Alfred Harth

Born in Kronberg im Taunus on 28 September 1949, Alfred Harth, also known as Alfred 23 Harth or A23H, is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and multimedia artist. He received early stimulus from Carlo Bohländer and Emil Mangelsdorff; while still at school he founded a jazz ensemble. With the group Just Music (1967–1972) he released the recording with the number 1002 on the Munich label ECM. There followed E.M.T. (1972–1975) with Nicole Van den Plas and Sven-Ake Johansson, the duo with Heiner Goebbels (1975–1988), Cassiber (from 1982), Oh Moscow (1987–1993) and Vladimir Estragon (1988/89). He plays saxophones, clarinets, contrabass clarinet and electronics. In 2001/02 he held a fellowship together with Yi Soonjoo at the Ssamzie Space in Seoul and founded the LaubhuetteStudio Seoul there; he is an honorary citizen of Seoul. In the recording of Rolf Riehm’s Machandelboom, produced by the WDR in 1982 and released by Cybele Records in 2003, he plays saxophones and clarinets.