November 2024 Frequency Fridays: Hans Tammen: Tölva

On the evening of Friday, November 1st, we proudly presented singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician Dafna Naphtali (NYC), sound artist Hans Tammen (NYC), Naphtali and Tammen’s duo Dangertown, and electronic experimental musician Frederick Foxtrott (CMH).
Supporters of our 2024-2025 season include the Greater Columbus Arts Council, the Ohio Arts Council, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Columbus Foundation.
About the artist:
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
In Tölva, his new project, Tammen integrates natural and environmental sounds captured through field recordings with drones tuned to 13 equal divisions of the octave. This tuning allows for more nuanced shifts in pitch, resulting in harmonic complexities and dissonances that music doesn’t typically explore. The combination of organic sounds and synthetic, microtonal drones unfurling at a glacial pace results in a dark cinematic soundscape that creates a deeply immersive auditory experience.