Klaus Röder (often spelled Roeder; born 7 April 1948) is a German musician and music teacher. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he currently lives and teaches in
Langenfeld, Rhineland, Germany. Röder is married and has three children.
He studied violin and piano, then began a study of sound engineering in 1968, later switching to part-time studies in composition and guitar at the
Robert Schumann Hochschule
The Robert Schumann Hochschule (Robert Schumann University of Music and Media) is a school for music studies at the university level located in Düsseldorf. The University has a student body of some 850 coming from over 40 countries.
Forty-seven ...
in Düsseldorf, ultimately graduating in 1980 with a diploma in electronic music composition.
Interested in
experimental
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and
avant garde
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music he began creating
custom-made instrument
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s, also using synthesizers and tape recorders to manipulate recorded sounds.
During this period he played guitar (used as a sound trigger device for synthesizer) in a
free jazz
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group, Synthesis, and briefly, during 1974, with the electronic band
Kraftwerk
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.
Since 1975 he has worked from his own electronic music studio, latterly using personal computers entirely for composing and creating music.
Röder had an interview about his Kraftwerk time on music documentary film "''Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution''" produced by Rob Johnstone, released in 2008.
Discography
With Kraftwerk
*1974: ''
Autobahn
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As Solo
* 1978 ''Schmutzmusik''
* 1981 ''Elektronische Kompositionen / Klaus Röder''
* 1985 ''Kompositionen 1981 - 1983''
* 1993 ''Kristallisationen 5''
* 1999 ''Live-Music 1''
* 2002 ''Frozen Sounds''
* 2009 ''Kristallisationen'' - LP
* 2010 ''Kristallisationen 2'' - LP
Documentary
* 2008 ''Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution''
References
External links
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1948 births
Musicians from Stuttgart
Living people
German rock guitarists
German male guitarists
Kraftwerk members
German electronic musicians
German experimental musicians
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