Hans Tammen's music has been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He discovers hidden sound properties through means of his modified ENDANGERED GUITAR, interactive software programming, stereo and multichannel sound systems, and by working with the room itself. Signal To Noise called his works "...a killer tour de force of post-everything guitar damage", All Music Guide recommended him: "...clearly one of the best experimental guitarists to come forward during the 1990s."
His numerous projects include site-specific performances and collaborative efforts with dance, light, video, and theatre, utilizing technology from planetarium projectors to guitar robots and disklavier pianos. His THIRD EYE ORCHESTRA open form compositions for large ensembles and live sound processing are based on meanwhile hundreds of scored "building blocks" that are constantly rearranged when performed.
His works have been presented on festivals in the US, Canada, Mexico, Russia and all over Europe. He recorded with a wide range of artists such as Herb Robertson, Denman Maroney, Günther Müller, Keith Rowe, Alfred 23 Harth, or Dominic Duval - on labels such as Innova, ESP-DISK, Nur/Nicht/Nur, Creative Sources, Leo Records, Potlatch, Cadence, and Hybrid.
Hans Tammen - Endangered Guitar's Friend Space (Top 40)
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that my new album Afrikan Machinery is out now on Tzadik Records. Check out some of the tracks on my profile! You can buy the CD here, here, or here. It's also available on iTunes.
Best Wishes, Lukas Ligeti
"CNMRG" - research group (St. Petersburg, Russia) "Theremin - Center" for electroacoustic music (Moscow, Russia) "TMA" - Trans Media Akademie Hellerau (Dresden, Germany)
MediaLab workshops and performances by:
Frieder Weiss (Germany) Yuri Didevich (Russia) Daniel Ploeger (Germany) Dmitry Dubov (Russia) Thomas Dumke (Germany) Dmitry Letohovskiy (Russia) Mathias Harting (Germany) Patrick K.-H. (Russia) Micah Silver (Usa), Dmitry Subochev (Russia) Andrei Smirnov (Russia)
BiP_HOp Generation on Radio Grenouille // 88.8 FM Sunday evenings : 19:30 - 21:00 PM // Marseille // France
May 2008 Playlist
ARTIST ALBUM label
Nurse With Wound : zero mix (Beta Lactam Ring) Hauschka : a room to expand (FatCat) Steve Von Till : a grave is a grim horse (Neurot) Nadja : skin turns to glass (The End) Maninkari : le diable avec ses cheveaux (Conspiracy) Faust : patchwork (Staubgold) Kling Klang : the esthetik of destruction (Rock Action) Virgin Passages : distance (Fire) Dr Atomik : s/t (Hitch Hyke) Comfort : eclipse (Psychotica) Omma : with our own eyes (Ankh) Jarboe & Justin K Broadrick : j2 (The End) Satanicporncultshop : takusan no ohanasan (Vivo) Gerry Mitchell & Little Sparta : the ragged garden (Fire) Port-Royal : flared up (Resonant) Off The Sky : it is impossible to say just what I mean (Stilll) Daturah : reverie (Golden Antenna) VA. Sartorial sampler (Sartorial) Baja : wolfhour (Other-Electricities) Sotiris Debonos : far west (Hitch Hyke) Starting Teeth : I won't do anything I can do (Creaked) Robin Saville : peasgood nonsuch (Static Caravan) Knell : last ten meters (Utech) Terry Edwards & the Scapegoats : 681 at the southbank + plays, salutes & executes (Sartorial) Yoshio Machida : hypernatural #3 (Baskaru) VA. Round Black Ghosts (Scape) Oophos : an aerial view (extract) (Glacial Movements) Crackle : heavy water (Slowfoot) Hans Tammen : endangered guitar processing (NurNichtNur) Hans Tammen : endangered guitar (NurNichtNur) DJ Donna Summer : panther tracks (Cock Rock Disco) Fenin : been through (Shitkatapult) Three Second Kiss : long distance (Africantape) Jull : _de la neige et des océans (L'Amicale Underground) Pale Man Made : oh, my treasured things (Pinch) Anal.G. Zick : shaver_infection (Ana)
great guitar work with Die Schrauber Live in Mexico ! supersonicelectrovoice ...... i like the CD better than things which are intended to sound like it. the guitar is outstanding cheers J-M
danke für's freundeln. Es hat mich sehr gefreut mal wieder von Dir zu hören, ist ja schon ganz schön lang her, dass wir uns das letzte Mal gesehen haben. Ich glaub', da hast Du mir einen Hand-Scanner für den Atari ST verkauft;-)
I remember hearing you perform on Kathleen Supove's series at the Flea last year. Pretty amazing stuff--the guitar transformed. Really dig the "Third Eye ..." track here. Will return for more.
lieber hans tammen, vielen dank für die myspace-freundschaft. die liste deiner einfluss-personen ist wirklich erstaunlich...aber man weiß ja, dass aus reiner notwehr oft die besten sachen entstehen ;#)
Hallo Hans! Nice to meet you virtually after Budapest!
Listen, the New York based ensemble Either/Or is performing my piece "more or less" on Feb 20th at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC. Free admission. However, tickets are required. For reservations, please call ACF's reservatio
