Born in Berlin, 1966 Co founder To Rococo Rot ( Domino Records )
Projects/Selected Highlights
2011 redsuperstructure / musical project / Raster Noton knitting smoke - Halleuwah / group show / Abtart Gallery Stuttgart Germany Ny Bloomst – Soundinstallation for a exhibition by Tome Avenstroup Bolmuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal Norway Nuukoono - Knuckleduster / musical project in collaboration with Debashis Sinha / Toronto Canada
2010 Nightbook tour with Ludovico Einaudi Speculation Europe tour with to rococo rot
2009 Berlin - Caracas: sound installation @ Sala Mendoza / Goethe Institut, Caracas, Venezuela
2008 My Life in The Bush of Ghosts (with Ludovico Einaudi, Balaké Sissoko and Ronald Lippok): music for an Opera directed by Luca Ronconi (premiere in Solomeo, Italy) World Lounge tour/featured artist for the Tenori On: musical instrument designed by mediaartist Toshio Iwai (Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, Montreal, NYC, San Francisco, Tokyo). Montreal performance with Toronto percussionist Debashis SinhaDuo Show with harpist Beatrice Martini (Brighton Dome, UK) Naust, sound installation for a visual art exhibition by Tone Avenstroup and Herbert Wiegand, Aalesunds Kunstforening, Norway)
2007 Europa: music for the theater production, Duesseldorfer SchauspielhausCluster and Cloud: commission for the Klangwerk String Quartet, Chemnitz, Germany Digital Mass (with Ronald Lippok): commissioned by the Festival of Sacred Music, Santa Maria della Scala, Milano, Italy Jeff Koons, Radio Play and Workshop, Goethe Institut Toronto / Canada Live performance with percussionist Debashis Sinha, Toronto, Canada
2005 Parallel Lines, radio sound piece for Radio Copernicus, Berlin Score for a video installation by Tone Avenstroup, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway
2004 I need more: dance music commissioned by choreographer Enzo Cosimi, Auditorium, Rome, Italy
2003 Real Good Time: dance music commissioned by choreographer Enzo Cosimi, Termini, Rome, ItalyMarbel und Matrikel: radio play, text by Tone Avenstroup, Bayrischer Rundfunk, Munich, Germany
2002 New Ocean, music for a exhibition by Doug Aitken, Serpentine Gallery, London Limes, music for a theatre production at Staatstheater Kassel, Kassel, GermanyBallhaus, music for Theater Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany
2001 Eisfeld: with to rococo rot, music for an exhibition by Olaf Nicolai, Migros Museum, ZürichKoelner Brett: with to rococo rot, music for a architectual project by b&k+, Cologne
2000 Der Jasager und der Neinsager, Musik zu einem Theaterstück von Berholt Brecht
Discography / Selection 2007 abc 123: to rococo rot (Domino) 2006 Robot: Robert Lippok (Western Vinyl)
Taken from Vinyl: to rococo rot (Staubgold) 2005 Tesri: Barbara Morgenstern und Robert Lippok (monika 41) 2004 Falling into Komeit: Robert Lippok (monika)
Hotel Morgen: to rococo rot (Domino)
2001 open close open: Robert Lippok (Raster Noton) Music is a Hungry Ghost: to rococo rot (City Slang) Musik für ein Projekt von b&k+: to rococo rot, Köln
1999 The Amateur View: to rococo rot (City Slang) 1997 Veicolo: to rococo rot (City Slang) 1995 O.T.: to rococo rot (kitty yo international)
Set Designs
2008 Tosca (Puccini). Volksbühne, Berlin, Germany 2006 Orest (Händel, with Ronald Lippok). Komische Oper, Berlin, Germany 2004 Jenufa (Janacek, with Valerie von Stillfried). Thueringer Staatstheater, Germany2003 Nora (set design and costumes). Landestheater Linz, Germany 2002 Parzifal (together with Bernd Schneider). Staatstheater Kassel, Germany2000 set design and costumes for FOUR PM, Staatstheater Kassel, Germany
Solo and group exhibitions (audio art, video and visual art accompaniment) 2007 Too Much Future, Dresdner Stadtmuseum, Germany2005 Foggy Boxes, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany
Pa Besok I En Fremmed Kropp, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum, Kristiansand, Norway 2004 Space to Face, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany 2003 Field Recordings, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, Germany 2002 Palais de Tokyo: sound installation for Audio Lab with to rococo rot, Palais de
Tokyo, Paris Marble and Matrikel, Medienkunstfestival Intermedium 2 of ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Fruits of the loom,VOXXX, with Ronald Lippok, curated by Carsten Nicolai
2001 Steady, Wohnmaschine, Berlin, GermanyNew Ocean (music by to rococo rot), video installation by Doug Aitken, Serpentine Gallery, LondonEisfeld, Musik für eine Installation von Olaf Nicolai, Migros Museum, ZürichFörderkoje, Art Cologne, Cologne
2000 Statements, Kunst-Werke, Berlin (group exhibition) Japan Medium Light, sound for „On the way to the peak of normal“ by Takehito Koganezawa, Montevideo, Amsterdam 30 Farben, with to rococo rot, musik für eine Ausstellung von Olaf Nicolai, Bonner Kunstverein
1998 Tschicago, Gallery One, Chicago, USA (group exhibition) 1996 try 2, Galerie Paterre, Berlin, Germany (group exhibition)