Born on 1 January 1960; Frank Niehusmann is a German composer, author and sound artist. He studied philosophy and history at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and graduated there in 1986 with the Magister. Since 1978 he has composed electronic music for concert, sound installation, theatre, film and video; from 1983 to 1998 he also worked as a radio and television author. His works have been shown in Argentina, England, Korea, Austria, Turkey, Hungary and the USA, among other countries. In 1992 he received a composition fellowship at the Künstlerhaus Schloß Wiepersdorf, between 1997 and 2000 several prizes for music video and music theatre productions, and in 2002 an award at the International Competition for Music and Sound Art in Bourges for “Untertagemusik Nr. 1”. In 2004 he was guest artist at the Institut für Musik und Akustik of the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie in Karlsruhe and wrote a commissioned composition there for the Europäische Glockentage. Three albums connect him with Cybele, and all three belong to the DEGEM series with which the label documents the work of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik: kontinuum … bruchlos (2003), 90 Seconds of Reality (2005) and Orpheus 400 (2007).
Frank Niehusmann
Composer
