Hans Tutschku (born 1966) is a German composer. Born in

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

, Tutschku has been a member of the

Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar The Ensemble for Intuitive Music Weimar or Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar (EFIM) is a German music ensemble, which was founded in 1980 during the period of the German Democratic Republic, originally performing music officially tabooed by the ...

since 1982. He studied composition of electronic music at the

Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber The Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber (Carl Maria von Weber College of Music; also/formerly known as Dresden Conservatory or Dresden Royal Conservatory) is a university of music in Dresden, Germany. History The Hochschule opened ...

, Dresden, and since 1989 has participated in several concert cycles of

Karlheinz Stockhausen Karlheinz Stockhausen (; 22 August 1928 – 5 December 2007) was a German composer, widely acknowledged by critics as one of the most important but also controversial composers of the 20th and early 21st centuries. He is known for his groun ...

to study the art of the sound direction. He further studied

sonology Sonology is a neologism used to describe the study of sound in a variety of disciplines. In medicine, the term is used in the field of magingto describe the practice of medical ultrasonography. According to some scholars, sonology may represent a ...

and electroacoustic composition in 1991–92 at the

Royal Conservatory of The Hague The Royal Conservatoire ( nl, Koninklijk Conservatorium, KC) is a conservatoire in The Hague, providing higher education in music and dance. The conservatoire was founded by King William I in 1826, making it the oldest conservatoire in the Netherl ...

, the Netherlands. In 1994 there followed a one-year study residency at

IRCAM IRCAM (French: ''Ircam, '', English: Institute for Research and Coordination in Acoustics/Music) is a French institute dedicated to the research of music and sound, especially in the fields of avant garde and electro-acoustical art music. It is ...

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 Klaus Huber (30 November 1924 – 2 October 2017) was a Swiss composer and academic based in Basel and Freiburg. Among his students were Brian Ferneyhough, Michael Jarrell, Younghi Pagh-Paan, Toshio Hosokawa, Wolfgang Rihm, and Kaija Saariaho. ...

and

Brian Ferneyhough Brian John Peter Ferneyhough (; born 16 January 1943) is an English composer. Ferneyhough is typically considered the central figure of the New Complexity movement. Ferneyhough has taught composition at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg and ...

. From 1997 until 2001 he taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris and from 2001 to 2004 taught at the Conservatory of

Montbéliard Montbéliard (; traditional ) is a town in the Doubs Departments of France, department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté Regions of France, region in eastern France, about from the border with Switzerland. It is one of the two Subprefectures in F ...

. In May 2003 he completed a doctorate (Ph.D.) with

Jonty Harrison Jonty Harrison is an electroacoustic music composer born 27 April 1952 in Scunthorpe, and currently living in Birmingham, England. Career Jonty Harrison studied with Bernard Rands at the University of York, graduating with a DPhil in Compositi ...

at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

. During the spring term of 2003 he was the Edgar Varèse Guest Professor at the

Technical University of Berlin The Technical University of Berlin (official name both in English and german: link=no, Technische Universität Berlin, also known as TU Berlin and Berlin Institute of Technology) is a public research university located in Berlin, Germany. It was ...

. Since September 2004, Tutschku has held the position of Professor of Composition and Director of Electroacoustic Studios at

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

. 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 The Hanns Eisler Prize was an East-German music award, named after the composer Hanns Eisler. It was awarded by Radio DDR – with advisory participation of the music section of the Akademie der Künste der DDR in Berlin (East) and the (VDK) – ...

Prix Ars Electronica The Prix Ars Electronica is one of the best known and longest running yearly prizes in the field of electronic and interactive art, computer animation, digital culture and music. It has been awarded since 1987 by Ars Electronica (Linz, Austria) ...

, Prix Noroit, Prix Musica Nova, ZKM Giga-Hertz, CIME ICEM and Klang!. In 2005 he received the . In 2013 he held a

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ship at the

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

, 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 ''Computer Music Journal'' is a peer-reviewed academic journal that covers a wide range of topics related to digital audio signal processing and electroacoustic music. It is published on-line and in hard copy by MIT Press. The journal is accompa ...

Sound Anthology'' *''30 Jahre Inventionen *''ICMC 2009'' *''CIMESP'', 14th international Electroacoustic Music Contest of Sao Paulo *''Musik in Deutschland 1950–2000'',

Deutscher Musikrat The Deutscher Musikrat (DMR, ''German Music Council''; ) is an umbrella organization for music associations and the 16 music councils of the German federal states.musikrat.deÜberblick über Organisationsstruktur des DMR(retrieved on 10 May 2019) ...

*''Migration'', Arizona University Recordings LLC, AUR CD 3134 2007 *''

Für kommende Zeiten ''Für kommende Zeiten'' (For Times to Come) is a collection of seventeen text compositions by Karlheinz Stockhausen, composed between August 1968 and July 1970. It is a successor to the similar collection titled '' Aus den sieben Tagen'', written ...

'', Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar plays

*''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

External links

* * Ketty Nez,
An Interview with Hans Tutschku
, in the ''

'', 27:4, pp. 14–26, Winter 2003. * Patricia Dirks Kitchener
Hans Tutschku: Moment (review)
''Computer Music Journal'', 25:4, p. 100 ff. * {{DEFAULTSORT:Tutschku, Hans 1966 births Electroacoustic music composers Harvard University faculty German electronic musicians German composers Living people Hochschule für Musik Carl Maria von Weber alumni Radcliffe fellows

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