Peter Rehberg (29 June 1968 – 22 July 2021), also known as Pita, was a British-Austrian composer of electronic audio works. He was the head of
Editions Mego
Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter ...
, which he founded in 2006 as a successor to
Mego.
Early life
Rehberg was born in
Tottenham
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on 29 June 1968.
He grew up in
Hertfordshire, before relocating to Austria, his father's country of origin.
Career
Rehberg became associated with
Mego in the latter part of 1994.
He consequently released his first single early the following year, which was also the first release in the record label's catalogue.
He followed this up with his debut album titled ''Seven Tons for Free'' in 1996, released under the name Pita.
[ Three years later, Rehberg received ]Prix Ars Electronica
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Distinction Award for Digital Musics, alongside Christian Fennesz
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.
Rehberg cooperated with various musicians such as Mika Vainio
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He has worked wi ...
, Charlemagne Palestine
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and Oren Ambarchi
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. He produced music with Ramon Bauer starting in 1997 as Rehberg & Bauer Rehberg may refer to:
Places
* Rehberg, a neighborhood of Krems an der Donau, Lower Austria
* Rehberg, part of the Spantekow municipality in Vorpommern-Greifswald, Germany
* Rehberg (Harz), the 4th highest mountain in Lower Saxony, Germany
* Rehb ...
.Editions Mego
Mego was an experimental electronic music independent record label based in Vienna, Austria. The label has been superseded by a new company, Editions Mego, which was set up both to keep Mego albums in print and to issue new albums, run by Peter ...
. He also collaborated with Stephen O'Malley starting in 2006, releasing six drone doom
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Characteristics
...
albums as KTL.Fennesz
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and Jim O'Rourke, he founded the project Fenn O'Berg
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.Groupe de Recherches Musicales
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collective, including by Pierre Schaeffer
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, Bernard Parmegiani
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Between 1957 and 1961 he studied mime with Jacques Lecoq, a period he later regarded as important to his ...
, Iannis Xenakis
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, and Beatriz Ferreyra
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Early work and study
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.[
In an interview conducted in 2016, Rehberg stated that he did not want to peddle music "in its own little box",]timbre
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, he believed that "dissonance and resonance have to co-exist for the other to work".[ felt that his music came to be more dense as his career progressed. He described how it retained its "radical and bold" character, while becoming "deeper, more ambivalent, more moving".]
Personal life
Rehberg was in a domestic partnership with Laura Siegmund until his death. He was previously in a relationship with Isabelle Piechaczyk, with whom he had one child.[
]
Selected discography
* (1995) General Magic & Pita: ''Fridge Trax'' 12" (Mego)[
* (1999) ]Fennesz
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/O'Rourke
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/Rehberg: ''The Magic Sound Of Fenn O'Berg'' CD (Mego)[
* (2002) DACM: ''Showroom Dummies'' CD (Mego)][
* (2002) Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg: ''The Return Of Fenn O’Berg'' CD/LP (Mego)][
* (2004) Pita: ''Get Off'' (Häpna)][
* (2007) Pita: ''A Bas la Culture Marchande '' (No Fun Productions)][
* (2007) R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler): ''One '' (Erstwhile)
* (2007) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): ''Live In Krems'' (Editions Mego)
* (2008) Pita: ''Get Out (Editions Mego Version) '' (Editions Mego)][
* (2008) ]Z'EV
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vs PITA: ''Colchester'' (Editions Mego)[
* (2008) Peter Rehberg: ''Work For GV 2004–2008'' (Editions Mego)][
* (2009) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): ''IV'' (Editions Mego)][
* (2011) R/S: ''USA'' (PAN)][
* (2016) Pita: ''Get In'' CD (Editions Mego)][
* (2020) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): ''VII'' (Editions Mego)]
References
External links
Editions Mego website
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1968 births
2021 deaths
Free improvisation
British experimental musicians
Electroacoustic improvisation
People from Tottenham
People from St Albans
Computer music