Volker Heyn
* 1938 in Karlsruhe / Germany

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1960 emigration to Australia ... part-time work, shift-work in the steel industry ... there first encounter with sounds of the "metallic kind" ... strong impressions ... purchase of a then still rather primitive tape machine. Experiments with the so-called hard and soft edges of reverberating metal", intense observation of the unaccountable non-lyrical as well as poetical aspects of at-random sound events. Credo: "poetry in noise" ... Continuation of these studies until about 1964.

1961-63 studies at Savitzkys Actors School Melbourne ... Member of a traveling theatre company ... productions including music theatre.

1966-70 guitar studies with Antonio Losada Sydney ... music theory with Don Andrews at the Sydney Conservatory. 1972 return to Europe ... continued studies [guitar] until 1977 at Musikhochschule Karlruhe, Germany ... studies in composition with Werner Eugen Velte ... member of the "Gruppe for Kreative Musik" founded by himself

1975 first activities in composition ... most of these works lost ... since 1978 freelance composer.