Artists & researchers
Artists
Matthew Herbert is a musician and producer working predominantly in the field of electronic music. Known for ignoring the boundaries and mangling the conventions traditionally associated with the genre, he is one of the few independently-minded artists.
claudio is considered one of the leading creative soloists on all clarinets, and his work connected him with artists like steve reich, skuli sverrisson, ricardo villalobos, samuel rohrer, anders jormin, hermeto pascoal, max loderbauer, jan bang, fred frith, sidsel endresen, as with ensembles like: ensemble modern, musikfabrik, philharmonic orchestras of amsterdam, cologne, munich, zurich, chamber music ensembles and especially many creative music groups.
his compositions and productions include works for alternative ensembles, symphonic orchestras, choirs, electronics, soundtracks for radio plays, films, theater and other art forms. his melodic inventiveness on clarinets and electronics is present in many film soundtracks and his solo performances are impressive examples of musical freedom through improvisation. here he draws from the universal range of human hearing, where emotions are and where the versatility of the sound can be shaped into music.
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jason developed an eeg-to-sound system that allows him to use his brain to create sound waves in real-time. this system explores the relationship between oscillations of bio-electrical body systems and the oscillations of sound moving through the air. this produces a biofeedback system when the brain hears the frequencies that it is producing, and creates an emotional and psychological resonance at that frequency. in previous performances, this has enabled him to achieve very deep meditative and emotional states.
the presentation will begin with a brief explanation of the technology, followed by a 20 minute performance with the system. after the performance, there will by a discussion where he explains the development process of creating this technology and the psychological states associated with specific sound frequencies.
john groves is a british composer, musician and producer, and a specialist for the use of sound and music in advertising and communication. he is known mainly for his memorable jingles and advertising songs. in the early nineties, he developed a structured system for creating sound identities for brands. this methodology provided the basis for what is now known as sound branding. in recent years, john has dedicated a lot of his time to the study of psychoacoustics and the applied use of sound in a healthcare context; from navigational sounds for medical equipment to receptive sound therapy programs for helping to improve sleep, manage stress, and more.
playtronica is a community of artists powering your curiosity through touch, sound, and technology. they deliver meaningful and memorable interactive experiences that increase engagement from participants. education is at the heart of playtronica. they use a combination of sound, touch, and technology to explore invention and human connection.
martine-nicole rojina is a professional music and trans-disciplinary multimedia artist innovating and inventing immersive av, vr, ar and future technology experiences. her curiosity and empathy for technology, science, engineering, economy, art and education are the core drivers of her mpathy studio. she consults european commission and parliament on science, technology and the arts to foster holistic innovation. As co-founder and transdisciplinary project manager of the global private aerospace coalition BEING IN SYNERGY and as civil astronaut training advisor for SPACE FOR HUMANITY, she lays a collective ground for the future of space exploration, travel and education. she released music worldwide and collaborated with internationally recognized artists.
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atelier francesco has had a career in electronic music spanning over ten years. he has releases on worldwide known record labels (such as cocoon, cadenza music, piaf) and has toured all over the world (ex: new york, moscow, berlin, milan, tokyo, sao paolo, lima) both as a dj and a live act under the aliases “atelier francesco“ and “martin patino“. he has also produced for the grammy award nominee act “timo maas“ and held workshops on music production in tokyo, berlin and santiago de chile. in 2015 he was invited by the museum of modern art “la tertulia“ in cali, columbia, to talk about the relation between sound and the brain.
