Hans Tutschku

Hans Tutschku (born 1966) is a German composer.

Tutschku was born in Weimar, East Germany.^[1] He has been a member of the Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber, Dresden, and since 1989 has participated in several concert cycles of Karlheinz Stockhausen to study the art of the sound direction. He further studied sonology and electroacoustic composition in 1991–92 at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague, the Netherlands.

In 1994 there followed a one-year study residency at IRCAM in Paris. He taught during 1995–1996 as a guest professor of electroacoustic composition in Weimar. In 1996, he participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. From 1997 until 2001 he taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2004 taught at the Conservatory of Montbéliard. In May 2003 he completed a doctorate (Ph.D.) with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham. During the spring term of 2003 he was the Edgar Varèse Guest Professor at Technische Universität Berlin.

Since September 2004, Tutschku has held the position of Professor of Music at Harvard University and Director of Harvard's Studio for Electroacoustic Composition.^[1] During the last few years he has been invited to give master classes in São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Budapest, Darmstadt, Florence, Milano and Rome. He is the winner of many international composition competitions including: Bourges, CIMESP São Paulo, Hanns Eisler Prize, Prix Ars Electronica, Prix Noroit, Prix Musica Nova, ZKM Giga-Hertz, CIME ICEM and Klang!. In 2005 he received the Weimar Prize [de]. In 2013 he held a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and in 2014 a stipend from the Japan–U.S. Friendship Commission.

List of works

1987 – Durchdringung, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 6:40 min
1987 – Hommage à Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 10:51 min
1989 – Sein wirkliches Herz, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 9:10 min
1989 – Übergänge, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 8:50 min
1991 – Die zerschlagene Stimme, 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 10:14 min CD
1991 – Drei Traumgesichter, for English horn and electronics, 11:30 min
1992 – The Metal Voice, for percussion and tape, 11:30 min
1994 – Nachts, for violoncello, bass clarinet, percussion and electronics, 15:00 min
1995 – Freibrief für einen Traum, for soprano, flute, cello, percussion and electronics, 12:30 min
1995 – Sieben Stufen, 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 13:00 min CD
1996 – ...erinnerung..., 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 10:10 min CD
1996 – Der unsichtbare Hörturm, open air sound installation
1996 – Flammenklang Meiningen, 16 hot air balloon engines, dancers, choir, ensemble and electronics, 60:00 min
1996 – les invisibles, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 12:30 min CD
1996 – rapprochement-éloignement, for mezzo-soprano, flute, viola and harp, 10:30 min
1997 – Verdichtung, for two choirs and electronics, 13:00 min
1998 – Départs, for soprano, percussion, 10 instruments and electronics, 17:30 min
1998 – extrémités lointaines, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 16:24 min CD
1998 – Lissabon Project, music for the ballet "Lissabon-Projekt"
1998 – The breath, the air, the light, (Der Atem, die Luft, das Licht) film music for Marco Gastini
1999 – Das bleierne Klavier, for piano and live-electronics, 12:00 min CD
1999 – Die Kirche als Klangskulptur, 16-channel sound installation
1999 – Eikasia, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 12:15 min CD
1999 – human–space–factory, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 11:49 min CD
1999 – NochDreiSekundenSchwarz, video in collaboration with Kerstin Wagener, ZKM Karlsruhe
2000 – Epexergasia – Neun Bilder, 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 12:03 min CD
2000 – résorption-coupure, 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 14:27 min
2000 – SprachSchlag, for percussion and live-electronics, 14:00 min
2001 – memory-fragmentation, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 11:44 min
2001 – Migration pétrée, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 13:35 min CD
2002 – Cito, for French horn, piano and live-electronics
2002 – La joie ivre, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 10:24 min CD
2002 – Trois structures, for Baschet Resonators and live-electronics
2002 – Vibrations décomposées, 4-channel electroacoustic composition, 5:30 min
2004 – Cinq espaces du crépuscule, for organ and live-electronics, 20:00 min
2004 – object – obstacle, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 12:29 min CD
2004 – Rituale, 32-channel electroacoustic composition for wave field synthesis (WFS), 15:06 min
2004 – Rojo, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 15.06 min CD
2004 – Similis, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 13:55 min
2005 – Die Süsse unserer traurigen Kindheit, Music theater, 80:00 min
2006 – Salut du Mexique, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 2:37 min
2006 – Winternacht, for piano, percussion and live-electronics, 13:00 min CD
2007 – Dialog für zwei Instrumentalgruppen
2007 – Distance liquide, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 13:00 min CD
2007 – Einst mit dir, for soprano, clarinet, violin and live-electronics, 13:00 min
2007 – pour B., 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 5:00 min
2007 – Shore, for oboe and live-electronics, 11:20 min
2007 – Tell Me! ... a secret ..., interactive sound and video installation
2007 – Zellen-Linien, for piano and live-electronics, 19:00 min
2008 – Monochord, 2-channel electroacoustic composition, 12:14 min
2008 – Zwei Räume, 24-channel electroacoustic composition, 21:00 min CD
2009 – Ailleurs – Intérieur, sound installation in three parts
2009 – fragile connections, for violin, French horn and piano
2009 – Klangwald – Lichtgestein, open-air multimedia composition with sound and light projection
2009 – Polyvision, for dance, video and ensemble, 40:00 min
2009 – Terra Infirma, music for a choreography by Larissa Douglas Koch
2010 – agitated slowness, 24-channel electroacoustic composition, 33.00 min
2010 – Firmament – schlaflos, 16-channel electroacoustic composition, 20.25 min CD
2010 – Irrgärten, for two pianos and live-electronics, 24:00 min
2011 – behind the light, for string quartet and electronics, 15:00 min
2011 – Klaviersammlung, 16-channel electroacoustic composition, 9:58 min CD
2012 – clin d’oreille d’Avignon, 8-channel electroacoustic composition, 10:00 min
2012 – entwurzelt, for six singers and electronics, 16:00 min
2012 – hommage à Schwitters, interactive sound sculpture
2012 – one minute for John Cage, for ensemble (as part of the Party Pieces Project), 1:00 min
2012 – unreal memories, outdoor sound installation for the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
2013 – Still Air 1, for bass clarinet and electronics, 11:30 min
2013 – under, for flute, oboe, clarinet, two violins, viola, violoncello, percussion, piano and electronics, 14:40 min
2014 – collaboration, interactive sound sculpture
2014 – Interlaced 1, for bass clarinet and electronics, 10:15 min
2014 – Issho ni, 16-channel electroacoustic composition, 31:00 min CD
2014 – Still Air 2, for oboe and electronics, 11:30 min
2014 – Still Air 3, for oboe, bass clarinet and electronics, 11:30 min
2014 – The other side, interactive sound sculptures and photo installation
2015 – encounter, improvisation with Vijay Iyer (piano) and Hans Tutschku (live-electronics), 29:00 min
2015 – pressure – divided, for violoncello and 8-channel live-electronics, 18:00 min
2015 – resonating lines, for violin, violoncello, piano, percussion and electronics, 15:00 min
2015 – Shadow of bells, for piano and electronics, 23:00 min
2016 – codification – memory, for soprano, percussion, nine instruments and live-electronics, 22:00 min
2016 – periods of existence, for ten instruments, 17:30 min
2016 – Pneuma(tic) Bodies, improvisation with Jill Johnson (dance) and Hans Tutschku (live-electronics)
2016 – Remembering Japan – part 1, 16 channel electroacoustic composition, 9:48 min CD
2016 – voice – unrooted, for soprano and electronics, 16:00 min
2017 – nighttime songs from afar, sound and light installation, 40:00 min
2017 – virtual bodies, for piano and live-electronics, 13:30 min
2018 – dark matter – avalanche, 24-channel electroacoustic composition, 14:45 min
2018 – Linien Texturen, graphic score for 4 players + 8channel fixed media sounds, 16:00 min
2018 – moments before the eruption, for seven instruments and electronics, 18:30 min
2018 – percussion forest, for 16 computerized percussion mallets and 24 loudspeakers, 25:00 min
2019 – Spannungsresonanzen, radio play, 8:30 min

