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Michael Ammann © privat
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Michael Ammann (b. 1967 Weiden) is a sound and improvisation artist whose work involves spatial sound, real time, interaction and coincidence. Before studying sound art with Professor Eller at the Hanover University of Applied Arts, Ammann had already, in 1997, founded the inter-disciplinary collective To:en, in which artists, writers, dancers and musicians are involved within the principle “acoustic stimuli provoke uncontrollable mental projections”. He continued his studies in the field of art and public space until 2004 at the Nuremberg Academy of Fine Arts with Professor Hölzinger und Professor Georg Winter. Since 2002 he has been a master student of Professor Ottmar Hörl.
Ammann is the initiator of the QUADROPHONIA International Festival for Electro-Acoustic Art in Nuremberg and has written the music for several silent films including Fritz Lang’s 1927 classic Metropolis. It has been written of him that he counters the various music adaptations with a world of noises, a whole cosmos of annoying sounds, vexatiously stunning waves of sounds.
Performances (selection):
ARS Elektronica Linz 2003
Blaue Nacht Nuremberg 2003/2006
Deutschlandradio 2004
Metropolis WfS Amsterdam 124th AES Convention 2008
Im Ausland Berlin 2012
Neues Museum Nuremberg 2013
Essl Museum Vienna 2014
D.A.I. Heidelberg, Tafelhalle Nuremberg 2017
www.m-ammann.de