Grandbrothers
- Composer
Grandbrothers is a German-Swiss music duo founded in 2011 in Düsseldorf, Germany. Stylistically they can be filed somewhere between piano music and electronica. The band's sound is mainly defined by the mix of classical piano playing and a self-developed gadget of electromechanical hammers that knock on various parts of the piano controlled through a software.
Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel met in 2007 during their studies at the Institute of Music and Media in Düsseldorf and started their joint project Grandbrothers in 2011. Inspired by significant representatives of New Music like John Cage or Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich's Minimal Music as well as contemporary Electronic Music acts, the grand piano is the origin of their music. While Sarp mainly focusses on playing the piano, Vogel's musical interests went in a rather electronic and technical direction. Together they create a sound that merges classical piano compositions with electronic sound aesthetics and innovative production measures.
Significant for the Grandbrothers' approach is that every single note and every single noise emerge from a single instrument - a classic grand piano. However, the limits to the means of tonally expressing yourself on this instrument are being shifted and pushed to the extreme with the help of this rather unique system of electromechanical hammers. This approach of merging the worlds of acoustics and electronics reminded French newspaper Libération of both Aphex Twin and Erik Satie.
In 2019 Grandbrothers also started working on composing movie scores. Thus they contributed the soundtrack to the movie "Hors normes" ("The Specials") by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano which premiered at the International Film Festival in Cannes in May 2019 and "Wanda, Mein Wunder" by Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli.
Erol Sarp and Lukas Vogel met in 2007 during their studies at the Institute of Music and Media in Düsseldorf and started their joint project Grandbrothers in 2011. Inspired by significant representatives of New Music like John Cage or Alvin Lucier, Steve Reich's Minimal Music as well as contemporary Electronic Music acts, the grand piano is the origin of their music. While Sarp mainly focusses on playing the piano, Vogel's musical interests went in a rather electronic and technical direction. Together they create a sound that merges classical piano compositions with electronic sound aesthetics and innovative production measures.
Significant for the Grandbrothers' approach is that every single note and every single noise emerge from a single instrument - a classic grand piano. However, the limits to the means of tonally expressing yourself on this instrument are being shifted and pushed to the extreme with the help of this rather unique system of electromechanical hammers. This approach of merging the worlds of acoustics and electronics reminded French newspaper Libération of both Aphex Twin and Erik Satie.
In 2019 Grandbrothers also started working on composing movie scores. Thus they contributed the soundtrack to the movie "Hors normes" ("The Specials") by Olivier Nakache & Éric Toledano which premiered at the International Film Festival in Cannes in May 2019 and "Wanda, Mein Wunder" by Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli.