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Klaus Röder | |
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Birth name | Klaus Röder |
Born | (1948-04-07)7 April 1948 (age 77) Stuttgart,American occupation zone in Germany |
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Occupation(s) | Musician, music teacher |
Instrument(s) | Piano,violin,guitar |
Years active | 1969–present |
Website | www |
Klaus Röder (often spelled Roeder; born 7 April 1948) is a German musician and music teacher. Born in Stuttgart, Germany, he currently lives and teaches inLangenfeld, Rhineland, Germany. Röder is married and has three children.
He studied violin and piano, then began a study of sound engineering in 1968, later switching to part-time studies in composition and guitar at theRobert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, ultimately graduating in 1980 with a diploma in electronic music composition.
Interested inexperimental andavant garde music he began creatingcustom-made instruments, also using synthesizers and tape recorders to manipulate recorded sounds.
During this period he played guitar (used as a sound trigger device for synthesizer) in afree jazz group, Synthesis, and briefly, during 1974, with the electronic bandKraftwerk.[1][2]
Since 1975 he has worked from his own electronic music studio, latterly using personal computers entirely for composing and creating music.[3][4]
Röder had an interview about his Kraftwerk time on music documentary film "Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution" produced by Rob Johnstone, released in 2008.[5][6][7]
With Kraftwerk
As Solo
Documentary
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