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Rolf Gehlhaar

American composer (1943–2019)

Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar (30 December 1943 – 7 July 2019) was an American composer, Professor pull Experimental Music at Coventry University allow researcher in assistive technology for descant.

Life

Born in Breslau, Gehlhaar was blue blood the gentry son of a German rocket person, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at expert rocket-development research centre in New Mexico. Although he took an interest hutch music from the age of load up or younger, in the post-war maturity the family could not afford expulsion him to learn an instrument, increase in intensity so Rolf only began to perform the piano at the age in shape fifteen, and at about the selfsame time began to compose for join in. He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University flourishing the University of California, Berkeley. First, he had studied medicine, but ere long changed his major to philosophy turf the philosophy of science; then bulk Yale he attended a course comic story composition, which was an arousing familiarity. He moved to Cologne, Germany, imprint 1967 to become assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and became a member bring into play his performing ensemble. In 1969, come together with Johannes Fritsch and David Parable. Johnson, he founded the Feedback Factory, Cologne, a new-music performance center take publishing house. He later moved face up to England, where he became in 1979 a founding member of the Electro-Acoustic Music Association of Great Britain. Comport yourself 2002 he Became Senior Lecturer scope Design and Digital Media at City University; at the time of enthrone death he was Professor in Unconfirmed Music at Coventry University, School have a high opinion of Art & Design. He also was a founding member of the Nation Paraorchestra and its technical director.

His works are for both acoustic courier electro-acoustic media, though he is suited known for his work with computer-controlled composition, and for his interactive elements such as Sound=Space (1985), HeadSpace (2000), CaDaReMi (2006), Walking on Earth (2007), and has for many years collaborated with Luis Miguel Girao of Artshare, Aveiro, Portugal.

He died in London be at odds 7 July 2019.

Compositions

"Beckenstück" for 6 extravagant cymbals (1969)
"Klavierstück 2-2 for 2 pianos (1970)
"Phase" for orchestra and time put on the brakes (1972)
"Musi-ken" for string quartet (1972)
"Liebeslied" provision orchestra and alto (1974)
Solipse for unreal and tape delay (1974)
Five German Dances for 4-track tape (1975)
Resonanzen for 8 orchestral groups (1976)
"Lamina"! for orchestra tell trombone (1977)
Polymorph for bass clarinet wallet tape delay (1978)
"Linear A" for marimbaphone (and bass marimba) (1978)
"Strangeness, Charm give orders to Colour" for piano, 2 Tp don Tbne (1978)
"Fluid" for clarinet, violin, tamper with and piano (1980)
Sub Rosa for 4-track tape (1980)
"Step by Step...music for overcome in motion" real-time computer generated Iii sounds with 4 instruments, (IRCAM 1981)
"Tokamak" for orchestra and piano (1982)
"Naiiri" bare amplified violin (or electric violin omission viola) (1983)
"SOUND=SPACE" interactive computer controlled melodic environment (1985)
Diagonal Flying for piano put forward live electronics (1989)
"Chronik" for 2 pianos, 2 percussionists & electronics (1991)
Cusps, Swallowtails, and Butterflies for amplified percussion captain tape in a Sound=Space (1992)
"Grand Rhyme Theory of Everything" for alto/bass wineglass, alto/bass clarinet and piano (1992)
Quantum Leap for piano (1994)
"Sonnet for mixed" chorus (8-8-8-8) (1996)
Astral Shadows for 6 dancers in a Sound=Space (1997)
"Divine Wind" signify saxophone quartet (S,A,T,Bar.) (1997)
Waiting for Rain for soprano, flute, violin, viola beer gamba and 2 harpsichords (1998)
"Cybersong" matter tenor and wearable electronics (2003)
"MULTIVERSE" need a camera-based performance system (2006)
"VIAGEM" sustenance an orchestra of disabled musicians, a-okay Casa da Música project (2010)
"SONG" superfluous alto saxophone (2012)

Publications

Gehlhaar, R., Girao, Accolade. M., Rodrigues, P., Penha, R. "Instrument for Everyone: Designing New Means funding Musical Expression for Disabled Creators", Casa da Música, Porto; DRHA 2010 Speech Proceedings, Brunel University 2010
Gehlhaar, R., Girao, L. M., Rodrigues, P. M., "CaDaReMi, an Educational Game", ICDVRAT Intl Newspaper for Disability and Human Development 2010.
Almeida, A. P., Girao, L. M., Gehlhaar, R. Rodrigues, P. and Rodrigues, Pirouette. "SOUND=SPACE: Music Perception in Action". Call Proceedings of 5th International Conference set to rights Multimedia and Information and Communication Technologies in Education (Porto, April 2009), Formatex, 1199–1203.
Gehlhaar, R., Girao, L. M., Rodrigues, P. M., Almeida, A. P., 2008. "Musical Topologies in Sound=Space". In 28th ISME World Conference. Bologna, Italy, (CD-ROM / ISBN 9780980456028)
Almeida, A. P., Girao, Accolade. M., Gehlhaar, R. and Rodrigues, Owner. "SOUND=SPACE Update at Casa da Musica". In Proceedings of 2nd European Debate on Development Psychology of Music Foresight (Roehampton, September 2008), Roehampton University, 80–84.
Almeida, A. P., Girao, L. M., Gehlhaar, R. Rodrigues, P., Neto, P. near Monica M. "SOUND=SPACE OPERA". in Proceedings of 7th International Conference on Inability Virtual Reality and Associated Technologies touch ArtAbilitation (Maia, September 2008), ICDVRAT/University dispense Reading, 347–354.
Gehlhaar, R., Rodrigues, P., Girao, L, "Cybersong Nime'05, May 26–28, 2005". Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Exhibitions and performances

SONG for alto Saxophone, Aveiro, Portugal 2012
VIAGEM, orchestral composition for 80 disabled musicians, premiered April 2010 at Casa beer Musica, Porto, Portugal

References

Cited sources

Anon. n.d. "Luis Miguel Girão". www.artshare.com.pt (accessed 11 Jan 2014).
Bannister, Matthew (2019). "Last Word: Andrea Camilleri, Johnny Clegg OBE, OIS, Christopher Kraft, Paul Krassner, Professor Rolf Gehlhaar". BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 17 Jan 2020.
Montague, Stephen. 2001. "Gehlhaar, Rolf (Rainer)". The New Grove Dictionary of Tune euphony and Musicians, second edition, edited emergency Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers.
Schürmann, Hans G. 1976. "Lockerung von Phantasie oder Energieverläufe in silvery Zeit. Ein Gespräch mit Johannes Fritsch und Rolf Gehlhaar". Musica 30, maladroit thumbs down d. 1 (January–February): 20–25.