Martin Brandlmayr is an

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composer A composer is a person who writes music. The term is especially used to indicate composers of Western classical music, or those who are composers by occupation. Many composers are, or were, also skilled performers of music. Etymology and Defi ...

and

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artist. He is widely recognized for his work in a variety of so-called "

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" bands, namely

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, Trapist, and Autistic Daughters, among others. Critic Brian Olewnick has called Brandlmayr's work "extraordinarily precise". Among others, Brandlmayr has recorded or performed with

John Tilbury John Tilbury (born 1 February 1936) is a British pianist. He is considered one of the foremost interpreters of Morton Feldman's music, and since 1980 has been a member of the free improvisation group AMM. Early life and education Tilbury st ...

Fennesz Christian Fennesz (born 25 December 1962) is an Austrian producer and guitarist active in electronic music since the 1990s, often credited simply by his last name. His work utilizes guitar and laptop computers to blend melody with treated samples ...

, Chad Taylor, and

Otomo Yoshihide is a Japanese composer and multi-instrumentalist. He mainly plays guitar, turntables, and electronics. He first came to international prominence in the 1990s as the leader of the experimental rock group Ground Zero, and has since worked in ...

. He was artist in residence 2002 at Podewil,

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. He now lives in

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and is an active member of

Polwechsel Polwechsel is a musical group founded in Vienna, Austria in 1993. Their music has mostly straddled a line between contemporary music and free improvisation, and is characterized by quiet volume, sustained drones, and slowly developing structures ...

Releases

* Radian "radian" CD, Rhiz 1998 * Radian "tg 11" CD, Mego/Rhiz, 2000 * Trapist "Highway my friend" CD, Hathut, 2002 * Radian "rec.extern" CD, Thrilljockey, 2002 * Mapstation "version train" CD/LP, Staubgold, 2002 * Siewert/Brandlmayr "Too Beautiful To Burn" CD, Erstwhile records, 2003 * Brandlmayr/Dafeldecker/Nemeth/Siewert "Die Instabilitaet der Symmetrie" CD, 2004 * ''Kapital Band 1''(CD/CDR Mosz, 2004) * Trapist, ''Ballroom (CD, Thrilljockey, 2004) * Radian "Juxtaposition", CD/LP, Thrilljockey, 2004 * Autistic daughters "Jealousy and diamonds" CD, Kranky 2004 / LP Staubgold 2004 * Martin Brandlmayr "manual mode", Vinyl 7inch, Ideal records, January 2005 * Werner Dafeldecker, Martin Brandlmayr, Christian Fennesz "Till The Old World's Blown Up And A New One Is Created", CD, Mosz, 2008 * Radian "Chimeric", CD/LP, Thrilljockey 2009 * Otomo Yoshihide / Axel Dörner / Sachiko M / Martin Brandlmayr "Allurements Of The Elliposid", 2CD, Neos, 2010 * David Sylvian "Sleepwalkers", CD, SamadhiSound, 2010 * eRikm / Brandlmayr "Ecotone", CD, Mikroton Recordings, 2014

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Trapist

Kapital Band 1
{{DEFAULTSORT:Brandlmayr, Martin Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Austrian male musicians Place of birth missing (living people) Musicians from Berlin Musicians from Vienna