Ahn, Doo-jinDoo-jin Ahn received degrees in music composition BM and MM from Yonsei University and studied Recording Arts at University of Southern California. He is currently professor in film/multi-media music program at Hanseo University, and is serving the vice president of the Korean Electro-Acoustics Music Society in Korea.
Bartetzki, Andre
Andre Bartetzki was born in Berlin in 1962. He studied sound engineering at the Hochschule fuer Musik in Berlin. During his studies, he began to set up a studio for electroacoustic music at the Hochschule, and between 1992 and 2002 he has lectured there and directed the studio. He has also given lectures and workshops in sound synthesis and algorithmic composition at the Technical University in Berlin, the Bauhaus-University Weimar, the Hochschule fuer Musik und Theater Rostock, the KlangArt festival in Osnabruck and at the Academy of Arts in Berlin. In 1999 he started to work at the electroacoustic studio at the Musikhochschule and at the Media Arts faculty of the Bauhaus-University in Weimar. Besides teaching, he works frequently as a programmer, sound designer and sound engineer with ensembles, soloists and composers of new music, the Chamber Ensemble for New Music Berlin, the ensemble work in progress, the ensemble United Berlin, the Kairos-Quartett, William Forman, Vinko Globokar, Helmut Zapf, Yueyang Wang and Hanna Hartman to name a few. In order to enable the performance of some classical compositions with technically outdated live-electronics by Stockhausen, Cage, Nono, Harvey and other composers he has been developing software solutions in cooperation with the musicians. His software for algorithmic composition CMask is being used by many composers around the world.
Since the mid-nineties he has been developing and performing his own musical and media art projects: tape music, performances with live-electronics, video and sound installations. His works were performed at international festivals for contemporary and electroacoustic music such as the Kryptonale Berlin, the ICMC 2002 Gothenburg, the BIMESP 2002 Sao Paulo. He became Finalist at the Bourges Festival and the CIMESP Sao Paulo 2001.
He is a member of the board of directors of the German Association of Electroacoustic Music (DEGEM) and editor of the newsletter of the DEGEM.Banasik, Christian
Christian Banasik, born 1963 in Siemianowice (Poland), has lived in Germany since 1974. He studied composition, live-electronics and computer music with Gunther Becker and Dimitri Terzakis at the Robert-Schumann-Academy of Music in Dusseldorf. and With Hans Zender at the University for Music and the Performing Arts in Frankfurt.
His instrumental and electronic music has been performed and broadcasted in numerous european countries as well as in North and South America, Asia and Australia.
He was invited to international festivals as "Gaudeamus Music Week" in Amsterdam, "Berliner Biennale", "Klangforum Osnabrueck", "Filmmusic Festival in Bonn", "Traiettorie Sonore" in Como, "Live Wires" in Sydney, "Computer Music-Festival in Seoul", "Primavera en La Habana" on Cuba, "Moscow Forum Festival", "Festival Internacional Encuentros 1998“ in Buenos Aires, "Ⅱ. Encuentro de la composition 1998" in Mexico City, "Sounds Electric" in Belfast, "Ⅵth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music" in Rio de Janeiro 1999, "Shy Anne Sound and Video Festival" 2000 in Tacoma, "Ⅶth Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music" 2000 in Curitiba, "International Computer Music Conference 2000" in Berlin, "Sonic Residues 02" 2000 in Melbourne and "Sounds 2002" in Stockholm.
From 1994-1997 he was chairman of the music department in the guild of artist "Kuenstlergilde NRW". Banasik was the artistic director and organizer of multimedial events with new music, literature and fine arts as well as concerts with electroacoustic music.
He developed an algorithmic composition software (AFSTS) for the Atari ST computers between 1991-1993. Beside live-electronics and computer-music Banasik has produced works for tape, radio plays and film soundtracks. He has received national and international music awards and scholarships.Berezan, David
David Berezan is a Canadian-born composer of electroacoustic music that has been performed in Canada, France, Germany, Denmark, Korea, Sweden, USA and the United Kingdom. He studied music composition, performance, and Russian history and language in Calgary, Edmonton, Banff, and Stanford before enrolling in the PhD program at the University of Birmingham (UK) in 2000. In 2002 his work was awarded in the Bourges, Russolo and Espace du Son competitions. Cyclo was recently selected for the Canadian section of the ISCM World New Music Days in Switzerland, 2004. In september 2003 he starts as lecturer and director of the electroacoustic music studios at the University of Manchester, UK.
Biasutti, Michele
Composer and Psychologist, Michele Biasutti was awarded diplomas at the Padova Conservatory of music. A prize-winning composer (International Composer Competition L. Russolo, International Competition of Bourges, Concour International de Composition de la Societe de Musique Contemporaine du Quebec, International Competition Pierre Schaeffer, ... ), his works were radio broadcast and selected for International Festivals. His music was performed in Festivals in Europe, in North and South America and in Australia (Interfaces, ACMC 2000 in Brisbane). He is active as music organizer, currently scientific director of the Computer Art Festival in Padova. He is in the jury of international competitions of composition.
As a researcher in psychology of music, he received a Ph.D. at Padova University. He has taught at the Conservatories of Novara and Venice and is researcher at Padova University.Ludger, Bruemmer
Ludger Bruemmer was born in 1958 in Werne, Germany; 1978-1983 studies in Pedagogy at the University of Dortmund, Diploma; 1983-1989 composition studies with Nicolaus A. Huber and Dirk Reith at the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen; 1991 working together with the choreographer Susanne Linke, commissioned for the ballet Ruhrort, followed by performances in North America, Asia, Europe and the Near East; 1992 Collaboration with the Nederlands Danstheater, Den Haag and Het Symphonie Orchester Amsterdam for the choreography ‘Tristan und Isolde’ with the orchestral composition Riti Contour; 1991-1993 visiting Scholar at the Center for Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford University, USA; 1993-2000 instructor in composition, synthesis and analysis at the Institute for Computer Music and electronic Media (ICEM) Folkwang Hochschule Essen, the Electronic Studio of the Technical University Berlin, Archimedia Kunsthochschule Linz, the Hochschule for Design, Karlsruhe, the Institute for New Music, Bremen and the Institute for Sonology, Den Haag; since 1994 research and composition at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Technology, Karlsruhe; 1995/1997 Choreographic collaboration with soloists at the Folkwang Hochschule for Le temps s'ouvre (1995) and for La cloche sans vallees (1997); since 1997 Collaboration with multi-media artist and architect Christian Moeller for projects in Tokyo (Spiral Hall), Lisbon and the Science Museum, London.
