Robert Lippok
Through an uncle, he came into contact with the music of Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, and later Lippok regularly listened to John Peel's radio show on BFBS.
"[5] In 1982, Lippok and his brother Ronald founded the band Ornament & Verbrechen in East Berlin, which they named after a work by architect Adolf Loos.
As percussion instruments they used, among other things, a drawer covered with fur, a plastic canister filled with Lego bricks, and a moped exhaust was converted into a saxophone.
[8] As inspiration for the band, Lippok cited music by Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Tödliche Doris, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Throbbing Gristle, and Cabaret Voltaire.
[10] In 2015, they were featured extensively as part of the touring exhibition "Geniale Dilletanten [sic]" hosted by Goethe-Institut, alongside other style-defining bands of 1980s German subculture.
[11] In the following year, the band was responsible for the music for the Brecht-fragment Untergang des Egoisten Johann Fatzer, in a version by Tom Kühnel and Jürgen Kuttner, at Deutsches Theater.
[15] The band's music moved between krautrock, electronica, post-rock, post-techno[16] and dance,[17] with Robert Lippok operating synthesizers and samplers.
They later recorded an album under the project name Whitetree, released in 2009,[20] combining Einaudi's piano playing with electro, percussion, and krautrock elements.
[24] During a working fellowship in Stockholm, Robert Lippok's 2018 electro album "Applied Autonomy"[25] was created with the participation of Swedish composer Klara Lewis.
[27] In 2019, Lippok and Gutierrez collaborated again, this time as part of the Berliner Festspiele: They created fulldome video and soundscapes for the program series "The New Infinity – Neue Kunst für Planetarien.
In the course of this collaboration, he created the stage and costume designs for Maxim Gorki Theater, Volksbühne, Komische Oper Berlin, and Staatstheater Kassel.
[32] Lippok composed the music for the 2017 premiere of the Dorky Park dance company's performance "The Pose", directed by Constanza Macras.
However, the gallery owner had to take care of their removal on his own: Lippok's exit permit had been unexpectedly granted, and he had to leave the GDR immediately.
[41] In 2012, he exhibited his installation "By the Niger River" at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, in which he artistically processed a trip to Mali: Lippok presented mobile electric lamps, as they are used in Ségou, combined with kneading models and recordings of everyday sounds from the villages he had visited.
was shown as part of the Eufònic Festival[45] taking place at the Catalan Templar fortress Castell de Miravet,[46] and at Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin.
[48] In 2012,[49] Lippok was a fellow of Institut für Raumexperimente, an experimental education and research project affiliated with the Berlin University of the Arts, founded by Olafur Eliasson and others.
[51] As of 2020, Lippok teaches as a lecturer at the Berlin branch of the Tisch School of the Arts / New York University[52] and is a member of the board of trustees of the "Spatial Sound Institute" in Budapest.
