Photo: David Beecroft
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Rudi Fischerlehner plays drums in various different musical projects that fall between improvised and experimental music, jazz and post-rock. He also composes and produces music for bands, film and performances.
Born in 1977 in Austria he was introduced to the drums in his
childhood and received lessons on drum kit and classical
percussion. As a teenager he starts to perform with bands in and
around Linz, then moves to Vienna, travels to Africa and China,
spends a few months in New York and now resides in Berlin.
He released two solo albums, Spectral Nichts and 15
8 Slum, and also plays or has played with Xenofox
with Olaf Rupp, Der Dritte Stand with Matthias Müller
and Matthias Bauer, Joke Lanz, Mia Dyberg, Zsolt Sőrés, Isambard
Khroustaliov, Julie Sassoon, Fiium Shaarrk, Tonia Reeh
in La Tourette, Tristan Honsinger, Matthias Schubert,
Gorilla Mask, Erste Stufe Haifisch and many more.
He contributed music to movies by Ella Raidel, Johanna Kirsch and Katharina Lampert and to the video or performance work of Alterazioni Video, Katrin Plavcak, Wilhelm Groener and Rainer Kohlberger among others.
"He
makes music as if he would produce chance."
Kristof Schreuf, Junge Welt