Performances at GRM Radio France, the International Computer Music Conferences in San Jose (USA,1992), Tokyo (1993), Banff (1995), Thessaloniki (1997), Berlin (2000), Inventionen Berlin, Mix01 Aarhus; 1997/1999 collaboration with the video artist Silke Braemer and the media institute InterArtes for the video Lizard Point and Le temps s'ouvre with support from the Ministry of Science, NRW; 1999 director of the year-long audio-visual workshop Genesis at the ZKM, Karlsruhe; 2000-2002 Lecturer at the Darmstadt Spring Seminars. Research fellow at Kingston University; 2002 Professor at the Sonic Art Research Centre, Queens University Belfast; since 2003 director of the ZKM| Institute for Music and Acoustics in Karlsruhe.
1989 Folkwang Prize of the Folkwang Hochschule, Essen; 1989 Prize for Riti Contour at the WDR Forum for Young Composers; premiere at the Philharmonie Cologne by the RSO Cologne with Dennis Russel Davies conducting; 1990 Busoni Prize of the Akademie der Kuenste, Berlin; 1994 Golden Nica at the Prix Ars Electronica for The gates of H.; 1997/2001 Pierre d'Or at the competition for electroacoustic music in Bourges for Phrenos (1997) and Nyx (2001); 1997 ICMA Commission Award of the International Computer Music Association, San Francisco; 1998 Winner of the Rostrum for Electroacoustic Music of the UNESCO Music Council; 1998 Second Prize at the Prix Ars Electronica in the category Interactive Art for the work Sound Garden by Christian Moeller with musical environment by Ludger Buemmer; 1998 Amongst "Die Besten 50" (Top 50) at the Video Art Prize of SWR Television and the ZKM for Lizard Point (with Silke Braemer); 2002 Prize at Musica Sacre, Friburg, Switzerland, for credoXrequiem; 2003 First Prize at the festival Reflexionen of the Institute for New Media Frankfurt. Honorable Mentions at the Luigi Russolo Awards, Pavese, Italien; at the Stockholm Electronic Music Awards and at the competition for electro-acoustic music Bourges.Chang, Jaeho
Jaeho Chang studied musical composition at Seoul National University in Korea and electroacoustic music at Royal Conservatory in The Hague, The Netherlands. He is a composer of electronic music, interactive multimedia installation and film music. He is currently teaching various courses as a lecturer for the Music Technology Program at the Korean National University of Arts, and develops music and sound applications for virtual environments in the Imaging Media Research Center at KIST (Korea Institute of Science & Technology).
Chuang, Se-Lien
Chuang, Se-Lien, as composer, pianist and media artist, born in Taiwan in 1965, She has lived in Austria since 1991.
Her music has been performed in Asia, Europe, South and North America such as SICMF 2002 -Seoul International Computer Music Festival, the 11th International Symposium on Electronic Art and MEDIASELECT 2001 Meandering Look - PreISEA Program in Japan, Laval Virtual and VRIC (Virtual International Conference) in France 2001, Experimental International Community of Electroacoustic Music in Netherland 2000, SIBGRAPI 2000 Video Festival/Gramado-RS in Brasil 2000, 6th International festival in computer music of Pusan Electronic Music Association Performance in South-Korea 2000 and other diverse performances, concerts and study-stays in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherland, England, France, Hungary, Brazil, Russia, USA, China, South-Korea, Japan and Taiwan.
Chung, SundoSundo Chung studied composition with Sukhi Kang at Seoul National University (B.A., M.M.) and continued his study with Thomas Kessler and Mueller-Siemens Detlev at Basel Musik-Akademie in Switzerland. (Special Diplom in Electronic Music Composition Major) His pieces have been performed in Korea, Brasil, Austria and many other countries. Currently he is a professor on invitation of composition department at Sookmyung University.
Climent, Ricardo
Ricardo Climent is a composer based in Belfast since 1997 and was born in Valencia, Spain in 1965. He completed a PhD in composition at the Queen's University of Belfast and a Master in Music Technology where he is now lecturer in Music Technology and active Researcher at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC)
His musical output ranges from acousmatic compositions to large scale instrumental works involving the use live electronics. His research interests focus on the use of live electronics for human interaction in the compositional and performance environment. He was recently commissioned by yhe Spanish 'Instituto Valenciano de la Musica' and prized Rosas, Mexico, During 2003-04 he will serve as composer in residence for the Orquesta Jove de la Generalitat Valenciana.
His performances have taken place in Europe, America and the far East. He also holds degrees in Economics at the University of Valencia and Fufap-Alcala de Henares, Madrid.Cope, Dave
David Cope was born in San Francisco, California in 1941. Following early study on piano (including an extensive performance career) and violoncello, he completed degrees in composition at Arizona State University and the University of Southern California studying with George Perle, Halsey Stevens, Ingolf Dahl and Grant Fletcher. His over seventy published compositions have received thousands of performances in and outside the U.S.
Cope?s works appear on Folkways, Opus One and Discant Records and include a wide diversity of works from large ensembles to soloists with electronic and computer-generated tape.Dashow, James
James Dashow has had commissions, awards and grants from the Bourges International Festival of Experimental Music, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Linz Ars Electronica Festival, the Fromm Foundation, the Biennale di Venezia, the USA National Endowment for the Arts, RAI (Italian National Radio), the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Rockefeller Foundation, Il Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte (Montepulciano, Italy), the Koussevitzky Foundation, Prague Musica Nova, and the Harvard Musical Association of Boston. Most recently, he was awarded the prestigious Prix Magistere at the 30th Festival International de Musique et d'Art Sonore Electroacoustiques in Bourges.
