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HAUSER PERSON

by Hermann Holsgr

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Persona I 00:19
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Misanthrop 04:11
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Æternoct 02:05
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Daumer 02:42
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Persona II 00:25
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Feral Mensch 03:07
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Rätsel 01:48
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about

“Here lies Kaspar Hauser, enigma of his time… mysterious his death.”

HAUSER PERSON is an electronic noise project inspired by the legendary life of the 19th-century German wild boy Kaspar Hauser, one of the most iconic feral childs in history.

The story of Kaspar Hauser is an immeasurable disgrace in itself, a crime of the human soul, as well said the German jurist Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach, author of the best document even written about Kaspar case.

On the quiet afternoon of 26th of May, 1828, a strange youth stumble in the streets of Nuremberg, looking at a fixed point and carrying a letter while constantly saying "Be a horseman, as my father was". Apparently, he could barely walk, and was incapable of speech and understanding anything that was said to him. He was, in addition, inexplicably able to write his name, Kaspar Hauser. He lived caught in a dungeon, surviving solely on dry bread and water (possibly tied up and doped with opium tincture), playing with two little horses made of wood. For ten long years there was only darkness around him.

First impressions on Kaspar Hauser detailed by Feuerbach:
“He appeared to hear without understanding, to see without observing any thing, and to move his legs without employing them for walking. His emotions were principally shewn by tears, expressive of pain, or unintelligible sounds (...)”.

“He did not seem to know, or to guess where he was, betrayed neither fear nor astonishment, nor embarrassment, but rather the stupidity of an animal which either does not observe exterior objects, or regards them without thinking of them, and without being excited by them. His tears and lamentations, which were always accompanied by signs, denoting the weariness of his legs, his uncouth manner, which, however, was innocent and childish, soon acquired for him the compassion of those who were present”.

July 1828: Feuerbach decided to take away Kaspar from public exhibition and he arranged to transferred him to the home and into the care of Georg Friedrich Daumer, a 28-year-old former teacher. With Daumer's civilized instruction, he learned to improve his almost nonexistent command of speech, draw, write, and he also began to distinguish between himself and others.

October 1829: Hauser was attacked by a masked man in the cellars of Professor Daumer's house; but he healed his wounds.

The Earl of Stanhope, an eccentric english nobleman, appeared as his new tutor. Soon, Lord Stanhope lost all interest in his ward, allowing to continue his miserable existence alongside Pastor Meyer.

December 1833: Kaspar was stabbed in the palace gardens of Ansbach by an unknown assassin. On his death bed, he reportedly gasped, “Many cats are the death of the mouse… Tired, very tired, still have to take a long trip.”

A truly mystery in his own terms.

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With this new project, I've just realized a personal metaphor of what real happened to this unfortunate waif juxtaposed to my perspective of life now and the direction has it taken through the years. And that's the concept of the whole album. I'm in the search of a complex personality who idealizes part of the forced disconnection that I feel with the rest of the people, some kind of an intermittent and shameless isolation as a result of undesired confrontations that I found when remembering the darker side of my past.

Silent isolation has been the main slogan of a lonely remote life. I'm partially paralyzed, and the way I can communicate what I feel is making atonal atmospheric soundscapes that sounds crackingly distorted and very chaotic in their purest form. The simple act of talking to let the other knows what I am never works for me. Kaspar tried to express his inner self through the melodies he played on a piano: the imprecise and finite verbiage didn't flow in him.

I want to share with you this agressively strident (featuring improvised heavy machine electronics and orchestrally constructed atmosphere) noise piece that I’ve carefully produced in memory of Kaspar and in praise of all the desolated human beings out there: the secluded and not alienated, the different and not understood… the invisible and thinkers too; all of those who always been refusing to live immersed in such a ruthless and ignorant society of today.

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“To be Kaspar Hauser is to long, at every moment of your dubious existence, with every fiber of your questionable being, not to be Kaspar Hauser. It’s to long to leave yourself completely behind, to vanish from your own sight. Does this surprise you? It is of course what you have taught me to desire. And I am a diligent student. With your help I have furnished myself inside and out. My thoughts are yours. These words are yours. Even my black and bitter tears are yours, for I shed them at the thought of the life I never had, which is to say, your life, ladies and gentlemen of Nuremberg. My deepest wish is not to be an exception. My deepest wish is not to be a curiosity, an object of wonder. It is to be unremarkable. To become you—to sink into you—to merge with you until you cannot tell me from yourselves; to be uninteresting; to be nothing at all; to experience the ecstasy of mediocrity—is it so much to ask? You who have helped me to advance so far, won’t you lead me to the promised land, the tranquil land of the ordinary, the banal, the boring? Not to be Kaspar Hauser, not to be the enigma of Europe, not to be the wild boy in the tower, the man without a childhood, the young man without a youth, the monster born in the middle of his life, but to be you, to be you, to be nothing but you! This is my vision of paradise. And although the very existence of such a vision reveals nothing so much as my distance, which widens into an abyss even as I try to fling myself across, still I am not without hope.”
— Steven Millhauser, Knife Thrower: And Other Stories


· Specialized material about Kaspar Hauser...

• Paul Johann Anselm Ritter von Feuerbach's 1832 essay 'Kaspar Hauser, Beispiel eines Verbrechens am Seelenleben des Menschen' ('Kaspar Hauser. An Account of an Individual Kept in a Dungeon, Separated from All Communication with the World, from Early Childhood to about the Age of Seventeen').

• Werner Herzog's film 'The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser' (Jeder für sich und Gott gegen alle in german; lit. Every Man for Himself and God Against All).

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“Gratitude and Contentment is the greatest worker of miracles. It transforms water into wine, grains of sand into pearls, raindrops into balsam, poverty into wealth, the smallest into the greatest, the most common to the most noble, earth into paradise.”
— Kaspar Hauser

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released July 17, 2020

linktr.ee/holsgr

RELEASE INFO : holsgr.tumblr.com/hauser-person

VISUALS:
ÆTERNOCT — youtu.be/gI6vLfDPyQ0
MISANTHROP — youtu.be/TyBAtoye8LI
FERAL MENSCH — vimeo.com/holsgr/feral-mensch
ZWEI HOLZPFERDE — youtu.be/tG-jo1MU0tQ

Album tracklist translated to english:
01. Persona I / Person I
02. Misanthrop / Misanthrope
03. Æternoct
04. Unschlittplatz: Nürnberg, 1828 / Unschlitt Square: Nuremberg, 1828
05. Gesellschaftliche Isolation / Social Isolation
06. Daumer / Daumer
07. Zwei Holzpferde / Two Wooden Horses
08. Verletzter Baum / Injured Tree
09. Persona II / Person II
10. Kaspar, Großherzorg von Baden / Kaspar, Duke of Baden
11. Homo Homini Lupus Est / A man is a wolf to another man
12. Feral Mensch / Wild Human
13. Innerer Kampf / Inner Struggle
14. Rätsel / Enigma
15. Dankbarkeit und Zufriedenheit / Gratitude and contentment
16. Verbrechens am Seelenleben / Crime Against The Soul
17. Hauser Symphonie / Hauser Symphony

BONUS TRACK:
Waldeinsamkeit / german word without translation


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Hermann Holsgr produces improvised avant-garde ambient music focusing on electronic harsh noise, atmospheric dark drone and lo-fi orchestral sounds.
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