Hans Christian Tschiritsch

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Hans Christian Tschiritsch (born September 7, 1954 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musician, composer and musical instrument inventor . It is considered a Viennese original .

Life

In the 1970s and 1980s, Hans Christian Tschiritsch traveled internationally as a traveling musician, stilt walker and puppeteer . Tschiritsch's entry into music was the blues . His first instrument was the guitar, which, like later the violin, he had learned to play autodidactically. Back in Vienna, he founded "Das 1. Strenge Kammerorchester" together with accordionist Otto Lechner in 1987 , which made public appearances in cooperation with various Austrian artist personalities such as HC Artmann , Josef Hader , Otto Grünmandl and Julian Schutting . At the beginning of the 1990s Tschiritsch became involved in the Theater des Moment in Vienna , of which he was a co-founder. Then there were engagements in Turkey , including at the Turkish State Theater in Antalya .

In 1996, Hans Christian Tschiritsch founded the ensemble “Tschiritschs Urwerk”, with which he recorded three albums in changing line-ups. The ensemble included Shani Ben-Canar, Wilfried Brandstötter , La Rosa Eldis, Hans-Georg Gutternigg, Peter Huber, Courtney Jones, Christian Martinek, Williams Nelson, Jon Sass and Jaqueline Spörk.

As a composer Tschiritsch wrote the music for a number of CDs, and he also created compositions for the Vienna Burgtheater . From 1994 to 2000 he was also employed as a stage musician and sound master at the Burgtheater. In addition, he wrote the music for performances by the Lower Austria State Theater , the Vienna Volkstheater , the Vienna Serapionstheater and the Konzerthaus Berlin .

Hans Christian Tschiritsch made a name for himself over the years as an inventor and designer of unusual musical instruments. These are partly made from everyday objects, such as the singing vacuum cleaner , the bathtub hurdy-gurdy or the sewing machine overtone hurdy -gurdy . Other instruments have names like Husky lung , funnel violin , Tschiritscheridoo , sound propeller , Dröhnrad , sound bed , or melancholy roll . After Tschiritsch had constructed a four meter long and two meter high violin for Johann Strauss (son) (1825–1899) in 1999 on the occasion of the commemorative year , he entered the Guinness Book of Records with it .

Tschiritsch has been dealing with the phenomenon of overtones since the mid-1980s. As a result, he began overtone such as the sound of propellers , the Zwitscheridoo , the melancholy roll , the mobile Trompetuum that Obertondrehleier or hoarse lungs to develop. Hans Christian Tschiritsch passes on his experience in the field of overtone singing in seminars and workshops.

In 2012 and 2013, Hans Christian Tschiritsch was involved in the Wachau as part of the “Nomaden des Seins” festival. From 2012 on, Tschiritsch appeared (together with other musicians) with his new work “Drops of Being - Real-Time Composition for Drops of Water, Overtone Choir and Instrumental Soloists”. Subsequently, this work was performed in the Wiener Musikverein , in the water tower Favoriten , in the Wiener Künstlerhaus , in the Vienna St.-Johannes-Nepomuk-Kapelle and in the Wiener Ruprechtskirche . In addition, the artist, who lives and works in Vienna, regularly gives concerts with different personal constellations.

Exhibitions

  • In 1996, the sound objects by Hans Tschiritsch, which seemed spectacular to the public, were shown for the first time in an exhibition in the Alte Schmiede in downtown Vienna.
  • In 1999 the Austrian Museum for Folklore organized an exhibition on the work of the artist Hans Christian Tschiritsch under the title Phono-Inventionen .
  • In 2006 an exhibition was dedicated to the artist Hans Christian Tschiritsch in the “Verein 08”, Piaristengasse 60, in Vienna-Josefstadt .
  • An exhibition with a selection of Tschiritsch's musical instrument inventions took place in 2016 at the Vienna Jazz & Music Club “Porgy & Bess” under the exhibition title “Eavesdropping - eavesdropping objects to touch”.

Discography

  • The 1st Strict Chamber Orchestra , 1991
  • Tschiritsch's original work. 7 to 1/4 , 1995
  • Tschiritsch's original work. Propeller , 1997
  • Tschiritsch's original work. No. 3 , 2002
  • Nine (Hans Tschiritsch, Otto Lechner, Franz Haselsteiner), 2010
  • Vienna Sounds , 2012
  • NoMaden of Being , 2016

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In his essay about the exhibition on the work of Hans Christian Tschiritsch (1999) in the Austrian Folklore Museum , which was published in the Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , its director at the time, Franz Grieshofer , describes the artist as “a Viennese original, but not of the cozy kind but one in which work and person are fused into a whole. ”Franz Grieshofer: Hans Christian Tschiritsch: Phono-Inventionen. An exhibition of the Austrian Museum of Folklore "... from the series" from January 21 to April 5, 1999 . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume LIII / 102, Vienna 1999, p. 49. On the qualification of Hans Christian Tschiritsch as a “Viennese Original” cf. further: Werner Leiss: Invented instruments with two accordions . In: Concerto magazine, issue 1/2011; see. further: Johann Werfring: Magical moments of being . In: “Wiener Zeitung”, October 4, 2019, p. 18; see. also: Johann Werfring: Where angels go on vacation in Vienna. In: "Wiener Zeitung", October 11, 2019, p. 17.
  2. ↑ Performance of the 1st Strict Chamber Orchestra on November 12, 1990 in the Theater des Moment (Vienna) on youtube
  3. ↑ biography on tschiritsch.com; also: Hans Christian Tschiritsch: composer, instrument inventor , musician on Verein08.at; also: "Nomaden im Speck" - world music from Vienna: Hans Tschiritsch Trio & guests article on oe1.orf.at
  4. ↑ See Hans Tschiritsch: Instrument maker, inventor and universal musician Article on sirene.at; see. also: biography on tschiritsch.com
  5. ↑ Cf. Hilde Haider-Pregler: A dance of death in Austrian . In “Wiener Zeitung”, online version of January 24, 2000; also: biography on tschiritsch.com; also: Johann Werfring: Hans Tschiritsch's lived museum . In: "Wiener Zeitung", March 23, 2006.
  6. ↑ See Johann Werfring: Nomade des Seins Article in the “Wiener Zeitung” from March 17, 2016, supplement “ProgrammPunkte”, p. 7; also: Johann Werfring: Where angels go on vacation in Vienna . In: "Wiener Zeitung", October 11, 2019, p. 17.
  7. ↑ a b Johann Werfring: Hans Tschiritschs lived museum . In: "Wiener Zeitung", March 23, 2006.
  8. ↑ a b biography on tschiritsch.com
  9. ↑ See "Nomaden des Seins" 2013 - Otto Lechner & Hans Tschiritsch. Music & hiking through the Wachau Article on magzin.at; also: biography on tschiritsch.com
  10. ^ Franz Grieshofer : Hans Christian Tschiritsch: Phono Inventions. An exhibition of the Austrian Museum of Folklore "... from the series" from January 21 to April 5, 1999 . In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Volkskunde , Volume LIII / 102, Vienna 1999, pp. 49–51.
  11. ^ Johann Werfring: Nomade des Seins Article in the "Wiener Zeitung" of March 17, 2016, supplement "ProgrammPunkte", p. 7.
personal data
SURNAME Tschiritsch, Hans Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian instrument maker and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 7th September 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna