Thomas Hummel (musician)

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Thomas Hummel (* 1962 ) is a German composer, music computer scientist and sound director. He lives and works in Freiburg im Breisgau .

Life

Thomas Hummel studied composition a. a. with Klaus Huber and Mathias Spahlinger in Cologne and Freiburg. Between 1992 and 1994 he was invited as a composer at IRCAM (Paris). Since 1994 he has been working as a sound director and music IT specialist at the EXPERIMENTALSTUDIO of the SWR in Freiburg. There he is engaged in research and composition work in the field of instrumental mixed sound and database composition.

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His range of works ranges from solo pieces to orchestral works using electronic media. His compositions have been performed by well-known ensembles, including a. Ensemble Court-Circuit , Holst-Sinfonietta , Ensemble SurPlus , Kairos Quartet and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra performed and broadcast internationally on the radio.

Thomas Hummel's specialty is speech sound composition. These are instrumental works whose orchestrations simulate speech phonemes sonically. Elaborate computer calculations are used to gradually optimize the appropriate orchestration with the help of sound databases.

Since 2006 Thomas Hummel has been working on what he claims to be the world's largest sound database for the contemporary orchestra, "conTimbre". conTimbre contains more than 86,000 sampled sounds and more than 4,000 timbres from over 150 orchestral instruments, which can be used for realizing contemporary scores and for algorithmic orchestration using the integrated sample player ("ePlayer").

In addition to a number of other composers from the field of new music (such as Emmanuel Nunes , Alwynne Pritchard , Roberto Rusconi , Johannes Kreidler , Moritz Eggert ), Thomas Hummel himself uses virtual instruments from databases such as conTimbre or the "Virtual Orchestra", which he also developed his instrumental compositions. The resulting works are characterized by different tonal shades - from conventional, physical musical instruments to instruments ideally reproduced by loudspeakers to purely virtual sampler instruments.

Awards and publications

Thomas Hummel received composition prizes a. a. at the Villa Concordia in Bamberg and at the Musikprotokoll Graz (as part of the Styrian Autumn Festival ) as well as grants from the German National Academic Foundation , the DAAD and the Helene Rosenberg Foundation . He followed teaching assignments at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the State University of Design Karlsruhe (HfG) . Publications were made with MusikTexte , Dissonances , Pfau Verlag and Bärenreiter . His composition "Aus Trachila" was released on CD in 2008 by NEOS Music .

Selection of works

  • "Gears of the Lute" (for speakers and 7 instruments, 2002/2007)
  • "Aventüren und Friesblüten" (for speakers and 7 instruments, 2005)
  • "Written in the ear" (for voice, piano and string quartet, 2005)
  • "Kopfwelten / Versteinerung" (music theater project for flute, percussion, violoncello, live electronics and video, 2004)
  • "From Trachila" (for large ensemble and speakers, 2003/2006)
  • "bruillards" (for string quartet, 1998)
  • "Nicanor" (for large orchestra, 1996/97)
  • "the lugubrious game" (for violin and tape, 1995)
  • "distances, mémoire et terre" (for ensemble and live electronics, 1994)
  • "cocoon" (for string quartet and live electronics, 1993)
  • "Nocturne" (for 2 double basses and live electronics, 1992)
  • "Pan" (for drums and computer, 1991)
  • "Sprachkristallisation III" (for wind quintet, 1990)
  • "Variations I after John Cage" (sound installation with video, 1989)
  • "Sprachkristallisation II" (for guitar solo, 1988)
  • "Speech Crystallization I" (for ensemble, 1988)
  • "Alban Berg's Piano Sonata op. 1" (instrumentation for large orchestra, 1987)
  • "Mikrotexturen" (for guitar and string orchestra, 1986)
  • "String Trio"

(As of December 2013)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.thomashummel.net
  2. ↑ EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO of the SWR
  3. ↑ Thomas Hummel: "Simulation of human voice timbre by orchestration of acoustic music instruments", ICMC 2005 Barcelona (.pdf) ( Memento of the original from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thomashummel.net
  4. ↑ www.contimbre.com ( Memento of the original dated December 8, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.contimbre.com
  5. ↑ Jörn Peter Hiekel: "The digital revolution and its virtual orchestra" (NMZ, issue 3/13)
  6. ↑ "Report on the ePlayer software conTimbre @NMZ" culture Techno, from March 16, 2013
  7. ↑ Jörn Peter Hiekel: "The digital revolution and its virtual orchestra" (NMZ, issue 3/13)
  8. ↑ EXPERIMENTAL STUDIO of the SWR
  9. ^ NEOS Music
  10. ↑ www.thomashummel.net
personal data
SURNAME Hummel, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German composer, music computer scientist and sound director
DATE OF BIRTH 1962