A pioneer in the field of computer music, Dashow was one of the founders of the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale at the University of Padova, and has taught at MIT, Princeton University and the Centro para la Difusion di Musica Contemporanea in Madrid; he lectures extensively in the U.S. and Europe. He served as the first vice-president of the Computer Music Association, and was for many years the producer of the radio program Il Forum Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea for Italian National Radio.
He has written theoretical and analytical articles for Perspectives of New Music, the Computer Music Journal, La Musica, and Interface. He is the author of the MUSIC30 language for digital sound synthesis. His music has been recorded on WERGO (Mainz), Capstone Records (New York), Neuma (Boston), RCA-BMG (Roma), ProViva (Munich), Scarlatti Classica (Roma), CRI (New York), and Pan (Roma).Daske, Martin
Martin Daske born 1962 in Berlin. Formation (Composition) in the USA (Christian Wolff), in Krakow and Salzburg (Bogus_aw Schaeffer). Lived several years in France (Paris) and Belgium. He developed besides his "normal" Compositions (Chamber music (recent (2002): ’klangschaften 1 for piano solo), tape-music, film-music) a form of three-dimensional notation ("folianten"). 1990 + 1999 composition-grant of the berliner senat. 1993 special commendation at the prix futura for "abfahrt". 2002 guest-artist at the prix italia, Palermo. Since 1989 Co-director of ’unerhoerte musik a concert-series for new music in Berlin. 1990/93 ’artist-in-residence in ZKM, 1993 foundation of his own production-studio: "tribord studio". 2001 foundation of the duo ’soundscrapers with Janne Saksala (Member of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra), 2002 foundation of the duo ’Klangschuerfer with the Actor Rainer Rudloff. radiophonic works (examples) - as author/ director/ composer: "scheinwuerfe" (1990), "der stein" (1991), "mada.nces 1-7" (1992), "die bibelschmugglertheorie" (live performed) for "pro musica nova", bremen (1994) -"abfahrt" (1991), "nachts minus zwanzig" (1993), "horizontal radio" (1995), "land des toedlichen schweigens" (1995), ’memoires d'un siecle (1998/99), ’mit-ihm-zig-hosen (2001), ’molch, ein versunkenes schachspiel betrachtend (2202 fur den prix italia, Palermo), ’in grosser angst geschrieben (2003), radio-feature on/with Christian Wolff (2003).. music for theatre "die kosmonauten" (teatrul radu stanca, sibiu, Rumania) and "memoires" (festival nouvelles scenes, dijon). several sound-installations e.g.’backbord ein kolibri . Radioplays for children. CD's at Wergo, edel-records, Hoerverlag, Hoercompany. lives as a freelance (writer, director, producer und composer) near Berlin.
Dobrian, Christopher
Christopher Dobrian is an Associate Professor at the University of California, Irvine where he directs the Gassmann Electronic Music Studio and the Realtime Experimental Audio Laboratory, and he is Vice President of the Electronic Music Foundation. This year he is serving as a visiting professor in the Music Technology program at the Korean National University of Arts. His current work in Korea is supported by the Fulbright Commission.
Dribus, John A.John A. Dribus is a doctoral fellow at the University of North Texas. He has written for both acoustic and electronic media. His current research focuses on sound specialization and on the perception of sound in mixed media. Mr. Dribus's works have been performed across America and in Europe.
Gerald, Eckert
Gerald Eckert was born 1960 in Nuernberg. Studies of Mathematics at the University of Erlangen, studies of violoncello (S. von Hausegger) and conducting (W. A. Albert) at the conservatory of Nuernberg. From 1989 to 1995 studies of composition, first with Walter Zimmermann, then with N. A. Huber as well as electronic composition with Dirk Reith at the Folkwang-Hochschule Essen. Composition courses with J. Dillon, B. Ferneyhough und J. Harvey. 1995 scholarship of the Fondation Royaumont/ France. 1996/97 work as visiting scholar at the CCRMA of the Stanford University/ USA. 1998 guest professor at the "Internationale Ferienkurse" Darmstadt/ Germany and at the International Festival at Akiyoshidai/ Japan. 1999 scholarship of the "Heinrich-Strobel-Fondation". 2000/ 02 lecturer at the TU Darmstadt. 200 realization if a dance-project with Dyane Neiman.
Luigi-Russolo-Prize '93, Gulbenkian-Prize '93, NDR-Prize '94, selection for the world music days '95, Kranichstein-Prize of the city of Darmstadt '96, selection for the ICMC '96 Hong-Kong, composition award of the "Biennale Hannover" '97, award of the "S. Martirano competition" USA 2003, ICMC '03 Singapore, 1st prize of Bourges 2003. Since 1989 work on paintings. Exhibitions and installations.Ferreira, Antonio
Antonio Ferreira (1963) was born in Angola of portuguese parents. Back in Portugal, he studied engineering and become aware of his interest in music and composition using computers. He formalizes this interest by attending Sonology in 1986 at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He made several concerts with real time electronics in The Hague, Amsterdam (STEIM), Den Bosch, Cologne and Lisbon and presented his electroacoustic compositions in several national (Musica VIVA) and international festivals and presentations (France-Paris, Bourges, Besancon, Sweden ICMC2002, Singapore ICMC2003, Norway, England SEA03; Sonic Arts Festival, Denmark, Italy, Hungary, Poland, USA). He worked also as an expert in noise pollution and bioacoustics.
Galante, Francesco
Francesco Galante(1956) was born in Rome. He studied electronic music at Conservatory of Music of Frosinone with Giorgio Nottoli, and at GREM (Bourges 1979) with David keane, Pierre Boeswillwald, Guido Baggiani. He was co-founder of S.I.M. Societa di Informatica Musicale in Rome(1982-1990) and he was art director of Musica Verticale association(1980-82). Fracesco Galante is author of acousmatic music and in the past he was involved in the field of audio VLSI technology research (ICMC 84 and 86). He is author of two books devoted to electronic and computer music experience. : "Musica Espansa" (co-author with N.Sani) and "metafonie"(co-author with L.Pestalozza). His acousmatic music has been performed and broadcast in Europe, North and South America and Asia. Some of his pieces are edited in Cd and VHS by Fonit Cetra edts, Eshock edts, LIMEN edts and BMG Ricordi. He was attended to "Metafonie" the biennial cycle of concerts devoted to electroacoustic music held at Teatro alla Scala in Milan(1998-2000). Actually he is professor of electronic music at Conservatory of music of Trapani city.
