Norbert Walter Peters (born March 17, 1954) in
Stolberg (Rhld.) / district of
Aachen is a German composer,
sound artist and author for Radio Art.
Biography
Early years
Norbert Walter Peters finished his musical education at the
Aachen academy of music in the subjects of guitar, singing and
Renaissancelute in 1981. The subject
music theatre[1] as well as
scientific research works[2] had been a further main point in his musical education.[3] He completed his education with studies of
composition.[4] Beside his pedagogic and artistic work Peters was just so active as music
reviewer and free journalist.[5]
Also in this time Peters organized two events with international artists: the
sound art event ...KLÄNGE at the castle of
Stolberg (Rhld.)[7] and the
performing arts event of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein of
Aachen.[8] Afterwards he was guest lecturer at the
Saarbrücken Academy of Fine Arts (composition and space experience). From December 2020 to May 2023 he was artistic director of the successful
streaming event series #coronawinter 2020/21/#klangraumFinkenberg 2021/22 / #klangraumFinkenbergZwei 2022/23 (streaming-hybrid) on the
YouTube channel Stolberg Evangelisch in the
ProtestantFinkenberg Church in Stolberg.[9]
Since about 2013 he has also been developing
multimedia compositions, which he publishes as
video art contributions on his
YouTube channel. In addition to the video work Depot, a. o. t.
Tide I - IV and other video works such as the multimedia composition
# 137 belong to this
complex of works.[21]
Works list (selection)
1988 the composed performance DIN-S18 for the first international
Xerox art exhibition of Switzerland[22]
2009 the radiophonic concert beau son.ge – An Electric Fayerie (voice, e-bass, e-guitar, clarinet, violoncello,
slap-e-bass, percussion, to-play tape) for the
Saarländischer Rundfunk, presented by the MOUVEMENT Festival for Contemporary Music Saarbruecken AMERICAN DREAMS – AMERIKANISCHE (T)RÄUME, as
hommage to
Jimi Hendrix[30]
2015/20 the radio play D.A.S.H. (dash – the line) as in-house
music production on the computer, Asphalt Music #1 according to grafic
scores; Street Drawings of Italian
migrant workers in the south of the
Black Forest in Germany serve as
graphic pattern, which were photographically documented by the German painter Herbert Falken in the year 2003; from 2009 to 2010 these asphalt photos were presented in the museum
Kolumba of
Cologne; published on his
YouTube channel[32]
^Music of the
Spanish Renaissance (1538-1576), 1980 // scientific assignment Comparing Analyse of the Fuga for lute G-minor BWV 1000, the Fuga for violin G-minor BWV 1001, the Fuge for organ D-minor BWV539 of
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), 1981
^lecturer from 1974 to 1981: Prof. Tadashi Sasaki (guitar/lute); Prof Else Bischof-Bornes (singing); Prof. Peter Maßmann (opera); tutor Werner Mönch-La Dous (speech training); tutor Leonie Renoldi (dramatic lesson); tutor Vera Kucerova (piano); Prof. Wolfgang Breuer (analysis); Prof. Herbert Nobis (composition), 1981–1984.
^Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Peter and Trude Lacroix - Another Collection, 2006-02-04 - 2006-04-30, Two works on paper, catalog page 272, image 20.
^Performance/Sound Installation, artist 1989:
Henning Christiansen, DK; Terry Fox, USA; Rolf Julius, D; Johan Goedhart &
Paul Panhuysen, NL; Norbert Walter Peters. Aachener Volkszeitung, Professor musiziert mit zwei Schafen (Professor makes music with two sheep), Eckhard Hoog, 1989-09-30 / Aachener Nachrichten Kultur Es heult und grollt in allen Tonlagen (It howls and growls in all tones), Michael Karhausen, 1989-10-03
^Heidelberger Kunstverein 1993/94, Injunktion- Sound Installation, Studio, curator: Dr. Hans Gercke; assignment of the Deutscher Musikrat; Rhein Neckar Zeitung, Zum Ausklang des laufenden Jahres (At the end of the current year), 1993-12-01, Heide Seele.
^Musikprotokoll 2001: CavæTóna, Hotel Three Raven, chamber 315, Graz, Kurator: Christian Scheib;
https://musikprotokoll.orf.at/projekt/cavaetona-ausstellung // Österreichischer Rundfunk Ö1 Zeit-Ton, CavæTóna, 30-10-2001, Feature, Susanne Niedermayr; Vecer (The evening), Slovenia Nenavadno o navadnem (Unusual about the ordinary), 2001-10-16, Lojze Smasæk; catalog musikprotocol 2001, page 8-10, Christian Scheib/Annette Siffrin/Norbert Walter Peters, ORF.
^CavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor Wolfgang Korb, Premiere: 2000-05-23.
^Theatre Aachen mÖrgens, mériterechkîma radiophonic theatre- und space project (stage design/direction), 2005-06-04, with: Guy de Bièvre, Gent, B (electronics); artistic director: Paul Esterházy/music director: Marcus Bosch
^Bavarian Radio/Bayern2Radio Laboratory for Music / t-u-b-e Gallery for Radiophonic Art, con'tinuo, live 2001-12-14, editor: Wolf Loeckle.
