Georg Hajdu

Georg Hajdu (born June 21, 1960 in Göttingen ) is a German composer of Hungarian descent.

Life

After studying in Cologne and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies ( CNMAT ) in Berkeley , USA , he received his doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley . Among his teachers are Georg Kröll , Johannes Fritsch , Krzysztof Meyer , Klarenz Barlow , Andrew Imbrie , Jorge Liderman and David Wessel . He was also a guest student at György Ligeti in Hamburg .

In 1996, after further stays at IRCAM in Paris and the ZKM in Karlsruhe, together with pianist Jennifer Hymer, he founded the WireWorks ensemble , which specializes in the performance of live electronic music. In 1999 he produced in Muenster his full-length opera The jump - Description of an opera to which the writer and filmmaker Thomas Brasch wrote the libretto. In May 2002 his interactive networked performance environment Quintet.net was used in an opera production of the Munich Biennale .

His interests and research interests include multimedia , microtonality , algorithmic composition , real-time - interaction and the use of networks in music. Georg Hajdu has been Professor of Multimedia Composition at the Hamburg University of Music and Theater since 2002 . In 2010 he was Visiting Professor at Northeastern University and Artist in Residence at the Goethe Institute in Boston.

The jump, opera (1994-98)
Exit for violin and live electronics (2001)
StoryTeller for drums and interactive media. Joint effort with Stephan Froleyks (2001-2004)
Mindtrip for Quintet.net (2000-)
Light Blue for piano (2001-2004)
- Dichrome blue
- Blue marble
- Kalim'balu
Tsunami for recorder and / or toy piano and / and live electronics (2006)
Corpus Callosum for recorder, viola da gamba, bass clarinet and harpsichord (2006)
Ivresse '84 for violin and laptop quartet (2007)
Beyond the Horizon for 2 Bohlen-Pierce clarinets and synthesizer (2008)
Blueprint for soprano saxophone, electric guitar, double bass, piano, drums, playback sounds and interactive electronics (2009)

Flying Cities (2003)
Three allegories by CD Friedrich ( Hamburger Kunsthalle , October 7, 2006 - January 28, 2007)

Automatic Composition and Notation in Network Music Environments. SMC'06 Conference Proceedings. Marseille (2006)
"Research and Technology in the Opera The Leap". Nova Acta Leopoldina, 92 No. 341. (2005)
"Reflections on a new theory of harmony" in: Microtones and more. Edited by Manfred Stahnke, series of publications: Music and. Volume 8. Eds. Hanns-Werner Heister and Wolfgang Hochstein. Weidler Verlag, Berlin (2005). Pp. 165-187.
"The computer as a source of inspiration for composers" in: Mathematical Music - Musical Mathematics. Edited by Bernd Enders. PFAU-Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2005
“Quintet.net: An Environment for Composing and Performing Music on the Internet,” LEONARDO Vol. 38, No. 1 (2005)
“Quintet.net” New magazine for music. 5 (2004). P. 28.