Michael Harenberg

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Michael Harenberg (born April 19, 1961 in Bad Wildungen ) is a German composer , music and media scientist . He is professor for musical design and media theory at the University of the Arts in Bern .

life and work

Michael Harenberg - first child of the professional soldier Wolfgang Harenberg and his wife Christel, b. Sachse - did his Abitur in 1981 at the König-Heinrich Gymnasium in Fritzlar . He then studied systematic musicology at the Justus Liebig University in Gießen and composition at the municipal academy for music with Toni Völker in Darmstadt . He wrote his doctorate in media studies on the subject of virtual instruments in acoustic cyberspace. Poietic dimensions of musical mediality with Georg Christoph Tholen at the University of Basel .

Theoretical and artistic work focuses on digital sound cultures, experimental interfaces, compositional virtuality models of the digital and the physicality of electroacoustic music in the context of instrumental and installation settings.

He received grants from the Darmstadt Summer Courses (1990–1998), the experimental studio of the Heinrich Strobel Foundation of the SWR (1990–1994) and in 1989 a grant from the Center Acanthes in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon to take part in the composition class of the composer Luigi Nono . In the 2016 winter semester he was awarded the Edgar Varèse Guest Professorship for Computer Music from the DAAD and the Technical University of Berlin .

International lectures and publications on music and digital media . Member of various improvisation and composition ensembles with international concert activities.

1994–1997 department for new media technologies of the Georg von Holtzbrinck publishing group . Development of context-independent multimedia SGML-supported database projects with international publishers, including MacMillan, Grove Dictionary of Music, Rowohlt, S. Fischer, Spektrum, Systema, etc. a.

From 1997 to 2000 artistic-scientific collaboration with Rolf Großmann on the conception, development and management of the focus area Aesthetic Strategies at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg . Since 1998 various teaching assignments z. B. at the University of Applied Sciences Pforzheim (1998–2000), at the Electronic Studio of the Music Academy of the City of Basel (2001–2003), at the Royal Institute for Sonology in The Hague (2006–2007) as well as regular teaching assignments at the University of Basel , Institute for media studies (since 2009).

Since 2000, conception and development of the music and media art course at the University of Music and Theater (HMT) in Bern as well as collaboration in the conception and establishment of the Bern University of the Arts (2003). Since 2002 development and management of the diploma course in music and media art as a lecturer for musical design and media theory at the University of the Arts in Bern. Since 2007 conception and development of the Bachelor SoundArt. Music and media art as part of the Bologna reform . Since 2008 conception, redevelopment and management of an interdisciplinary Masters course in Contemporary Arts Practice with an artistic focus on SoundArts. Music and media art, fine arts, literature and performance art. Until 2018 together with Daniel Weissberg, since the fall semester 2018 co-director with the composer Teresa Carrasco.

He lives as a composer and music / media scientist in Bern .

Since 2000 Harenberg has been on the board of the German Society for Electroacoustic Music eV (DEGEM) , from 2004 to 2013 as 1st chairman. Until 2015 he headed the DEGEM WebRadio, which he founded on the DEGEM board in 2005 together with the composer Sabine Schäfer in cooperation with the Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe.

Publications (selection)

  • New music through new technology? Music computer as a qualitative challenge for a new way of thinking in music. (= Bärenreiter university publications ). Bärenreiter, Kassel / Basel / London / New York 1989, ISBN 3-7618-0941-7 .
  • Virtual instruments between simulation and (de) construction. In: Marcus S. Kleiner, Achim Szepanski (ed.): Soundcultures. About electronic and digital music. Frankfurt am Main 2003, ISBN 3-518-12303-3 .
  • Michael Harenberg, Daniel Weissberg (ed.): Sound (without) body: Traces and potentials of the body in electronic music. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3-8376-1166-3 .
  • From the row to the loop. On the topicality of serialism in music. In: Christine Blaettler (Ed.): Art of the series. The series in the arts. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7705-5005-0 .
  • Virtual instruments in acoustic cyberspace. On the musical aesthetics of the digital age. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-2175-4 .
  • Declined processes / processes of notation: Michael Harenberg. In: Hans Rudolf Reust, Peter J. Schneemann, Anselm Stalder (Hrsg.): Künste und Regelwerk. Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88960-133-9 , pp. 75–81.
  • Sound spaces of the digital. Sound as a media resonance phenomenon. In: Frank Haase, Till A. Heilmann (Ed.): Interventions. Festschrift for Georg Christoph Tholen . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89472-655-3 , pp. 113-122.
  • Sound-body-voice. In: Daniel Fetzner, Martin Domberg (eds.): Intercorporeal Splits. Artistic research on the mediality of voice. Skin. Rhythm. Leipzig 2015, ISBN 978-3-944122-09-0 , pp. 82–91.
  • Corporeality and the physical play of the machines. In: Marion Saxer (Ed.): Playing (with) the machine. Musical media practice in the early days of phonography, reproduction piano, film and radio. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 2016, ISBN 978-3-8376-3036-7 , pp. 237–244.
  • Topologies of an Aesthetics of the Virtual in Music. In: Vera Bühlmann, Ludger Hoverstadt (Ed.): Symbolizing Existence. (= Metalithikum. III; Applied Virtuality Book Series. Volume 3). Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel 2016, ISBN 978-3-0356-0378-1 .
  • Surfaces - structures - layers. To the electronic music of Hermann Meier. In: Heidy Zimmermann, Michelle Ziegler, Roman Brotbeck (ed.): Mondrian music: The graphic worlds of the composer Hermann Meier. Chronos Verlag, Zurich 2017, ISBN 978-3-0340-1418-2 , pp. 163-174

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Department of audio communication: Edgard Varèse guest professorship ( Memento from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Harenberg, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, musicologist, media scientist and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH April 19, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Wildungen , Hesse