Thelonious Hamel

about

Thelonious Hamel is a multidisciplinary musician, composer and performance artist currently based between the south of Germany and Salzburg, Austria. He has gained a lot of experience as a film music composer, in the collective of festival organisation and in work for installations. Thelonious developed an organic style between electro acoustic, sound design, clarinet playing and experimental musically approach that flows together, so the recipient and the communicator are in a fluid exchange. The aim is always to explore the space and the environment in the resonance field, to question, to ask questions and to build bridges. The music can be understood as the artist would like to disappear, opening a space with each other for the other. At the moment he is working on his solo album besides film music, duo performances with his father Peter Michael Hamel and a performance trio ‚Imbraiserhed‘. He has been honoured with several international awards, especially for his remarkable film scores.

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Thelonious Hamel, MA born in 1997, a versatile musician and composer, has extensive experience in performances, film music and installations. His organic-experimental style combines electro-acoustic music, sound design and clarinet in a flowing exchange that creates space for reflection and dialogue. He graduated at the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences in Multimedia Art (Master’s degree) in January 2024.

Alongside performing and composing, Thelonious is part of Performing Sound Salzburg and The Factory Free Art Space Salzburg. He supports and, in past years, was also part of the team at Unsafe+Sounds Festival and Struma & Iodine.

Releases

latest:

26/01/2025 ‚prerain‚

28/01/2025 ‚scjöm‚

Contact

Mail:

sound@thelonioushamel.de

live performances & concerts

current

Echoes of the Displaced | with Jenny Szabo aka tanzkabuff

IDN | Solo | 24.06.2025 | with Gatot Danar Sulistiyanto

IDN | Yogyakarta | 17.06.2025 | SURVIVE GARAGE! Keep the Fire on

IDN | Lombok | 31.05.2025 | SFNLabs | invited by Reza Ashari

IDN | Lombok | 27.05.2025 | Gebyar Seni Tradisi Taman Budaya NTB Traditional Ethnic Festival 27, 28, 29 May 2025

IDN | Yogyakarta | 10.05.2025 Jogja Noise Bombing Fest 2025

past (excerpt)

DE 13.03.2025 „Zeit für Neue Musik Festival Bayreuth“, Bayreuth | Music: Peter Michael, Johnny & Thelonious Hamel | Visuals: Elisa Visca

Continuous Creation live in Bayreuth

AT 14.02.2024 Vernissage Opening at Galerie 5020, Salzburg | Live-Hybrid Set

AT 03.10.24 Galerie Eröffnung Museum der Moderne Rupertinum | DJ/Hybrid

AT 15.07.24 Factory Free Art Space Performance ehem. City Center | Solo

DE 06.07.24 concert in Hausen (DE) with Peter Michael Hamel & Elisa Visca (Visuals) | concert

AT 28.06.24 concert 2Ghosts3 Performance Galerie 5020 | with Didi Neidhart

AT 12.06.24 DeFactor Opening Perfromance Zwergalgarten Pavilion | Solo

AT 12.03.24 Imbraiserhed (Band) Konzert Rockhouse Salzburg | Band

AT 22.01.24 Duo Performance Literaturhaus Salzburg | Duo

AT 30.11.23 Galerie Eröffnung Museum der Moderne Rupertinum | DJ

AT 19.03.23 Performing Sound Performance Galerie 5020 | Solo

FR 23.06.23 live at Superspectives, Lyon with Peter Michael Hamel | concert

movie (small excerpt)

currently screened:

Dokumentation | Am Ende der Welt

Original Score

Director & Edit // Christoph Amort
Concept // Christoph Amort, Oliver Rienzner
Producer // EUTOPIAFILM, Oliver Rienzner
Camera // Constanze Radak, O. Rienzner, C. Amort
Grading // Felix Seitlinger
Score // Thelonious Hamel
Animation // Florian Weiermann
Graphics // Renaldo Rohrmoser

Special Thanks to // Fachhochschule Salzburg, Land Tirol, Tatjana & her Family, Anastasia S., Anton Simkin, Ramona Rakic, Aleksey T., Discover Yamal, Jasmin Bachmann, Kollektiv Senfblau

Mach Mal

Original Score | in collaboration with Jakob Vasak
Kollektiv Senfblau, 2022

Awards:
Design for Good/ Motion/ Film Craft – Young Ones ADC [us]
Craft/ Use of Sound & Music (Official Selection) – Berlin Commercial

Das feine Zirpen einer Dunkelziffer

(Silent chirping of invisible digits)

Original Score

Regie, Buch, Kamera, Schnitt, Produktion: Vera Sebert

Screenings:

Worldpremiere at Annecy Festival 2023

Österreichpremiere: Diagonale 2024

Komm, wir gehen.

