Peter Rehberg

Peter Rehberg (29 June 1968 – 22 July 2021), also known as Pita, was a British-Austrian composer of electronic audio works. He was the head of Editions Mego, which he founded in 2006 as a successor to Mego.

Early life

Rehberg was born in Tottenham<ref name="Guardian obit">Template:Cite news</ref> on 29 June 1968.<ref name="AllMusic bio"/> He grew up in Hertfordshire, where he attended Verulam School in St Albans.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Passionate about “lists and collections” from a young age, he says he spent all his pocket money in record stores. By the age of 15, his collection already numbered 200 records.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Impressed by his first visit to the Rough Trade store,<ref name=":1" /> he introduced his friends to the albums of JG Thirlwell and Psychic TV.<ref name=":0" /> In 1987, Rehberg relocated to Austria, his father's country of origin.<ref name="Guardian obit"/><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He began his musical career there as an ambient DJ<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> (at the Chelsea and Blue Box clubs), contributed to fanzines and music magazines, and worked for the record store Rave Up Records.<ref name=":1" />

Career

Rehberg became associated with Mego in the latter part of 1994.<ref name="AllMusic bio"/> He consequently released his first EP Fridge Trax, in collaboration with Ramon Bauer and Andi Pieper (aka General Magic), early the following year. This was also the first release in the record label's catalogue.<ref name="AllMusic bio"/><ref name=Monroe>Template:Cite news</ref> He followed this up with his debut album titled Seven Tons for Free in 1996, released under the name Pita.<ref name=Monroe/> Three years later, Rehberg received Prix Ars Electronica Distinction Award for Digital Musics, alongside Christian Fennesz and the label itself.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Rehberg cooperated with various musicians such as Mika Vainio, Charlemagne Palestine and Oren Ambarchi. He produced music with Ramon Bauer starting in 1997 as Rehberg & Bauer.<ref name="AllMusic bio"/> After Mego folded in 2005, Rehberg revived the label the following year as Editions Mego. He also collaborated with Stephen O'Malley starting in 2006, releasing six drone doom albums as KTL.<ref name="Guardian obit"/> With Fennesz and Jim O'Rourke, he founded the project Fenn O'Berg.<ref name="AllMusic bio"/>

Rehberg released A Bas la Culture Marchande in 2007, followed by the live collaboration Colchester (2008) and the cassette Mesmer (2010).<ref name="AllMusic bio"/> He started an archival project in 2012 called Recollection GRM. It reissued music by the Groupe de Recherches Musicales collective, including by Pierre Schaeffer, Bernard Parmegiani, Iannis Xenakis, and Beatriz Ferreyra.<ref name="Guardian obit"/><ref name=Monroe/>

In an interview conducted in 2016, Rehberg stated that he did not want to peddle music "in its own little box",<ref name="Guardian obit"/> which he felt was the norm at present. Describing his impression regarding timbre, he believed that "dissonance and resonance have to co-exist for the other to work".<ref name="Guardian obit"/> François Bonnet, who collaborated with Rehberg on Recollection GRM,<ref name=Monroe/> felt that his music came to be more dense as his career progressed. He described how it retained its "radical and bold" character, while becoming "deeper, more ambivalent, more moving".<ref name=Aubrey>Template:Cite news</ref>

Personal life

Rehberg was in a domestic partnership with Laura Siegmund until his death. He was previously in a relationship with Isabelle Piechaczyk, with whom he had one child.<ref name="Guardian obit"/>

Rehberg died on 22 July 2021 in Berlin. He was 53, and had suffered a heart attack prior to his death.<ref name="Guardian obit"/><ref name=Monroe/> Following his death, obituaries were published, among others, by The New York Times,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> The Guardian,<ref name="Guardian obit" /> The Wire<ref name=":2" /> and Artforum.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Selected discography

• (1995) General Magic & Pita: Fridge Trax 12" (Mego)<ref name="AllMusic bio">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (1996) Pita: Template:Ill CD (Mego)<ref name=discography1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (1996) General Magic & Pita: Live & Final Fridge LP/CD (Source)<ref name="AllMusic bio"/>
• (1997) Rehberg & Bauer: faßt CD (Touch)<ref name="AllMusic bio"/>
• (1999) Rehberg & Bauer: ballt CD (Touch)<ref name="AllMusic bio"/>
• (1999) Pita: Template:Ill CD (Mego)<ref name=discography1/>
• (1999) Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg: The Magic Sound Of Fenn O'Berg CD (Mego)<ref name=discography2>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2002) Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg: The Return of Fenn O'Berg CD (Mego)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2001) Rehberg & Bauer: passt CD (Touch)<ref name="AllMusic bio"/><ref name=credits1>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2002) Pita: Get Down LP (Mego)<ref name=discography1/>
• (2002) DACM: Showroom Dummies CD (Mego)<ref name=discography2/>
• (2002) Fennesz/O'Rourke/Rehberg: The Return Of Fenn O’Berg CD/LP (Mego)<ref name=credits1/>
• (2004) Pita: Get Off (Häpna)<ref name=discography1/>
• (2007) Pita: A Bas la Culture Marchande (No Fun Productions)<ref name="AllMusic bio"/>
• (2007) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): KTL2 (Editions Mego)<ref name=credits1/>
• (2007) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): KTL3 (Or)<ref name=credits1/>
• (2007) R/S (Rehberg/Schmickler): One (Erstwhile)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2007) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): Live In Krems (Editions Mego)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2008) Pita: Get Out (Editions Mego Version) (Editions Mego)<ref name=discography1/>
• (2008) Z'EV vs PITA: Colchester (Editions Mego)<ref name=discography1/>
• (2008) Peter Rehberg: Work For GV 2004–2008 (Editions Mego)<ref name=discography2/>
• (2009) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): IV (Editions Mego)<ref name=credits1/>
• (2011) R/S: USA (PAN)<ref name=credits1/>
• (2016) Pita: Get In CD (Editions Mego)<ref name=discography1/>
• (2019) Pita: Get On CD (Editions Mego)<ref>Template:Citation</ref>
• (2020) KTL (Stephen O'Malley & Peter Rehberg): VII (Editions Mego)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• (2022) Peter Rehberg: At GRM (Portraits GRM)
• (2025) Peter Rehberg: Liminal States (Editions Mego)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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External links

• Editions Mego website
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