Han, Ockmi
Ockmi HAN graduated from Seoul National University and Consevatoire National Superieur de Musique de Paris in France . She also gained the superior diploma of Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, read extensively on musicology of 20th century at IRCAM. Her work for orchestra selected by International Gaudeamus Music Week 1992, her work for doublebass won the honorable mention by Valentino Bucchi Prize 1993 in Roma and 2nd Prize by MC2/BASS 1994 international competition of composition in Avignon, France. Currently she gives lectures at Seoul National University and Kyungwon University in Korea. She has presented video, art and installation works besides music composition through exhibition of contemporary music ' Up & Down ' (2003) and 'Dargedeutgi, music in gallery'(2002).
Hartmann, Friedlhelm
Friedlhelm Hartmann was born in 1963 in Germany.
From 1980 to 1985, he studied composition under Udo Zimmermann and piano at the Carl Maria von Weber Academy in Dresden. During the following two years he was an independent artistic employee at the Studio for Electronic Sound Generation in Dresden.
From 1987 to 1988 he was a master-class student under Georg Katzer at the GDR Academy of Arts in Berlin. From 1988 onwards he developed his own computer-aided compositional language "Celsyus" at the ICEM in Essen. From 1993 to 1995 he had a DAAD scholarship and carried out research at the University of Tel Aviv under his mentor Yitzhak Sadai into semiotics in electronic music. From 1995 to 1997 he was secretary of the composer's league of the society for new music of the "Ruhrgebiet"(GNMR).
He married in 1998, lives in Tel Aviv and, since then, continues to develop and carry out his artistic concept of "Cybermusic".Hirsch, Michael
Michael Hirsch was born in Munich in 1958. Lives in Berlin since 1981. Member of several groups for contemporary music. Collaboration with Dieter Schnebel, Josef Anton Riedl, Helmut Lachenmann and others. He works as composer since 1976. Scholarship for composition from the City of Munich. Performances and broadcast recordings mainly in Europe. Also work as actor and stage director in several european theatres and festivals.
The list of works includes instrumental music, music theatre, opera, performance, sound installation, radio plays and electroacoustic music. Performances of his works at several important international festivals, like the Donaueschingen Festival, ”Klangaktionen and Musica Viva“(Munich), the Witten Festival for new chamber music, ”Grenzenlos. Berlin in Moscow(Moscow 1996)’XIII Cigle de musica del segle XX, Barcelona , Dresden Festival for contemporary music, Musik-Biennale, Berlin , Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival etc...
The Opera ’Das stille Zimmer (1998/99) was performed as commission of the operahouse Bielefeld in 2000. Elisabeth-Schneider-prize for composition in 2001.Hofmann, Jan Jacob
Jan Jacob Hofmann
Born 17.6.1966 in Duesseldorf. Diploma, branch of architecture at Fachhochschule Frankfurt/M, University Of Applied Sciences in 1995. Entered the class of Peter Cook and Enric Miralles at the Staedelschule Art School Frankfurt/M in 1995, a postgraduate class of conceptual design and architecture. Diploma at the Staedelschule in 1997. Exhibition of the work at the "Forum der Sparkasse 1822", Frankfurt, and at the TU Berlin. Works as a composer, photographer and architect.
Dealing with sound- composition and electronic music since 1986. Music for performances. Course for sound- spatialisation and psycho- acoustics at the CRM /Rome with M. Lupone/ L. Bianchini in Nov. 1998. Since April 2000: Work on the spatial- sound project. Presentation of the "Sonic Architecture- Project" at the19th AES Conference for spatialisation of sound, sound engineering and recording at Schloss Elmau in June 2001, several international performances since.HWANG, Sung Ho
HWANG Sung Ho graduated from Seoul National University, then studied composition and music theory under Prof. Peter Cabus, Landeghem Jan Van at Brussel Koninklijk Conservatorium and electronic music under Prof. David Porcelijn, Ton Bruynel at Utrecht Conservatorium and Instituut voor Sonologie, Utrecht University.
Having started his career as a member of the 3rd Generation and DyunlongPae (Electrong : electronic music association), he has been very active in many areas in music field. He also participated in the establishments of major groups important in the history of electro-acoustic music in Korea, including Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society Obtaining an acknowledgement worldwide, his electro-acoustic music has been performed worldwide, in such festival and network as Asian Composer's League Festival'93 (Taipei), HKUST Multimedia Concert (H.K), ICMC'96 (H.K), 96'FEM (Blatislava), IV. SBCM (Brasillia), CNN's Inside Asia, SOUND Box (Finland), ICMF'98 (Kobe), The 3rd Annual Santa Fe International Festival of Electro Acoustic Music (New Mexico), Media Art Week Kyoto 99 (Goethe Institute Kyoto), ICMC'99 (Beijing), Spring in Havana 2000,Asian Music Week 2000(Yokohama), CCRMA Concert, Festival Resonances 2001(Antes-Saint Nazaire),Actuelles Festival("Synthese 2001", Bourge),Unbalanced connection (U.S.A.), Festival Nova Musica, etc.. He was also a panel member of the ICMA Commissioning Project for ICMC 2000(Berlin).
He was a member of faculty in Chugye University of Arts, Seoul National University and presently a professor of department of composition in Korean National University of Arts. (www.knua.ac.kr/hwang/index.htm)Karathanasis, Konstantinos
Konstantinos Karathanasis, a native of Greece, has received his BA degree from the Music Department of the Ionian University in Corfu, Greece, studying with Andreas Mniestris. He is currently working towards a Ph.D. in Music Composition as a Presidential Fellow at the University at Buffalo under the guidance of Cort Lippe and David Felder. His works have been performed and received attention in various countries, such as France (Residence Prize, Bourge Competition 2000), Italy (Finalist in Russolo Competition 2001), United States (1st prize in the SEAMUS-ASCAP Student Commission Competition 2002), Brazil (IV BIMESP 2002) and Greece.
