Lukas Hermann
German musician and composer Lukas Hermann creates sonic art with modular synthesizers. Drawing from a background of lyrical and philosophical scholarship, his work revolves around discovering and shaping contrasts, subtle deviations, tolerances and clashes. He tries not to find ‚his‘ voice, but different ones, multiple instances of sound and movement that have something to say to each other – and more than that.
There are many spaces between groove and evolution: Stasis in motion is to him an ever-amazing paradox that can lead to finding excitement even in quiet. In his compositional approach, Lukas Hermann relies heavily on adapting and recontextualizing techniques rooted in the past: He employs improvisational techniques informed by jazz soloing, écriture automatique, musique concrète, westcoast synthesis in the tradition of Don Buchla as well as tape looping. When elements of these and other practices collide, there is always something happening. That Something, to Hermann, can be art in itself – if it is properly deciphered, defined, precise and beautiful as the void it is coming from and going back to.
Conceptually, Hermanns music is influenced by the philosophical writings of Theodor W. Adorno, modern poems by Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound and others, as well as the visual arts of people like Willem de Kooning, Francis Picabia and Paul Klee. It is their eclecticism full of personality and constant development that at first sets him free to do his own thing but that, ultimately, also exposes the result as something that does not belong to him at all.
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Lukas Hermann – Modular World 2nd Anniversary Set
“My performance for the 2nd anniversary show of the amazing Modular World project by Johno Wells.”
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