Peter Kirn is a producer/DJ, technologist, and journalist. He is a prolific music artist himself, and also builds platforms around new use of technology in music. He has for over a decade run CDM (createdigitalmusic.com) which has evolved into a daily destination for analysis of cutting-edge use of technology in all aspects of music. He is also co-creator with engineer James Grahame of the award-winning MeeBlip line of hardware synthesizers. He has collaborated with the European Space Agency, Polytechnic Museum in Moscow, and various festivals and conferences (TED, South by Southwest, re:publica), and produced workshops and open performance laboratories (MusicMakers Hacklab) around the world.
as an adolescent various travels brought frida möhres to the south of miraculous india, emerging her into a world completely different from the one where she was born and raised in germany. it was her first encounter with meditation, sacral arts and the immense power of sound that can be witnessed when chanting mantras and playing ancestral instruments from this region. she first studied playing the gong in buenos aires and ever since has been hosting sessions and playing at larger events such as puja nights on different occasions. moving back to berlin in 2018 she finally had the opportunity to study the intermediate gong master training taught by don conreaux, the grand gong master himself. she now teaches the knowledge and experience she gathered to further spread the joy of playing this holistic instrument of sacred sound.
Gosia is a choreographer, dancer, performer, dance educator and curator. A graduate of choreography in Cracow, she has also completed the instructor course Improvisation movement and body symbolism at Institut für Tanz und Bewegungsdynamik in Essen (Germany) and the Dynamic Body Laban Movement Analysis Training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London. She has developed a number of original artistic projects, collaborating with various institutions and artists - also with people having moving, seeing or hearing limitations. A member of the Psychedelic Choir (a female group of sound performers). Her artistic interests focus on the relations between choreography and visual arts, touching upon such notions as (re)presentation, image, and identity. In relation to the sound, she is interested in the body as a rhythm or poly-rhythmic phenomenon, and in movement as its physical and visual manifestation. Intrigued by the role of the sound environment in the perception of a moving body.
Born in 1977 in Switzerland, Samuel grew up in a music connected family. He played the piano from age seven and switched over to drums with the age of 14, studying with Gilbert Paeffgen, who introduced him soon to Billie Brooks, with whom he studied at the Hochschule der Künste (formerly Swiss Jazz School) in Berne later on. In 2000, after studying in Boston, he became a demand drummer in Switzerland and started touring Europe and abroad with Patrick Muller Trio, Nya, Wolfert Brederode, Susanne Abbuehl Group, Malcolm Braff, Bänz Oester, Erik Truffaz and Harald Haerter a o. Since 2003 he lives in Berlin and became one of the influental musicians of his generation for improvised music.
directly from raster noton's family, grischa lichtenberger's focus is not only on musical expression, but also on the process of creating art in general. whilst consistently regarding the complexity and difficulties of communication and material referentiality, he seeks to overcome the dominance of functional interpretations alongside maintaining an open access to technology and production. the archive of samples and fragments of overcome and discarded technological artifacts and everyday livestock is enabled by an ethical figure, wherein art is to address and regard the other, without economizing or confining them.
tatsumi ryusui is a japanese-born, berlin-based experimental/noise/ambient sound artist. he processes several proper, accidental and self-built instruments to generate delicate, yet powerfully astonishing ambient textures that connect drone with the cathartic side of noise.
'stimuli' is music composition by filippo guida, exploring the interaction between acoustic and non-acoustic material and how they affect music perception. the ability to independently control stimulus coming from different perception domains allows the composer to build a complex sound event involving every sense. witness an attempt to define music outside of the acoustic domain; more as a state of mind induced by any form of stimulation.
Dennis DeSantis is a composer, sound designer, author, and percussionist. He received a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Eastman School of Music. His electronic music appears on labels such as Ghostly, Global Underground, Cocoon and Kanzleramt, and he has performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan. Recent highlights include commissions from the Whitney Museum, the Staatsoper Stuttgart and Carnegie Hall. DeSantis is the Head of Music Learning for Ableton, and previously worked as a sound designer for Native Instruments.
at the age of five, minagawa began playing the piano and music soon became a passion for him. minagawa graduated from the music college of japan in 2005 in showa academia musica kanagawa, japan. afterwards, from 2006, he performed in numerous classical concerts around japan. minagawa then went on to take classes in the voice master area of study at the vienna music university in 2010.
