Sound artist   Hans Hansen has already attracted attention in several contexts. 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 "Yderligheder" ("Extremes").   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's musical work also includes a collaboration with the singer Majbrit Ørtz Petersen in the duo Örtz.   In 2008, the composer was awarded a three-year working scholarship by the Danish Arts Foundation. Text supplied by the Danish Arts Foundation, May 2008.

Hans Hansen was born 1 April 1969 Further information, see the website TempoTanken.com