Dr Hein Schoer
Dr Hein Schoer is a soundscaper and a musician.
For his UNESCO-approved Sounding Museum research project he has worked with the ‘Namgis First Nation in Alert Bay, BC, and the NONAM (North America Native Museum) in Zürich, resulting in the soundscape composition “Two Weeks in Alert Bay” (2010) and the boxed book/DVD/CD set “Box of Treasures” (2014).
Hein is active in research, education, and art, often combining the three. He has conducted research and taught at Fontys School for Fine and Performing Arts (Tilburg, NL), Maastricht University (NL), Hochschule Darmstadt (GER), the NONAM, the AMS (Aktives Museum Spiegelgasse, Wiesbaden, GER) and as a pedagogical coach at a vocational schhol, a youth penitentiary and a training centre for socially challenged adolescents and the long term unemployed.
Since 2020 he is working as a political officer on children’s rights and social statistics at the Ministry for Social Affairs of Hesse, Germany.
Also in 2020 he joined the Treatied Spaces Research Group as a soundscape composer and consultant for the Brightening the Covenant Chain research project (BTCC) covering historic relations of the Haudenosaunee and the British Crown and the reality of Haudenosaunee life and culture today.