Kim, Gyoo-Dong
Gyoo-Dong Kim received his B.A. and M.A. from Seoul National University and then studied at Staatlich Hochschule fuer Musik und Darstellende Kunst Heidelberg-Mannheim, Germany.
His music were actively performed in many contemporary music concerts and festivals in Korea, Germany, Russia, China and so forth. In 2002 he won the 21st Korea National Composer's Prize for his chamber music and also was selected for ISCM World Music Day 2003.
currently he is serving as a board member of Contemporary Music Society of Seoul and Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society(KEAMS), general secretary of ISCM Korean section, and professor at Myongji University.Kim, Jun
Jun Kim received a D.M.A. in Composition at Stanford University in 1999, where he studied with Jonathan Harvey, Chris Chafe and John Chowning. Prior degrees in Music were from Kyung-Hee University and Boston University. He is currently a professor at Dongguk University in Korea.
Kim, Mi-Jung
Mi-Jung Kim was graduated from Yon-Sei University majored in Music Composition, and she got a Masters degree from Hanyang University in the same major.
Recently, she gives a lecture on Computer Music in Hanyang university and is a member of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society.
She won the prize in the Korean Computer Music Contest, also her works was performed in Seoul Computer Music Festival in 1998 and 1999.Koch, Sven-Ingo
Sven-Ingo Koch was born in Dortmund, Germany, 1974. He studied in Paris, Essen, San Diego and Stanford. Sven-Ingo Kochs main composition teachers were Nicolaus A. Huber, Dirk Reith, Roger Reynolds and Brian Ferneyhough. He received - among others - the Folkwang prize 1999, the Bach prize 2000, the BDI award 2001 and the cynet art honorary mention 2001, as well as scholarships of the Fondation Royaumont (1997), the German Government(DAAD) (1999-2000), the Stanford University (2000-2003) and of the Academy of Arts Berlin (in 2000 and 2002).
Kochs music has been performed widely at numerous festivals and venues and been broadcasted by many German radio stations such as the WDR, DR, SR, BR, SWR. Collaborations include projects with the Ensemble Modern, the Nouvelle Ensemble Modern, the Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, the musikFabrik NRW, the Schlagquartett Cologne, Trio Surplus and the Stuttgart Vokalsolisten. CD releases on cybele, ars and edition zeitklang. Sven-Ingo Koch loves the beaches of California (and sometimes - the beastie boys).Lee, Donoung
Donoung Lee studied composition at Seoul National University. In 1985, he went to Freiburger Musikhochschule in Germany, where he studied composition, conducting, and electronic music. Between 1991 and 1994, Lee, while in charge of computer and MIDI music at Experimental Studio of the Heinrich-Strobel Foundation of SWF in Freiburg.
He had played an active role as a conductor, composer, and performer for the new music ensemble, "Profectio-initiative", which he co-founded with the composer, Roland Breitenfeld, for modern and electronic music performance.
Upon returning to Korea in 1994, he teaches at Hanyang University as a composition professor. He is also the president of the Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society.
He composes for computer, modern ensembles and orchestras, and he is particularly interested in Live-electro-acoustic Music.Lee, Eunhwa
Eunhwa Lee born in Seoul in July 1969. She graduated from Ewha University in 1991 and department of music in Koeln, Germany in 1995(studied with Prof. Johannes Fritsch). In1999 she also graduated from Folkwang Hochschule Essen in Germany(studied Electronic Music with Prof. Dirk Reith). Seh is currently a lecturer at several universities.
Lee, Gi Nyoung
Gi Nyoung Lee (b. 1968) was born in Seoul, Korea. He received his B.A. in Music Theory at Seoul National University, and M.M. in Composition at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently composition doctoral candidate at Indiana University. He is expecting to graduate in December, 2003. He awarded 1st prize in Computer music contest by KEAMS in 2000 and 2nd prize in Yueh-Fei international composition contest in 2000.
From 1995, he has numerous concerts in Korea and U.S and Mexico. His work has been performed at Bloomington in Midwest Symposium, Santa Fe in the sixth SANTA FE international festival, Gainesville in the 11th Florida annual electro-acoustic music festival, and Miami ?New Music Miami ISCM Festival? Terra Haute in ISU contemporary music festival in 2002, Chicago by Chicago Symphony members at September and October in 2000, New York, in Pacifica by American composer's orchestra 2000, Seoul at Seoul Art Center 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000.
Also, his music was broadcast on KBS FM in Korea in 1997, 2000.Lee, Insik
Insik Lee graduated from the Seoul highschool of music and arts and the Seoul national university. He furthered his studies of composition in Hochschule der Kuenste Berlin.
He is a board member of ISCM section korea, the Korean Society of Composers and Contemporary Music Society also a manager of Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society and Association for perspective music.
He is currently a professor at the Sungshin Women's University.Levi, Jorge Sad
Jorge Sad Levi was born in Buenos Aires in 1959. He obtained his degree in music composition from the "Facultad de Artes y Ciencias Musicales" of the Argentine Catholic University, in 1988. Between 1992 and 1993 he made post-graduate studies of electroacoustic music and musical semiotics under the guidance of Marcelle Deschenes and Jean Jacques Nattiez respectively at the Universite de Montreal (Canada).
His work Vox II for computer generated tape had been awarded with the Juan Carlos Paz" Prize(1995) granted by the "Fondo Nacional de las Artes," Argentina, and had been selected finalist at Bourges International Contest (1999, France) and Luigi Russollo (1995, Italy).
Aspavientos has been awarded with the Juan Carlos Paz " Prize(1999, Argentina), has been selected finalist at Pierre Schaeffer International Contest (Italy) and selected finalist with other 5 works at the "Metamorphoses d'orphee" International contest (2000) (Belgium). Escrita ? al borde del mar commissioned by Musiques & Recherches, Belgium, was selected finalist at Bourges International Contest (2003, France).
