Luc Döbereiner
Luc Döbereiner is a researcher and composer of instrumental and electronic music from Berlin. He studied at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and holds a doctoral degree from the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. His work is concerned with compositional models, algorithmicity, non-standard sound synthesis, improvisation, materiality and complex systems in musical composition and sound art. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists in Europe and he has published his scholarly work in journals such as Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound and Contemporary Music Review. He has been a guest lecturer at the Bern University of the Arts and a visiting researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield. He teaches at the University of the Arts, Berlin and is Professor of AI in Composition and Sound Synthesis at the University of Music Trossingen.
Ludvig Elblaus
Ludvig Elblaus is an artist and researcher working primarily with computational materials to create acoustic and electronic music, sound art, audio-visual installations, museum exhibits as well as contributions to collaborative larger works in several traditions, e.g. opera, theatre, and dance.
His artistic practice explores generative tools, complex systems, modelling as an artistic practice, the site-specific, emergence, and experiential aspects of very slow and drawn out temporal structures and deep listening.
His artistic practice explores generative tools, complex systems, modelling as an artistic practice, the site-specific, emergence, and experiential aspects of very slow and drawn out temporal structures and deep listening.
David Pirrò
David Pirrò is a sound artist and researcher based in Graz, Austria. His works include interactive compositions and sound installations as well as audiovisual and electroacoustic pieces in which performative and spatial aspects are central. Departing from a radical inclusive point of view, he seeks ways of composing by which the work of art is constructed through mutual interaction of the agents involved in its performance.
Instrument: henri - llvm based sound synthesis and dynamical systems numerical integration environment
Instrument: henri - llvm based sound synthesis and dynamical systems numerical integration environment
Liz Allbee
Liz Allbee is a composer-performer and improviser who works with the imaginarchic potential of sonic material. She performs most often on self-designed quadraphonic trumpet, electronics, trumpet and voice. Her work encompasses electro-acoustic composition, spatialization, improvisational strategies and instrument creation, with an ear towards embodiment and extension.
Martin Lorenz
Since 1999, Martin Lorenz has worked as a percussionist, electronic musician and composer on the contemporary and experimental music scene. He is the founder of the record label Dumpf Edition, which he curates together with Luc Döbereiner. Martin Lorenz creates instrumental music and media specific works such as sound installations, analog video works and compositions for hand cut vinyls. This focus on the medium characterizes the approach to the modular synthesizer. As a percussionist, Martin Lorenz works with composers such as Annesley Black, Antoine Chessex, Hugues Dufourt, Edu Haubensak, Bernhard Lang, Lula Romero and Alfred Zimmerlin, whose works he premiered. In recent years, Lorenz has researched, reconstructed and performed the chamber music compositions of the American pop avant-gardist Arthur Russell.
mesh
mesh is a digital sound synthesis system for complex recurrent audio networks. For this recording a small randomly connected synthesis graph was created. It consisted of Kuramoto, Nosé-Hoover, FitzHugh–Nagumo, and van der Pol oscillators as well as one perceptron.
Daniele Pozzi
Daniele Pozzi is a sound artist and researcher based in Graz, Austria. He mostly composes sound installations and plays improvised electronic music in which sound is conceived as a material relational element. Daniele often works with self-made hardware and software, and he is interested in the intertwinement of technical development and aesthetic reflection. He is a doctoral candidate at the doctoral school for artistic research (KWDS) of the Univeristy of Music and Performing Arts Graz with a project on feedback experimentation in computer music and sound art.
Ji Youn Kang
Ji Youn Kang is a South Korean composer, performer and sound artist based in The Hague. She achieved her Master’s degrees in Sonology from the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague and in Composition from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Most of her pieces have been composed for both traditional and non-traditional instruments ranging from works for solo instruments to large orchestral pieces. One of her main interests lies in researching the relationship between musical and physical spaces that she has been exploring with a variety of multichannel systems such as the Acousmonium and wave field synthesis systems. Her pieces have been commissioned by and performed in many venues and festivals, including La Biennale di Venezia, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Time of Music, Sonic Acts, International Film Festival Rotterdam, SICMF, MPyC and Synthèse. Currently, she is teaching at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague.
Hanns Holger Rutz
Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist, composer and researcher in the field of sound and digital art, with focus on sound and intermedia installations, and live improvisation. He studied computer music and audio engineering at the TU Berlin, worked at the Studio for electroacoustic Music Weimar, DE, and obtained a PhD in computer music from the University of Plymouth, UK. As Senior Postdoc at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz (KUG), AT, he led and leads the FWF-funded artistic research projects 'Algorithms that Matter' (2017–2022) on algorithmic experimentation in sound practices, and 'Simultaneous Arrivals' (2022–2025) on novel forms of intermedia collaboration. He is Professor for Artistic Research at the Gustav Mahler Private University for Music (GMPU) Klagenfurt, AT.
Andrea Neumann
Andrea Neumann Andrea Neumann (b. 1968 in Freiburg/Brsg) studied classical piano at the Berlin University of the Arts. She lives and works as a musician and composer in the fields of new music and experimental music in Berlin. She is part of the collective LABOR SONOR, which has been curating a concert series since 2000 and festivals in Berlin since 2015. Since 1996, she has developed and played her own instrument, the Innenklavier (inside piano) – an aluminum frame strung with strings, played using preparations and amplified with the help of a mixing desk and various pick-ups. She was significantly involved in the development of Echtzeitmusik Berlin, which is situated between New Music, improvisation, noise and sound art.
Nicola L. Hein
Nicola L. Hein is a sound artist, guitarist, creative technologist, composer and researcher in music and philosophy. He is a professor of Sound Arts & Creative Music Technology at the music university of Lübeck. His work is driven by the interaction of sound and space, light, movement, thought and the becoming of embodied and intermedial intelligence in aesthetic systems, community and technology.
In his artistic work he uses physical and electronic extension of the electric guitar, sound installations, cybernetic human-machine interaction with A.I. interactive music systems, Augmented Reality, telematic real-time art, ambisonic sound projection, instrument building, conceptual compositions, inter-media works (w/video art, light, dance, literature) and much more. As a sound artist he builds installations, sculptures, instruments, researches the interaction of sound, material and space, works with field recordings, programs (intelligent) software systems, creates a multitude of intermedial works, engages in network technologies and artistically develops dances of agency between the human, nature and technology.