Hans Tammen

Hans Tammen phone calls his design of efficiency “endangered acoustic guitar,” presumably due to the extreme modifications he enacts upon his instrument’s audio and building. Tammen “prepares” his acoustic guitar in quite similar feeling that John Cage ready the piano; he also procedures and manipulates his live audio through a pc system that’s predicated on Bicycling 74’s Utmost/MSP system. Tammen was presented with his first electric guitar by his grandfather at age group 15 — a vintage instrument that were lying within a cellar. Influenced by rock and roll groupings like Uriah Heep and Deep Crimson (the latter’s guitarist, Ritchie Blackmore, was an early on hero), in 1972 Tammen started playing in rings himself. Tammen also examined classical guitar for a while. He developed a pastime within the music of John Coltrane, but his older style was mainly motivated by guitarist Sonny Sharrock’s documented solo on the live edition of Herbie Mann’s “Memphis Underground” that Tammen noticed in 1979. Sharrock was mostly of the jazz-influenced guitarists to fully capture the power and abstract musicality that Coltrane taken to the saxophone; that appealed to Tammen. Thereafter, he started shifting toward his present sound-sculpting types of free of charge improvisation. Within the ’80s he examined various jazz-based electric guitar styles, from golf swing to free of charge. He also performed in classical songs ensembles and started using synthesizers, sequencers, and digital effects. Within the ’90s, Tammen started integrating his music with various other artwork forms, collaborating with dancers, poets, visible performers, and theatrical performers. He toured the U.S., Canada, Russia, and Mexico. Throughout that 10 years, he created and enhanced his design. He’s performed and/or documented with U.S. music artists such as for example Steve Swell, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen, Denman Maroney, and Supplement Robertson, amongst others. From 1997 to 1999, he hosted a every week radio present in Kassel, Germany, specialized in contemporary artwork music. His initial solo CD premiered in 1999 over the Nur/Nicht/Nur label. By 2001, Tammen acquired moved to NEW YORK. He started curating musical occasions around the town like the “Music and Encounter” series on the Goethe-Institut in 2002 as well as the notebook music marathon “Hip Potato chips” on the underground music membership Tonic in 2005. During this time period he produced a one-track contribution to Elliott Sharp’s 2001 compilation Condition from the Union 2.001 and recorded an record in 2005 with violinist Christoph Irmer titled Oxide. He became a member of Stanley Schumacher’s Music Today Outfit for the 2006 record Audio Textures and became a member of Alfred 23 Harth, Chris Dahlgren, and Jay Rosen over the 2007 record Expedition: Live on the Knitting Manufacturer, released for the revived label ESP-Disk.