Johannes S. Sistermanns
In his sound installations he infuses resonant everyday materials, overcomes architectural spaces with sounds and acts impulsively from an unknown potential space.
Biography
Johannes S. Sistermanns studied composition and new music theatre with Mauricio Kagel at the Cologne Musikhochschule, took singing lessons in North India and earned a doctorate in musicology. He realises his projects in installative sound sculpture, radiophonic radio play, electroacoustics and sound performance. In his sound installations, he imbues resonant everyday materials, overcomes architectural spaces with sounds and acts impulsively from an unknown potential space. Johannes S. Sistermanns has received composition commissions, scholarships, residencies, guest lectureships and numerous prizes worldwide, including the Radio Art of SWR 1997, the German Sound Art Award 2008 of WDR and Skulpturenmuseum Marl as well as the 12th German Music Authors Award 2020 (GEMA Berlin). He realises multi-media sound art exhibitions at international festivals such as the Adelaide/Melbourne Festival, EXPO 2000 World Exhibition Hanover, Musicarama Hong Kong, Donaueschinger Musiktage, International World Music Days Sydney, New York Electroacoustic Music Festival, Meion Festival Nagoya.
Prizes & Scholarships
Prizes (Selection)
- 1997 Karl Sczuka Promotion Prize SWR Baden-Baden
- 2008 German Sound Art Prize 2008 WDR Cologne, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Initiative Hören Cologne
- 2013 Prix Phonurgia Nova 2013 Ausculta Hörstück [SWR] Finalist – Paris
- 2013 Prix Palmarès Ausculta [SWR] Mention Special |Listening Proposal ‘EBU’ Ars Acoustica Group
- 2014 German Record Critics’ Award CD: Ausculta Nomination in the field: Grenzgänger
- 2015 FOREVER NOW Award Winner ‘Golden Record’ launched into orbit into space
Project: FOR EVER NOW APHIDS, Melbourne - 2015 3rd prize ‘Prix PRESQUE RIEN 2015’ La Muse En Circuit/ Association PRESQUE RIEN [Luc Ferrari] Paris
- 2016 1st prize ‘Leibniz Harmonien’ International Composition Competition, musik für heute/Hannover
- 2019 1st prize ‘dokKa KurzDoku’ SWR2 / Intern. Film / Audio Documentary Festival Karlsruhe
- 2020 12th German Music Authors’ Award 2020 GEMA Berlin Category Composition | Sound Art
Scholarships
- 2001 Artist Fellowship The Japan Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
- 2004 Working Scholarship Filmstiftung NRW, Düsseldorf
- 2008 /09 Composition Fellowship ZKM Karlsruhe
- 2010 Artist-in-Residence Australian Experimental Art Foundation, AEAF Adelaide
- 2015 Artist-in-Residence PSAS Art Space, Fremantle WA Australia
- 2018 Ensemble-in-Residence Miasto Orgrodow, Katowice Poland
- 2020 Project Grant Musikfonds Berlin
- 2021 Project Grant Ministry of Culture North Rhine-Westphalia Düsseldorf
- 2021 Project Grant Akademie der Künste Berlin
- 2022 Research Grant Japan Kunststiftung NRW Düsseldorf
Solo- Group Exhibitions
- Knitting Factory New York
- EXPO 2000 World Exposition Hannover
- Donaueschinger Musicdays
- ISCM World New Music Days Switzerland / Stuttgart/Sydney
- Int. Ferienkurse Darmstadt
- Ultraschall Berlin
- Melbourne / Adelaide Festival
- Skulpturenmuseum Marl
- Musicarama Hong Kong
- New York EMF
- Meion Festival Nagoya
- MOFO Festival Hobart
- ARD Hörspieltage ZKM Karlsruhe
- Liquid Architecture Melbourne
- WDR Studio Akustische Kunst
- ABC Radio FM Sydney
- Kunstradio ORF Wien
- YLE Helsinki
- Omreop Hilversum
- NHK Tokio
- France Musique Paris
