ABOUT
TempoTanken is home of composer, producer & musician Hans Hansen
Originally trained as a saxplayer and architect (1989-93) HH now works with spatial sound-installations, dance, theatre, video, songwriting, the club scene and remixes.
From classical venues to clubs and theatres in Europe, Ghana, Syria, and Japan, he has specialized in manipulation of the machines live-on-stage and in the studio.
In 1999 his work Passaics Monumenter won an award in the Danish Arts Foundation’s competition for electro-acoustic music, and in 2001 his work How Can I Have More Control Over My Life? won a prize in the competition “Extremes”.
In 2002 he recieved a Danish DJ award for “
best upfront release
” with the internationally acclaimed duo Örtz.
In the words of Danish Arts Foundation:
Hans Hansen is an experimental rhythmic composer, focusing on electronic equipment.
Mastering the machines and forcing them to produce the unexpected and the improvisational, results in a musical expression which is never cold, and often stormy. The acoustic image never stands still. The borderlines between the contrasting ideas may be sharp, but the sound twists wildly within the positioned walls with an athletic inner energy.
Hansen’s extremely detailed work with synthetic rhythms and electronic sound objects is balanced by an organic suppleness of composition, which in combination make the listening experience both musically and aurally immediate.
The composer originally trained as an architect, which has not only provided him with a number of fruitful working practices and analytical techniques, but has also led him into installation and exhibition formats in which the location is placed in interplay with the work on several levels.
Hans Hansen has composed works for classical musicians in which acoustic instruments meet electronics, and he has collaborated with a number of artists on different projects within dance, video and installation art. His musical work includes collaboration with Majbrit Ørtz Petersen in the techno-duo Örtz, with their international hit We don’t talk.
In 2008, the composer was awarded a three-year working scholarship by the Danish Arts Foundation.