Andreas Bick was born in 1964 in Marl, Lower Saxony, Germany. His development as a composer bypassed colleges and academies of music; he taught himself to play the guitar and acquired the necessary theoretical knowledge alone. In 1983, he moved to Berlin, where he found his way into the rock scene, playing and performing for several years with underground bands. At the same time, he worked as a sound engineer and music producer at various recording studios. It was also at this point that he made his first experimental sound pieces. Between 1992 and 1996, he took on an educational role in the hip-hop scene, establishing the model project “Hip Hop Mobil”. He has organized musical exchange projects with the Goethe Institute in Cameroon and the City of Los Angeles; he has taught classes on a range of professional training programs; and he has published texts on alternative pedagogical concepts in the field of hip-hop culture. His debut as a composer of film music came in 1996 with the production of the theme music for the television series
Sperling; the pilot directed by Dominik Graf was awarded the Adolf Grimme Prize and Andreas Bick’s soundtrack was nominated for the Rolf-Hans Müller Prize. Since then, he has composed for numerous cinema and television films and for several television series including the extremely successful
Berlin Berlin, which won the International Emmy Award in 2004. Andreas Bick also makes sound compositions and radio play soundtracks for various German radio broadcasters. Between 2000 and 2003, he worked on a triptych of sound art pieces on pattern-forming processes in nature. In 2000,
dripping was awarded WDR’s Prix Ars Acustica, and in 2002,
windscapes won the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis. He has composed and produced several other sound art compositions for the Studio Akustische Kunst of WDR and Deutschlandradio Kultur, lately he finished the works
fire and frost pattern that were awarded the first radio and sound art prize at the Phonurgia Nova competition.
frost pattern received a mention at the 35th International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art at Bourges 2008 as well. His newest works
chronostasis and
phonemenon were broadcasted recently at WDR. c
hronostasis won a World Silver Medal at the New York Festivals Award 2009 for Best Sound. Apart from that Andreas Bick also composed music for the dance theater piece „
The Waste Land“ choreographed by Ismael Ivo and premiered at this years Venice Biennale.
