Holger Hiller

Holger Hiller ( born December 26, 1956 in Hamburg ) is a German musician.

Life

Holger Hiller studied at the Art Academy in Hamburg, where he met Walter Thielsch and Thomas Fehlmann and recorded first pieces with them. With Fehlmann he founded in 1980 the group Palais Schaumburg, where he was a singer. Besides his solo work has appeared: one of the first musicians in Germany Hiller worked consistently with the sampler as the sole or principal instrument. From 1984, he lived and worked in London, among others, as a producer for Mute Records. With the video artist Akiko Hada he took in 1988 " Ohi Ho Bang Bang " on a video in which he and Karl Bonnie produced various sounds that only arise through the cut the piece of music. This transfer of technology sample of the music on the video technology was picked up ten years later by Coldcut ( " Timberline " ) again.

Since 2003 Holger Hiller lives in Berlin and works as an English teacher.

Discography

Palais Schaumburg

  • Red Lights / Makes me happy as never, single ( zigzag, ZZ 23 ), 1980
  • Palais Schaumburg, Album ( Phonogram ), 1981

In-house publications and other projects

  • Holger Hiller, Solo EP ( Ata Tak ), 1980
  • Concentration of forces, single with four pieces, with Walter Thielsch, 1980
  • Sentimental / cardiac muscle, single under the name "Tears Invasion", with Michael Kemner (world record ), 1980
  • That's beauty, samplers, double LP, recorded at the Art Academy in Hamburg, pieces of Holger Hiller and Thomas Fehlmann, 1980
  • We build a city Musikcassette, interpretation of the children's musical performance of Paul Hindemith, with Thomas Fehlmann ( Ata Tak ), 1981
  • Junior Woodchucks, 7 " Single, Mix and Production, 1981
  • Hát Voi Que Huong, 12 ", with Walter Thielsch ( zigzag, ZZ 125 ), 1982
  • A bunch rot in the pit, Album ( Ata Tak ), 1983
  • No sleeping dogs lie! , Radio play, with Catherine Lienert, North German Broadcasting, August 27, 1983
  • Good morning trousers ( short opera ), EP with Andreas Dorau ( Ata Tak ), 1985
  • Up In Eck, Album ( Mute Records, London ), 1986
  • Ohi Ho Bang Bang ( with Karl Bonnie ), 12 " ( Mute Records ) and video ( camera Akiko Hada ), London, 1988
  • As Is, Album ( Mute Records, London ), 1992
  • Little Present, radio play, Bayerischer Rundfunk, June 11, 1993
  • Demixed, Album ( Mute Records, London ), 1993
  • The Fall of a Queen or The Taste of the Fruit to come, video, London (Music Holger Hiller, Director & Text Wolfgang Müller, Akiko Hada camera ), TV Prod Channel 4, 1994
  • Unheard of, concept: Wolfgang Müller, radio play, Bayerischer Rundfunk ( with the voices of the Deaf ), September 23, 1994
  • Holger hiller, Album ( Mute Records, London ), 2000
  • Azucar lethal, album with Latin American singing of three Cuban singers to electronic accompaniment, Sub Up ( Indigo ), 2000
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