# Harvard Studio for Electroacoustic Composition Presents Farewell HYDRA Concerts for Professor Hans Tutschku November 24, 2025 - [ Department News ](/news-categories/department-news) The Harvard University Department of Music and the Harvard Studio for Electroacoustic Composition (HUSEAC) are thrilled to announce four upcoming concerts utilizing the HYDRA Loudspeaker Orchestra System, to honor the upcoming retirement of **Professor Hans Tutschku**, Director of HUSEAC. The concerts will take place **Friday, December 12 – Sunday, December 14 in John Knowles Paine Concert Hall.** The concerts are free and open to the public. Tickets to all concerts may be reserved in advance through [Eventbrite](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/huseac-presents-hydra-tickets-1865422953269?aff=pressrelease). **Performances:** Friday, December 12 at 7:30pm Saturday, December 13 at 7:30pm Saturday, December 13 at 10:00pm Sunday, December 14 at 7:30pm Join us for a pivotal moment in sonic history as Professor Hans Tutschku curates his final weekend of HYDRA concerts as HUSEAC Director. Friday and Saturday’s performances will feature new works composed by the students of Professor Tutschku’s *Storytelling with Sounds* (Music 167) and *Composing with Max/MSP* (Music 264) classes. Sunday’s event will be a special farewell portrait concert featuring multichannel works by Hans Tutschku and a performance by violinist Gabby Diaz. [**RESERVE TICKETS**](https://www.eventbrite.com/e/huseac-presents-hydra-tickets-1865422953269?aff=pressrelease)**.** **About HYDRA:** The HYDRA loudspeaker orchestra system is a sound system designed for the performance of electroacoustic music with or without the participation of instrumentalists. A loudspeaker orchestra consists of loudspeakers distributed throughout a performance space used for the spatial diffusion of an electroacoustic work. HYDRA is comprised of 40 loudspeakers placed all around the concert hall, distributed both horizontally and vertically, in order to provide a wide range of sound planes and perspectives. A single digital mixing console with 32 faders creates the possibility to control in real time the individual loudspeakers, or groups of them, which are especially configured for each work performed. **About Hans Tutschku:** **Hans Tutschku** has composed music for film, theatre, and ballet as well as instrumental and electroacoustic music. He has also conceived several sound installations, interactive sound sculptures, and published articles on sound diffusion. A main focus of Tutschku’s work is improvisation with live-electronics, and he is regularly invited to give lectures and workshops on this topic. He has toured more than 30 countries with his Ensemble für Intuitive Musik Weimar, and with the Ensemble, has realized many multimedia productions, often creating the projected images and choreography for dance as well as the music. Tutschku studied electroacoustic composition in Dresden, and between 1989 and 1991 accompanied Karlheinz Stockhausen on several concert tours for the purpose of studying sound diffusion. In 1991 he attended the international one-year course in sonology at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where he worked primarily in the field of digital sound processing. He spent one year studying at IRCAM in Paris (1994), and in 1995 participated in composition workshops with Klaus Huber and Brian Ferneyhough. Tutschku taught electroacoustic composition at IRCAM in Paris from 1997–2001 and at the conservatory of Montbéliard from 2001–2004. He finished a DEA (master in musicology) at the Parisian Sorbonne and completed his PhD in Composition with Professor Dr. Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham in UK in 2003. The same year he was the Edgard Varèse Gast Professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. Tutschku joined the faculty in 2004 and has since overseen the total renovation of the HUSEAC studios, which were completed in 2005. He also conceived the 40-loudspeaker diffusion system HYDRA, which has been presented in numerous concerts on campus and in Boston. He has also served as a jury member of several international composition competitions and is the recipient of many international composition prizes: Bourges, Hanns-Eisler-Preis, CIMESP Sao Paulo, Prix Ars Electronica, Prix Musica Nova, and Prix Noroit. In 2005 Tutschku received the culture prize of the city of Weimar. 2013 he held a Fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and 2014 a Stipend from the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission. Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#)