| Ekkehard Ehlers

Ekkehard Ehlers lives in Frankfurt, Germany. His large discography includes releases with Autopoieses (La vie á noir, Mille Plateaux, 1999) and März (März, Karaoke Kalk, 2002) as well as his debut CD Betrieb (Mille Plateaux, 2001) on which he put samples of Arnold Schönberg and Charles Ives into new perspective, dealing with what he calls "movements between closed systems". 2002’s Ekkehard Ehlers Plays was a musical hommage to free jazz legend Albert Ayler, blues singer Robert Johnson, filmmaker John Cassavetes, composer Cornelius Cardew and writer Hubert Fichte. In 2003 he published Politik Braucht Keinen Feind, his first fully composed works. Mäander and Blind are based on manipulated bass clarinet and cello recordings which Ehlers arranges like an orchestra in his laptop. Opposed to the "new electronic folk pop" music he produces with Albrecht Kunze in März, this is avantgarde music put into dreamlike states and finally looping in endless circles of magic fragile sound. Ehlers' work as Auch moved closer towards traditional techno aesthetics, integrating a steady sense of rhythm. He also teaches time based media at Stuttgart's Merz Academy for Design.