Born in 1974, Stefan Schmidt is a graduate music teacher for concert guitar. He studied at the Trossingen conservatory as well as the Conservatorio J.J.Castro in Buenos Aires.
Stefan has been composing and producing music under the pseudonym of ‘farang’ since 2000. His work has featured, among other things, in various short films, documentaries, and theatrical productions.
For the akträume project, Stefan follows the idea of Markus Reck’s photographs and interprets it in a variety of different ways musically: for his so-called ‘body percussions’, which form the rhythmical and tonal basis of Stefan’s compositions, he has recorded and digitally processed the sound of hands slapping human bodies. By use of formal elements such as repetition and variation of a musical theme as well as harmonic and rhythmical symmetry, a further connection to the photographs shown in this exhibition is established.
