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Harald Günter Kainer (born 1985 in Hartberg, Styria) is an Austrian musician and audiovisual artist.

Biography
After finishing the Musikgymnasium Dreihackengasse he moved to Graz to study composition and music theory with Clemens Gadenstätter at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Concurrently, he was a guitar student at the Johann-Joseph-Fux-conservatoire and attended lessons in composition with the composer Clemens Nachtmann.

After graduating with honors he started the masters program in composition of electro acoustic music with Marko Ciciliani at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz (short: IEM) and completed with distinction again.

In 2016 he received the "Science Award of the City of Graz" (formerly the "Dr.-Karl-Böhm-Scholarship") for his musical activities and in 2018 the Start-Scholarship for Composition of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (formerly Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture).

Currently Kainer is based in Berlin (Germany) and Styria (Austria).

Music and Sound Art
Kainer gained his first stage experiences with bands and ensembles as a guitarist. After first performances of instrumental pieces, he increasingly incorporated both digital and analogue technology into his compositional work, resulting in various fixed-media compositions and pieces with live electronics.

Kainer's audio-visual composition repaint! (for 24 Speakers and Video Projection) was played in many venues and festivals, such as ZKM Karlsruhe, Sonorities Festival Belfast, Ars Electronica Linz , Echoraum Vienna , Künstlerhaus Graz.

Conceptually, his works are usually based on an intensive examination of the theme of space. On this basis, he composed fixed-media compositions like falter for 40 channels and 72 loudspeakers, firstly played at the IEM Graz.

Another focus of Kainer's work is the creation of sound and video installations and sound sculptures. In his interactive installations, he also uses concrete materials such as metal and glass, for instance construction no.10 presented at the Kunsthaus Graz.

Theatre and Performing Art
After Berlin became his second place of work, Kainer became increasingly involved in scenic productions. He acts as an improvisational musician, performer and composer in several productions. Since 2016, there has been a continuing collaboration with the theater group minuseins, whose production Das House was invited to the Berliner Theatertreffen 2021. With the project forced theatre (initiated by the stage director Ute Rauwald), Kainer is involved in performances and exhibitions on the topic of sexism, among other venues also presented at Kampnagel Hamburg in 2016 and 2018.