Eloy Fritsch was born in 1968 in Caxias do Sul, Brazil.
At the age of 13 he began to work in the larger local radio with his father,
an electronic engineer. During breaks from work he used to spend
hours listening to LPs of the radio's collection. His life changed after
listening to some composers of electronic music, his fascination for
progressive electronic music started at that early time. He decided then
to study music and to create a band together with school classmates.
In 1983, they formed Apocalypse, which have enjoyed a broad
public all over the area. Fritsch studied piano, cello and strings. He
played
organ at the school band until he bought his first synthesizer, Korg
MS-10. In
1986, with the advent and proliferation of computers, Fritsch started
computer
science studies and graduated in 1991. Sometimes he played wiht the
local
Symphonic Orchestra and took part at the University
chorus
With APOCALYPSE, Fritsch recorded the following
albums:
APOCALYPSE (Acit/ Brazil/1990), Perto do Amanhecer (Musea/France/1995),
Aurora
dos Sonhos (Musea/France/1996), Lendas Encantadas (Musea/France/1997),
The Best
of APOCALYPSE (Atracao/Brazil/1998) and APOCALYPSE Live in USA (Rock
Symphony/Brazil/2000). In 1993, he acquired a synthesizer minimoog, a
Korg 01/W
and a Roland JD-800. At that period, Eloy Fritsch composed for
Apocalypse band.
However, some music didn't fit the style of a rock band, limiting
the
ideas
and musical ambitions of Fritsch. He composed at the weekends, during
break
times of rehearsals. That's because at that time he should give
priority to the
contract signed with the French recording company MUSEA for the
conclusion of
Perto do Amanhecer CD
In 1994, Eloy Fritsch decided to
register in
studio his compositions and launches his first CD, that was named
Dreams. His
first work was very influenced by science fiction films such as 2001
Space
Odyssey, Star Wars, Galactic and Star Trek. His passion for the space is
perfectly identified in his
music. The composer's feeling in
relation
to the possibility of not being alone in the Universe, the fact of not
understanding our existence, our little knowledge on the magnificent
Cosmos and
the surprises that await us in the future, all that is transformed into
music.
This feelings allied to technological resources of sequencers and
keyboards
motivated even more the accomplishment of his first electronic
compositions.
In 1997 he set up his own recording studio with several keyboards,
among them
Ensoniq MR-76 and Roland JP-8000. After recording the Cds Aurora dos
Sonhos and
Lendas
Encantadas, the band APOCALYPSE has devoted basically to
release
and divulge the collection The Best of Apocalypse, accomplished in Rio
de
Janeiro and Porto Alegre. Then Fritsch has dedicated more to electronic
compositions. In 1997, the CD Behind the Walls of Imagination was
influenced by
the keyboard players of the 70's. Unlike Dreams, the 1997 album
approaches more
the progressive than new age music, creating climates that take the
listener to
other horizons. The CD received countless praises of critics, which
motivated
the composer to record new songs. Eloy Fritsch signed contract with
MUSEA
records of France to launch the album SPACE MUSIC under
electronic music Dreaming label.
After
beginning the PhD
in Computer Music, Fritsch assumes in 1999 as teacher of Electronic
Music at
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre. Besides
writing
several articles in the technical area, Fritsch has
devoted to
compose a new work. Meanwhile, he signed contract with Azul Records to
include
three of its compositions in the New Collections Planet, that released
60
thousand copies all over the country. In 1999 he created Electroacoustic
Music
Lab in the Institute of Arts at UFRGS, the largest laboratory of
electronic
music of the south of Brazil, with a large number of computers,
keyboards, music
software and record systems. The Lab started activities in the first
Semester of
2000. Still in 1999, the band Apocalypse was in evidence in the
ProgDay99 in the
USA, where Fritsch was chosen the best keyboardist of the Festival. That
concert
brought a double live album called Live in USA released by
Rock Symphony
Label of Rio de Janeiro
The same music company also signs
with
Eloy Fritsch to publish the CD CYBERSPACE. In the turning of the year
2000, he
acquires the
modular synthesizer Roland SYSTEM-700 Laboratory with
49
modules for synthesis and analogical sequencer. It is used in sound
synthesis
classes at the University and in APOCALYPSE's performances in Porto
Alegre. The
CD Cyberspace is released in July 2000. After 73 minutes and 6 seconds
we have
visited a place that only exists in this album and which starts in our
imagination from the moment we listen to the
album.
Eloy Fritsch released the
album
MYTHOLOGY in December 2001. The music mixes orchestral textures and
electronics
following the same line of the previous CDs Space Music and Cyberspace.
With
this release, Eloy Fritsch stands as the greatest Brazilian
representative of the
progressive eletronic and new age.
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