Dr. Richard Scott is a composer and performer of electronic and improvised music. For much of the last decade he has been dedicated to the compositional and performance possibilities of analogue modular synthesizers. He also works with a variety of digital technologies such as Ambisonics, multichannel diffusion and with instruments such as the Buchla Lightning and Thunder and his self-designed WiGi system developed as an Artistic Resident at STIEM.
andrew is engrossed by the emotional response produced through sound and strives to create an impactful experience with every project. working as a composer he has scored shows that were performed on the main stage of the roundhouse as well as a film that was displayed at the v&a. his work as a sound artist has been featured on bbc click as well as being displayed at the old truman brewery, the music tech fest and the roundhouse. his solo music has had airtime on radio 1, 6 music and kiss. he has experience managing a music studio and as a recording engineer, making him very knowledgeable in all areas of sound recording and music technology.
since 1979, the artist max joy has been working on the phenomenon of sound. his recent works allow observers to refresh their senses whilst stimulating and sharpening them in a pleasant and subtle manner. here, max joy sets up his “connected sounds” installation; an array of immersive sounds, odours and lights ascending through acud’s staircase. visitors ascending and descending the staircase will stride through different chords of scents, made exclusively from naturally occurring essences, combined with various sonic atmospheres, created from collages of real life recordings; occasionally electronically enhanced or merged with synthetic sounds. each observer will experience their own unique mix of sounds and odours dependent on their own distinct movement in space.
The marseille-based liar bird collective are known for hosting diverse live audio-visual concerts in unusual locations such as churches and ruins. Here they will perform an assorted club-driven live electro-acoustic exploration using analog hardware instruments, percussion and wind instruments.
Phelan Kane is an artist, music producer, engineer, developer and educator. For over twenty years he has been active in both the music industry and the contemporary music education sector, with a focus on electronic music and alternative bands. His specialism is sound design and production techniques such as synthesis and sampling, alongside audio processing and plug-in development.
Having started playing the piano from the age of three, marseille-born musicman Xantrax has accumulated a wide array of musical influences with both classical and jazz training. At the club night he will deliver an eclectic blend of varying musical styles taking you on a journey through genres, tempos and sonorities. His forthcoming release on Ecke Records, featuring a remix from the talented producer Addison Groove, is a perfect example of his ability to combine an assortment of varied influences within his unique musical pieces.
Antoine is a multidisciplinary Graphic Designer from France, based in London. His interest in art began with graffiti, which opened up the world of typography and colour – two elements that are still at the centre of his practice. His work spans from Branding, Art Direction, to Editorial and Digital Design. Most recently he has co-directed the documentary A Sonic Pulse, and embraced making interdisciplinary work with Okra, a South-East London based architecture studio.
Felipe Vaz is a Brazilian sound artist and researcher investigating temporal processes and conceptual issues related to sound, music and the limits of human perception. His works have been presented in galleries and shows such as Re:Flux Festival (New Brunnswick), Casa Encendida (Madrid), Caixa Biennale for New Artists (multiple cities in Brazil), Mixtur and Arts Santa Mònica (Barcelona), La Maudite (Paris), Verbo/Galeria Vermelho (São Paulo), Caixa Cultural (Rio de Janeiro), Fonoteca Nacional (Ciudad de México), Transmediale Vorspiel and Audiovisionen (Berlin), Trafo (Szczecin) and different radio shows. He holds a postgraduate degree in Sound Art from the University of Barcelona and a Sound Studies master from UdK Berlin.
Hugo Esquinca is a Berlin-based sound researcher from Mexico. He investigates the diverse spatio-temporal relations deriving from transductive interactions between technology and the sonorous, expanding within and beyond audibility. His work has been presented in diverse contexts and venues such as Mira Contemporary Art Museum Siberia, Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Loop Festival Berlin, NII Science and Arts Moscow, CMMAS Center For Music and the Sonic Arts Mexico, Forum Stadtpark Graz among others. He is a founding member of the Berlin-based Oqko collective.
