Ralf Hoyer

Ralf Hoyer (born 1950 in Berlin) is a German composer and sound artist. Hoyer's versatile new music oeuvre includes works for chamber ensembles, choir, orchestra, chamber opera, as well as electronic, electro-acoustic and multi-media pieces. Hoyer grew up in East Berlin where he worked as a sound engineer for the GDR record company VEB Deutsche Schallplatten in the late 1970s while studying composition at the Academy of Arts. In the 1980s, he wrote primarily chamber, vocal and electronic music as well as works for theatre. After 1990, his interests shifted towards sound and multi-media installations, and he went on to produce a number of electro-acoustic pieces, some of them conceived for spatial multi-channel diffusion.