Hülcker, Neo International Festival of Contemporary Music Warsaw Autumn

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composer and performer, they studied with Dieter Mack and Harald Muenz at the High School of Music in Lübeck as well as Manos Tsangaris and Franz Martin Olbrisch at the Carl Maria von Weber High School of Music in Dresden. Their compositions evolve as situations, performance-installations, actions and interventions, and deal with digital subculture (like ASMR), childhood, human-animal-relations, queer practice, and cultural hacking. 

They are a part of the Y-E-S collective, which publishes music dealing with performativity, temporality, sound as physical experience and the cultural frames of concerts (y-e-s.org). Hülcker have collaborated with Ensemble ascolta, MAM. Manufaktur für aktuelle Musik, Ensemble Garage, MOCREP, Bastard Assignments, Maulwerker, decoder ensemble, We Spoke, The Agency, paranormal φeer group, Henry Wilde aka Antonia Baehr, Bastian Zimmermann, Armin Wieser, Tomomi Adachi, Stellan Veloce, Lucie Vitkova, Andy Ingamells, Elisabeth R. Hager, Matthias Kaul, Astrid Schmeling, Eva Zollner, Bill Dietz, and Jennifer Torrence. Their compositions have been performed at Wittener Tage für Neue Kammermusik, Wien Modern, Warsaw Autumn, London Contemporary Music Festival, Munich Biennale, Blurred Edges (Hamburg), Frontiers Festival (Birmingham), Sound Acts (Athen), Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Klangwerkstatt (Berlin), Dark Music Days (Reykjavík), Moving Music Festival, SSSS! (Chicago), and many others. 

Selected works: einwohnen – Intervention im Wohnraum, installations and performances (2013), Norbert K. Jeder Tag ist ein G. Heimatexpress. Powerplay for two performers (2013), Mitarbeit for trumpet, clarinet, cello, keyboard, synthesiser, monotron, radio and video (2013), Eva und Neele for accordion and video (2013), Sidekick for four performers (2014), Sammlungen – Konzentrate, Leerstellen, Restefor clarinet, saxophone, trombone, viola, keyboard and four hidden performers (2014), Zu spät für das Privatleben for trumpet, trombone, two percussion, guitar, cello and tape (2014), copy! for performer, three laptops, ASMR objects, toys, wigs and loudspeakers (2014), happy accidents, electronic music (2015), Bauvorhaben for flute and video (2015), Tape for Terry for performer, objects and camera (2015), ASMR *contemporary music ensemble* [tapping] [scratching] [brushing] [whispering] for voice, clarinet, zither, percussion, cello, keyboard and video (2015), crackles for 3–10 performers (2016), self-induced music, installation (with Stellan Veloce, 2016), Ear Action, performance (with Stellan Veloce, 2016), gib Pfötchen for four performers (2017), etudes to become a deer for two performers, video and objects (with Jennifer Torrence, 2017), tentaculus ohri – a collection for unplugged listening, performance (with Henry Wilde / Antonia Baehr, 2017), good dog for four performers (2017), da war ich noch nie in meinem ganzen Leben, sound installation (with Henry Wilde / Antonia Baehr, 2017), Musik für tote Tiere #3a for two performers, video and dog (with Henry Wilde / Antonia Baehr, 2018), I’m in your bodies for accordion, flute, voice and three talking dogs (2018), Bei unserer Höhle dahinten for three performers (2018), A body essay. Fiction actually for three performers and video (2018), Yes, Shiperol for four performers (2018), unboxing transmitter for piano, violin, clarinet and video (2019), what is the future other than a dream we are able to dream right now? (2019), we speak for four performers with megaphones (2019), Dress up: Selbstporträt mit Hund, music theatre (2020), kows for two performers (with Stellan Veloce, 2020), let me just for seven performers (2020), Mitarbeit– Nacharbeit for six performers (2021), Das Musikgeschäft, online music theatre for nine performers (with Bastian Zimmermann, 2021), Das Musikgeschäft – Die Wiedereröffnung, music theatre for nine performers (2022), Ein kleiner verschluckter Ozean, performance 1:1 for beach chair and ear trumpet (2022), Notturno mit Gewächshaus und abwesendem Ensemble, film (with Karsten Wiesel and Ensemble L’art pour l’art, 2022).