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ROTHKAMM (born Frank Holger Rothkamm on July 2nd, 1965 in Gütersloh, Germany) is a freelancing composer, conceptual artist and computer programmer, who started as an actor at the German Castle Theatre in Moers and currently lives and works in Los Angeles , in the former hotel The Wilshire Royale.
His encyclopedic work is connected to a matrix of electronic music, performance art, digital media, supermodern architecture and transcendental materialism. It probes notions of the hidden within the dialectics of commercial and underground culture, an extended music concept that critically shape-shifts the role of the composer in society and gives testament to a new artform.
Until 2002 ROTHKAMM provided rhythm synthesis for the Hardkiss Bros., Peter Scherer, Corin Curschellas, Elliott Sharp, Alfred 23 Harth, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Lesa Carlson and DJ Spooky; sonic concepts to Rodney Graham, Harald Fuchs, Diane Thater & T. Kelly Mason and DJ Glove; remixes for the Cranberries, Zeena Parkins, Tyrants in Therapy, and Rebekka Bakken, commercial underscores for Levi Strauss, Sears, Philips; web integration for Warner Bros., Hewlett-Packard, Ford, BMC, the Los Angeles Times and the New York Philharmonic; track licensing under the Mrs. Blowpop, Speed Genius Overdose, Frank Genius, and Flux Records moniker; and produced soundtracks to film loop experiments in 3-D projection technology, among them George Lucas' Star Wars.
Following an epiphany in Hollywood during the summer of 2002, ROTHKAMM designed the Turing Machine of sci-fi serialism that descended from his early studies with Prof. Barlomew Clarifier and his adaptation of Iannis Xenakis' UPIC for Science World of British Columbia in the 1980s. The first manifestation was the critically acclaimed compact disc machine trilogy of FB01, FB02 & FB03 (2002 - 2007) emphatically described by SONHORS as "un véritable culte aux machines ou plutôt aux instructions qu'elles peuvent être amenées à executer".
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