Q&A by Rob Young and Pluramon for eMusic
Cologne, Germany, has enjoyed a remarkable musical renaissance since the early 1990s, and Pluramon’s Marcus Schmickler is one of its most versatile sonic architects. An academically trained pioneer of digital production, Marcus has always run his own studio at different spaces in the city — first the Kaspar Hauser Studio in a former warehouse, and now the state of the art chamber he calls Piethopraxis. There he has concocted three further Pluramon records, and a stream of computer compositions and live electronic improvisations under his own name — latest being Amazing Daze (with Hayden Chisholm) and Altars Of Science. … »
