Role Musician Name Holger Hiller | Years active 1980–present | |
Born 26 December 1956 (age 67) ( 1956-12-26 ) Genres Neue Deutsche WelleGerman music Associated acts Palais SchaumburgThomas FehlmannBilly MackenzieWolfgang Muller Albums Demixed, Oben im Eck / Ein Bundel Faulnis in der Grube Similar People Thomas Fehlmann, FM Einheit, Moritz von Oswald | ||
Biography of a song holger hiller oben im eck part 4
Holger Hiller (born 26 December 1956 in Hamburg) is a German musician.
Contents
- Biography of a song holger hiller oben im eck part 4
- Biography of a song holger hiller oben im eck part 1
- Discography
- with Palais Schaumburg
- Solo works and other projects
- References
Holger Hiller studied art at the Hochschule für bildende Künste in Hamburg, where he met Walter Thielsch and Thomas Fehlmann and recorded first works with them. With Fehlmann he later founded the band Palais Schaumburg in 1980, of which he was the singer. At the same time his solo career began. Hiller was one of the first musicians in Europe to use the sampler as his main or sole instrument.
From 1984 on he lived in London, eventually working as producer for Mute Records. In 1988 he recorded Ohi Ho Bang Bang with video artist Akiko Hada. The video shows Hiller and Karl Bonnie creating different sounds from every item in a room, from those sounds the song is made by means of cutting, whereas every sound is still in sync with the video footage of its creation. This transfer of sampling techniques from music to video might have been pioneering, only 10 years later it got popular with Timber by Coldcut who used custom-made software to create it.
Since 2003 Holger Hiller lives in Berlin, working as an English teacher.