Peter Reberg is a musician and head of a record company. He is a world-renowned figure in the underground music industry. He died of a heart attack at the age of 53.
The musician Kassel Jaeger announced his death. Who wrote on Instagram: “Peter disappeared suddenly. That’s it… I owe him too much. The same is true for many of us.”
Reberger was born in Tottenham Hotspur, grew up in Hertfordshire and later settled in Austria Where did his father originally come from. He began distributing music under the name Pita in 1995. His first album “Seven Tons of Free” experimented with the structural potential and malfunctioning use of electronic sound, and his follow-up album “Going Out” further explored the tones, extending to noise and environmental music. His work continues to increase in size and complexity in further albums Get Down, Get Off, and Get In, and he was one of the early supporters of laptops as musical performance devices.
In 2006, he formed the KTL group with Stephen O’Malley, guitarist of the avant-garde metal band Sunn O))). Together they released six albums and played epic, often harsh environmental music. He also joined Jim O’Rourke (Jim O’Rourke) and Christian Fennes (Christian Fennesz) to form a left-field super combination Fenn O’Berg (Fenn O’Berg).
Rehberg is also an important underground music curator for his brand Mego. Founded in 1995 by Ramon Bauer, Peter Meininger and Andreas Pieper, its first release was a 12-inch split version produced by Rehberg himself and General Magic in collaboration. Rehberg joined the team running the label and later developed into key figures in the noise/electronic underground music scene, including Fennesz, Russell Haswell and Florian Hecker.
Mego was closed in 2005, but restarted by Rehberg the following year. As Editions Mego, the company continued to publish important underground works by Oneohtrix Point Never, Kevin Drumm, Bruce Gilbert, Mark Fell, Oren Ambarchi, Bill Orcutt, Emeralds and others.
In 2012, Rehberg started an archive project and republished the work of Groupe de Recherches Musicales (GRM). GRM is a collective of musicians who worked after the 1950s, led by Pierre Schaeffer, who has tried the potential of electronics. Rehberg’s Recollection GRM series released music composed by Schaffer, Bernard Parmegiani, Iannis Xenakis, Beatriz Ferreyra and others.
Other collaborators include Z’ev, Ramon Bauer and Nik Void of the British band Factory Floor, with whom he formed the duo NPVR.
In an interview in 2016, he outlined his open-minded attitude towards music-“Now music is sold very much in my own small box… I have always been less interested in this”-and Explained his view on pitch: if you want to make something noisy, you must also make something harmonious. I think that disharmony and resonance must coexist before the other can work. “
Artists who paid tribute to Rehberg included a mouse on Mars, who said: “This is completely absurd. It is not prepared for a world without Peter Rehberg and Editions Mego.”
Ambaki wrote: “We are all very sad.” Alessandro Cortini (Alessandro Cortini) said: “Safe travel Peter Rehberg: You and your incredible contribution to the world of sound will last forever.”
Reiberg’s partner Laura Siegmund, his father and brother, and his daughter Natasha survived.
