Fritz Hauser
Fritz Hauser is a Swiss drummer, percussionist and composer, born in Basel in 1953. He started on drums as a teenager and then studied classical percussion at the Basel music academy. Since 1983 he has toured and recorded as a solo performer, and he is known for long programmes for drums and percussion alone and for sound works made for specific spaces. Hauser played with the Swiss rock band Circus and later assembled Schlagzeugspektakel, a group of Basel drummers.
Laboratorio (CD)
2018 CD-only release on Hat Art of a solo avant-garde percussion piece by Swiss drummer and composer, performed by the composer himself.
Quartet Noir
Urs Leimgruber, Marilyn Crispell, Joëlle Léandre and Fritz Hauser in their first concert as a quartet, Victoriaville, 15 May 1998: eight improvisations growing from small details into heated four-way exchanges.
Deep Time
“Deep Time” is a tape composition commissioned in 1991 by the Deep Listening Institute for Deep Listening Band. Fritz Hauser’s tape features recordings of sounding stones (manufactured by Arthur Schneiter) and various watches and clocks (thanks to the Bucher family in Switzerland for permission to record that family clock!). The performers improvise with the tape. On October 26, 1994 Pauline Oliveros, David Gamper, Urs Leimgruber and Fritz Hauser recorded 2 versions of Deep Time. Both of these 3…
Escalier Sous La Pluie (Book + Mini CD)
*Text in French* A staircase drips, not with water but with sound: book / CD dedicated to Fritz Hauser's impressive "sound drawing" for the Vincent van Gogh Foundation in Arles.
Prismo
Temporary Super Offer! The Quartet Prismo is the continuation of the collaboration of Sergio Armaroli and Fritz Hauser with an extended circle of musicians. Sergio has proposed his wife Francesca Gemmo, I proposed my esteemed colleague Martina Brodbeck. Around the two recorded versions of Structuring the silence, we recorded combinations of instruments put together by lot. Without time limit, without formal requirements, without rules. Pure improvisation. Together we selected the tracks to be i…
Schraffur for gong solo
Fritz Hauser scrapes a single small gong for almost an hour, from the edge of silence to a dense, shifting cloud of overtones. Solo version of Schraffur, recorded in Piedmont in 2011 and mixed by Hauser himself.