Original Score | in collaboration with Jakob Vasak
Directed by Anna Unterweger, 2021

Awards:
Best Original Score – Berlin Indie Film Festival

Dreaming Moria | Documentary

Original Score | feat. collaboration with Mahsa Vahdat

Cast //
Amir Ali Mohammadi, Ahmad Ershad Mahdiyar
Amir Motamedi, Massiullah Habibzai
Nazanin Froghi, Masoomeh Hosseini
Sayyed Nouraddin Mousavi, Yaser Akbari

Producer // Luca-Emilia Dingl, Oliver Rienzner, Constanze Radak
Director & Edit // Oliver Rienzner
Camera // Constanze Radak, Lukas Ignaz Halder
On Set Recording & Sound Design // Francesco S. Zecchin
Score // Thelonious Hamel
Sound Mixing // Matthias Ermert
Colorist // Franz Brandl

Special Thanks to // Amir Ali, FH Salzburg, rfo, Yoga and Sports for Refugees, reFOCUS Media Labs, One Happy Family, Movement on the Ground

Goldfisch Im Hamsterrad

Original Score | in collaboration with Jakob Vasak
Kollektiv Senfblau, 2022

Awards:
2nd Place – Go Mental! International Short Film Festival
Best Student Film – Festival of Nations

Be Unbreakable

Original Score | in collaboration with Jakob Vasak
Kollektiv Senfblau, 2020

Awards:
Student/ Best overall production – New York Festivals [us]
Silver Cube – Young Ones Student Awards [us]
Cultural Impact – Berlin Commercial (Shortlist)

theater

in work, more follows soon..

Band/Trio Imbraiserhed

latest concert: Support for Forest Swords live at Rockhouse Salzburg | AT | 12.03.2024

installation

upcoming:

MENGELE ZOO – Eine interaktive 3D-Installation | Eine Produktion von Jenny Szabo aka tanzkabuff in der ArgeKultur Salzburg 27.-29.03.2025

„Ist Gewalt im Namen des Klimas legitim? Eine Sabotageaktion hat öffentliche Infrastruktur lahmgelegt und gefühlt sind alle müde von Klimaprotesten, Klimaschutz und Widerstand – oder?

MENGELE ZOO ist keine Installation zur Klimakrise, sondern eine Kommunikationserfahrung rund um Protest, Widerstand und zivilem Ungehorsam. Es ist ein Spiel ohne Konsole, denn Sprache, Zuhören und Rätsellösen sind unsere Werkzeuge. Die Teilnehmer*innen schlüpfen in unterschiedliche Charaktere, diskutieren über Formen des Widerstands und formen dadurch die digitale 3D-Welt um sich herum.“

TICKETS

Konzept und 3D-Umgebung Jenny Szabo / tanzkabuff
Kreative Mitarbeit und Sound Thelonious Hamel
Szenografie Resa Lut

past (excerpt):

MNEME at Forum 1 | in collaboration with Nina Vasilchenko

Erinnerungen sind flüchtig und doch tief in uns verankert. Sie verändern sich mit der Zeit, formen unsere Identität und beeinflussen, wie wir die Welt um uns wahrnehmen. Doch wie lassen sich Erinnerungen – etwas so Unsichtbares und Abstraktes – künstlerisch greifbar machen?
MNEME ist ein Experiment, das genau dieser Frage nachgeht.

Die Installation verbindet visuelle, auditive und räumliche Elemente, um die Komplexität von Erinnerungen zu erforschen.
Diese Installation verzichtet bewusst auf einfache Antworten. Stattdessen lädt sie dazu ein, sich in die Unschärfe des Erinnerns zu vertiefen, eigene Reflexionen anzustoßen und eine neue Perspektive auf die Rolle der Vorstellungskraft und die Rekonstruktion von Erinnerungen zu gewinnen. Eröffnung: 14. November 2024, 19:00 Uhr, Ort: Forum 1, Salzburg, Dauer: 15. – 24. November Mo-Fr: 14:00 – 19:00 Sa: 12:00 – 17:00 So: geschlossen

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Hypha | an interactive multi-medial installation | with Veit Vergara & Max Wöß

workshop (excerpt)

current:

past:

07.-11.04. 2025

Billy und Bella Kinder Kreativ Woche | 5-16 Jahren | Kunstvermittlung, Schlösschen Vorder-Bleichenberg, Asylweg 15, 4562 Biberist | CHE

Anmeldung: „Klingende Werkstatt – Bau dein eigenes Instrument“

past:

DE | 10.03.2023 Tage der Bayerischen Schulmusik inkls. concert with Peter Michael Hamel |

Musikhochschule Munich

DE | 06.03.2020 | Tage der Bayerischen Schulmusik | Musikhochschule Munich