Erhard Hirt

Erhard Hirt is a German guitarist and electronics player, born in 1951 and active in European free improvisation since the late 1970s. He started out playing blues guitar and moved through jazz-oriented and experimental rock bands to open improvisation. His groups include the quartet XPACT, and he has also made solo guitar recordings. Hirt played in the free jazz group Jazz Community and formed his own improvising group at the end of the 1970s, later appearing at the Moers festival. XPACT, with Wolfgang Fuchs, Hans Schneider and Paul Lytton, recorded Frogman's View in 1984.