Chapter 8 Peter Rehberg, Christian Fennesz and the Label Mego
Between Glitch and Bécs
Abstract
A large proportion of artists considered in this study at some stage of their career
veered towards ‘serious’ or experimental music. This also refers to Peter Rehberg
and Christian Fennesz. However, they differ from those considered previously,
because unlike them, they did not cross the boundary between the popular and
academic now and then but made it their personal signature. Their music also
challenges our concept of electronic music, as well as studio and stage and even
music and non-music. To contextualise their work, it is worth locating it first
against the concept of ‘noise music’ or rather ‘noise as music’.