Harald Muenz

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Harald Muenz (born September 20, 1965 in Schwäbisch Hall , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German composer .

Life

Harald Muenz studied composition with Helmut Lachenmann (1994–97), Johannes Fritsch , Klarenz Barlow , Krzysztof Meyer , Hans Ulrich Humpert (at the Electronic Studio of the Cologne University of Music ) and Martin Christoph Redel , as well as at the Detmold Tonmeister Institute and the Phonetics Institute of Cologne University ( Aesthetic phonetics with Georg Heike ). In addition to chamber, orchestral and vocal music, he is particularly dedicated to speaking composition , ars acustica and instrumental music with and without live electronics .

Muenz is the recipient of the NRW Music Prize (1997) and the NRW Research Prize (2001), received the Bernd-Alois-Zimmermann- Scholarship from the City of Cologne and was given work stays in the Villa Aurora / Los Angeles (2000) and the Künstlerhof Schreyahn ( 2005) invited. He has received prizes, grants, commissions and radio broadcasts (almost all ARD channels, BBC , RAI , Donaueschinger Musiktage and many others) in Germany, numerous European countries, South Korea and the USA . A portrait CD of his chamber music with the ensemble mosaik berlin has been released by Coviello. The scores were published by Feedback Studio Verlag Cologne. Issue 103 of the magazine MusikTexte (11/2004) was dedicated to his artistic work. At Pfau he published a book on Franco Evangelisti .

Together with Sigrid and Georg Sachse he forms the trio sprechbohrer , which performs the art of speaking from a musical perspective (best list 3/11 of the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik for the first complete recording of Hans G Helms 'experimental language composition Fa: m' Ahniesgwow for Hessischer Rundfunk / WERGO ).

Muenz taught aesthetic phonetics at the Institute for Linguistics / Phonetics at the University of Cologne from 2001–2005 and was artistic director of the electronic studio at the Lübeck University of Music from 2006–2011. The interdisciplinary artist has been commuting between Cologne and London since 2005 , where he teaches composition at the School of Arts at Brunel University .

Prices

Compositions

  • tre schizzi for large orchestra, 1984
  • azione triangolare for violin, violoncello and piano, 1991–92
  • CITIVS-ALTIVS-FORTIVS for bassoon and percussion, 1992–93
  • deChiffrAGE for page-reading speakers with randomly controlled live text transformer (laptop), 1993
  • x-rayed x-mas x-tra for large orchestra, 1994–95
  • Isn't it romantic? for bassoon and guitar, 1994
  • miniatures for clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano, 1995–2001
  • deSperanto . Tape composition ( stereo or quadro ). Text: UN Charter , 1995–96
  • discAntico for eight voices. Texts: Francesco d'Assisi , Andrea Pieroni , 1995
  • standArts for clarinetists reading sheets with laptop, 1996
  • park figures. Lyrical moment with a German- Sorbian text by Róža Domašcyna for a speaking and a singing voice , 1996
  • corps d'œuvres for piano, 1996
  • Seven graphic sheets made of plastic (in memoriam Franco Evangelisti ) for clarinet, trombone, violoncello and piano, 1996–97
  • fringing. Ensemble chamber music for fourteen for the Ensemble Modern , 1997
  • writing for two players on a bass drum with contact microphones and sound design (= 3 players: 1st recorders: sopranino / bass [Paetzold] , 1st + 2nd bass drum, 3rd sound design with stereo feed), 1998; CD: cybele records No. 960.303
  • blackboard music I . Walk-in sound installation, 1998 (together with hans w. Koch )
  • shiftlessness for soprano, clarinet, synthesizer, live electronics, 1998, rev. 1999 (together with hans w. Koch )
  • The SelfComposer for leaf-playing oboists with a laptop, 1999–2002
  • BACH-Maschin ' for two violoncellos, organ and accordion, 1999–2000
  • ... and because they still need notes in donaueschingen, I just wrote them down for them ... for clarinet, guitar, violin and piano, 2000
  • BeethovEnBloc , tape composition (stereo), 2000
  • spi: tschsaontskäip 1 for two speakers and playback, 2000
  • silent , tape composition (stereo or quadro), 2000–01
  • fromAnts from SprachProben for 2 phonetic voices (1m, 1f), sopranino recorder and clarinet, 2002-3
  • Zhurjanski from SprachProbes for 2 phonetic voices (1m, 1f). Texts in the moribund languages Arbëresh and Istro-Romanian , 2003
  • Curves - Paths from SprachProben for bass flute , bass clarinet and live electronics, 2001-3
  • il filosofo for soprano, clarinet, trumpet and percussion, 2001
  • ariche for bass flute and random CD. Text: Amelia Rosselli , 2001
  • ope-seynsu. (K) a sound installation for piano and random CD , 2001
  • BrahmsBloc , tape composition (stereo), 2001
  • articulated strings for harp, guitar, violoncello and live electronics, 2002
  • SILENtplaCES , tape composition (stereo), 2002
  • three times ninety seconds of reality , tape composition (stereo); CD: cybele records 960.208, 2002
  • The Abyss of the Eyes for recorder (sopranino, tenor, sub-double bass [Paetzold] ), guitar, piano and live electronics, 2003, rev. 2005
  • Žejanski Kntaduri , tape composition (stereo), 2003
  • exercising for an athlete and a drummer, 2003
  • fugaCittà . Sound installation ( 8-channel ), 2003
  • trickling silently happy sprung , tape composition (8-channel), 2003
  • dissieme for flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and live electronics, 2004
  • de (ux) ChiffrAGE for two speakers (each with a laptop, random texts generated live), 2004
  • ... con dolcezza ... for flute, clarinet, harp, piano, violoncello, double bass and electronics, 2005–6
  • beautiful piano piece for piano, 2006
  • dietro \ / avanti for flute, clarinet, vibraphone, piano, violin and violoncello, 2006–7
  • [ðə ˈfɑːðə ɪz ˈɔːɹəl] for organ, 2006-7
  • [KLIKTRAEK DE:? ES] . Electronic language composition. Contribution to the sound installation DS - a poly mono guide to the streets and the people in the streets in a small city in the south of Germany, which needs new sounds each year from 1921 to tomorrow (curator: Stefan Fricke ) for the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007
  • Still Life with Orphean Shepherd . Electronic composition; CD: cybele records CD 960.209
  • nearly - fast for bass clarinet , marimba and piano, 2008
  • Orèlob 80 . Tape composition (stereo), 2008
  • tsvi: -set from Das Zungenbuch for three phonetic voices, 2008
  • SCHLÖSCH for large orchestra, 2008–11
  • data compression for violin and accordion, 2009
  • unashamed piano playing for two pianists without electronics, 2010
  • fine ... resolving for flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano, 2010–11
  • durch die vögel , radiophonic composition (text: Florian Neuner ), 2011, commissioned by Hessischer Rundfunk
  • stein-sum , for mezzo-soprano , viola d'amore and microtonal keyboard, 2011–12, commissioned by Trio Scordatura , Amsterdam
  • Heisze Fusion from Das Zungenbuch for three phonetic voices, 2013
  • Get out on the street! Air! ¡A la calle! For a! (full-length; texts: Florian Neuner), 2012/13, commissioned by the Chamber Ensemble New Music Berlin
  • aldiladellaldiqua , for flute, clarinet, violin and violoncello, 2014, commissioned by the Eight Bridges Festival , Cologne

