Christoph Heemann

Christoph Heemann began his musical work in 1983 as founding member of the group “Hirsche Nicht Aufs Sofa (H.N.A.S.)” which published diverse albums of their surreal collage music between 1985 and 1993, and was inspired by various influences in Musique Concrète, Avantgarde, Krautrock and improvised music. After H.N.A.S. disbanded, Heemann pursued his musical work both as solo artist as well as his collaboration with Edward Ka-Spel from the “Legendary Pink Dots”, and Jim O'Rourke in the “Gruppe Mimir”. In addition, he worked with Andrew Chalk in the drone project “Mirror” and with Timo van Luyk in “In Camera”. Heemann’s solo compositions were often described as “films for the ear”, in which he combined field recordings, acoustic instruments, electronics and electronic sounds in audio narratives. In addition to collaborative projects with Jim O'Rourke, Lee Ranaldo, Charlemagne Palestine, William Basinski and productions for Keiji Haino, Charlemagne Palestine, Limpe Fuchs and Current 93, he has been running the label Streamline since 1994. Heerman’s 2010 scoring of the narrative "Die Ringe des Saturn" by W.G. Sebald won considerable attention.

[2013]