Andreas is a drummer, audio artist and sound designer, with a particular interest in improvisation, Gamelan and acoustic ecology. He began musical training at the age of eight with the Stuttgarter Hymnus Chorknaben under Prof. Gerhard Wilhelm, studied and attended intensives with a range of composers and instrumental teachers, including German Jazz drummer Hannes Clauss, Glen Velez, Steve Lacy, Pauline Oliveros, Trishy Shankaran, Karl Berger, I Nyoman Wenten and Gamelan master KRT Wasitudiningrat.
As a percussionist and improviser, Andreas has performed in jazz, new music, and world music festivals across Canada and the U.S. He was a member of the New Orchestra Workshop, co-founded the improvising ensemble Hextremities, and has performed and recorded with a wide range of jazz, new music and world music ensembles, improvising collectives, swing, folk and blues bands.
He has been commissioned to create sound scores for theatre, dance and new media projects, and has collaborated on numerous audio art projects, including UnderWater a commission with Darren Copeland for Deutschlandradio Kultur, Berlin, the audio art series Wireless Graffiti for Vancouver Co-operative Radio, and Silence Descends with the Western Front. As a sound designer he has worked with many Vancouver theatre, dance companies, worked on feature film and video projects, and several projects with Electronic Arts.
AKOUSMA Festival, Montréal 2008
PERFORMANCES
2009
EAR | NOSE | THROAT
Performance for Gamelan, New Media and Text
commissioned by Vancouver Community Gamelan.
Premiere: June 4th, 2009,
Roundhouse Performance Centre, Vancouver
Thanks to BC Arts Council Music CommissioniNg Program
Canada Council Music Section,
Canada Council Theatre Section
INTERSECTING LINES
An evening of improvisations with Curtis Bahn (sitar, delruba, computer), Eric Brown (6 & 4 string basses, computer). Aleksandra Dulic (visuals), and Kenneth Newby (5 string violin, computer, and toys) at 1067 Granville. March 14, 2009
2008
FISH IN CONCERT
Composition based on aquatic sounds and recordings, created with Darren Copeland, ca. 40'
Presented at AKOUSMA (5), Montréal, December 2008
FISH ON AIR
Audio Installation/Narrowcast Radiophonic Work, created with Darren Copeland,
commissioned by the Elements: A Festival of Nature in Performance, Premiere: August 5, 2008
Lulu Performing Arts, Gabriola Island, BC
www.elementsfestival.ca
THE OTHER NIGHT, UNDERWATER
Audio Art Work, 52 min., with Darren Copeland, produced by Goetz Naleppa. Commissioned by DeutschlandRadio Kultur. Based on three historic events—the first crossing of Lake Ontario by Marilynn Bell in 1954, the death of Rosa Luxemburg in Berlin in 1919, and the sinking of the Queen of the North in the waters of British Columbia in 2005— The Other Night is an audio collage of three "dives". The sound scape combines original text and historical text, digital sound and a large collection of sounds of aquatic organisms. Premiere Broadcast: May 2, 2008
2007
THE LINEAR ANIMAL
Digital Paper Theatre
Text, Sound and Digital Puppetry
with Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic
David Garfinkle, Stefan Smulovitz and Ashlan Gray
Premiere: Lulu Performing Arts, Gabriola Island,
The Western Front, Vancouver
2006
OTHER AURALITIES
Open Space, Victoria New Music Series
Performance with the Computational Poetics Group (
Kenneth Newby, Aleksandra Dulic, Martin Gotfrit)
2005
NOTES FROM THE LABYRINTH
Kenneth Newby and Aleksandra Dulic
ELEKTRA Festival, Montreal, Percussionist
1998
LOWBROW
Sonic Boom Festical 1998, Western Front
suite for drone, three hi-hats, and expletives.
Audience-participatory performance
DIVA: Recently discovered works of Emily Brettschneider and the Piscator Brothers:
Performance work in collaboration with Carol Sawyer for the Re-inventing the Diva Festival
Western Front, Vancouver
1997
WOYZECK(basic)
Havana Performance Space
in "Cheap Illusion", Vancouver Pro Musica
Micro-Orchestra performance with Chriss Miller
1995
COLD COMFORT
Vancouver Pro Musica, Sonic Boom Festival,
Western Front, Vancouver
Delegated performance for two mathematicians and conductor
V max (spectacular motoring)
The Spectacular State: Fascism and the modern Imagination.