Discography

9 Trajectoires, a CD box by Ina GRM 2018
Auf Abwegen, DegeM-CD15 2017
Firmament, empreintes DIGITALes 2015
Computer Music Journal Sound Anthology
30 Jahre Inventionen
ICMC 2009
CIMESP, 14th international Electroacoustic Music Contest of Sao Paulo
Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000, Deutscher Musikrat
Migration, Arizona University Recordings LLC, AUR CD 3134 2007
Für kommende Zeiten, Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar plays Karlheinz Stockhausen
DVD – 50 Jahre TU Studio Berlin
Klangreise, Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar (EFIM) 2004
Computer Music Journal, volume 27, 2003
15.+16. Tage Dresdner Tage Zeitgenössischer Musik
Compendium International, IMEB Bourges 2000
Presence II, Productions électro Productions (PeP) 2000
MOMENT, empreintes DIGITALes 2000
eXcitations, empreintes DIGITALes 2000
Prix Ars Electronica Linz, 1998
Ausbruch Aufbruch, DegeM CD04 1998
Prix International Noroit – Léonce Petitot, 1998
electroNIquE, CD for the opening of the electronic studios at the University Singapore
CIMESP São Paulo, 1995
Ausbruch der Klänge, Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar in Mexico City 1994
Stimmen...Klänge, DegeM CD01 1994

References

^ ^a ^b Simon, Emily (5 February 2009). "A visit with musician Hans Tutschku". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 10 November 2024.

External links

Official website
Ketty Nez, "An Interview with Hans Tutschku", in the Computer Music Journal, 27:4, pp. 14–26, Winter 2003.
Patricia Dirks Kitchener, Hans Tutschku: Moment (review), Computer Music Journal, 25:4, p. 100 ff.
"Hans Tutschku (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM.

[Harvard-Gazette-1-1] Simon, Emily (5 February 2009). "A visit with musician Hans Tutschku". Harvard Gazette. Retrieved 10 November 2024.

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Hans Tutschku

Contents

List of works

Discography

Further reading

References

External links