Dorothy's short films and multimedia shows have won prizes including Best UK New Director, BFI Future Film Festival, Guardian Documentary Award, Open City Doc Best UK Short, Young Director's Award, Vimeo Staff Picks and Total Theatre Award. They've screened at international festivals, as well as on BBC3, Channel 4, i-D and The Guardian. She has a particular interest in working with non-professional actors to create semi-autobiographical films that merge documentary and fiction. Dorothy is also a member of Breach Theatre and is video editor for Another Gaze.
Mathias Klenner is a Chilean Architect and Sound Artist based in Barcelona, Spain. His work focuses on critical theory and practice in architecture and sound. Researching about the conflicts in the community and territory, in its link with the current context of neoliberal progress. Mathias has produced installations, sound pieces, artifacts, lectures, newspapers, urban interventions, maps, performances, drawings, TV shows, archives, webpages, occupations, fanzines and others mechanisms of symbolic and material dispute. He has lectured in the Schools of Architecture from UDLA, UFT, UACH, UCH, UTEM and UNIACC in Chile, and is co-founder of the architecture collective TOMA.
Emilio Marx is a Sound Artist and Acoustic Engineer. He is currently based in Barcelona. He has specialized in various disciplines and techniques such as Soundscape, Acoustic Heritage, Pure Data, MAX, Arduino and Open Sound Control. Always focusing his work on the use of acoustic tools to create interactive sound pieces. Emilio has exhibited his works in various places such as The 48hrs Neukolln Festival as part of Sonic Heritage Collective, HANGAR.org, CC Convent Sant Agusti and the Casa Encendida in Spain.
Painless Future is the new project started in January 2019, part of Shared Frame. Born in Turin, J.Sintax combines analog instruments with electronic experimentation and a strong dancefloor setting. J.Sintax is techno electronic experimental music with a hint of drama and darkness. His career started in 2004 playing techno sets, then he focused his efforts on producing. After gigging in Turin and Istanbul, his live set was released on polish radio, Afera. In 2012, he became a Piemonte Groove Young Talent (with friends such as NoizyKnobs-Exilles, Edanticonf, Bienoise and Sonambient) playing at big festivals including Collisioni and Club to Club. After months in Cambodia, he started new collaborations and projects in Turin with a unique passionate sound. Lately, a new piece of gear, a Phenol synth, has appeared in his set- up. J.Sintax has moved now from Montreal (CA) to Berlin to continue his journey!
Mirko Miceli is an Italian production designer, producer and artist working in various areas from visual arts to music. Over the last 15 years he has been cinema producer and production designer for theatre productions, mainstream cinema movies, TV series and documentaries. He designed the first pop-up ‘’darkness bar‘’ for the Italian blind association U.I.C., the blind and disabled peoples’ path within mount Etna natural park and a traveling museum on the history of neorealism.
Felix is the founder of Katodik, a collective whose goal is to share audio-visual art forms. Here, he joins us for the club night to deliver a visual show throughout, which is modulated by the sound of the artists. By using various digital and analog image synthesis techniques, the timeless and fuzzy visuals become a combination of present and past technologies. The sound reactivity of the visual laboratory brings a unique visual show and a new dimension to the sound. On top of this, Felix generates, mixes and acts upon different visual impulses live throughout the night.
Johnny Counce and Brukker are opening the club night with a new edition of their hybrid live set. This will include dubbed out synth lines and steppy percussion alongside spoken word, poetry and twisted soundscapes.
Doron Sadja is an American artist, composer, and curator whose work explores modes of perception and the experience of sound, light, and space. Working primarily with multichannel spatialized sound – combining pristine electronics with lush romantic synthesizers, extreme frequencies, dense noise, and computer-enhanced acoustic instruments, Sadja creates post-human, hyper-emotive sonic architecture. Although each of Sadja’s works are striking in their singular and focused approach, his output is diverse: spanning everything from immersive multichannel sound pieces to sexually provocative performance/installation works, and stroboscopic smoke, mirror, laser, and projection shows.
