Thomas Neuhaus

Thomas Neuhaus (born November 8, 1961 ) is a German composer and music computer scientist. He is professor for music informatics at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen .

biography

Thomas Neuhaus studied composition at the Folkwang Hochschule with Wolfgang Hufschmidt and Dirk Reith .

In the 1980s and 1990s he was a co-developer of the AUDIAC project for computer-aided composition and sound synthesis. As a composer he has been working with the Düsseldorf Theater der Klänge since 1988 . He has been teaching music informatics and electronic composition at the Institute for Computer Music and Electronic Media (ICEM) at the Folkwang University of the Arts since 1994 and also taught at the Bremen University of the Arts from 2000 to 2004 . Since October 2004 he has been professor for music informatics at the ICEM and since 2011 artistic director of this institute. He is a founding member of the Society for New Music Ruhr .

Neuhaus developed various composition languages ​​and real-time systems. In addition to the various connections between electronic music and stage arts, he works on the formalization and automatic generation of musical structures, which he implements in electronic and instrumental works, installations and interactive dance projects. He often works with other composers and artists from other fields.

Neuhaus is married to the actress and dancer Kerstin Hörner.

List of works (selection)

"Tape" tracks (Fixed Media)

• 1985: The Bad Boys were Prodding the Bear through the Bars of the Cage - 4-channel audio
• 1997: 5 little pieces about the little sounds of a little person , stereo
• 2010: Revelations and a Terrace Talk - 4-channel audio

Music for instruments with and without electronics

• 1986: Synthetic material drum project - for 4 percussionists, computer and interactive tape (with Jörg Lensing , Erne Kis)
• 1986: Aunt Henrys Attempt to Blow Up - for trumpet and tapes
• 2009: Conversations without Drums - improvisation piece for 14 instruments distributed in the bunker level of the mixing plant of the Zollverein coking plant (with Günter Steinke)
• 2013: Memory for string quartet and electronics (for a dance film by Jörg Lensing based on a scene from "Vanitas")
• 2013: Manic He Chain Me 2nd movement of the "Essen Trilogy" with Dirk Reith and Günter Steinke for chamber ensemble
• 2015: Tubes for wind ensemble, percussion and 5-channel feed. Designed for the Oberhausen gasometer
• 2016: Scherzo for G for ensemble

Multimedia projects

• 2008: 55 - An International Interactive Multimedia Project with Neil Leonard , Spencer Putman, Anthony Bonenstein, Claudius Lazzeroni , Dietrich Hahne , Stefan Kreitmayer
• 2018: The point at which the image touches the real Intermedial exhibition with Celso Machado , im Pauli, Philip Popien, Tabea Borchardt, Max Füllbier, Hella Schneider, Eke Seeger and Anna Traskalik

Music and dance / theater

• 1989: Incidental music for Die Barocke Maskenbühne (Theater of Sounds) for harpsichord and 2 percussionists with Jörg Lensing and Axel Heinrich
• 1991: Incidental music for November 1918 1989 , (Theater der Klänge) for 2 percussionists, computer and live electronics
• 1992–1993: Composition and programming of figure and sound in space , interactive electronics (theater of sounds)
• 1996: Composition and programming of Tilt - and yet it moves for dancers, remote-controlled balls, live electronics and tape with Dirk Reith , Jürgen Steger and Kerstin Hörner
• 1996: Incidental music for The Birds after Aristophanes , for flutes, plucked instruments, percussion (Theater der Klänge)
• 1997: incidental music for the anniversary , electronics, (theater of sounds)
• 2000: Composition and programming manifesto , interactive voice transformation with Jörg Lensing and Clemente Fernandez
• 2001: Composition and programming of Megalopolis , voice, song, interactive electronics (theater of sounds)
• 2002: Composition and programming of module | a | t | o | r Le Corbusier , interactive electronics (theater of sounds)
• 2004: Composition and programming for Gregorius auf dem Stein (Theater der Klänge, based on " The Chosen " by Thomas Mann )
• 2005: Composition and programming of HOEReographien - an intermedial dance concert , theater of sounds, interactive electronics
• 2006: incidental music for Teufels Kreis , Theater der Klänge (electronic feed)
• 2010: Composition and programming of Suite Intermediale Part I (Theater of Sounds), interactive electronics
• 2010: Completion of Suite Intermediale , premiere at Novembermusic 2010 at the Folkwang UdK. Theater of Sounds
• 2013: Composition and programming of the 2nd part of Coda , Theater der Klänge, interactive electronics
• 2018: Untier - interactive dance and piece of music for 5 dancers, double bass, flute, live electronics and light

Installations and sound designs

• 1995: Composition and programming of Klangraum Interaktiv - interactive sound installation for the Dortmund City Hall with Dirk Reith and Gerald Eckert
• 2000: Sound design for the stands of CariCom and Cilss at the Expo2000 , Hanover
• 2007: Carbonized - Interactive installation for the former coal washing plant of the Zeche Zollverein as part of Round Midnight-Folkwang Medial with Dietrich Hahne
• 2009 Trans | Gen Klang / Photo / Video exhibition for the mixing plant of the Zollverein coking plant with Elke Seeger and Dietrich Hahne
• 2019: Kla4 - installation for four self-playing pianos, with Michael Edwards, Dirk Reith and Günter Steinke

software

• 2008: Software for “A Bigger Clock” by Darren Almond , London, designed and built by Jürgen Steger Exhibition Objects, Kassel
• 2016: Control software for the “mechanical shop window”, reconstruction of a design by Franz Ehrlich from the 1920s, realized by Jürgen Steger for the exhibition “Big plans!” Bauhaus Dessau 2016

Web links

• Thomas Neuhaus on the ICEM website
• Works by Thomas Neuhaus on the ICEM website
• Website by Thomas Neuhaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Prof. Thomas Neuhaus. Retrieved October 4, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Composers in the Ruhr Area - Thomas Neuhaus. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .