harald muenz
honours, residencies & academia.
media & performance artist
polyglot language & speech artist
composer
bi-national 🇩🇪🇮🇹 artist working across vocal, phonetic & visual music, ars acustica, new media, audiovisual performance, and digital art. intangible, unpredictable, ephemeral: concerned with the leap into the unsecured.
residencies
atelier galata istanbul (kunststiftung nrw, 2023), künstlerhof schreyahn (2021), villa aurora los angeles (2000), künstlerhaus schloss wiepersdorf (1995 und 2026).
awards & grants
finalist weimarer frühjahrstage 2026 (acousmatic music). förderpreis musik nrw (1997), bennigsen-foerder-preis (forschungspreis nrw, 2001), bernd-alois-zimmermann-stipendium köln (1997).
funded by kunststiftung nrw, kulturamt köln, kulturstiftung des bundes, musikfonds berlin, gema stiftung, ministerium für kultur & wissenschaft nrw.
academia
studies — studied composition with johannes fritsch, krzysztof meyer and clarence barlow in cologne; postgraduate with helmut lachenmann in stuttgart; phonetics under georg heike in cologne; phd in composition at brunel university london (john croft, 2015).
teaching — full-time position for composition at brunel university london (2005–2016); artistic director of the electronic studio at musikhochschule lübeck (2006–2011); aesthetic phonetics at the university of cologne (2001–2005). since 2016 freelance artist; seminars at the international ensemble modern academy frankfurt (2017–2022) and a guest lecture at the institute for music & media of the robert schumann hochschule düsseldorf (2023).
🌈 queer is not an answer but always questions.
