Criticism
Hauke Harder is both a composer and physicist, Blake and Newton in one person, if you will. This fact is something that Harder has always presented as essentially accidental. This fact has sometimes made composers and musicians a bit nervous, suspicious of the program behind his programs. A large part of this nervousness is surely just the anxiety most citizens feel about science: they do not understand it but believe it to be true. This is just a modern substitute of the fear of God felt by all of our ancestors. In truth, though, Harder’s vision should rather make physicists nervous: his is an assertion that the aesthetic, with qualities incomprehensible to the rational eye and ear, also has a part, indeed the vital part, in the life of the mind.
- Knut Nieves, Wolfgang von Schweinitz (1996). Kulturamt d. Landeshauptstadt Kiel; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof. ed. Punto e Basta: Hauke Harder / Stephan Ullmann. Kiel. ISBN 978-3-927979-43-7.
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