S t u d i o F i v e B e e k m a n

sound and intermedia gallery

Hans W. Koch

[alias : sound]

A large tube and a digital delay create a feedback-loop

Saturdays

2 - 9 PM

March 4 & 11, 2000

[alias : sound ] uses a large paper tube and a digital delay to create a feedback-loop in which the sound is behaving like an autopoietic system, influenced by its environment. Aliasing and other physical properties of the system define the basic quality of the resulting soundsystem, always trying to integrate acoustic intrusions.

Biography

*1962 in Heidenheim/Brenz

Studies in egyptology, cuneiforms, religious siences, history, physics, music theory and composition. Member of the Cologne society for contemporary music (kgnm), of the ensemble "krahnenbaum company Koeln", of the "Koeln Salon e.v." and of the "akt 1 Koeln e.v. - Arbeitsgemeinschaft internationaler Kuenstler". Organisation of concerts, performances and intermedia-events.

Concerts/performances at the "sklenena louka", Brno, festival "next wave", Prag , "rhiz", Vienna, "experimentelle musik '99", Munich, "experimental intermedia", New York, "mexx", Dortmund, "de overslag", Eindhoven, "skop" Frankfurt, Kšln and...

Lives in Cologne as freelance composer/performer and music teacher