Short biography
Harald Muenz
Composition
March, April, May 2026
Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur des Landes Brandenburg
Harald Muenz is a German-Italian composer and sound artist specialising in experimental music, audiovisual art, and performance. Through his work, he explores language, cultural identity, and diversity, reflecting on implicit social issues, prejudices, and communicative contradictions. He transcends traditional new music practices by combining acoustic elements with language, video, and imagery to create experimental spaces of perception.
His score-based works have been performed internationally by ensembles such as Mosaik, auditivvokal, hand werk, Apartment House, Modern and musikFabrik. They have been broadcast by the BBC, Deutschlandfunk, DLF Kultur, HR, WDR & SWR. A portrait CD entitled ‘nearly-fast’ was released on the Coviello label (Ensemble Mosaik).
Thanks to his focus on phonetic composition, Muenz frequently collaborates with experimental poets, including Florian Neuner, Mathias Traxler and Cristian Forte. As a multilingual performer, he is best known for his work with the trio sprechbohrer.
Together with Benjamin Grau & Schlax, he forms the trio in feral, which is dedicated to live electronic music in an experimental tradition. He performs in the duo Fake Music Association with extreme vocalist Bettina Wenzel. Under the name 'Cuirec d'Erc', he creates interactive sound installations in the metaverse and is an active member of the Avatar Orchestra Metaverse on the Second Life VR platform.