He is currently the director of the Instituto de Investigacion en Sonido y Musica por Medios Digitales of the Universidad de Moron, and professor of the Atelier of Electroacoustic Music of the Conservatorio de Moron.Lymn, Young-Mee
Young-Mee Lymn graduated from Seoul National University, received her Master of Music degree in composition from Temple University and finished doctoral program at the same University. She had taught at Seoul National University, Sookmyung Women's University, Kookmin University, and The University of Suwon. She is a board member of Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society and The Korean Society of Woman Composers, and has been active in such composition associations as Changakhwe, Sorimok(Composers Alliance of New Music), Korean ISCM, and Asian Composers League. Currently, she is Adjunct Professor of Music composition at Hanyang University.
Mauermann, Karl-Heinz
Karl-Heinz Mauermann is a german based artist who works in the field of conceptual art. He describes classification systems for a chaotic world, utilizing not only the visual arts, but also crossing the borderline towards literature and music. His media range from drawing to collage, computer graphics, installations to video. In the mid 1980s he graduated in German linguistics and literature, philosophy and art. Since then he participated in a number of exhibitions both in Germany as internationally. 1987 he received the Max Ernst Stipend special award for his video tape "Aren't we drawing such lines whenever we move?"
Karl-Heinz Mauermann's website is www.semantic-error.deMiller, Dennis
Dennis Miller received his Doctorate in Music Composition from Columbia University in 1981. Since that time, he has been on the Music faculty of Northeastern University in Boston where he heads the music technology program and serves on the Multimedia Studies Steering Committee. Miller was the founder and served as director of the League-ISCM in Boston from 1982-1988. His works have been performed on concerts and festivals throughout the world, and his music appears on Opus One Records and the Frog Peak Collaborative CD, among others. Miller is an Associate Editor of Electronic Musician magazine, for which he writes about music software and hardware technologies.
Since 1998, Miller has also been active as a graphic artist and 3D animator. His animations have been shown at numerous venues throughout the world. His work was also presented at SIGGRAPH 2001 in the Emerging Technologies gallery. Recent exhibits of his 3D still images include the Boston Computer Museum and the Biannual Conference on Art and Technology, as well as publication in Sonic Graphics: Seeing Sound, published by Rizzoli Books.Nelson, Jon Christopher
Jon Christopher Nelson's (b. 1960) electro-acoustic music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America and has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. He is the recipient of Luigi Russolo and Bourges Prizes and was recently awarded a Bourges Commission. He has composed in residence both at Sweden's national Electronic Music Studios and at the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique de Bourges. His works can be heard on the Bourges, Russolo Pratella, CDCM, NEUMA, ICMC, and SEAMUS labels. Nelson is currently a Full Professor at the University of North Texas where he is an associate of the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) and serves as the Associate Dean of Operations.
Niehusmann, Frank
Frank Niehusmann is a German based artist and composer. His compositions in electronic music are situated in the contexts of live performances, mixed media events, experimental videos, tv-films, radio broadcasts, theatre- and CD-productions. He pursued studies in philosophy and history at the Ruhr-Universitaet in Bochum/Germany, finishing in 1986 with an MA degree. 1983-1998 he worked for public radio stations in Germany as author of radio-features about art and science. Between 1997 and 2000 he received several awards for his works in the fields of music-video-experiments and theatre. In 2002 his composition "Untertagemusik Nr.1" was honoured at the International Competition of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art in Bourges (France).
Oliveira, Joao Pedro
Joao Pedro Oliveira studied organ performance and composition at the Gregorian Institute of Lisbon and architecture at the Fine Arts School of Lisbon. In 1985 he moved to the United States as a Fulbright scholar with a fellowship from Gulbenkian Foundation where he completed a Master's Degree in Theory and a Doctorate in Composition at the University of New York at Stony Brook.
He received among others, the 1st Prize at the International Competition Alea III, the Trivium Prize at the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition and the Earplay 2003 Composition Prize. Most of his works have been commissioned by portuguese and foreign groups and foundations. Besides his activity as a composer he also develops a career as an organist, having played in Europe, U.S.A., China and Japan. He has recorded two CDs with works for trumpet and organ.
He is Senior Professor of composition and electronic music, and Director of the Electronic Music Studio at the University of Aveiro, in Portugal.Pahg, Sun-Young
Sun-Young Pahg was born in Korea in 1974. She began piano and composition lessons at an early age and later studied composition with Byung-Dong Paik at the Seoul National University, where she received a Bachelor of Music degree. From 1999 to 2002 she studied electroacoustic composition with Robin Minard and in 2002 received a Kuenstlerisches Diplom in Electroacoustic Composition from the Hochschule fuer Musik FRANZ LISZT in Weimar, Germany, where in 2002 she was also the recipient of an advancement scholarship for women in research and teaching. In 2003 she received a working scholarship from the Stiftungkulturfonds in Kuenstlerhaus Lukas, Germany.
Her first electroacoustic work "Metallise" (2000) received recognition, having been selected for performance in Darmstadt by the Institute for New Music and Music Education in 2001 and in Cologne by the "Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft". The work received further performances in Berlin and Cracow. She has also worked with Ensemble Modern, who performed her composition "Vom Fliessenden sublimiert" (2001) for cello and tape in Frankfurt. The same work was also presented in 2001 within the "Kryptonale" festival for electroacoustic music in Berlin, during the ICMC Festival 2002 in Sweden and within the "Fruehjahrstage" 2003 in Weimar. Her work "Relief Oktett" for 8 channel tape (2001-2002) was presented in 2002 in Darmstadt within the 56th Workshop of the Institute for New Music and Music Education; in Berlin within the "Kryptonale" festival; in Weimar and Jena, Germany within the 15th New Music Days - with the loudspeaker orchestra of "Musique & Recherches" (Belgium); and in 2003 within the ICMC Festival in Singapore. Her latest work for oboe, double bass, accordion, percussion, piano, tape and live-electronics was premiered within the Franz Liszt Festival 2003 in Weimar.
