Curriculum Vitae of Hans Timmermans.

Hans Timmermans was born on 5 October 1951 at Vlissingen (the Netherlands).
He started playing the church-organ at the age of 11.
He started playing the piano at the age of 14.
He graduated from Highschool (in Dutch 5 jarige HBS-B) in 1969.
He was introduced to electronic music by his Math-teacher in 1967.
He started experimenting with taperecorders, microphones, acoustic and instrumental sounds.

He studied experimental and technological physics at Utrecht University from 1969 to 1976 and was appointed as a researcher at the Physics Lab of Utrecht University in may 1976.
He was teaching electronics and did research on bio-molecular physics (radiation damaging processes) and advanced signalanalysis in the field of chaotic signals and low density optical fields (astronomy, biophysics and radar).

From 1981 he studied piano with Fenny Hoepelman and musictheory with Jaap de Haan.
From 1983 he studied Composition of Electronic music at Utrecht Conservatory with Ton Bruynèl.

In 1985 he was appointed as a lecturer and researcher at Utrecht Conservatory and worked at the new department Musictechnology as researcher, lecturer, consultant, coördinator and finaly as assistent dean of the new faculty of Art, Media and Technology of Utrecht School of the Arts.

From 1991 he is working as a senior lecturer in this department teaching repertoire and history of electronic music and computermusic, composition techniques of electronic music and computermusic, computerscience, programming and softwaredevelopment, mathematics, software sythesistechniques and digital signal processing.
He is teaching Composition of Electronic Music and Computer Music as a main subject.
He is teaching Music Software Development as a main subject.

From 1985 to 1990 he trained studiotechnicians, composers, teachers of musicschools, retailers of electronic music equipment, music amateurs, softwaredevelopers, publishers etc.
He was consulant for a number of Dutch companies varying from musicpublishers to developers of computer aided education software.

In 1989 his book "MIDI, Music and Computer (theory and practice)" was published in Dutch by Kluwer Technical Books, this book was the first book about MIDI in the Netherlands and was aimed at professionals, experienced amateurs and beginners.
The book was published in Germany by Elektor Verlag in 1990.

From 2001 - 2004 he was working on MEDIATE, a European (IST -FP5) R&D-project in which an Interactive Installation for Children with Autism was developed.

His music is mainly music for 'tape-solo' and pieces for singer or instruments and live electronics.
His main interest is combining algoritmic techniques with interactive composition and studio-composition.
He develops his own software in C++.

He is currently working on a Compositon Environment for his own use.
This Composition (and Production software) has been used for his recent works.