Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, is a composer of experimental sunburnt stories , the developer of the accidental guitar method , producer, founder, and curator of Friends of Sagittarius Records,he also makes" miniatur film clips" to the release of his compositions.
_His new album "Gesang derGeister will be released and distributed (CD and digital download) by
AVACHORDA (2010).

His music has so far been released in Germany (Rainbowdiving butterflies Records, Format noise Records, Avachorda Records, Friends of Sagittarius Records, Effluvia Recordings, suRRism-Phonoethics Records, WeirdAndWired Records, DIENSTbar net label,

Knochensache Records , KrautnoiseRecords, Shit Noise Records ) Brasilien (menthe de chat ) Mexico ( A.M.P.REC. ),
Portugal ( Editora Do Porto ) Spain ( audiotalaia netlabel) England ( Industrial Culture,zamzamrec , Electronic Musik, Black Circle Records, Itsu jitsu Records, Amnion records, kulturterrorismus Records, Laptop Hooligans Netlabel, Wire Compilation Issue 326 , April 2011, Ethno Indigo Records, Just Not Normal Records, Not Normal That Sh*t Records, Dreamdark
Records)
France (Vaatican Records, Sirona Records, bruits netlabel,
COREBACKRECORDS ) Österreich (BLEAK ) Irland ( Flugelrad Records, Kift Flipper Records ) Japan
(Silent novels Rec., SODOMA RECORDS ) Belgien (FF HHH Records, Sarutra'sMusic, Mandai Distribution, Kopp Netlabel production) Niederlande (STRONT REC ) Zagreb Kroatien ( slusaj najglasnije! Rec. ) Egypt ( massimo croce ) Australia (To Hip To Hop Tapes, ohbleep records ) Italien ( VJGrecords, SfintRecords ) Russia ( Clinical Archives ) Poland (Isolationism Records) Ukraine ( Oldturtles TapesRecords , Genetic Trance Records) Minsk-Belarus (HAZE netlabel ) USA ( Planetarium Records, Love Torture Records, GLOREY WHOLE RECORDS , Sounds Abound (Free Media Archive), Kitty On Fire Records , Audio Sodomy Records, Amduscias Records , Pigeon Pop records, Placenta Recordings, Devil Noise Records, No SkinnyJeans Records, Wildness Records, ALTERED STATE OF MIND Records, TRASHFUCK Records ) Argentina ( Cubiculo noise Records) Canada (Deadknife Records, Wildness Records ) Scotland (Dreamdark Netlabel)
bulgarian
(ABANDONMENT
Records)
.......
and has collaborated with artists Richard Ramirez, Ars Sonor,Jhones Silva, Koobaatoo Asparagus, Isabelle Künstler, Dishdawash (AKA Consistency Nature), Andrés G. Jankowski,GOD PUSSY, Michael Breitenbach, Califax, Paul Gloom, Matthias Grossmann, Vinzenz Wieg, Fabian Niermann, Gor Ski, Markus Schwill, Eric D. Clark, Pollux, Buttercup Insurgent, Dairyola, Elbee Bad, Guido
MÖBIUS, Jared Christopher Balogh , Jonathan Toby Burdon, Paul Hines, Ian Simpson, Elizabeth Veldon, Jason Kavanagh, Playing with nuns, Corpse Candle, Martin Briggs, Massimo, Amy Weinraush, Cece Chapman, Jaime Rodríguez López, Tolga Imam, Lind Bohm, Lee-Ann Joy, Sonia Laura Armaniaco, Suse Kipp, Birgit Anna Schumacher, Manuel Bonik, Michaela Caspar, Chris Chroma, Till von Heiseler, Mic Mikina, Micha Schrötter.

