Hoving

I make ambient music in the tensor field between downtempo and postrock.

https://linktr.ee/hoving

For any inquiries, including booking, contact hovingmusic@gmail.com

Dez 04 2021 // Hoving x LÆR // Kulturzentrum Dieselstraße // Esslingen DE Nov 17 2021 // Hoving Vinyl DJ Set // Neue Oper e.V. // Stuttgart DE Sep 11 2021 // Shedhalle e.V. Summer Festival 2021 // Shedhalle // Tübingen DE Sep 5 2021 // Hoving x Thomas Bieniek x Abdalhade Deb x Goat in the Shell // Kultur Kiosk // Stuttgart DE [cancelled] Mar 19 2021 // Tiny Window Concert (Tiny Window Sessions, recorded in Jan ‘21 at Kultur Kiosk // Stream*, global Oct 30 2020 // Das Ende der Musik // Kultur Kiosk // Stuttgart DE Oct 17 2020 // Unter Beobachtung (STR Metro Art Festival Finissage) // Kunstverein Wagenhalle e.V. // Stuttgart DE Sep 19 2020 // Art-YOYO (an ArtWalk Stuttgart Vernissage) // Café YOYO // Stuttgart DE Sep 16 2020 // Map & Fold Concerts Ep. 3 (Visuals by timodufner) // Schlachthaus // Tübingen DE Sep 3 2020 // AUSKLANG x Hoving Live Ambient/Postrock // Zionskirche Prenzlauer Berg // Berlin DE Aug 6 2020 // Stuttgart am Meer 2020 (Live vor den Treppen Series) // Stadtpalais // Stuttgart DE Aug 2 2020 // Inter:Genre No. 1 // Kultur Kiosk // Stuttgart DE Jul 25 2020 // Art-YOYO (an ArtWalk Stuttgart Vernissage) // Café YOYO // Stuttgart DE Jan 17 2020 // The Art of Noise (Hoving meets Korb) // Stadtpalais // Stuttgart DE Nov 30 2019 // Meet & Beep No. 3 // AKK Club // Karlsruhe DE Aug 28 2019 // Ambient Garden Edition 1 // Secret Location (courtesy of Michael Fiedler) // Kornwestheim DE Jul 10 2019 // Division of the LOST PLACE SOUNDSYSTEM (incl. Hoving) // Romantica // Stuttgart DE

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Hoving is the ambient and postrock project of Stuttgart based artist Thomas Kiefer. Although he has played the guitar since his youth, he has always had an affinity for electronic music. The shift in his tastes towards ambient music some ten years ago eventually lead to the conception of Hoving in mid-2017. Interwoven with his music is a continuing passion for photography, visible in his track and album artwork.

With an explorative approach in mind, Hoving's goal is to musically map the field between electronic, acoustic, and organic sounds. In doing so, he almost exclusively uses hardware synths and grooveboxes in addition to conventional and unconventional instruments. This hands-on way of making music allows him to mostly work away from the confines of computer screens and to let his creativity flow naturally. The result is an often somber, intricate, and complex sound, but one which is always calm.

The first EP "A Primer on the Properties of Air" serves as a musical introduction to Hoving, mimicking the atmospheric changes of differing altitudes and offering a journey through wide soundscapes and uncanny valleys. All four tracks were produced without the use of a computer and recorded live, partially in his home, but also on trains.

Since then, Hoving has collaborated with other producers from Berlin and the Stuttgart area, and has performed live at Stuttgart's Stadtpalais, Zionskirche church in Berlin, and at Schlachthaus Tübingen amongst others.

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