Peter Rehberg, (aka Pita) was the founder of Editions Mego, and a composer and performer of electronic music.
Rehberg, for decades residing in Vienna, began his career 25 years ago when the aesthetic possibilities of so-called Laptop music were just about to be discovered. He started working with computers since then and is internationally perceived as one of the pioneers of synthetic music. His musical background was to be found in Noise, Ambient, and Techno, as well as early electroacoustics. His work also explored the possibilities of audio experimentation using a modular synthesizer setup.
Over the last years he made many collaborations such Fenn’O’Berg (w/ Jim O’Rourke and Christian Fennesz), KTL (w/ Sunn O)))s Stephen O’Malley), R/S (w/ Marcus Schmickler), Shampoo Boy (w/ Christina Nemec and Christian Schachinger) and NPVR (w/ Nik Void). These musical collaborations were completed by his cooperation with the French theatre director Giséle Vienne, Icelandic born/Berlin-based choreographer Margrét Sara Guðjónsdóttir and Ballet de Lorraine in Nancy.
He produced over a dozen albums, covering an astonishing variety of experimental electronic styles, LPs like the Get Out / Get Down / Get Off / Get In quartet have received broad international critical acclaim and were released on such labels as Editions Mego, Touch, Häpna, etc. He played at various international festivals, like SONAR, All Tomorrows Parties, CTM Berlin, MUTEK, Donaufestival, and won the Prix Ars Electronica for Digital Musics & Sound Art in 1999.
As head of the influential Editions Mego family of labels, he released albums by internationally renowned artists like Fennesz, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kevin Drumm, Emeralds, Florian Hecker, Bernard Parmegiani, Russell Haswell, KTL, Akos Rozmann, Donato Dozzy, Bill Orcutt, Luc Ferrari, François Bayle, Mark Fell, Anthony Child, Heather Leigh, Klara Lewis, Simon Fisher Turner, Bruce Gilbert, Finlay Shakespeare, Caterina Barbieri and many more.
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