dieter kovačič born in 1973
 
school and various studies in vienna. since the late 80ies he has worked continuously in rendering cassette players, vinyls, cd’s and harddisks into instruments.
 
solo appearances as dieb13, dieb13, dieb14, bot, echelon, dieter bohlen…
permanent collaborations include: eh, NotTheSameColor, siewert/dieb13, erik.M/dieb13, dieb13 vs. takeshi fumimoto, swedish azz, phil minton/dieb13, john butcher group
founder of the klingt.orgestra
 
performances at various international festivals and locations including: phonotaktik wien, sonicacts amsterdam, beyond innocence osaka, lmc festival london, electrograph athens, maerzmusik berlin, kammermusiktage witten, musiktage donaueschingen, wien modern, musee de art moderne strasbourg, worldinformation.org beograd, turningsounds warszawa, piksel bergen, donaufestival krems, batofar paris, university of colorado springs.
 
distributed by 1.8sec, absurd, amoebic, antifrost, charhizma, doc, durian, en/of, erstwhile, filmarchiv austria, for4ears, grob, hathut, mego, orf, pilot.fm, rhiz, sixpack, staalplaat,transacoustic research, unframed recordings.
 
music for theater-, opera- and videoproductions and installations.
runs the internet platform klingt.org
 
dieter kovačič is a conscientious copyright-objector and lives in vienna fuenfhaus
 
Dieb13 Official Site
 
Photo credit: Micke Keysendal