Dirk Dresselhaus

Dirk Dresselhaus was born 1970 in Bielefeld, Germany. Since the late 80's he is active in different musical fields. From 1989 until 1997 he played and sang in indie-noiserock- and pop-bands like Locust Fudge or Hip Young Things before he be- came more active in electronic music around 1997 with his project Schneider TM, which is responsible for a couple of experimental electro-freak-pop albums and indie-hits like Reality Check, Frogtoise, Pacman / Shopping Cart or a cover version of a song by The Smiths called The Light 3000, a collaboration with Kptmichigan that was hugely acclaimed by John Peel, The Wire etc.. Schneider TM has been credited as one of the main inventors of a music genre called Indietronic or Indietronica. Since 1998 Schneider TM performed a couple of hundreds live concerts including renowned international festivals like CTM (Berlin), Sonar Festival / Sonar Sound (Barcelona, Rome, Tokyo), Mutek (Montreal, Mexico City), Arty Farty (Lyon), Pukkelpop (Hasselt), Hultsfred Festival (Hultsfred), Kilbi Festival (Bad Bonn), Frieze Art Fair / Frieze Music (London), Phonem Festival (Istanbul), Numero Festival (Lisboa), Les Siestes Electroniques festival (Toulouse), Melt Festival (Graefenhainichen), Midi Festival (Hyeres), Motomix Festival (Sao Paolo), Todaysart Festival (Den Haag), Dark Mofo (Hobart) and others. Next to many one-off projects like composing and recording music for movies (1. Mai, 66/67, Polnische Ostern, In Der Überzahl, Teilhard, Remainder etc. with directors like Omer Fast, Ludwig & Glaser etc.), performance theater (The Scorpionfish, Louis & Bebe w/ Joanna Dudley & Rufus Didwiszus) or radioplays (Release, Hochhaus w/ Paul Plamper), he plays & records with freeform noise-projects like Angel (now die Angel w/ Ilpo Väisänen of Pan sonic & guests like Hildur Gudnadottir, Oren Ambarchi, BJ Nilsen or Lucio Capece) and Real Time (w/ Reinhold Friedl of zeitkratzer) on a regular basis. Since quite a while he frequently plays improv concerts on varying instruments like guitar, electronics, balafon or using field recordings, sometimes solo and other times together with Jochen Arbeit (of Einstürzende Neubauten, ex-Die Haut), Damo Suzuki (ex-Can), the japanese dancer Tomoko Nakasato or video artists like Lillevan, pani K and Takehito Koganezawa. In 2007 Dirk Dresselhaus and Michael Beckett started their own (online-) label MWM (MirrorWorldMusic). Since 2010 Dirk runs a small studio called ZONE in Berlin, where most of his recent projects were realized aswell as works with acts and bands like Faust, Mutter, Yo La Tengo, To Rococo Rot, Golden Disko Ship, Chris Imler, Ziguri, Station 17 and others.