Contact Wave: Ulrich Krieger
01.02.22
Co-hosted by Chris Kissel and Chuck Soo-Hoo, the twice-monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond.
This episode features a conversation with Ulrich Krieger, a saxophone player in contemporary composed and free improvised music as well as a composer of chamber music and electronic music. His recent focus lies in the experimental fields and fringes of contemporary Pop culture: somewhere in the limbo between Noise and Heavy Metal, Ambient and Silence. He joined Contact Wave to discuss his most recent release — a collection of instrumental ambient pieces and electro-acoustic soundscapes crafted on a piano titled 236 Strings.
Krieger’s original compositions go back and forth between Just Intonation, Silent Music, Noise, Instrumental Electronic, often asking for elaborate amplification, and works in the limbo of Rock culture – not accepting stylistic boundaries.
Ulrich Krieger was commissioned to write works for Soldier String Quartet, oh-ton ensemble, Ensemble United Berlin, KontraTrio, zeitkratzer, Ensemble Experimente, Seth Josel, intersax, Text of Light, and others. His compositions are widely performed by ensembles in Europe and the USA. He also arranged works by Merzbow, Throbbing Gristle, Deicide, Terry Riley, Henry Cowell and others for chamber ensemble.
Krieger lives in Southern California, where he is associate professor for the composition faculty at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles.
Tracklist:
Ulrich Krieger – Euphotic – from “236 Strings” (L’ST) (2021)
**Ulrich Krieger Interview**
Fortresses – Spring (Dragon’s Eye) (2021)
Claire Rousay and More Eaze – Same – from “Never Stop Texting Me” (Orange Milk) (2022)
Taylor Deupree & Marcus Fischer – Fermata – from “Proem” (Dauw) (2021)
Felicia Atkinson & Jefre Cantu-Ledesma – And All The Spirals Of The World – Un hiver en plein été (Shelter Press) (2021)
Tcheser Holmes – Tswami Lives (River Down) (2021)
Camila Nebbia – Realidad – from “Presencias” (SoundHoles) (2021)
Kern Haug – to the Leaves and All Else – from “Shoulders Back” (self-released) (2021)
Wadada Leo Smith, Henry Kaiser, Alex Varta – Pacifica Koral Reef – from “Pacifica Koral Reef” (577) (2022)
Tapani Rinne & Juha Mäki-Patola – Open Part I – from “Open” (Hush Hush) (2022)
Ulla – Far Away – from “Limitless Frame” (Motion Ward) (2021)