Nikita is a musician and painter who holds that electronic music is an abyss that will always remain complicated for him to apprehend; therefore he chooses to approach it as a layman. Nikitaís relation to sound, he argues, is both disturbing and reassuring because it requires him to rely on his unconsciousness and ignorance as well as always putting himself in question. He will be exploring a wide variety of club sounds at our club night.
TET creates dreams on the dance floor and tells unique stories in her sets. For that she is permanently searching for the hidden gems and new talented artists that deserve to be discovered and shared. Since 2017, she has been part of the collective tanz.t.raum. Furthermore, she is also involved in the Munich group of female creatives called WUT as well as being a resident on bloop.; the London radio station.
John Kameel Farah is a Canadian composer and pianist whose work embraces aspects of baroque and early music, experimental, contemporary classical, improvisation, middle-eastern music and forms of electronic music. He studied composition and piano performance at the University of Toronto, where he received the Glenn Gould Composition Award twice during his studies. In 1999 he had private lessons with Terry Riley in California, and later at the Arabic Music Retreat in Hartford. Farah continues to compose for ensembles and film, but largely focuses on live solo concerts, using a setup which surrounds the piano with synthesizers, as well as processing the piano through computer filters and effects. His music draws upon an interest in astronomy, history, mythology and painting. As a visual artist, his intricate ink drawings have been presented at solo and group exhibitions.
Elliot Carey is an aspiring producer and composer insterested in findind new ways to manipulate sound. Working as a sound designer for companies such as Adidas he is at the forefront of sound manipulation. Elliot will be setting up a full analog installation using tape and real-time sound.
Maya Shenfeld (b.1989, Jerusalem) is a Berlin-based composer, sound artist, and guitarist. Her works span from electroacoustic compositions, sound installations and ensemble pieces to performing as a classical, experimental and rock guitarist. In her practice, Shenfeld explores the intersection between modes of musical production used in experimental and popular music. Her interests lie in the embodiment of the listening experience, researching temporality, deep listening, just intonation, and microtonality.
DuChamp is an Italian scientist, musician and curator based in Berlin, religiously devoted to drone.Drone is related to a precise childhood memory: the sound of the hair dryer, that her mother used to fix her hair. That was the sound of care, bliss, and infinite love. She made her debut as solo on Aug 22 2010, and performed several time across Europe and in the US West Coast.DuChamp uses different instruments (baritone guitar, bass guitar, keyboard, accordion) to find the closer one to the hair dryer she have in her memory.
Her first sound project since being a mom, Womb reimagines the sonic environment of a fetus in utero. A fluid, rhythmic passage puts together her heartbeat recorded with a stethoscope at 45 bpm together with synthesized breath work, auscultation sounds, borborygmi gurgles and other organic and ambient noises, filtered by Mother’s membranes. Combining psychoacoustics, sound art and healing it hopes to trigger the primal recognition. From Singapore, Debbie Chia has an electronic music background of more than 10 years. She runs meditative light & sound baths in Berlin and co-owns the record label Midnight Shift.
Audiovisual artist, experimental musician, performer, concept writer and art and music event manager and coordinator, resident in Berlin. In 2014 received PhD in Audiovisual Performance from FaVU Brno University of Technology, previously obtained a degree in pedagogy in 1998 from Ostrava University (CZ). Living and traveling throughout Europe and United States collecting experiences in art and music club subculture, she has been a member and coordinator of female: pressure network and festival Perspectives Berlin (2013, 2015), new media festival Multiplace, platform Czech it! and art crew Anymade Studio. As an art director and production created projects L to the B (2010) and Zbrojovka site-specific (2011).
ewa majchrzak is a fresh ma of academy of art in szczecin. a visual artist specialised in graphic design, animation and traditional art as well as sound creator. in her works visuals and sound are integral and complete each other. often inspired by nature and its mechanics she created an interactive project underwater/unseen based on protists and ocean life.
