Hannes Hoelzl
Born 1974 in Bolzano. Studied audio engineering in Graz and graduated as an MA in Sound&Music Technology at the Utrecht Arts Academy, Utrecht. He works in various disciplines and constellations, always orbiting around the central focus of sound; with digital sound treatment and particulary the Open Source environment SuperCollider being his fundamental working tools.
His developments in music aim at improvisation interfaces that enable the computer to keep up with the directness of the instrumentalists; at sound spatialisation with a similar improvisational approach, and at pseudo-intelligent sound objects that might be able to surprise the performer with unforseen turns, often inspired by outworldly electronic circuits.
Beyond acting as a performing musician, he works as a sound artist, designer, composer, software developer and instructor. He has played internationally in Europe and China, and his installative works have been exhibited, amonst others, in the Venice Biennale (2001, 2006), in ZKM Karlsruhe (2006), Hamada children’s Museum, Japan, and in London’s National Maritime Museum, Greenwich. He has held lecures and workshops at Universities and Conservatories in Wesleyan/Connecticut, Duesseldorf, Prague, Oslo, Tokyo and Beijing.
He was involved in a project for the international Arts Biennial Manifesta in Italy (www.manifesta7.it), where an old austrian fortress with 77 armoured rooms was turned into a huge listening space.
Lives in Cologne.
