Michael Maierhof

German composer based in Hamburg, studied mathematics and music in Kassel and art history and philosophy in Hamburg. He is writing non-pitch organized music since the early nineties. International performances.

Working with instruments, objects, preparations, applications, oscillating systems and motors. Exploring longitudinal wave phenomena on nylon strings, undertones on string instruments, friction on different structured surfaces, activation of instruments and objects by mechanical and sonic motors, the plastic materials for constructing new resonance spaces and developing analog vocoder for wind instruments and the voice.

He was an invited lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, Mozarteum Salzburg and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijng / China, at the Musikhochschule Freiburg / Germany and in 2015 at the University of Cordoba / Argentina.

Since 2004 he is cellist in the improv trio NORDZUCKER (Hamburg / Berlin) and in the quartet “Stark Cloudy”. Founder of the “Association for contemporary Music, Hamburg” and co-founder of the stock11 artist network.

Biography

German composer based in Hamburg, studied mathematics and music in Kassel and art history and philosophy in Hamburg. He is writing non-pitch organized music since the early nineties. International performances.

Working with instruments, objects, preparations, applications, oscillating systems and motors. Exploring longitudinal wave phenomena on nylon strings, undertones on string instruments, friction on different structured surfaces, activation of instruments and objects by mechanical and sonic motors, the plastic materials for constructing new resonance spaces and developing analog vocoder for wind instruments and the voice.

He was an invited lecturer at Trinity College in Dublin, at the Stuttgarter Musikhochschule, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, Mozarteum Salzburg and the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijng / China, at the Musikhochschule Freiburg / Germany and in 2015 at the University of Cordoba / Argentina.

Since 2004 he is cellist in the improv trio NORDZUCKER (Hamburg / Berlin) and in the quartet “Stark Cloudy”. Founder of the “Association for contemporary Music, Hamburg” and co-founder of the stock11 artist network.

Compilations with this composer

Compilations

Sebastian Berweck: extended piano

Huddersfield Contemporary Records

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