Herman Müntzing

Flexichord, electronics, objects
Herman Müntzing attended the Royal Academy of Music in the late eighties and has since graduation transformed from a straight jazz/rock bass player into a more broadminded sound artist, working mainly in the fields of improvised and experimental music. Since the late nineties, his life as a musician includes different Swedish and international groups. He has giving concerts in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, UK, Iceland, Poland, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland Hungary, Belarus and Holland.

Müntzing has collaborated with, among others, Phil Minton, Eugene Chadbourne, Martin Küchen, Dror Feiler, Lisbeth Diers, Sten Sandell, Mats Gustavsson, Raymond Stridh, Johannes Bergmark, Franziska Baumann, Stefan Östersjö, Amit Sen and Kjell Nordesson.

He is giving lectures/workshops in many different situations, often striving for a new approach to the boundaries between sound, noise and music. “Creative sound research”, “graphic notation” and “building experimental musical instruments” is examples of workshops he has led several times.

The interest in expanding the common thoughts about the qualifications for a “real” musical instrument, made him search for new sounds in the everyday surroundings, exploring casual objects and their own unique sound qualities. Eventually this research made him create the “flexichord”, a 12-stringed experimental musical instrument made out of strings and pickups from two electric guitars attached to a horizontal solid piece of wood. Performing the flexichord invites him to prepare and play the instrument with different materials and objects like rubber, stones, glass, metal, saw blades etc. Combining this with electronics and sampling shows the essence in his aesthetics.

During the 2012 edition of the GAS-Festival, Herman will perform as part The RELAY MEETING 2012. Read more about this concept right here.

Working Bands
Küchen & Müntzing Scheibenhonig (with Martin Küchen)
Elektrobotanisk music (with Sten Sandell)
Sound of Mucus (with Martin Küchen and Andreas Axelsson)
ChadKlappMuntz (with Eugene Chadbourne and Martin Klapper)
Rhododendron String Band (with Stephan Sieben, Samuel Hällquist and Johannes Burström)