Draft:Karl-Heinz Blomann

Karl-Heinz Blomann is a German musician, composer, alto saxophonist and music producer.

History
Blomann studied education at the Universität Dortmund, later in Duisburg at the Gesamthochschule Musik and at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft (TFF).

In 1976 he founded the band Pöhl Musik and in 1983 the music label AufRuhr Records, which has since produced about 20 albums by various artists. Pöhl Musik made numerous tours, for example through South America, Europe and played at the Next Wave Festival in New York in 1989.

Blomann has produced numerous radio plays and written theater and film music. For the project "Klangskulpturen" he received with Olaf Bruske, Rainer Grund, Birger Kluge and Jörg Peters, 1989 the DGB Kulturpreis of the year 1989.

Since 1997 until 2005 he has been the artistic director of the festival open systems.

He is also artistic director of the Blaues Rauschen Festival.

He works in different contexts with constantly new concepts on topics such as art and technology, human and machine and urban sound spaces.

Projects

 * Klangräume, 1991, commissioned work for the 24th Protestant Church Congress
 * Mécanique Mon Amour, 1993, commissioned work for the WDR-Musikfest-Rheinische Musikfest Essen
 * Hören eine vernachlässigte Kunst, 1996, book with CD "Vom Aufstand des Ohrs"
 * Aspects of Law and Order, 1999, CD-ROM
 * Chase, world premiere at the open-systems-Festival 2000
 * Kill Pop, 2000, radio play with Willi Thomczyk
 * Der dritte Hammerschlag, 2006, radio play for WDR 3 Studio Akustische Kunst
 * Art's Birthday: Sometimes Pumpstation, 2007, composition and performance with Richard Ortmann
 * Flussklang: Riversound 2008, four Ars Acoustica productions with Jon Rose and Michael Rodach.
 * Flussklang: Riversound 2010, Four Ars Acoustica productions with Gilles Aubry and Thomas Gerwin.
 * Biryani Train, 2010, soundtrack CD
 * Upgrade 4.0, 2011, International sound and performance project, Pumpwerk Dortmund Evinger Bach
 * Open Mex: Soundsculptures, 2012, Performance with Michael Schuon (Monochord) and Hyun Jin Kim (Dance)
 * Development of the media archive EMSCHERplayer from 2005.
 * Concept for Emscher:Reloaded with Arnold Voss, Ralf Schumacher, and Katharina Liebsch
 * Reflect Your Future, 2017, composition and performance with Richard Ortmann (BLOORT).
 * Wald und Klang / forest and sound, 2021, sound art production with 10 international composers