Apparat

Exhilarated beats, strong emotions, epic theatre: Sascha Ring, alias Apparat, is one of Germany’s most peripatetic and adventurous techno musicians at present. His career began in the late nineties with vigorous club music before he turned to fast, complicated beats and electro-acoustic sound experiments. The more avant-garde his sounds became, the stronger his talent grew for creating catchy tunes and grand gestures. In 2011, Ring’s band Apparat, which he founded three years ago, released the fantastic pop album “The Devil’s Walk”. It received enthusiastic responses far beyond the boundaries of the techno scene. A year later in 2012, he made his debut as a theatre musician. Sebastian Hartmann, theatre director and general manager at the Centraltheater Leipzig, commissioned him to write music for his production of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace”, which has been invited to the Berlin Theatertreffen in 2013. The band Apparat will be playing live on stage during the performances. For the album “Krieg und Frieden (Music for Theatre), due for release in February 2013 on the label Mute Records, Ring has radically varied this theatre music, which will be premiered during the Foreign Affairs festival.