Park, Jin-Yong
Jin-Yong Park, born in Kwang-Ju, South Korea, studied compostion at Maastricht Conservatorium and received Music Theory Diplom and New Media Diplom at Stuttgart Musikhochschule. He gained Gesellschaft der Freunde Promotion and was an engineer at Stuttgart national opera studio. He is a member of Korean Electro-Acoustic Music Society and currently teaches at Dankook University and Chonnam University. His works were performed at Howard College Theater (South of Africa), Korean Contempory Piano Muisic Festival and Degu New Media Art Festival(Korea).
Park, Joo Won
Joo Won Park is currently pursuing Master of Music Composition degree at the University of Florida where he is studying with James Paul Sain and Paul Koonce. He graduated from the Berklee College of Music majoring in Music Synthesis, under the direction of Richard Boulanger. Recent works include contributions to a new edition of The Csound Book, Csound Catalog, and an interface design for the Radio Baton. His music and audio application have been featured in several festivals and publications, such as Florida Electro Acoustic Music Festival, Electronic Musician magazine, and SEAMUS 2003.
Rudy, Paul
Paul Rudy (1962) was born in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is Assistant Professor of Composition and Director of the Inter-media/Music Production and Computer Technology Center at the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri, Kansas City. From 1995-2001 he was the composition technologist at the Aspen Music Festival and School where he directed the Amplified Music Performance Series (AMPS) and created "The Virtual Concert Hall" a radio program of electroacoustic music for public radio currently broadcasting on Resonance FM (104.4) in London , England. He is the 2002 winner of the EMS Electroacoustic Music Prize(Stockholm, Sweden)along with other awards and honors from the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition, The Fulbright Foundation, Meet the Composer, The American Composer's Orchestra (2003 Whitaker Readings), the National Music Teachers Association, and the Missouri Music Teachers Association.
Commissions include Meet the Composer USA, Music From China, New York University new Music Ensemble, Kansas City Chorale, newEar, the UMKC Accordion Orchestra, and the Missouri Music Teachers Association. His works, published by Twisted Trail Music, have been broadcast and performed worldwide (England, Scotland, France, Spain Germany, Finland, Sweden, Croatia, Canada, Korea, China, New Zealand, Australia, Cuba, and New York) and can be found on Living Artist, SCI(Capstone). and Centaur recordings.
Scelsi, GiacintoItalian composer and poet Giacinto Scelsi gained considerable recognition in the mid-1980s, just as his creative powers began to slacken. Hence he is often called the Charles Ives of Italy. While it took music publishers nearly 50 years to take on and promulgate his works, three collections of his poetry were published in French in Paris in 1949, 1954 and 1962. Scelsi was mainly a self-taught composer, but received some instruction from Giacinto Sallustio in Rome and Egon Koehler in Geneva who acquainted him with Scriabin's work. He also studied with Walter Klein a music theorist.
Shim, Jinseob
심진섭은 단국대와 독일의 하이델베르크-만하임 국립음대를 졸업하고 러시아 국립 극동예술대학에서 박사학위(DMA)를 받았다. (논문 : 컴퓨터를 통한 음악의 인토네이션 과정을 모델화하기 위한 기술적 방법에 관한 연구) 현재 한세대 겸임교수로 재직중이며 숙명여대, 세계 사이버대에서 강의를 하고 있고 ATM Studio 대표이다.
21세기악회 회원, 작악회 회장, 한국전자음악협회 감사이사 등으로 작품활동을 하고 있다.
컴퓨터음악작품집 CD - 제1집 “무한을 향한 음악”, 제2집 “악상조각”, 제3집 “모자이크”를 출반하였다.Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Born in 1929, Karlheinz Stockhausen has been one of the most important figures of the european musial Avant-Garde. Since his appearances at Darmstadt Contemporary Music Festival in the 1950?s, his influence on contemporary music reception, on composers imaginative creativity, and on performance practice has been unparalleled. At the 1970 World?s Fair in Osaka, Japan, most of Stockhausen?s works were performed for 183 days by twenty instrumentalists and singers in a spherical auditorium conceived by the composer, thereby reaching an audience of over a million listeners.
Alongside many guest professorships in the U. S., Finland, Holland, and Denmark, he was named professor for composition in Cologne in 1971 and received an honorary doctorate from the Free University of Berlin in 1996.
He is a member of twelve international academies of arts and sciences and has received numerous awards for his recordings and other activities. Since 1998, the annual Stockhausen courses for composers, interpreters, music historians and guest auditors have been taking place in Kurten, Germany.
Most of his compositions for solo instruments have come about through the intense collaboration with musicians spanning many years. In the case of most of the works for trumpet, most were written for his son Marcus Stockhausen, who has also performed them throughout the world.Tseng, Yu-Chung
Yu-Chung Tseng completed his Doctor of Musical Arts University of North Texas(1998)in USA. His music, written for both acoustic and electronic media, has been recognized with awards from the R.O.C National Culture Planning Council, University of Texas, and Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (Honourable Mention Award 1998,1999). Mr. Tseng's works have also received numerous performances at festivals and conferences from organizations including 2002 SICMF(Korea), Taiwanese Computer Music Association (TCMA '99, '2000), International Computer Music Association (ICMC '98, ICMC '99), Society for Eletroacoustic Music in United States (Net Concert'97, SEAMUS'98), Texas Computer Musician's Network (TCMN'96, '97, '98). In general, his music displays the blending of western compositional techniques, technology with oriental elements such as the Chinese philosophy I-Ching of Ying Yang and Chinese calligraphy, literature.
He is member of ICMA, of ISCM and a funding of TCMA. Currently, he is a full-time assistant professor of music education at National Taipei Teachers College in Taiwan.Wang, Yueyang
Yueyang Wang was born in 1973 in China. After her studies in composition at the National Music Akademie in Beijing she moved in 1995 to Stuttgart, Germany, to study music theory and new media with H. Lachenmann, U. Mahlert, A. Riethmueller, M. Stroppa, U. S sse and R. Wehinger. Since 2001 she has been living and working in Berlin.
