Stephan Mathieu, born October 11.1967, is a musician and sound artist based in Saarbrücken, Germany.

I’m working in the field of digital art, mainly as a self taught composer and performer of my own music. I create audio installations, work as a hobbyist photographer and graphic designer, and taught Digital Arts and Theory at the HBKSaar University of Art and Design in Saarbrücken and as a guest lecturer at the Royal Academy of Arts in Göteborg, the Bauhaus University Weimar and the Merz-Akademie in Stuttgart.

During the last decade my music has been released on 16 critical acclaimed CDs, both solo and in collaboration with Douglas Benford, Ekkehard Ehlers, John Hudak, Janek Schaefer and Akira Rabelais on some of the finest electronic music labels worldwide.

My sound is largely based on early instruments, environmental sound and obsolete media which are recorded and transformed by means of experimental microphony, re-editing techniques and software processes involving spectral analysis and convolution, and has been compared to the landscape paintings of Caspar David Friedrich and the work of Colorfield artists Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman and Ellsworth Kelly.

I have performed my music live around the world, on festivals like Mutek Montreal, Sonar Barcelona,Frequenzen Hz Frankfurt, the Dutch Electronic Arts Festival in Rotterdam, Fylkingen 40! Stockholm andAtlantic Waves London, in some great venues like Lampo Chicago, Phill Niblocks Experimental IntermediaNew York, at Radialsystem V and Volksbühne Berlin, but also in historical monuments like the Aula Palatinain Trier or the Völklinger Hütte ironworks.
Since 1998 I created various audio installations for galleries and museums, a glass-blowing factory, a 17th century garden, Berlin Mitte, a 19th century steel plant, parks, an arrangement of 30 Peugeots, a late antique throne hall and other places.

I’m a collector of 78rpm records from the 1910s and 20s, the era of acoustic and early electronic audio recording. I love the way they transport sound.

For a list of Stephan Mathieu Live projects, click here