{{Infobox musical artist | name = Markus Mehr | origin = Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany | genre = Ambient music, Experimental music, Soundart, Phonographie | years_active = 1989–present | label = Hidden Shoal Recordings, Gruenrekorder | website = [http://www.markusmehr.de/ Official website] }}
'''Markus Mehr''' (born 1965 in Augsburg, Bavaria) is a German electronic music composer and sound artist.
== History ==
Mehr played guitar in the new wave band The Unemployed Ministers from 1989 until their dissolution in 1997.<ref>{{Cite web| title = The Unemployed Ministers at Discogs. | website = Discogs| url = http://www.discogs.com/Unemployed-Ministers-The-Spirit/release/2521186| accessdate = January 18, 2013}}</ref> In 2001, he began a solo project under the name Aroma, releasing three albums over five years.
As of 2008, Mehr has been writing and performing under his own name as an electronic composer. In 2010, he signed to the Australian record label Hidden Shoal Recordings.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Markus Mehr signs to Hidden Shoal Recordings. 03-22-2010| url = http://music.hiddenshoal.com/publicity/press-releases/HSR_Press_Release-Markus_Mehr_Signing.pdf| accessdate = January 18, 2014}}</ref>
Mehr has been performing live under his own name since 2009, playing shows in his native Germany as well as in Netherlands, Dubai, Sweden, Italy, Marokko and Canada.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Markus Mehr live. | url = http://www.markusmehr.de/#live| accessdate = February 11, 2014}}</ref> He often collaborates with visual artist Stefanie Sixt in his shows.
Mehr and Sixt have also collaborated on a number of audiovisual and sound art installations.<ref>{{Cite web| title = B C H I J Press Release. | url = http://www.markusmehr.de/data/BCHIJ_concept.pdf| accessdate = January 18, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web| title = Stefanie Sixt website. | url = http://www.sixt-sense.de/band.html| accessdate = January 18, 2014}}</ref> In 2013, Mehr scored the theatrical production First Life.<ref>{{Cite web| title = First Life. | url = http://www.mousonturm.de/web/en/veranstaltung/first-life---ein-melodram| accessdate = January 18, 2014}}</ref> Since 2014 he works very often with field recordings and hydrophones to use these materials as a sound source for his electro acoustic compositions. The album Dyschronia was part of the A Closer Listening Top Ten 2017.<ref>{{Cite web| title = ACL. | date = 17 December 2017| url = https://acloserlisten.com/2017/12/17/acl-2017-top-ten-experimental/| accessdate = December 17, 2017}}</ref> On October the 15th 2018 he released the album Liquid Empires which contains only music made out of underwater recordings.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Liquid Empires. | url = http://www.markusmehr.de/data/hsr_press-info_mm_liquid-empires.pdf| accessdate = September 12, 2018}}</ref> The performance EDIT 1/0/0/0 was a commission work for the 1000 year anniversary of the Moritzkirche in Augsburg. After two years of composing and preparing, two shows took place on Friday 20th of September 2019 .<ref>{{Cite web| title = EDIT 1/0/0/0. | url = https://www.moritzkirche.de/edit1000| accessdate = May 21, 2020}}</ref> The Album Brief Conversations was released on the 12th of May. It is an ode to the acoustic properties of the spaces we listen within.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Brief Conversations. | url = https://www.hiddenshoal.com/project/markus-mehr/| accessdate = May 21, 2020}}</ref> From 17th of June to the 18th of July 2021 Mehr´s installation work Pressure premiered at the Höhmannhaus, Augsburg (a division of the Museum for Contemporary Art).<ref>{{Cite web| title = Pressure. | url = https://kunstsammlungen-museen.augsburg.de/markusmehr| accessdate = April 30, 2022}}</ref> Release date for the album with the same title was the 1st of April 2022 for the first time on Gruenrekorder.<ref>{{Cite web| title = Pressure. | url = https://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=19853| accessdate = April 30, 2022}}</ref> On October 26, his sound installation Supra made its debut at the gallery arToxin, Munich. A limited vinyl edition of this work was released by Gruenrkorder.<ref>{{Cite web| title = arToxin. | url = https://www.artoxin.de/de/ausstellungen/supra| accessdate = May 11, 2022}}</ref> In February 2025, the album Hole In The Sea was released, a collaboration with double bassist Joseph Warner under the moniker V_on.<ref>{{Cite web| title = V_on. | url = https://www.josephwarner.de| accessdate = May 11, 2025}}</ref>
==Discography== '''As Unemployed Ministers:''' * ''Spirit'' (1989) * ''Selfish'' (1992) * ''Parasite'' (1994) * ''Not Kaputt Really'' (1994)
'''As Aroma:''' * ''What Do You Mean Aroma Approaching?'' (2001) * ''The Current Music Of ...'' (2004) * ''A Hole Called Rock 'n' Roll'' (2006)
'''As Markus Mehr:''' * ''Lava'' (2010) * ''In'' (2012) * ''On'' (2012) * ''Off'' (2013) * ''Off"- Live in Bari'' (2013) * ''Binary Rooms'' (2014) * ''To Set The River On Fire'' (2014) * ''In The Palm Of Your Hand -EP'' (2015) * ''Re-Directed'' (2016) * ''Dyschronia'' (2017) * ''Liquid Empires'' (2018) * ''Brief Conversations'' (2020) * ''Pressure'' (2022) * ''Supra'' (2024) * ''Hole In The Sea w/V_on'' (2025)
==Performance== * ''Synchron'' (2010) * ''Komo'' (2011) * ''Transit'' (2011) * ''First Live - Ein Melodram '' (2013) * ''B/C/H/I/J'' (2013) * ''Sublimity Water'' (2013) * ''Irrigatis'' (2013) * ''Items/Stille'' (2013) * ''Re-Directed'' (2015) * ''Nach Hause Kommen (Bertold Brecht Lyric)'' (2016) * ''Dyschronia'' (2017) * ''EDIT 1/0/0/0'' (2019)
==Installation== * ''From A to B to A'' (2014) * ''Wiegenlieder aus Schurkenstaaten'' (2017) * ''Pressure'' (2021) * ''Freedom Love & Observation'' (2023) * ''Supra'' (2024)
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==External links== * {{discogs artist|Markus Mehr}} * [http://www.markusmehr.de/ Official website] * [https://markusmehr.bandcamp.com/ Bandcamp]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mehr, Markus}} Category:1965 births Category:Living people Category:German ambient musicians Category:German experimental musicians