Simon Bahr was born in 1994 in Hamburg, Germany. He studied
musicology and philosophy in Bonn and currently studies composition
with Michael Edwards and Dietrich Hahne at Folkwang University of
the Arts in Essen, Germany. In addition, he participated in courses
by Mark Applebaum, Franck Bedrossian, Ann Cleare, Misato Mochizuki
and Alwynne Pritchard. His music was played at ZKM Karlsruhe,
Philharmonie Essen, Academy of Arts Berlin, Crossroads Festival
Salzburg and Novalis Festival Osijek, amongst other venues. He was
awarded the Bernd Alois Zimmermann scholarship by the city of
Cologne in 2022.
While and besides composing he busies himself with sonorous and
non-sonorous findings from the internet, singing computers and the
loudspeaker as cult object. Deterministic algorithmic processes as
well as glitch are central to his practice. He tries to always put
abstract structures in the service of clear musical ideas. The
laptop is his most important composition tool. With it he also
occasionally improvises alone and in groups, e. g. at NOW!-Festival
in Essen and at domicil in Dortmund.