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Hans Tammen

Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world
of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He
produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating noises,
with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also
quiet pulses and barely audible sounds. Signal To Noise called his guitar works “…a
killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage”, All Music Guide recommended
him: “…clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the
1990s.” He currently plays an analog modular synthesizer built around chaotic
behaviors, where small changes in the settings may yield widely diverging sonic and
rhythmic changes, forcing the player to constantly rethink and rearrange music. Hans
Tammen’s numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative
efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium
projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. He received a Fellowship from the
New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) in the category Digital/Electronic Arts in
2009 for the ”Endangered Guitar” – a hybrid guitar/software instrument used to
control interactive live sound processing. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form
compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing, or laptop/electronic
ensembles, are inspired by Earle Brown’s Available Forms, and based on numerous
scored “building blocks” that are constantly rearranged when performed. His works
have been presented on festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia, India, South
Africa and all over Europe. He recorded on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK,
Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid. Hans
Tammen received grants and composer commissions from MAPFund, Mid-Atlantic Arts
Foundation, American Music Center, Chamber Music America, New York State Council On
The Arts (NYSCA), New York Foundation For The Arts (NYFA), American Composers Forum
w/ Jerome Foundation, New York State Music Fund, Goethe Institute w/ Foreign Affairs
Office, among others.

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Added on January 21, 2025

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