Annette Krebs

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annette Krebs was born 1976 in Germany. Already during her schooltime, she engaged herself intensively in music, composition, improvisation and the visual arts. She studied concert guitar at the “Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst” in Frankfurt/ Main, and finished her studies with the diploma. Beside her studies, she also worked in the development of a own visual-abstract language, and participated in exhibitions in Frankfurt.

After her studies, she moved to Berlin. There, she concentrated on the development of a independent musical language on her instrument, the guitar. This language was also strongly influenced by her previous work in the visual arts. She explored the instrument concentrating on extended techniques to discover new sounds and noises.

In Berlin, she met other musicians and artists, who were interested in simular musical approaches. Alone, and in various projects, pieces and performances were developed, exploring the aesthetics and tention between sounds and noises, action and silence, and the possibility of a dramatugic free and abstract musical language.

Since 2003, she has worked to combine composed musical sounds with layers of concrete meanings, including word and visual materials. In her pieces, all materials are composed in a very equal, abstract way. so, the possible decorative function of sound beside voice or picture is averted.
Like in an acoustic collage, fragments of language ,words and outside recordings are integrated as musical materials together with tonal and rhythmical abstract composed sounds, noises and silences. Concrete meanings, fragments of memory are sometimes softly suggested , and then integrated back again immediately, as reminders of short fragments of thought, in the abstract soundlanguage.

Musical hierarchical structures, foreground and background, exist in her pieces in a mostly fluid form; they can appear for a short moment,however, immediately to disappear again into each other, framed together like in a kaleidoscope, seconds later in other combinations in new, surprising ways.
She has collaborated with, amongst others, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura,
Burkhard Beins, Robin Hayward and Andrea Neumann.