Alfred 23 Harth

Alfred 23 Harth (born in Kronberg im Taunus, Germany) is a musical polystylist and multimedia artist living in Seoul,Korea,and Frankfurt/Main.

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Alfred 23 Harth

Harth studied art,sociology and philosophy (public school teacher:1975-78) in Frankfurt/Main. Starting with his essay, "On Synaesthetics“ in 1967 he opened his creative horizons to a large variety of artistic fields. He included classical string players in his free improvising group "just music" in 1967 and opened the same year the platform, "centrum freier cunst“ (free (H)art(H) centre) in Frankfurt/Main--a meeting point for live free music, art exhibitions, experimental poetry, action, and other events. He included extended media in his music, including tape, field recordings and objects (since the 70's), videos, samplers and performance art (since the 80's), and electronic tools and laptops (since the 90's). In "EMT" he included literature and classical works from Grieg,Schubert a.o. and later in duo with Heiner Goebbels works from Hanns Eisler, Johann Sebastian Bach, and a.o. in his conceptional improvisations, as well as dada and punk (since the 70's), noise art (since the 80's) and art music. Harth has composed for the theatre and ballet since 1979. He has also composed film music and radio plays and is active as an exhibiting visual artist (since the 60's). In 1985 Harth adapted the number 23 to his name: Alfred 23 Harth or A23H.

Since most of the actual decade Harth lives and works in Asia.

Group Formations and Discography (selection)

Just Music(1960s music group) - A23H/Thomas Cremer/Dieter Herrmann/Johannes Krämer/Thomas Stoewsand/Witold Teplitz/ Peter Stock/Franz Volhard :

• Just Music ECM1002, 1969
• Born Free CBS, 1970

EMT - A23H/Sven-Åke Johansson/Nicole van den Plas :

• Canadian Cup of Coffee FMP, 1974

Duo Goebbels/Harth  :

• Vier Faeuste fuer Hanns Eisler FMP, 1976 +Recommended Records,2007
• Vom Sprengen des Gartens FMP, 1978+Recommended Records,2007
• Indianer fuer Morgen Riskant, 1981
• Zeit Wird Knapp Riskant, 1981
• Frankfurt/Peking Riskant, 1984
• Live in Victoriaville victo, 1987
• Goebbels Heart evva, 1992

Sogenanntes Linksradikales Blasorchester :

• Mit Gelben Birnen Trikont, 1977/80/99

Cassiber - A23H/Christoph Anders/Chris Cutler/Heiner Goebbels :

• Man or Monkey? Recommended Records, 1982
• Beauty and the Beast Recommended Records, 1984

Duck and Cover - A23H/Tom Cora/Chris Cutler/Fred Frith/Heiner Goebbels/Dagmar Krause/George Lewis :

• Rē Records Quarterly Vol.1 No.2 Recommended Records, 1986

Gestalt et Jive - A23H/Steve Beresford/Anton Fier/Peter Hollinger/Ferdinand Richard/Uwe Schmitt :

• Nouvelle Cuisine Moers Music, 1985
• Gestalt et Jive Trio Creative Works Records, 1986

Duo Alfred 23 Harth/John Zorn :

• Anything Goes Creative Works Records, 1986
• Plan Eden Creative Works Records, 1987

Duo Brötzmann/23 Harth :

• Go-No-Go FMP, 1987

OH MOSCOW - A23H/Lindsay Cooper/Hugh Hopper/Marilyn Mazur/ Phil Minton/Elvira Plenar/Sally Potter :

• Oh Moscow! (victo, 1989)

Vladimir Estragon - A23H/FM Einheit/Ulrike Haage/Phil Minton :

• Three Quarks For Muster Mark enja/tiptoe, 1989

Domestic Stories - A23H/Chris Cutler/Fred Frith/Lutz Glandien/Dagmar Krause :

• Domestic Stories Recommended Records,1991

Trio Trabant a Roma - A23H/Lindsay Cooper/Phil Minton :

• State Of Volgograd FMP, 1994

QuasarQuartet - A23H/Simon Nabatov/Vladimir Tarasov/Vitold Rek)

• POPendingEYE free flow music, 1992

Imperial Hoot - A23H/Guenter Bozem/Marcel Daemgen/Christoph Korn :

• Secrets of Development Blue Noises,1999

Trio Viriditas - A23H/Wilber Morris/Kevin Norton)

• waxwebwind@ebroadway clean feed, 2002

Otomo Yoshihide New Jazz Orchestra (ONJO) - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/ Sachiko M/Axel Dörner/Mats Gustafsson/Toshimaru Nakamura/Cor Fuhler/Tsugami Kenta/Aoki Taisei/Okura Masahiko/Ishikawa Ko/Unami Taku/Takara Kumiko/Kahimi Karie/Mizutani Hiroaki/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro)

• ONJO doubtmusic, 2005
• Out to Lunch doubtmusic, 2005
• ONJO live Vol.1 series circuit doubtmusic,2007
• ONJO live Vol.2 parallel circuit doubtmusic,2007

Otomo Yoshihide's Invisible Songs - A23H/Otomo Yoshihide/Yoshigaki Yasuhiro/Kahimi Karie/Leonid Soybelman/Kondo Tatsuo/Nasuno Mitsuru/Kawai Shinobu/ Yamamoto Seiichi/ Jim O'Rourke

• "Sora" East Works Entertainment,2007

Expedition - A23H/Chris Dahlgren/Jay Rosen/Hans Tammen

• Expedition ESP-Disk,2006

Homura Trio - A23H/Yoriyuki Harada/Choi Sun Bae

• "Homura" off note,2007

Discography of special projects (selection)

• "Es herrscht Uhu im Land“ JAPO, 1981, - A23H/Christoph Anders/Heiner Goebbels/Paul Lovens/Rolf Riehm/Annemarie Roelofs
• "This Earth!“ ECM1264,1983, - A23H/Paul Bley/Trilok Gurtu/Maggie Nicols/Barre Phillips
• "Sweet Paris“ free flow music, 1991
• "Pollock“ Orkestrion Schallfolien, 1996, - A23H/Peter Fey/Frank Rothkamm/Elliott Sharp
• print-on-demand internet-label "recout.de“[1]  : 1996-2000

MOTHER-OF-PEARL-SERIES (1.-5.,made in Korea),2003-2006 :

• 1. "eShip sum“ /
• 2. "nu:clear re:actor“
• 3. DVD "T_error“ / CD "kr ./. jp“ /
• 4. "Seoul Milk“
• 5. "NUN"

References

• Schwab, Juergen. Der Frankfurt Sound. Frankfurt/Main: Societaetsverlag, 2004.
• Repecaud, Dominique. Musique Action. Vandoeuvre, France: CCAM, 1993.
• Quinke, Ralph. jazz + more. Kiel, Germany: Nieswand Verlag, 1992.

External links

• http://www.alfredharth.de