Alexander Derben (De)

8 November 2019 City Sonic

Solar Winds

The idea of presenting Solar Winds emerged towards the end of 2012, in a desire to honor the astronomers of the ancient Mayan culture and their adoration of the sun, at a time that marks the completion of the first cycle of the Mesoamerican calendar, and the beginning of another. After an initial examination of several astronomical events, Elizabeth Anderson focused on the relationship that solar winds might have with the Earth’s magnetosphere, based on charged particle fluxes emanating from the Sun.

Solar Winds incorporates acoustic translations of electromagnetic phenomena produced by the Earth, as well as other astronomical phenomena, and constitutes an imaginary auditory heavenly journey from the point of view of the listener who is the Earth.

Co-creation Elizabeth Anderson (US/Be) + Alexander Derben (De).

Directed at Metamorphoses d’Orphée studio of Music & Research, in Ohain (Belgium).

Biography

Alexander Derben studied music at the Academy of Arts (HFK) in Bremen. He gave concerts, performances and presentations at international music and media art festivals, a.o. Paris, Bourges, Brussels, Los Angeles and Washington as well as in St. Petersburg and Mar del Plata.

He received, among others, the 2008 Award of the IFCT-Festival (US) for the best audiovisual composition with “Work In Progress” and a nomination at the XII ° Destellos Competition for Solar Winds AV. He also recorded and co-produced two solo albums on iTunes.

Since 2000 he is a music teacher (guitar/percussion/electronics) at various institutions in Hanover, Gehrden and Bremen and more recently became teacher in audiovisual composition at the Freie Musikschule Bremen-Nord, and a lecturer at the Musikschule Bremen for digital music. He is a member of the DEGEM (German Society for Electroacoustic Music) as well as the DTKV (Deutscher Tonkünstlerverband).

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