Pluramon
Musical Artist
1968 –
Who is Pluramon?
Marcus Schmickler is a German composer, musician and producer. He is also known under the pseudonym Pluramon.
In 1968 he was born as the son of an industrial salesman and a baker's daughter in Cologne. Soon his parents moved to Kuerten where he met the music of Karlheinz Stockhausen. In 1991, after spending a year in London, he started studying music in Cologne and became a member of the seminal collective Kontakta. 1992 his first solo release appeared with the French label Odd Size. In 1995, he was co-initiator of the A-Musik record store and the DJ collective BrĂ¼sseler-Platz-10a-Musik, together with Georg Odijk and Jan St. Werner.
Since 1995 he works as a composer, for film theater and radioplay. In 1996 he released one of the first fully digitally produced post-rock albums under the pseudonym Pluramon on the German label Mille Plateaux. After a concert in Cologne, in 1998, he became a member of the 12-piece electro-acoustic ensemble MIMEO. In 1999, he completed his studies in electronic music with Hans Ulrich Humpert and the composition with Johannes Fritsch with a thesis on Gottfried Michael Koenig.
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- Born
- Nov 15, 1968
Cologne - Also known as
- Marcus Schmickler
- Charms Music Clerk
- Schmickler, Marcus
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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