Fonts

  • Muenz, Harald: Great Tauberstadtbahnhof - for Theo. Obituary for Theo Brandmüller , in: Abbing, Jörg (ed.), 2013. "20 regards". Festschrift for Theo Brandmüller. Saarbrücken: Saar University of Music.
  • Muenz, Harald: Live random concepts and sight-reading players - the role of the computer in the era of digested digitalism in: Contemporary Music Review , volume 29, no.1 , February 2010, 81-87.
  • Muenz, Harald: "Progress of Critical Consciousness". Heinz-Klaus Metzger called after in: MusikTexte 123, Cologne 2009 (December), 41-43.
  • Muenz, Harald: "The composer is dead, long live the composer !?" in Festschrift 50 Years of the Studio for Electronic Music (1959-2009). December 11-13 , 2009 , Salzburg: Mozarteum University, 65.
  • Muenz, Harald: "End of feedback!". Thoughts on Johannes Fritsch in: MusikTexte 122, Cologne 2009 (August), 59-61.
  • Muenz, Harald: On the creative potential of the error in: positionen 79, Berlin / Mühlenbeck 2009 (May), 37-38.
  • Muenz, Harald: Representative of a species that is dying out. Karlheinz Stockhausen ✝ in: MusikTexte 116, Cologne 2008 (February), 66-68.
  • Muenz, Harald and Nonnenmann, Rainer: Music on the edges and breaks. Rainer Nonnenmann in conversation with Harald Muenz in: MusikTexte 103, Cologne 2004 (November), 53-65.
  • Muenz, Harald: Exceeding Limits. Aesthetic phonetics as a bridge to a different way of dealing with music as an acoustic art form in: MusikTexte 103, Cologne 2004 (November), 63-65.
  • Muenz, Harald: Reacting in real time. The computer as a sound generator in: MusikTexte 103, Cologne 2004 (November), 46-50.
  • Muenz, Harald (ed.): Towards a new world. Notes on Franco Evangelisti . With essays by Heinz-Klaus Metzger , Antonio Trudu , Christine Anderson , Thorsten Wagner , Giordano Ferrari, Hans G Helms , Gottfried Michael Koenig and Harald Muenz and an appendix. Saarbrücken: Pfau 2002.

literature

  • Nonnenmann, Rainer: To unlimited spaces and possibilities… The Cologne composer Harald Muenz , Cologne: MusikTexte November 2004 (Issue 103), pp. 35–45

Individual evidence

1 Off: Program booklet to be encrypted. kieler days for new music , February 2008, p. 48

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personal data
SURNAME Muenz, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwäbisch Hall