Marty Hackl

Violin

I have a background in the arts as a classically trained violinist. A student of Milton Preves and Adia Ghertovici, I received my Bachelor of Music degree in Violin Performance in 1979 from DePaul University.

While at DePaul, I also studied composition, and electronic music composition with Raymond Wilding-White.  In a now obsolete genre (that was before computers!), I composed many electronic compositions for tape as soundtracks for young avant garde filmmakers, some of which were shown at regional film festivals and on public television in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

I then did two years of graduate studies at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University and the American Conservatory of Music in Violin Pedagogy and orchestral repertoire, until the death of my teacher and mentor, Adia Ghertovici.

I have performed as a soloist and as a section player with many orchestras and ensembles throughout the Chicago area for over 25 years. I am active as a chamber musician and recitalist.  I served as concertmaster of the Lake Shore Symphony of Chicago for 10 concert seasons. My other symphony engagements include the Civic Orchestra of Chicago,  The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra, the Northwest Indiana Symphony, the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Light Opera Works, the Elgin Symphony, the Lake Forest Symphony and the Rockford Symphony.

During that time, I have also taught violin privately for over 20 years and now teach young intermediate, advanced students and adults.

I now teach in the Oak Park area, and take students throughout the Chicago metropolitan region.

I can be reached by e-mail at:  MartyHacklViolin@re-building.com

Recordings for solo violin

Bela Bartok - Duo # 36 - Bagpipes

(Many tapes have been lost, others should have been lost - but then this was a time of experimentation not imitation.  Here are some samples.)

Squeak Fart (4/77)  - For dance on film;  Moog synthesizer and tape

Missing the Point (excerpt) (2/79);  Moog synthesizer with ping-pong echo

Improvisation (excerpt) (6/80);  electric violin with repeating tape-echo performed live (real time) with dancers on stage. (Very cool, but very strange to hear your sound keep coming back at you! Both the dancers and violin were improvised together.)

Prairie Dog Song (6/80);  electric violin performed live with dancers on stage.

Rings of Saturn (6/81) - for film;  violin modified with ring modulator and slowed

The Rainbow (6/81) - sound effect for film;  Inside piano, whistle and viola

24T (7/81) - sound effect for film;  Percussion, guitar harmonica

Ice Nine (11/81) - sound effect for film;  Wine Glass (glass harmonica)

Brother Whale (12/81) - for dance on film;  Violin and violin with echo

Dandelions (12/81) - sound effect for dance and animation on film  misc. sounds

Disco There (excrpt) (4/82) - Korg Mini Synthesizer

Whatever It Is (excerpt) (12/78) - sound effect for stage Moog Synthesizer

Propaganda (3/80) - for film Backwards guitar

Evolution of a Species (8/82) (in 5 parts):  Composition for tape:  Pre-programmed random and manually manipulated, frequency modulated Korg Mini Synthesizer and sounds.

1: Mass Production,  2: Mass Energy Equation