Biography

Hauschka (Volker Bertelmann) is an independent experimental musician based in Dusseldorf, Germany who is internationally recognized as a 21st century exponent of prepared piano technique, a tradition dating back to late 19th and early 20th century French composer Erik Satie. Hauschka's music might be said to reference (inadvertently perhaps) all of these aspects of the prepared piano equation, and he could even be regarded as a conceptual cousin of Denman Maroney, Erik Griswold, Sylvain Chaveau, and Anthony Pateras. His playfully repetitive constructs, which certainly reflect the influence of Satie, are also at times reminiscent of early keyboard works by Philip Glass or something from out of the minds of Terry Riley and Steve Reich. ~ arwulf arwulf

Top Tracks

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• Barfuss Durch Gras

• Chicago Morning

• Cube

• Eltern

• Fommeassise

• Girls

• Im Schlaf (where Were You?)

• Kleine Dinge

• Kotoba Maku (kein Wort)

• Long Walk, For Piano

• Morgenrot

• Para Bien (gingko Tree)

• Radar

• Rode Null

• Tanzbein

• Traffic, For Piano

• Twins, For Piano

Discography

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• Salon des Amateurs

  Fat Cat / Fat Cat Records

  2011

• Ferndorf

  Pias

  2008

• Room to Expand

  Fat Cat Records

  2007

• Hauschka: The Prepared Piano

  Hausmusik / Karaoke Kalk/Hausmusik

  2005