Thanks for your listening and comments .
Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt’s
“Accidental Guitar”

Experiment and concept are not mutually exclusive, and this is made evident by Berlin-based musician and composer Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt’s concept of “Accidental Guitar”. However, the outwardly emotional-spontaneous, intuitive and occasionally wild and furious qualities that are characteristic of his performances and recordings are certainly not generated “by accident” – in other words, they do not arise by chance or as a result of a spontaneous mood. “Accidental Guitar” is a holistic and grounded concept that includes three main aspects. The first of these is the creation of sounds and sound worlds by combining the guitar with distortion effects – a type of “routing” or “mapping” technique where the musician does not lose himself, however, but instead works in a deliberate manner with the tools available to him. The second dimension of “Accidental Guitar” is improvisation – an approach that Cooper Marquardt has chosen, systematically rejecting predetermined choreographies and all forms of rehearsal or planning. This applies not only to live performances, but also when making recordings in his studio. Finally, the third dimension to this concept is the specific situation that the musician encounters when playing: the atmosphere and setting, the persons, conditions and moods present in the space in question lead to a contextualisation of his music.

The carefully considered and, at the same time, situation-specific concept behind “Accidental Guitar” allows Cooper Marquardt to maintain conscious control of his work despite its experimental nature. This awareness becomes a formative element of his music, which arises from “accidents” that the musician reacts to. Ultimately, this chain of reactions results in a certain logic, which nonetheless does not restrict the spontaneous, free momentum of his work.

Birgit Anna Schumacher, author and curator
(Based on a conversation with Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt in February 2011)

Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt Album Release "Gesang der Geister"
December 2010 to present
Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt, born in Chicago (USA), now living in Berlin, is a performance artist, musician, free improvisator and composer of experimental music. The compositions from Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt are performed and recorded live using the accidental guitar method. Deep, ritual and intensive. Burning electronic sighs of unexpected discoveries in the mind of a drifter with war burnt flesh, finding possibilities of vanished forgiveness, eyes cast upon a abandon ghostly industrial landscape made of deeply textured glass like linear tonalities and sublte complicated metalic gray singsong spaces, coming under the everyday ice world. Contemporary chamber music for the 21th century from the developer of the accidental guitar method. Produced by Lind Bohm * http://www.vimeo.com/16657554 * http://www.avachorda.de/seandcm-press/ * http://www.avachorda.de/01ava_sean-derri... * http://www.myspace.com/seandcmarquardt * http://www.avachorda.de/ *

Die Reise im Wagen meines Freundes - über die Musik von Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt

Als ich mit dem Wagen eines Freundes von Kairo nach Alexandria fuhr, um dort eine „Oud“ – eine traditionelle arabische Laute – abzuholen, fand ich eine CD im Handschuhfach: Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt – To Kindred Spirits. Die Musik begann mit einer furiosen Ouvertüre, die, wenn man sich ganz auf sie einließ, ein Orchester im Graben vor der Opernbühne zu spielen schien, deren schwerer Vorhang sich in diesem Moment langsam und ehrfurchterbietend zu öffnen begann.
Durch die Frontscheibe des Wagens sehe ich die breite, sechsspurige Straße eine Schneise durch die Felder schlagen. Ich passiere einige Dörfer und Städte, deren Antlitze bekannt und fremd zugleich auf mich wirken. Ich stelle mir die Laute vor, das kostbare Gut, das ich sicher nach Kairo bringen soll. Ich kenne ihre Töne, ihre Musik, die Tänze, die dazu getanzt werden.
In meine Gedanken bricht wieder „To Kindred Spirits“ ein und verströmt seinen kraftvollen Klang in der kleinen Welt des Wagens und der großen – der ägyptischen, chaotischen, unerbittlich heißen, staubigen, doch gleichsam von einer Melodie aus tausend Stimmen erfüllten Außenwelt der Straßen und Orte des Landes. Nähme man alle Geräusche dieser umgebenden Welt und würde sie in einem Behältnis mischen, dessen Volumen die gleiche Größe wie der Wageninnenraum hätte, säße man unzweifelhaft in diesem Wagen meines Freundes, auf dem Weg nach Alexandria. Man würde die Laute von dort nach Kairo transportieren, um sie den Musikern des Orchesters zurückzubringen – damit die Oper, für die sich der Vorhang nun ganz zu den Seiten der Bühne aufgezogen hat, beginnen möge.

Birgit Anna Schumacher
Berlin, Januar 2009