Rossano Snel is a composer and pianist. His music was used for feature films, documentaries, animations and TV series. As a pianist, his work walks through Minimalism, Expressionism and Latin and Brazilian influences.
researchers
With a doctorate on the subject of silence in music and sound art, juliana hodkinson has taught composition and music/media aesthetics at the university of copenhagen, royal danish academy of music, technische universität berlin, the academy of music and drama in gothenburg and darmstädter ferienkurse, as well as giving numerous lectures and workshops throughout europe. she is presently associate professor in composition at the grieg academy in bergen, norway, and teaches classical and electronic composition at the royal academy of music in aarhus, denmark.
Juliana works with instruments, objects, electronics, text, voice and visual formats. field recordings, foley, media samples and spoken word also figure in both her live and installation works.
Nicolas is engaged in several research projects on clinical psychology, mostly in the areas of efficacy and general service evaluation. Interested in the current issues arising from the relationship between psychoanalysis and health services. He is also teaching and research labours in United Kingdom, Latin America and Spain, revolving around the theory of mentalizing and the practice it conveys. After a year as International Rights and Product Manager at Giunti Psychometrics in Florence, Italy, he continued working as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at University College London, as methodologist for the Millenium Institute for Depression and Personality (MIDAP) in Chile, and as Researcher for Open Door Young People Service in London.
Florence (Flo) Razoux is a researcher, creator and educator with a PhD in neuroscience and biomedical engineering. Their current work bridges science, art, design and technology, and explores the dichotomy between the body and the mind. It has been presented in academic and cultural institutions such as the University College of London (Burnout, 2015), the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin (Gray Matters, 2017), MONOM, Berlin Center for Spatial Sound (Sgr-A*, 2018), and most recently, the ETH Zürich (Waddington, solo exhibition, 2019).
nitya is a psychotherapeutic counselor using yoga and art therapy. she was born in india and spent many formative years in germany. having grown up between continents and cultures, her search has always been to integrate worlds. this has taken her on a continual learning path which spans from neuroscience to art, eastern spirituality to western psychotherapy and ancient ritualistic tradition to modern clinical practice. she believes that psychological health confers the ability to hold our contradictions and multitudes in harmony. she draws on the many resources within herself to offer a creative and lively approach to healing whilst integrating the worlds within her clients.
Nausikaä El-Mecky is tenure track professor in History of Art & Visual Culture at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona. She specialises in attacks on art from iconoclasm to self-censorship in historical and contemporary settings, developing both research and educational concepts on the topic. After obtaining her PhD in Art History from the University in Cambridge in 2013, she worked in the Berlin art world for two years, amongst others as editor-in-chief of FineArtMultiple and press advisor for various museums. From 2015 – 2018 she was postdoctoral fellow at the Heidelberg School of Education at Heidelberg University before starting her current position in Barcelona. She was elected as a member to the Junge Akademie (part of the Leopoldina and Berlin Brandenburg Academies) in 2017 and was awarded the Maria Gräfin von Linden award for outstanding research in the Humanities in the same year. She has contributed, amongst others, to Apollo: The International Art Magazine, Fotogeschichte and Marginalia | Los Angeles Review of Books.
julian is a german composer and the director of the institute for artistic research; institut für künstlerische forschung. !kf was founded in 2009 by the artist group a rose is, the berlin theatre radialsystem v and members of the young academy of the berlin-brandenburg academy of sciences and humanities alongside the national academy of natural scientists leopoldina. the !kf is an independent research institute. julian will be giving a talk on the importance of artistic and scientific research.
"Brain study by Julian Klein / a rose is. Photo: Kai Bienert“
Marina is a London native. While studying at university, she dedicated herself to music journalism, interviewing artists (Ed Sheeran, Imogen Heap) and was invited to cover press at festivals including Glastonbury and Wireless. Following this she worked in artist management, including stints at IMG Artists, Paris, where she represented opera singers and conductors, and Verbier Festival & Academy in Switzerland, where she worked with youth orchestras and classical artists.
