2008) Estonian first
performance).
Exhibition-installation
"Everything is just so perfect!"
(internet
presentation ed. by Gerhard Lock)
„Everything
is just so perfect“ at Rait Rosins homepage
„Kõik
on nii hästi!/Everything
is just so perfect!“ „Fresh paint“ (demo-CD, CV Rait
Rosin)
© Gerhard Lock, Tallinn 04/2009