Andre Bartetzki was born in Berlin in 1962 and began his professional training and work as a sound engineer in the radio studios of the former GDR. From 1987 to 1993 he studied sound engineering at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music in Berlin, where he founded the Studio for Electroacoustic Music and directed it until 2002. From 1999 to 2004 he worked in the studio of the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar as a lecturer and technical director. From 2009 to 2012, he directed the Electronic Studio of the TU Berlin together with Volker Straebel. For more than 20 years he has been realising his own artistic projects, mainly electroacoustic, audiovisual and instrumental compositions and improvisations as well as sound and video installations, often in collaboration with other musicians and ensembles, dancers and visual artists.
His works have been performed at many German and international festivals for contemporary music, computer music and media art, such as Kryptonale, Randspiele, Pyramidale, singuhr hoergalerie, Inventionen Berlin, Hörkunstfestival Erlangen, Dresdner Tage für zeitgenössische Musik, CAMP Stuttgart, ICMC (Gothenburg, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Huddersfield, Daegu), ACMC Brisbane, SICMF Seoul, WOCMAT Hsinchu, ping! Mallorca, ElectroVisiones Mexico-City, Música Viva Lisbon, deepwireless Toronto, emufest Rome.