Her musical activities comprise composition (electroacoustic, instrumental, choral), music for films, arrangement, sound and multimedia art, recording and performance as a singer, piano and zheng player. As an active member of artist groups she take part in the organization of performances and festivals.
She received many prizes and scholarships, from the Akademie in Beijing, the Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt, the Rotary Stiftung, the Kulturfoerderpreis Zukunftstiftung Germany, to name a few.
Her compositions has been commissioned by the ECLAT Festival Stuttgart, the China Found Musik Festival Wien, the Festival HOERGAENGE Wien and the Kryptonale Berlin.
She is a member of the Kuenstlergruppe Kryptonale Berlin, of the GEDOK (Gemeinschaft der Kuenstlerinnen und Kunstfoerderer) and of the DEGEM (German Association of Electroacoustic Music).Weixler, Andreas
Weixler, Andreas was Born in 1963 in Graz Austria,
He studied composition and music theory at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz, Austria and received Diploma (masters degree) in composition with Beat Furrer in 1995, Magisterium (masters degree) in music theory with Dr. Otto Kolleritsch in 1997, special research in computer music at Nagoya City University, Japan in 2000/01. He has been given Austrian National scholarship for composition in 1996.
He is serving as guest professor at TNCA, Taiwan National College of The Arts in Taiwan in 2003/2004 season. He was a lecturer at the Institute of Electronic Music IEM at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts in Graz (KUG), Austria 1992-1999 and for music- & media technology at Bruckner-Conservatory Linz, Austria since 1997, and served International lectures in computer music, composition and media arts in Austria, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.
He is a member of the directors board of the Austrian society of electroacoustic music since 1995
He has performances in Europe, Asia, South- and North America, and numerous musical projects in the field of jazz related music, music for contemporary theatre and dance, contemporary composition and computer music, video and interactive media arts.Yang, Minsuk
Minsuk Yang studied composition at the Kyung-Won University and computer music composition with Prof. Sung-Ho Hwang at the Korean National University of Arts (M.M). His chamber pieces were selected by the Chosun daily newspaper and PAN music festival. His "trom-BONE & ASH" awarded the first prize in the KEAMS computer Music Contest 2003 and "having some doubts about three things" has been peformed at FEMS in 2003 and Digital Music Festival 2003(in Kobe, Japan)
Yim, Jongwoo
Jongwoo Yim graduated from Seoul National University where he studied composition with Prof. Sukhi Kang in Korea. He studied Sonology course at the Hague Royal Conservatory and at the same time he studied composition with Klaas de Vries at Rotterdam Conservatory, where he received composition diploma in the Netherlands. After he studied 'composition electroacostique, informatque et instrumentale' with Philippe Manoury, Maco Stroppa and Denis Lorrain at the department of SONVS, 'Conservaoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon', where he received diploma DNESM in France.
His works have been performed several international competitions and festivals. He fellowed 'Cursus annuel 2001-2002' for composition and computer music at Ircam in France.
Currently, he is a professor of composition at Hanyang University.Zaki, Mark
A prolific composer and violinist, Mark Zaki has created works that range from traditional chamber music and concert forms, to multimedia and music for film. Assimilating an eclectic array of compositional techniques, his work combines elements from traditional and popular forms, serial procedures, improvisatory contexts and acousmatic practice into a highly idiosyncratic approach.
His music has recently been presented by the New Music Miami ISCM Festival, SEAMUS, the Cycle de Concerts de Musique par Ordinateur in Paris, the Pulse Field International Exhibition of Sound Art in Atlanta, and the Beall Center for Art and Technology at the University of California, Irvine.
Zaki includes among his mentors Paul Lansky, Steven Mackey and Charles Wuorinen. He holds doctoral degrees in composition from Princeton University and in violin/viola performance from Rutgers University. Currently, he is a lecturer in electronic music at the University of California in Irvine and he divides his time between Los Angeles and New York City.Zapf, Helmut
Helmut Zapf was born in 1956 in Rauschengesees (Thuringia).
He got his first piano and organ lessons from local pastor. After schooltime he took a apprenticeship as automobile mechanic and after this time he studied church music in Eisenach and Halle. During this time he regularly attended Gera Holiday Courses in Contemporary Music in Thuringia. From 1979-82 he worked as Cantor in Eisenberg near Jena. Finally 1982 he became a special composition pupil of Georg Katzer at the East Academy of Arts and studied with him until 1986. Since he lives in Zepernick closed to Berlin and works there as freelance composer, organ player and organizer of concerts with contemporary music. He founded with his wife the RANDSPIELE (www.randspiele.de), a series of concerts in his local church, near Berlin. And he had founded the ENSEMBLE JUNGE MUSIK, an ensemble for contemporary music with students of the universities of music from Berlin. Also he is teaching ear training and music theories at the Hanns Eisler Musikhochschule and at the Musikschule Kreuzberg composition too. He worked at different electroacustical studios, for example at the CENTER OF COMPUTER MUSIC OF SWITZERLAND and at the HEINRICH STROBEL FONDATION of SWR in Freiburg. Helmut Zapf has written a lot of chamber music, choir music, 5 pieces of orchestra, 1 chamber opera and different pieces of electroacustical music.Awards and First Performances :
1986 Valentino Bucchi-Award Roma;
1986 Hanns-Eisler-Award of Radio of DDR;
1988 first performance Donaueschinger Musiktagen,
composition Zusammenklang II;
1990 Scholarship of international holiday course of contemporary muisc
in Darmstadt
1991 first performance with the composition rivolto at the
Wittener Days for contemporary chamber music of WDR ;
1992 first performance at the Donaueschinger Musiktage with
Dreiklang III for large orchestra from SWR ;
1995 guest of honour at the Villa Massimo Roma;
1997 5 months scholarship at the Cite des Internationale Paris;
2000 first performance of LILITH his chamber opera at new music theater
in Rheinsberg, near Berlin ;
2000 9 months scholarship at the artists - farm in Schreyahn,
near Hannover ;
2003 first prize of 4. days of contemporary music from Weimar
for "Fruehlng" (spring) for accordion and harp
