Georg Hajdu

Georg Hajdu ( June 21, 1960 in Göttingen ) is a German composer of Hungarian descent. After studies in Cologne and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies ( CNMAT ) in Berkeley, USA, he received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. Among his teachers are Georg Kroll, Johannes Fritsch, Krzysztof Meyer, Clarence Barlow, Andrew Imbrie, Jorge Liderman and David Wessel. He was also a guest student with György Ligeti in Hamburg.

He founded in 1996 after further stays at IRCAM in Paris and the ZKM in Karlsruhe together with pianist Jennifer Hymer, the ensemble Wire Works, which specializes in the performance of live electronic music. In 1999 he produced his full-length opera in Münster The jump - Description of an opera, to which the writer and filmmaker Thomas Brasch wrote the libretto. In May 2002, his interactive networked performance environment Quintet.net came in an opera production of the Munich Biennale for use.

His areas of interest and research include multimedia, micro- tonality, algorithmic composition, real-time interaction and the use of networks in the music. Since 2002, Georg Hajdu is professor of multimedia composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. In 2010 he was Visiting Professor at Northeastern University and Artist in Residence at the Goethe Institute in Boston.

Works

Compositions (selection )

  • The jump, opera ( 1994-98 )
  • Exit for violin and live electronics (2001)
  • Storyteller for percussion and interactive media. Joint work with Stephan Froleyks (2001-2004)
  • Mind Trip for Quintet.net (2000 -)
  • Light Blue for piano (2001-2004) dichromatic Blue
  • Blue Marble
  • Kalim'balu

Installations

  • Flying Cities ( 2003)
  • Three allegories of C.D. Friedrich (Hamburger Kunsthalle, October 7, 2006 - January 28, 2007 )

Software

  • Quintet.net
  • Electronic Study II by Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • Macaque - Audio to Spectral notation software package
  • DJster - MaxMSP implementation of Clarence Barlow's program AUTOBUSK

Articles (Selection )

  • Automatic Composition and Notation in Network Music Environments. SMC'06 Conference Proceedings. Marseille ( 2006)
  • " Research and Technology in the Opera The jump ". Nova Acta Leopoldina, 92 No. 341 (2005)
  • " Towards a new theory of harmony " in: micro tones and more. Edited by Manfred Stahnke, Series: Music and. Volume 8 Edited by Hanns -Werner Heister and Wolfgang Hochstein. Weidler Verlag, Berlin ( 2005). Pp. 165-187.
  • " The computer as a source of inspiration for composers " in: Mathematical music - musical mathematics. Edited by Bernd Enders. PEACOCK -Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2005
  • " Quintet.net: An Environment for Composing and Performing Music on the Internet, " Leonardo Vol 38, No. 1 (2005)
  • " Quintet.net " Neue Zeitschrift für Musik. 5 ( 2004). S. 28
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