“Music is a kind of language for my feelings and a replacement of words that I can’t speak out in any other way. I didn’t find words for some events in my life for such a long time and music was the only way to communicate them, to create means of communication with the inner- and outside-world. Music as a constant work in progress that serves as a liberation of mind.."

"Hanne Adam, born and grown up in Hamburg in 1977, now living and working in Berlin already began very early practising music on piano, guitar and drums. She played drums in bands and later taught it. She started her first solo-recordings on an 8-track-taperecorder in the early 90's. In 1996 she integrated computer-technology and virtual instruments and her own vocals to create her first downtempo-trip-hop music. Intense experiments on hard- and software involved transformations of sounds and samples to click and cut-elements that have become a relevant basis for the rhythmic and percussive tracks in her whole work. Recently she re-concentrated on sound-design (an integral part of her former studies) and experimental structures and textures leading to electronica and IDM, to experimental and ambient music. In addition, many collaborations such as remixes and multimedial projects are part of Hanne's complex musical carrier. EXurban is her constant site-project.
Photography, web- and graphicdesign, filmproduction, drawing and writing poetry are further of high importance in her life ...


T. Raukamp (Beat magazine) about my work:

"I am still surprised to learn that even some of my closest fellow netaudio enthusiasts never heard the name of Hanne Adam or her musical solo project 'adamned.age'. To me, Hanne is one of the most important and creative figures of an ever evolving scene, that still hasn't reached it's limits - and so hasn't Hanne. When I first discovered her music, I was attracted by the fine sound design art that runs through all of her works. While cold at first glance, all her compositions are never repellent, in fact they contain a common hypnotic element that opens the door to deeper and deeper explorations that will never let you go again.
Like every great composer Hanne is an extremely fine observer, an attribute she also lives out in her work as a photographer. Together with her 'partner in crime' Tanja Dovens, better known as 'Die Minimalistin' to some lovers of fascinating drones and soundscapes, she is a part of Berlin's 'Urban Exploration' scene, where she haunts in abandoned places in the eastern part of the city, which by now haven't been found by investors or carpetbaggers to turn those pearls into money making appartments or expensive spas for the upper class of Germany's lavish reborn capital. The pictures Hanne takes as well as the feelings she carries home convert to sounds, melodies and compositions that give these places an everlasting memorial far beyond the mere photographic moment.
But there is another driving, darker force behind Hannes Adam's music and her often abstact and bleak sound design: Pain, whether physical or emotional, has been a constant companion on her path through life and art. "Music sometimes was the only language that gave that pain a voice, the only thing that literally kept me in this life", she confessed during a conversation we had in November 2009. It is in these precious moments of composing, of feeling that special occasion when a very private emotion transforms into a sound, when Hanne enters into a world without constant struggle and forgets about the defeats she suffers against enemies she can't win against in her real life. It might be considered a sweet irony of her life that it is this pain, that actually leads her to her highest artistical summits. And her wise smile showed me she knows about this antagonism very well.
It is my pleasure to witness one of the most precious jewels of today's netaudio scene... Enjoy every sound, beat and emotion this musical giant has for you."

Other's talking about me:

"..there is something transcendent about Hanne Adam’s musical project. And of all the many acts I have heard online, she is perhaps the most worthy of some kind of professional recognition... Where some artists have resorted to cheap tricks or machismo, Hanne Adam contrinues to sketch her portrait in the world of music with painstaking detail. She is a worthy artist, and one who unites critics, until all or nearly all agree that she has achieved something noteworthy with her work."

"..By now, her work is thoroughly meticulous, full of a clinical precision and focus on the feelings she’s presenting.."

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