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Frank Niehusmann studied philosophy and history at the Ruhr-University in Bochum/Germany (MA degree in 1986);

1983-1998 he was author, presenter and producer of radio- and tv-broadcastings in Germany.

In the year 1978 he started his first experiments with electronic music; since that time he composed music for numerous concerts, mixed-media events, sound-installations, experimental videos, tv, radio broadcasts, theatre- and CD-productions.

Performances of his works took place in Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Romania, Spain, Turkey and the USA.

Frank Niehusmann received scholarships

  • 1992 at "Schloss Wiepersdorf" in Brandenburg/Germany
  • 2004 at the "ZKM" Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe/Germany.

He was honored with several awards:

  • 1997 at the competition of "Forum Geschichtskultur an Ruhr und Emscher", Dortmund/Germany, for his audio-visual composition "Heimat & Antarktis",
  • 1998 at the festival "Blicke aus dem Ruhrgebiet" in Bochum/Germany for the music video "Emscher Park Overdrive" (collaboration with Arnd Stein),
  • 2000 at the festival "Theaterzwang" in Dortmund/Germany for the multi-media play "Mama" (collaboration with Rolf Dennemann),
  • 2002 at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art in Bourges/France for his composition "Untertagemusik Nr.1",
  • 2004 at the "European Bell Festival 2004" in Karlsruhe/Germany with the commissioned work "WAS DA LOS IST",
  • 2006 at the ZKM-competition "Short Cuts: Beauty" in the frame of the "ISCM world new music festival" in Stuttgart/Germany for his composition "Gasometer",
  • 2006 at the "PHONURGIA NOVA" radio art competition for the radio play "Maschinen - ein Hörspiel" (collaboration with Karl-Heinz Mauermann).

2000-2002 he was member of the executive committee of "artscenico e.V." (theatre, dance and multimedia productions, international projects)
[ http://www.artscenico.de ].

Since 2006 Frank Niehusmann is member of the executive committee of the German Association for Electroacoustic Music DEGEM ("Deutsche Gesellschaft für Elektroakustische Musik e.V.")
[ http://www.degem.de ].

Frank Niehusmann's CDs are available via international mail order from
[ http://www.NurNichtNur.com ]
Further CDs including works by Frank Niehusmann are published by
Cybele Records [ http://www.cybele.de ]
and Schott Music's "cdartist"-series [ http://www.cdartist.de ]