Konzert: Hans Tammen (MHL)
Hans Tammen präsentiert einige seiner Stücke für Live-Elektronik.
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Beschreibung
Taking off from Pauline Oliveros’ Apple Box approach, a resonant object (a.k.a a suitcase) will act as an instrument. Together with its contact microphones it functions as a filter and amplifier for the sounds coaxed from its resonant body, processed by a custom software in realtime. This project is an alternative to the use of (disembodied) field recordings when relating to a specific location. The object has to come from the city I am performing in, and by exploring its sonic properties I am imagining (this is the absurdist part) what the object would say to us if it could talk.
Sonic Flotsam 2025 is an update on the original project that was using small handheld fans in the past. As part of a Harvestworks Artist in Residency grant from 2019, Harvestworks engineer Noor Sabreen built an arduino-based motor system that allows me to control the motor speed in realtime.
Bio
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
Hans Tammen is currently teaching at School of Visual Arts, Hunter College and NYU. From 2001 to 2014 he worked at Harvestworks Digital Media Art Center in NYC, where he was responsible for the Client Services, Education and Artist In Residence program, helping countless digital media artists through completion of their works. As an arbitrator at BTQ in the 1990s, he spent a decade advising unions about electronic monitoring and surveillance at the workplace, and negotiating contracts and agreements to minimize surveillance aspects. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from the University of Kassel, studying on a stipend from Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
https://tammen.org/
Zielgruppe(n)
Alle Interessierte ab 6 Jahren.
Termine
Mittwoch, 03.06.2026
20:00 - 21:30
30 von 30 Plätzen verfügbar