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Glücklich auf dem Weg nach unten/Happy Going South
Hanna Hartman
“Glücklich auf dem Weg nach unten / Happy Going South” is a solo performance with amplified objects. Threaded rods of different lengths (3x2 meters and 6x1 meters) and material (stainless steel, brass) are amplified through Schertler contact microphones attached to small double flowerpots (also a kind of analog filter) and played with washers in different sizes and material. The toy “Klopfspecht” (tapping woodpecker) has been separated from its original and now plays on amplified stainless steel bars, which like the threaded rods have varying frequencies. Big flowerpots are also amplified with a contact microphone and played with thin steel knives.
“Glucklich auf dem Weg nach unten/Happy Going South”, by Hanna Hartman was premiered at Raum für Kultur, Dresdener Bank, Frankfurt am Main curated by Oliver Augst. The DVD was filmed and edited by Teresa Iten 2009/2010 and produced in cooperation with the Swedish Music Information Center. Recorded at Kule Berlin.
Hanna Hartman (SE) is a sound artist and composer living in Berlin. She studied literature and theater history at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm, radio and interactive art at the Dramatiska Institutet, and electro-acoustic music at the EMS in Stockholm. Since the early 1990s she has composed works for radio, created sound installations and given numerous performances all over Europe. Her many awards and grants include the Prix Europa (1998), the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (2005), the Phonurgia Nova Prize (2006), and a Villa Aurora grant (2010). During 2007 and 2008 she was composer-in-residence for Swedish Radio.