Peter Sinclair is a Sound Artist, researcher in sound art practice at UMR PRISM CNRS and professor of Art Education at ESA-Aix (Locus Sonus). He is renowned for his sound installations and other mixed media works that use sound as their principle medium. His artistic experimentations using networked games, geolocation, mobile media and data sonification are presented internationally as performances, installations or open networked pieces. Most of his work takes place in collaborative and participative environments, notably Locus Sonus. Recent productions include New Atlantis, Locus Stream open microphone Project, RoadMusic and Selphy Orchestra.
born in 1978 in chile, edgardo gómez’s earliest interest in music and sound led him to study sound engineering and acoustics in santiago, chile. in november 2006, 15 months after finishing his bachelor degree, he decided to fly to europe in search of new jobs and opportunities alongside a better understanding about the perception of sound and its behaviour.
since 2013 roberta has been a state-certified non-medical practitioner for energy and sound work. her focus is on spirituality and transformation through holistic perspective and interdisciplinary connections.
Ph.D. in Biology at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Fascinated by the intricacies of animal behaviours, he began his academic career by studying communication in honeybees, bats and songbirds. In his PhD with Constance Scharff he focused on the development and production of temporal rhythms in learned animal vocalizations, particularly in the songs of zebra finches. Throughout these studies he became increasingly interested in the neurobiological mechanisms underlying these behaviours. This led him to his current project, in which he develops computational models to investigate how the representation of a learned song is formed and ultimately consolidated in the neural circuits of the songbird brain.
Nicolas got his bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, and his master’s degree (MSc) in psychology, neuroscience and philosophy from the Berlin School of Mind and Brain at Humboldt-University in Berlin, Germany. He worked as an assistant scientist in one of the largest, longitudinal studies on meditation and mental training at the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences. He lectured at Humboldt-University in Berlin on the topic of “Applying the scientific method directly to the mind – An introduction to the theory and practice of first-person methods”. Besides cognitive science and philosophy of mind his main focus is on Eastern contemplative traditions, especially Buddhism and Daoism, and the meditative techniques associated with them, e.g. meditation, Yoga and Qigong. His work centres around integrating ancient wisdom with modern knowledge and technology in order to establish a rigorous, systematic first-person science of consciousness.
Maik started his studies in 2012 at the FH Bielefeld location Gütersloh in an integrated degree program. From the first day of his studies he worked at CAE Software & Systems during his Bachelor and Master degree and could gain a lot of experience in the field of sound and that noise pollution is a problem for everyone. CAE is an ambitious team of mechanical, electrical, automation, computer sciences and acoustical engineers. They’ve been working on sound source localization systems for more than 15 years and have engineered precise measuring devices for medium-sized companies and international corporations. They spotted the lack of noise control that negatively impacts our daily lives. As sound and vibration experts, they recognized how valuable a sound-imaging-camera would be to improve life sustainably.
Dr. Alessandro Tavano is a Research Associate in the Department of Neurosciences at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (Frankfurt). His main areas of research include oscillatory hierarchies of speech processing, sensory prediction and standby potential, top-down modulation of perceived stimulus statistics and the difference between sensation (stimulus processing) and perception (context modeling).
Alexander Tillegreen is an artist, composer and researcher living and working in Copenhagen and Frankfurt am Main. Tillegreen is currently conducting research collaborations on auditory illusions with scientists as the first artist in residence at the Max Planck Institute of Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. During his residency, he will continue his research and studio work into psychoacoustic phenomena and auditory illusions, and further explore the interdisciplinary boundaries and potentialities between science and art.
Nadia Says is the founder of Your Mom's Agency, and a content curator and event producer in the fields of music, visual arts, and new tech. Her workshop, exhibition, performance, and club night multi-format events always feature diverse lineups and aim at blurring boundaries between disciplines and between the artists or speakers and their audience. Main happenings include two art shows at Berghain club, three editions of From Berlin to LA festival, the day time arts x music program at Tech Open Air 2019, and over 50 interactive talks and workshops on music, tech, and social sustainability in Berlin, Amsterdam, Los Angeles, Detroit, and soon Dubai.
