Johannes Kreidler (1980) studied from 2000 to 2006 at the Musikhochschule in Freiburg, Germany where teachers included Mathias Spahlinger (composition), Mesias Maiguashca and Orm Finnendahl (electronic music), and Ekkehard Kiem (music theory). During this time he was also a Fellow of the European Union from 2004 to 2005 and a visiting student at the Institute of Sonology at the Koninklijk Conservatorium at The Hague in the Netherlands. He also attended seminars in philosophy and art history at the University of Freiburg. In 2008 he received broad attention for an art performance action in which he delivered 70,200 forms by truck to the GEMA head office (the German performance rights authority) in order to officially register his recent 33-second electronic piece comprised of 70,200 samples of other artists' work.
Since 2006 he has taught music theory, ear training, and electronic music in Germany at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Rostock, in the advanced training division of the Musikhoch-schule Detmold, and, since 2009, at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hannover.
Kreidler's works have been featured at numerous international music festivals, including the Donaueschingen and Darmstadt festivals, Ultima Festival Oslo, Musica Strasbourg, Gaudeamus Music Week, and the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Johannes Kreidler lives in Berlin. His music usually employs computer-assisted processes and electroacoustic elements.
Broadcasts include CNN, ARD, ZDF, 3Sat Kulturzeit, Deutsche Welle,
DeutschlandRadio, DeutschlandFunk, SWR, WDR, HR, BR, MDR, RBB, BBC, and
Danish, Swedish, and Norwegian radio as well as in several independent
radio stations, web TV shows, and web radio networks.
Essays by and interviews with him have appeared in MusikTexte, KunstMusik, Musik & Ästhetik, Positionen, Neue Musikzeitung, Dissonance, Musik-Konzepte, Darmstädter Beiträge zur Neuen Musik, Musiktheorien heute, New Music and Aesthetics in the 21st Century, Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Musiktheorie, FAZ, SZ, Berliner Zeitung, and TAZ. In 2012, Wolke Publishing House releases collected writings of Johannes Kreidler: "Musik mit Musik - Texte 2005-2011".