^Bavarian RadioLaboratory for Music /
Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Mouvement, nota.thión - The Lament of the Repentant Heart, Town Gallery Saarbrücken Forum New Music - live 2005-10-13, editors: Wolf Loeckle (BR)/Wolfgang Korb (SR); curator (Gallery): Ernest W. Uthemann.
^Mouvement Festival for New Music Saarbrücken American Dreams - Amerikanische (T)Räume, beau son.ge - An Electric Fayerie (Hommage to Jimi Hendrix), assignment: Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken/Kaiserslautern (SR/SWR), live 2009-05-23, editor: Wolfgang Korb; Neue Musikzeitung (nmz) Sich von amerikanischen Träumen bewegen lassen - Die New York School of Music zu Gast in Saarbrücken (Let yourself be moved by American dreams - the New York School of Music visits Saarbrücken), Peter Schroeder, nmz 7-8/2009.
^Depot for Space - the Brain Museum, noise music // Tide I Megacity #1 (Seoul), noise music // Tide II Megacity #1 (Madrid), noise music // Tide IV #1 string quartet // Tide IV #2 piano // Tide IV #3 wind quartet // Tide V #1 string quartet // Tide V #2 piano // Tide V #3 wind quartet // Quis dabit mihi pennas noise music // sonARA noise music // #137 noise music
^catalog ENSEMBLIA-Festival Rond 1991-06-07, 10 p. m.; Westdeutsche Zeitung Kryptische Aktion im Münster (Cryptic action in the minster), 1991-06-10, Dagmar Groß
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMlx1-jmPo&t=28s
^CavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor: Wolfgang Korb, premiere: 2000-05-23; CavæTóna was broadcast over 30 times in: Australia/New Zealand, Asia, South- und Central America, Eastern- and Western Europe
^Riss - sound installation, Gallery 55/51, Mönchengladbach, 1991; Rheinische Post Künstler's Klage unter rauschenden Blättern'(Artist's lament under rustling leaves)', 1991-10-22; Westdeutsche Zeitung Risse in der Natur - Schatten an der Wand (Fissures in nature - shadows on the wall), 1991-10-21, Heike Byn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_FRKGAmrw&t=2s
Norbert Walter Peters (born March 17, 1954) in
Stolberg (Rhld.) / district of
Aachen is a German composer,
sound artist and author for Radio Art.
Biography
Early years
Norbert Walter Peters finished his musical education at the
Aachen academy of music in the subjects of guitar, singing and
Renaissancelute in 1981. The subject
music theatre[1] as well as
scientific research works[2] had been a further main point in his musical education.[3] He completed his education with studies of
composition.[4] Beside his pedagogic and artistic work Peters was just so active as music
reviewer and free journalist.[5]
Also in this time Peters organized two events with international artists: the
sound art event ...KLÄNGE at the castle of
Stolberg (Rhld.)[7] and the
performing arts event of the Neuer Aachener Kunstverein of
Aachen.[8] Afterwards he was guest lecturer at the
Saarbrücken Academy of Fine Arts (composition and space experience). From December 2020 to May 2023 he was artistic director of the successful
streaming event series #coronawinter 2020/21/#klangraumFinkenberg 2021/22 / #klangraumFinkenbergZwei 2022/23 (streaming-hybrid) on the
YouTube channel Stolberg Evangelisch in the
ProtestantFinkenberg Church in Stolberg.[9]
Since about 2013 he has also been developing
multimedia compositions, which he publishes as
video art contributions on his
YouTube channel. In addition to the video work Depot, a. o. t.
Tide I - IV and other video works such as the multimedia composition
# 137 belong to this
complex of works.[21]
Works list (selection)
1988 the composed performance DIN-S18 for the first international
Xerox art exhibition of Switzerland[22]
2009 the radiophonic concert beau son.ge – An Electric Fayerie (voice, e-bass, e-guitar, clarinet, violoncello,
slap-e-bass, percussion, to-play tape) for the
Saarländischer Rundfunk, presented by the MOUVEMENT Festival for Contemporary Music Saarbruecken AMERICAN DREAMS – AMERIKANISCHE (T)RÄUME, as
hommage to
Jimi Hendrix[30]
2015/20 the radio play D.A.S.H. (dash – the line) as in-house
music production on the computer, Asphalt Music #1 according to grafic
scores; Street Drawings of Italian
migrant workers in the south of the
Black Forest in Germany serve as
graphic pattern, which were photographically documented by the German painter Herbert Falken in the year 2003; from 2009 to 2010 these asphalt photos were presented in the museum
Kolumba of
Cologne; published on his
YouTube channel[32]
^Music of the
Spanish Renaissance (1538-1576), 1980 // scientific assignment Comparing Analyse of the Fuga for lute G-minor BWV 1000, the Fuga for violin G-minor BWV 1001, the Fuge for organ D-minor BWV539 of
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), 1981
^lecturer from 1974 to 1981: Prof. Tadashi Sasaki (guitar/lute); Prof Else Bischof-Bornes (singing); Prof. Peter Maßmann (opera); tutor Werner Mönch-La Dous (speech training); tutor Leonie Renoldi (dramatic lesson); tutor Vera Kucerova (piano); Prof. Wolfgang Breuer (analysis); Prof. Herbert Nobis (composition), 1981–1984.
