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 in
Langenfeld, Rhineland
Langenfeld (; Ripuarian: ''Langefääl'') is a town in North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) in the district of Mettmann. The suburban city is located between Düsseldorf and Cologne. Langenfeld was formed from the two localities of Richrath and ...
, 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 the
Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf, ultimately graduating in 1980 with a diploma in electronic music composition.
Interested in
experimental
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and
avant garde music he began creating
custom-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 a
free jazz
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group, Synthesis, and briefly, during 1974, with the electronic band
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk (, ) is a Germany, German Electronic music, electronic band formed in Düsseldorf in 1970 by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider. Widely considered innovators and pioneers of electronic music, Kraftwerk was among the first successful a ...
.
Since 1975 he has worked from his own electronic music studio, latterly using personal computers entirely for composing and creating music.
Röder had an interview about his Kraftwerk time on music documentary film "''Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution''" produced by Rob Johnstone, released in 2008.
Discography
With Kraftwerk
*1974: ''
Autobahn
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Much of t ...
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As Solo
* 1978 ''Schmutzmusik''
* 1981 ''Elektronische Kompositionen / Klaus Röder''
* 1985 ''Kompositionen 1981 - 1983''
* 1993 ''Kristallisationen 5''
* 1999 ''Live-Music 1''
* 2002 ''Frozen Sounds''
* 2009 ''Kristallisationen'' - LP
* 2010 ''Kristallisationen 2'' - LP
Documentary
* 2008 ''Kraftwerk And The Electronic Revolution''
References
External links
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1948 births
Musicians from Stuttgart
Living people
German rock guitarists
German male guitarists
Kraftwerk members
German electronic musicians
German experimental musicians
Robert Schumann Hochschule alumni
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