Basic Inquiry/SFU. Intravehicular performance for tape and Mercedes Benz 600SEL
1994
PROTOKOL
Ur-drama for Adobe Photoshop and Gamelan
Gamelan Madu Sari Spring Sonoral, Western Front, Vancouver
performed by Gamelan Madu Sari
GEOMETRIC DINING Part I, 1994
Radio performance, Wireless Graffiti
with Hiro Kanagawa, Rita Bozi, and Norman Armour
Originally developed as radio drama, and as performance work for food, small ensemble, and post-modern architecture subjected to cinematic lighting,
HOELLENSPEKTAKEL I ,II, and III 1993/1994/1995
Part I: Wireless Graffiti, CFRO Co-op Radio, Vancouver
Part II: Electro Radio Days, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal
PARADOGMA (Questions on Nature)
Sonic Boom Festival, Glass Slipper
Performance for two musicians, fox terrier and magnetic tape
1992
PROPHECY, or the flair for metals
interdisciplinary performance, curated by Daav McNab,
performed by Norman Armour, François Houle, Lori Freedman, Kenneth Newby,
Pitt Gallery, Performance Series, Vancouver
Play Sound >>
1990
A CONCISE HISTORY OF DRUMMING
Solo Performance for Drummer, Text and Tape
I. Remember the Beginning: Sonic Boom, Firehall Theatre
II. I, Timeeater: Jaqueline M Gallery, Vancouver
III. Drumming is Labour: Newfoundland Sound Symposium
1987
COMMON TIME
Solo Percussion Concert
Western Front, Vancouver
FESTIVALS
Vancouver International Jazz Festival
Festival Musique Actuelle Victoriaville
Bumbershoot Festival
Vancouver Folk Festival
Newfoundland Sound Symposium
Elektra Festival of New Music, Montreal
Akusma Festival, Montreal
Dancing Man Festival, Gabriola Island
Vancouver Island Music Festival, Comox
Sonic Boom Festival, Vancouver
Electro Radio Days, Montreal
Deep Wireless Festial Toronto
SOUND DESIGN
2009
NANAY : A Testimonial Play
written by Caleb Johnson and Gerry Pratt
Directed by Alexander Ferguson,
PuSh Festival, Chapel Arts Centre, Vancouver,
and at FAMILY: YOUR NANNY HATES YOU
HAU 2 Festival, Hebbel Theater am Ufer, Berlin
Play Sound >>
RECORDINGS
2009
SONG ROOM CD
The Capilano Review, Collaborations, Series 3,No.4
The Rose, with Carol Sawyer and mynameisscot
Keyboard and voice
2008
SUITCASE LOCAL
Spoken Word and Music, with Hilary Peach and Alex Varty
www.hilarypeach.com >>
Percussion
2005
OUTER BASS
Dinah D. and
The Contraband Trio
www.dinahd.com >>
Drums, Percussion
2002
ONLY HERE
Resin & Julie Vik
Percussion
OUT OF THE WOODS
Blair Lewis & Out of the Woods
Percussion
2001
TREE LINE
Michael Bushnell, Christopher Butterfield, Jo Kondo, Alexina Louie, Michael O'Neill, et al. Vancouver New Music Ensemble, Conductor: Owen Underhill, CBC Musica Viva
Percussion
2000
SILENCE DESCENDS
Western Front Records 002,
Voice
1998
TRUTH, OR THE TERRIBLE BUT
INCOMPLETE JOURNALS OF JOHN D.
by Guillermo Verdecchia.
Performed by Norman Armour and Peggy Lee.
Edited, mixed and designed by Andreas Kahre
Rumble Theatre CD
1996
THE SONGLINES ANTHOLOGY
François Houle/ Andeas Kahre Duo, Méandre
Songlines Records, Vancouver
Percussion
1994
THE ECOLOGY OF SOULS
Kenneth Newby
City of Tribes (re-release: Songlines 2002)
Vocals
1993
LETTING THE BLUE NOTE SETTLE
Andreas Kahre & François Houle
Tatterdemalion Music
1993
MASTER PIECES FROM THE MUSIC GALLERY
with Cymbali: Kenneth Newby, Michael O'Neill,
Lorraine Thomson, Andeas Kahre
1990
NEWFOUNDLAND SOUND SYMPOSIUM
Cymbali
1990
POST-POP FOR NOW PEOPLE
with Elizabeth Fischer
1988
PRELIMINARY HEARING
Cymbali
Kenneth Newby, Michael O'Neill,
Andreas Kahre, Lori Freedman
1984
RAW AND COOKED
Hextremities
Martin Gotfrit, Randy Raine-Reusch, Mark Parlett,
DB Boyko, Andreas Kahre, Kenneth Newby
PERFORMANCES
Lisle Ellis
Paul Plimley
Lori Freedman
Tina Kiik
Leah Hokanson
Christine Duncan
DB Boyko
Tina Jones
bill bissett
Brad Shipley
Tony Gradanti
Kenneth Newby
Stefan Smulovitz
Chris Houston
Bob Bossin
Calvin Cairns
Carol Sawyer
Heri Dono
Hilary Peach
Alex Varty
Elizabeth Fischer
Dinah D.
Nathan Tinkham
Moritz Behm
Joe Bjornson
François Houle
Amir Koushkani
Alan Koushan
Randy Raine Reusch
Leah Hokanson
Ron Samworth
Peggy Lee
Martin Gotfrit
Greg Howard
Michael ONeill
Mark Parlett
Blair Lewis
Dave Phyall
Bufflehead
Cymbali
Masamba
Resin
Sudanda
Hextremities
Gamelan Madu Sari
Vancouver Creative Music Orchestra
