Harold Schellinx

Harold Schellinx (aka Har$, 9 December 1956, Maastricht - 9 June 2025, Amsterdam) was an independent musician/composer/artist, writer and theorist. Avant-rock musician based in Amsterdam (1975-1985). Editor and London correspondent of Dutch 'modern music magazine' Vinyl (1981-1983). Studied formal music and computer-aided composition with Gottfried Michael Koenig at the Utrecht Institute of Sonology (1983-85), and mathematics and its foundations with Anne Troelstra at the University of Amsterdam (Ph.D. 1994). Researched in mathematical logic and the foundations of computer science (1990-2000). (2025)

Publications

• Re: Table. Rezzing Daniel Spoerri's 1961 Carcassonne table, 2010. Artist book. [1] [2]
• ULTRA, 1978-1983, Amsterdam: Lebowski, 2012, 416 pp. [3] [4] (Dutch)

Links

• SoundBlog, [5]
• Medium
• Harsmedia
• UnPublic on Bandcamp
• Mastodon
• Interview, WORM, 2023, [6], [7], [8].
• Tributes: WORM, Oscar Smit, Ål Nik, [9].