About – Jay Data – The funky Futurist

Vita

since 2019
ABSTRACT 3D MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES as JAY DATA
MUSIC TUTOR with WORKSHOPS on live performance & electronic music production without a computer

since 2015
MOBILE PERFORMANCES as JAY DATA
MUSIC TUTOR with WORKSHOPS on live performance & electronic music production without a computer

since 2014
EPIC ELECTRO MULTIMEDIA PERFORMANCES with collective ELEKTRO BODY FORCE

2014-2017
BAR RESIDENT at the Zoo Schänke Bar as DJ / live act duo BON & JAY

2011-2015
Organisation of PRODUCER MEETUPS (Kölner Treff für Elektronische Musiker)

2001-2008
MAGISTER STUDIES MUSICOLOGY M.A. (University of Cologne)
– Electronic Music (History & Production)
– New Musical Interfaces (novel MIDI controllers & MIDI mapping)
– Online music marketing
– Master’s thesis on online self-marketing as a musician

since 1995
continuous composition of electronic dance music

1980
Birth in Cologne, Germany

Past Performances - ELEKTRO BODY FORCE

ELEKTRO BODY FORCE
09/18 „AUTOPOIESIS“ Same Same Festival 2018 / bei Köln
01/18 „AUTOPOIESIS“ fünfzehnminuten Festival 2018, Studiobühne / Köln
07/17 „DATA“ Same Same Festival 2017 / bei Köln
01/17 „DATA“ KHM Art’s Birthday Bunker Finissage, Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim / Köln
01/17 „DATA“ fünfzehnminuten Festival 2017, Studiobühne / Köln
01/16 „NBIC“ fünfzehnminuten Festival 2016, Studiobühne / Köln
08/15 „NBIC“ 24Hz Urban Media Art Festival 2015, Altes Pfandhaus / Köln
06/15 „NBIC“ Beats, Bier und Kettenfett, Colabor / Köln
01/15 „NBIC“ fünfzehnminuten Festival 2015, Studiobühne / Köln
01/14 „EBF Represent“ fünfzehnminuten Festival 2014, Studiobühne / Köln
05/12 „EBF at Zoo Bar“ Zoo Bar / Köln

Past Performances - JAY DATA

JAY DATA 2020
01/20 Jay Data – The funky Futurist, fünfzehnminuten Festival 2020 Studiobühne / Köln

JAY DATA 2019
01/19 Jay Data – The funky Futurist, fünfzehnminuten Festival 2019 Studiobühne / Köln

JAY DATA 2018
09/18 Jay Data „Shifty Drifter LP“ ALBUM-RELEASE
09/18 Jay Data „Shifty Drifter LP“ ALBUM-PRERELEASE Live-Set, Same Same Open-Air Festival 2018 / bei Köln

JAY DATA 2017
10/17 Jay Data Performance @ Kunstprojekt „eine ART haus“ / Köln-Ehrenfeld
10/17 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
09/17 Elektronische Straßenmusik vor der Eigelsteintorburg @ CityLeaks Festival 2017 / Köln
08/17 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
07/17 Jay Data „Deep States LP“ ALBUM-RELEASE Live-Set @ Same Same Open-Air Festival 2017 / bei Köln
07/17 Jay Data Performance @ Kunstprojekt „eine ART haus“ / Köln-Ehrenfeld
06/17 Jay Data House Live-Set @ Tag des guten Lebens 2017 / Köln-Deutz
06/17 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
04/17 Musikvideo-Dreh in der urbanen Natur, / Köln
02/17 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
02/17 Jay Data Techno Live-Set @ Elektronischer Feierabend, Mikro Club / Köln
01/17 Jay Data Live-Set @ KHM Art’s Birthday Bunker Finissage, Kulturbunker / Köln-Mülheim

JAY DATA 2016
12/16 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
12/16 Jay Data Live-Set @ Elektronischer Feierabend, Mikro Club / Köln
11/16 Jay Data Live-Set @ Elektronischer Feierabend – Jay Data RECORD RELEASE, Mikro Club / Köln
10/16 Jay Data Live-Set @ Elektronischer Feierabend, Mikro Club / Köln
09/16 Free Your Mind – Radioshow @ 674 FM Cologne / Köln
08/16 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
07/16 Zugvögel Festival – Global Sound & Electronic Arts – Udenbreth / Eifel bei Köln
07/16 electronic street music – urban guerilla intervention, Körnerstraßenfest 2016 / Köln-Ehrenfeld
05/16 Tanzen über den Dächern Kölns – Rooftop House Party / Köln
04/16 Jay Data Live-Set @ Klau den Baum! #12 (2016) Neptunplatz Ehrenfeld / Köln
04/16 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
02/16 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
01/16 fünfzehnminuten Festival 2016 – Aftershow Party, Studiobühne / Köln

JAY DATA 2015
12/15 Nodepond’s Wildbeaming – audiovisuelle Intervention an Brückenpfeiler / Köln-Deutz
10/15 Frühstyle Festival 2015, Zum Scheuen Reh / Köln
10/15 Bon & Jay, Zoo Schänke Bar / Köln-Ehrenfeld
08/15 24Hz Urban Media Art Festival 2015 – Finissage, Altes Pfandhaus / Köln
08/15 We Love Underground Music, 674FM Radio / Köln
08/15 Kaffeekränzchen, 674FM Radio / Köln
08/15 Wilde Möhre Festival 2015 – Street Art Workshop Abschlusskonzert / Altdöbern
08/15 Wachtanzen Open-Air, Papierfabrik Spechthausen / bei Berlin
07/15 Boombox Cargobike Performance, Coloniuswiese / Köln
06/15 Beats, Bier und Kettenfett, Colabor / Köln-Ehrenfeld
06/15 Elektronischer Feierabend, Nachtigall Club / Köln
05/15 DD Open-Air, Sojus7 / Monheim

Influences

As a child I mainly listened to Kraftwerk’s Computer World album, Laurie Anderson’s album Big Science and at age 12 Michael Jackson (Bad) and the Pet Shop Boys (Very).
In my youth from 1993 I was thrilled by the emerging music television (Viva Housefrau/Berlin House, MTV Partyzone) and music shows on the radio (Steve Mason’s Experience on BFBS, Raum und Zeit with Klaus Fiehe on WDR Einslive, and Evosonic Radio). I discovered Techno, House, Trance, Jungle (Drum and Bass) and Chillout (Ambient) and listened to music from the charts with a lot of Euro Dance and Hip Hop.
I discovered Electro/Electrofunk in 1996 through the VHS video mixtape X-Mix Electro Boogie (! K7) by Dave Clarke. The combination of the 3D computer animations with the funky beats and the futuristic mood laid the foundation for my audiovisual, epic multimedia performance ELEKTRO BODY FORCE.

During this time I also discovered electronic dance music and experimental electronics in the Cologne record stores Delirium (later Kompakt), Groove Attack and a-Musik and started to produce own electronic dance music and rap on the computer.
I studied historical and systematic musicology after graduation, then had one year of piano and singing lessons and sang in choir for two years. During my studies in the early 2000s, I experimented a lot with music software, my voice and video and I learned about media art, club culture and the history of electronic music.