Hauke Harder

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Hauke Harder
Born
Heide, Germany
Occupationcomposer

Hauke Harder (born 1963 in Heide (Holstein), Germany) is a German composer [1] and experimental physicist. [2] [3]

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Life

Harder received a PhD in chemistry, and works at the Institute for Physical Chemistry, Department of Chemistry and Physics, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany.

In 1989, he studied with Wolfgang von Schweinitz, [4] a New Simplicity composer.

He is the founder, (with Rainer Grodnick) of the "Gesellschaft für Akustische Lebenshilfe", (Society for Musical Living Assistance), Kiel, Germany. [5] [6] Since 1995, he has worked as an assistant to composer Alvin Lucier [7] and is associated with the Material group of composers, [8] along with Daniel James Wolf, and Markus Trunk. His compositional work is in an extreme minimal style, [9] and is connected to the work of the composers Morton Feldman, Walter Zimmermann, and Alvin Lucier. His music has also been influenced by Monochrome Painting and the films of Robert Bresson.

His work in sound installation, exhibitions and concerts include: the International New Music Festival Rümlingen, Switzerland, Evenings of New Music Bratislava, Flanders Music Festival Antwerp, [10] Nové Expozice hudby Brno. [11] [12]

Awards

In 2001 he received a "Kulturnetz-Preis", and 3,000 Mark, by Schleswig-Holstein's culture minister Ute Erdsiek-Rave. [13]

Works

His works as a scientist in the field of molecular spectroscopy have been featured in:

Performances

Hildegard Kleeb has premiered his work. [14] On 14 April 2009, his piece in honor of Walter Zimmermann was played in concert by Heather O'Donnell. [15] He is in the Czech New Music Group MoEns' repertoire. [16] Roland Dahinden has premiered his work. [17] [18] On 26 April 2008, Trio Nexus played his work at festival blurred edges, Hamburg. [19]

Selected exhibitions and installations

Criticism

Hauke Harder is both a composer and physicist, Blake and Newton in one person, if you will. This fact is something that Harder has always presented as essentially accidental. This fact has sometimes made composers and musicians a bit nervous, suspicious of the program behind his programs. A large part of this nervousness is surely just the anxiety most citizens feel about science: they do not understand it but believe it to be true. This is just a modern substitute of the fear of God felt by all of our ancestors. In truth, though, Harder’s vision should rather make physicists nervous: his is an assertion that the aesthetic, with qualities incomprehensible to the rational eye and ear, also has a part, indeed the vital part, in the life of the mind. [28]

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References

  1. 1 2 Konzerte zur Ausstellung "Klangraum Flensburg" Archived 14 June 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "Hauke Harder at Kulturnetz Schleswig-Holstein" . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. ↑ "Publikationen Moleküspektroskopie". haukeharder.net. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  4. ↑ "Hauke Harder, Three Lines and a Walk, Nicht-Lineares in Arbeiten von Alvin Lucier und Hauke Harder" (PDF). Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  5. ↑ "Stadtgalerie Kiel, 2002". Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2006.
  6. ↑ "Acoustical living assistance: An agenda for the next few millennia".
  7. ↑ "Thing Hamburg, January 2008" . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Hauke Harder". materialpress.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Hauke Harder". home.snafu.de. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "European Festivals Association". Archived from the original on 21 December 2008. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  11. ↑ "Expozice nov? Hudby". Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  12. ↑ "Zither 7 - Hauke Harder". zither7-de.translate.goog. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  13. ↑ "Infomedia Aktuell, 02/01, page 27" . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  14. ↑ "Hildegard Kleeb – Mode Records". Mode Records. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  15. ↑ "Heather o'donnell, schedule".
  16. ↑ "Ensemble MoEns". Archived from the original on 26 October 2007. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  17. ↑ "Roland Dahinden".
  18. ↑ "DRAM: Notes for "Roland Dahinden: Silberen"".
  19. ↑ "Trio Nexus - Past Performances". Archived from the original on 22 June 2011. Retrieved 6 May 2009.
  20. 1 2 "Installationen Hauke Harder". haukeharder.net. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  21. ↑ Nievers, Knut; von Schweinitz, Wolfgang (1996). Punto e Basta: Hauke Harder /Stephan Ullmann (in German). Kiel: Kulturamt d. Landeshauptstadt Kiel; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof. ISBN   978-3-927979-43-7. Archived from the original on 2 October 2009. Retrieved 2 May 2009.
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  23. ↑ "Ausstellung in der Stadtgalerie". Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 10 June 2006.
  24. ↑ Festival review, XVII. Exposizione nové hudby, Expozice Nove Hudby Archived 18 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
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  26. ↑ "Klanginstallationen der KUG beim Europäischen Forum Alpbach" . Retrieved 12 January 2022.
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