hons is a musician, composer and theoretical researcher in the science of happiness. He sometimes refers to himself as King of Gloom, which is not entirely true, as he is in fact, also Prince Happiness…now and then.
hons would now like to stop writing about himself in third person:
Although from my current point of view it feels i have always been a musician, the truth is that it took me quite a while to actually try to make music, having unlearned to let my desires lead the way and buried my creativity in music-school during my childhood. If there is such a thing as truth. Also, Honsland can be a very sticky place where only slow movements are possible.
My influences are very widespread and – as is my music – not very genre-specific:
Growing up on a somewhat one-sided diet of early Pink Floyd and Syd Barret, i later stumbled over the Industrial music scene (probably via Cabaret Voltaire), that kept me busy for a while. Additionally to the more psychedelic stuff of my early days, this was the major influence when i actually started recording my first „tunes“ with my guitar on my parents 80286 pc.
Of course the melancholy of the whole triphop and downbeat thingy touched me as well and left its traces in my musical tastes.
Shortly before the change of the millenium I felt that there are a few things to be learned if I want this to be going somewhere, ending up in Vienna, studying electroacoustic, electronic and experimental music at the elak, a small institute at the univerity of music.
This was the time when my head started exploding with music, a process that is not finished yet, i suppose. I dug into Musique Concrete, into Serial Composition, algorithmic methods and digital signal processing. I learned about fourier transformation and its uses and which methods of sampling, transformation and synthesis were already around.
This was also the time when i recorded my first album „ferner liefen“, together with Gilbert Handler. A major success in the sense that i did it, a major failure in publishing and distribution.
The following years i kept exploring new areas, developing software for computer arts, doing media art installations, working with dancers, architects and landscape designers, still struggling with depressions as i have done quite all of my life. Letting my head hang gave me a very precise knowledge about the look of my own feet, but i can not recommended it otherwise.
During these years there was never a time when i did not make music, although the publishing side always lacked some effort.
But: my internal pressure was building up, and with little else to do at the dawning of 2010, I dug up my old maxmsp patches and started working on „necessities“ with the clear idea that whtatever it will be, it will be published.
So here I am, with my roots in the dark, growing towards the light.
yours truly,
hons
