In a world full of overproduced popular – and unfortunately also classical – music, five mavericks found together to craft conventional music production equipment into tools for expressing creativity.
About the Ensemble
Standing on the shoulders of giants, the No Input Ensemble joins electronic musicians from all over the world in the everlasting hunt for new sonorities. Generating these from feedback looped instruments, particularly purely self inducing mechanisms, is their model in music. Controlling these mechanisms and instruments in a musical manner is their main objective. Coming together to compose these resulting sounds in a performative context is the reason for forming this ensemble. But all in all, it's simply amazingly fun to do.
Tobias Grothmann
Tobias Grothmann completed his master’s degree in Muic Informatics at the University of Music Karlsruhe. His interest in the ensemble subsists in exploring both organic and raw sounds, just by exploiting mixers through feedback.
Another task he aims at is finding a common language to communicate about this world of strange sounds for composition, writing scores and during performance.
Marnin Jahnke
Marnin Jahnke studied Musicology and Music Informatics at the University of Music in Karlsruhe. Following a diverse history of executive and perceptual musicianship, he currently aims to explore and formalize the compositional content of misused electronic technology.
Daniel Lindenkreuz
Coming from a classically trained musical background, Daniel Lindenkreuz also studied Musicology and Music Informatics at the University of Music in Karlsruhe.
While staying a musician at heart, he aspires accomplishing interdisciplinary projects that both pursue artistic motifs and challenge technology to its bare bones.
Timothy Schmele
Timothy Schmele is a doctoral candidate at the University of Music in Karlsruhe, investigating the compositional implications of spatialized electronic music. His interest in electronic music are organic sounds native to the electronic realm, though he also composes with musical instruments that could be described as more traditional.
Finding a way to adequately describe these rich electronic sounds in an absolute way is one of the bigger goals he pursues in founding this unusual ensemble.
Tobias Walter
As a founding member, Tobias contributed to the ensemble's output from 2013 through 2019. Crafting his sounds often directly from the main mixer, he loved to integrate and balance the others’ signals into cohesive, organic textures. He continues to explore collaborative improvisation in other musical contexts.