A rich artistic stew
Hans Tutschku often can be found in his sound studio in Paine Hall, composing by using a complex system of computers, mixers, synthesizers, and turntables that meld traditional acoustic music with prerecorded sound. But Tutschku’s diverse creative impulses reach well beyond the electroacoustic realm. Tutschku, who is Harvard’s Fanny P. Mason Professor of Music and director of Harvard’s Studio for Electroacoustic Composition, is indulging his fascination with the visual arts as part of a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. “I am getting constantly this question of what my profession is, and I am constantly evading an answer,” said Tutschku, a child of musicians who was born and raised in East Germany, during an interview in the airy Byerly Hall gallery at Radcliffe. “Officially I am a composer, and that is probably what I am doing most. But I studied theater. I have done a lot with photography, with pottery...