Holger HoosHolger Hoos fell under the spell of the heckelphone as a teenager, but then had to wait for over three decades before acquiring one of the fewer than 200 specimens known to have ever existed. Meanwhile, he studied the bassoon with Benedikt Manemann, ichael Held and Heiko Dechert, but then decided to pursue an academic career in computer science, where part of his work has been on topics in computer music.He now holds an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship in Artificial Intelligence at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), as well as a professorship in machine learning at Universiteit Leiden (The Netherlands) and an adjunct professorship in computer science at the University of British Columbia (Canada). Since 2019, he studies and plays the heckelphone. Read More Read Less