Rolf gehlhaar biography

Initially, he had studied medicine, but soon changed his major to philosophy and the philosophy of science; then at Yale he attended a course in composition, which was an arousing experience.
He is currently a research collaborator and board member of the research consortium “Skilled Art” focussing on computer vision, projected graphics and generated.
Gehlhaar was born in Breslau towards the end of World War Two. His father was a rocket scientist, and his mother a teacher of fine art.

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Rolf Gehlhaar

American composer (1943–2019)

Rolf Rainer Gehlhaar (30 December 1943 – 7 July 2019) was an American composer, Professor in Experimental Music at Coventry University and researcher in assistive technology for music.

Life

Born in Breslau, Gehlhaar was the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico. Although he took an interest in music from the age of eight or younger, in the post-war years the family could not afford for him to learn an instrument, and so Rolf only began to play the piano at the age of fifteen, and at about the same time began to compose for fun. He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley. Initially, he had studied medicine, but soon changed his major to philosophy and the philosophy of science; then at Yale he attended a course in composition, which was an arousing experience. He moved to Cologne, Germany, in 1967 to become assistant to Karlheinz Stockhausen, and became a

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Gehlhaar, Rolf (Rainer)

Gehlhaar, Rolf (Rainer), German-born American composer; b. Breslau, Dec. 30, 1943. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1953 and in 1958 became a naturalized American citizen. He took courses in philosophy, science, and music at Yale Univ. (B.A., 1965) and in music at the Univ. of Calif, at Berkeley (1965–67). From 1967 to 1970 he was the personal assistant to Stockhausen. In 1976 he settled in London. He founded the electronic music studio at Dartington Coll. in 1976, and that same year he served as director of the composition course in Darmstadt. In 1977 he was composer-in-residence at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music in Sydney. In 1978 he returned as director of the composition course in Darmstadt. He worked at IRCAM in Paris in 1979. In 1981 he worked there again and created the first composition utilizing digitally generated “3-dimensional” sounds, Pas à pas…music for ears in motion. In 1984 he commenced research on a computer-controlled interactive musical environment which resulted in his Sound=Space series. In 1995 he opened the Sound=

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Gehlhaar, Rolf

Biography

Born: December 30, 1943

Country: Breslau, Germany (emigrate U.S.A. 1953)

Studies: Yale University (1965), University of California (1967)

Teachers: K. Stockhausen, Jean-Claude Eloy

Website: http://www.gehlhaar.org/x/pages/soundspace.htm

Rolf Gehlhaar (born 30 December, 1943) in Breslau (now Wrocław, Poland), is an American composer.

Gehlhaar is the son of a German rocket scientist, who emigrated to the United States in 1953 to work at a rocket-development research centre in New Mexico (Montague 2001; Schürmann 1976, 20). Although he took an interest in music from the age of eight or younger, in the post-war years the family could not afford for him to learn an instrument, and so Rolf only began to play the piano at the age of fifteen, and at about the same time began to compose for fun (Schürmann 1976, 20). He took American citizenship in 1958 and studied at Yale University and the University of California, Berkeley (Montague 2001). Initially, he had studied medicine, but soon changed his major to philosophy and the philosophy of science; t