17.1 German music philosopher Dominik von Senger and Detlef Schlich in an ArTEEtude talk about Senger´s first encounter with the concept of music. and his encounter in the 70s with Jango Edwards.
Author
Detlef Schlich
Published
Sun 10 Jan 2021
Episode Link
http://www.arteetude.com/
ArTEEtude is West Cork´s first art, fashion and design podcast created and produced by Detlef Schlich. He will dive and discover with us and the german music philosopher Dominik von Senger into the unknown and exciting deep ocean of the creative mind. In this podcast, Senger and Schlich talk about Senger´s first encounter with the concept of music, his life in and around Cologne, Hamburg, Amsterdam, first instruments, bands, influence and more.
Dominik von Senger is a german musician best known as the guitar player of Dunkelziffer and the Phantom Band. He uses to be a bandmember of Jango Edwards & Friends Roadshow before he became active in Cologne’s Krautrock scene in the early ’80s. Von Senger was than a member of the quasi post-punk-new wave groups Dunkelziffer and Phantom Band, both of which also included Can’s Jaki Liebezeit, Damo Suzuki and Rosko Gee. Von Senger took the Can type sound and remoulded it into a kind of slick fusion.
Dunkelziffer was a German rock band that stylistically combined African rhythms and reggae with influences of the 80s sound like the New German Wave, which had just emerged at the time. Dunkelziffer has been described as a "German mystic group, playing percussive space reggae". The band was founded in 1981 by Cologne musicians from the Stollwerck scene. The group was designed in such a way that there should be no rigid structures, but each member could be a composer and everyone could contribute their creativity and spontaneity equally at any point in time.
More Band projects:
Damo Suzuki Band, Wolfgang Niedecken & Complizen and the Ya-Ya's, known for their famous life sessions at the YaÝa Club, located @ the Cafe Kalkutta, Kunsthaus Rhenania in Cologne.
Schlich is Visual Artist, Film Maker and Ritual Designer, living and loving in West Cork and best known for his Essay about the Cause and Effect of Shamanism, Art and Digital Culture and the video installation Transodin´s Tragedy. He is mainly working in the field of performance, photography, painting, sound, installations, and film. To research our human condition and create artwork from this reflection he is using often the methodology of the digital-shaman as alter ego.