Hans Tutschku

Hans Tutschku (* 1966 in Weimar ) is a German composer and professor.

Life and education

Hans Tutschku studied composition at the Hochschule für Musik " ​​Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden and at IRCAM in Paris. He escorted from 1989 Karlheinz Stockhausen in several concert cycles in order to be instructed in the sound direction. At the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, he studied from 1991 to 1992 Sonology and electroacoustic composition, 1996, he attended the composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. At the same time, he taught as a visiting professor for electroacoustic composition in Weimar. The teaching, he sat from 1997 to 2001 at IRCAM in Paris, and from 2001 to 2004 at the conservatory of Montbéliard continued. Since 1982 he is also part of the ensemble for Intuitive Music from Weimar.

In May 2003 he received his PhD Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham to the PhD. In the same year he was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Berlin.

Since September 2004 Tutschku teaches as a professor of composition at Harvard University where he is director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music. In addition, he teaches, among other things in Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Singapore, Budapest, Darmstadt, Florence, Cologne, Milan and Rome.

Prizes and awards

Hans Tutschku has won numerous awards, including an award at the festival in Bourges, the CIMESP São Paulo, the Hanns Eisler Prize, the Prix Ars Electronica and the Prix Noroit. In 2005 he won the Weimar price.

Technical details and composition basics

Hans Tutschku used numerous recordings of real sounds he possibly mixed with synthetic sounds and then transformed and processed in his electro-acoustic compositions. The composer always helps a stereo recording device with you. So it happens that in his works a variety of sounds from different regions and cultures of the world are mixed and form the basis for electronic modulation. For example, for the piano piece collection from the year 2011 recorded only from him sounds were used in the Instrument Museum of musicological institute at the University of Cologne.

For the performance of Electroacoustic Music Hans Tutschku has developed the product called ' Hydra loudspeaker orchestra. It consists of loudspeakers 32, which can be placed in different configurations in the respective concert hall.

Works (selection)

  • The battered voice (1991 )
  • Seven Steps (1995 )
  • Reminder (1996 )
  • Human space factory ( 1999)
  • Resorption coupure (2000)
  • Migration Petree (2001)
  • Similis (2004)
  • Rojo (2004)
  • Eikasia (2007)
  • Distance liquid (2007)
  • Piano Collection ( 2011)

Discography

  • CIMESP 14th International Electroacoustic Music Contest of São Paulo
  • Music in Germany 1950-2000, German Music Council
  • Migration - Arizona University Recordings LLC, AUR CD 3134 2007
  • " For Coming Times" - Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar plays Karlheinz Stockhausen
  • DVD - 50 Years of TU Berlin Studio
  • Sound journey - Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar ( EFIM ) 2004
  • Computer Music Journal - Volume 27, 2003
  • 15 16 Dresden Days of Contemporary Music
  • Compendium International - IMEB Bourges 2000
  • Presence II - électro Productions Productions ( PeP ) 2000
  • Prix ​​Ars Electronica Linz - 1998
  • Outbreak departure - Degem - CD04 1998
  • Prix ​​International Noroit - Léonce Petitot 1998
  • Electronique, CD for the opening of electronic studios at the University of Singapore
  • CIMESP São Paulo - 1995
  • Outbreak of sounds - Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar in Mexico City 1994
  • Voices ... sounds - Degem - CD01 1994
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