^Suermondt-Ludwig-Museum Peter and Trude Lacroix - Another Collection, 2006-02-04 - 2006-04-30, Two works on paper, catalog page 272, image 20.
^Performance/Sound Installation, artist 1989:
Henning Christiansen, DK; Terry Fox, USA; Rolf Julius, D; Johan Goedhart &
Paul Panhuysen, NL; Norbert Walter Peters. Aachener Volkszeitung, Professor musiziert mit zwei Schafen (Professor makes music with two sheep), Eckhard Hoog, 1989-09-30 / Aachener Nachrichten Kultur Es heult und grollt in allen Tonlagen (It howls and growls in all tones), Michael Karhausen, 1989-10-03
^Heidelberger Kunstverein 1993/94, Injunktion- Sound Installation, Studio, curator: Dr. Hans Gercke; assignment of the Deutscher Musikrat; Rhein Neckar Zeitung, Zum Ausklang des laufenden Jahres (At the end of the current year), 1993-12-01, Heide Seele.
^Musikprotokoll 2001: CavæTóna, Hotel Three Raven, chamber 315, Graz, Kurator: Christian Scheib;
https://musikprotokoll.orf.at/projekt/cavaetona-ausstellung // Österreichischer Rundfunk Ö1 Zeit-Ton, CavæTóna, 30-10-2001, Feature, Susanne Niedermayr; Vecer (The evening), Slovenia Nenavadno o navadnem (Unusual about the ordinary), 2001-10-16, Lojze Smasæk; catalog musikprotocol 2001, page 8-10, Christian Scheib/Annette Siffrin/Norbert Walter Peters, ORF.
^CavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor Wolfgang Korb, Premiere: 2000-05-23.
^Theatre Aachen mÖrgens, mériterechkîma radiophonic theatre- und space project (stage design/direction), 2005-06-04, with: Guy de Bièvre, Gent, B (electronics); artistic director: Paul Esterházy/music director: Marcus Bosch
^Bavarian Radio/Bayern2Radio Laboratory for Music / t-u-b-e Gallery for Radiophonic Art, con'tinuo, live 2001-12-14, editor: Wolf Loeckle.
^Bavarian RadioLaboratory for Music /
Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Mouvement, nota.thión - The Lament of the Repentant Heart, Town Gallery Saarbrücken Forum New Music - live 2005-10-13, editors: Wolf Loeckle (BR)/Wolfgang Korb (SR); curator (Gallery): Ernest W. Uthemann.
^Mouvement Festival for New Music Saarbrücken American Dreams - Amerikanische (T)Räume, beau son.ge - An Electric Fayerie (Hommage to Jimi Hendrix), assignment: Deutsche Radio-Philharmonie Saarbrücken/Kaiserslautern (SR/SWR), live 2009-05-23, editor: Wolfgang Korb; Neue Musikzeitung (nmz) Sich von amerikanischen Träumen bewegen lassen - Die New York School of Music zu Gast in Saarbrücken (Let yourself be moved by American dreams - the New York School of Music visits Saarbrücken), Peter Schroeder, nmz 7-8/2009.
^Depot for Space - the Brain Museum, noise music // Tide I Megacity #1 (Seoul), noise music // Tide II Megacity #1 (Madrid), noise music // Tide IV #1 string quartet // Tide IV #2 piano // Tide IV #3 wind quartet // Tide V #1 string quartet // Tide V #2 piano // Tide V #3 wind quartet // Quis dabit mihi pennas noise music // sonARA noise music // #137 noise music
^catalog ENSEMBLIA-Festival Rond 1991-06-07, 10 p. m.; Westdeutsche Zeitung Kryptische Aktion im Münster (Cryptic action in the minster), 1991-06-10, Dagmar Groß
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMlx1-jmPo&t=28s
^CavæTóna, Saarland Radio SR2 Kulturradio Radiotop: Hörkunst, editor: Wolfgang Korb, premiere: 2000-05-23; CavæTóna was broadcast over 30 times in: Australia/New Zealand, Asia, South- und Central America, Eastern- and Western Europe
^Riss - sound installation, Gallery 55/51, Mönchengladbach, 1991; Rheinische Post Künstler's Klage unter rauschenden Blättern'(Artist's lament under rustling leaves)', 1991-10-22; Westdeutsche Zeitung Risse in der Natur - Schatten an der Wand (Fissures in nature - shadows on the wall), 1991-10-21, Heike Byn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL_FRKGAmrw&t=2s