Sarah King is a classically trained acupuncturist with a Masters of Science, a classical Pilates instructor and a student of Guy VOYER, DO in his SOMA Training & SOMA Therapy programs. She is fascinated by the body and enjoys studying how it adapts and responds to life. She currently lives in Berlin and works with exercise and movement.
Ludmila Postel studied Sound Arts at School of Arts in Tourcoing (France). She obtained her National Diploma in Fine Arts in 2010, then pursued her education at the Acousmatic Composition class at the Royal Conservatory of Mons (Belgium). In 2014, she left the conservatory to complete a Masters degree in "Music and musicology " at University of Lille (France) focussing on the relationship between electroacoustic music and video games. In 2018 she obtained a scholarship for her doctoral studies with UMR PRISM. Her practice based Phd research investigates the possible use of (serious) video games for teaching Sound Arts and music using anthropological, phenomenological and creative research approaches. The thesis will lead to the creation of an educational video game on the Sound Arts, based on the New Atlantis virtual universe developed by Locus Sonus.
Tomás Goucha currently works at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (Leipzig, Germany) in the Department of Neuropsychology, lead by Angela D. Friederici. He is currently coordinating a longitudinal study on neural plasticity during the acquisition of German as a second language. His scientific background more generally involves language processing in adults, both in brain structure and function. He is, moreover, interested in broader questions concerning language evolution and the neural substrates that enabled the emergence of language in humans.
Mona Glass was born in 1989 in Hamburg, studied art history and theater studies at the FU Berlin since 2010 and completed her studies in 2016 with the Bachelor of Arts. In 2007 she did an internship in the field of set design and props, as well as in 2010 a stage design at the Hamburg State Opera. In 2012, she began a two-year work as a director's assistant at the Monbijou Theater, where she subsequently worked for one year as a stage designer assistant and prop master. In 2016 her first own stage set was realized at the Hexenberg Theater in Berlin. In addition, she worked as an outfitter in smaller projects, including a music video and an art film. She gained international experience mainly during a year abroad in Portugal, as well as on several months of traveling within Europe, in East Africa, India and Cambodia,
Jin Hyun Kim is Assistant Professor of Systematic Musicology and Director of the laboratory of music technology, aisthesis and interaction (TAIM) at the Humboldt University of Berlin. She accomplished her PhD with a German doctoral thesis “Embodiment in interactive music and media performances: Taking perspectives from media theory and cognitive science into account.” She is currently co-head of the research project “Audible temporality: How time is structured in – and through – music” at the Einstein Center Chronoi and a member of the laboratory of micro-phenomenology.
Being an electric bass player Steffen discovered the cosmic octave and decided to study the profound effects of alternate tuning systems on the mood of human beings. He gained experience in sound-diving™ sessions hosted in yoga studios around Germany. Applying astronomical tuning data to sound meditation, witnessing it’s effects on people and getting their feedback approved his conviction of it’s efficacy on the human psyche. He completed Audiodesign B.A. at HdpK Berlin conducting a statistical study on the affective effect of specific sine wave frequencies. The findings encourage further investigation of the subject. Therefore Steffen is currently studying Computing and the Arts. During his academic journey he met Timo Preece and founded Planetary Cymatic Resonance (PCR.Vision). He is now working in the field of multichannel sound production at Fraunhofer HHI, collaborates with neuro computer scientists to sonify brainwave frequencies for neuro feedback and gives meditational workshops, concerts and sound baths.
Alice Cannava edits and publishes Occulto, curates music, art and discourse events in several Freie Szene Berlin venues, works as a freelance designer/coder and studies history of science and technology at the TU Berlin.
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ableton is a berlin-based music software company that produces and distributes the production and performance program ableton live and a collection of related instruments and sample libraries, as well as their own hardware controller ableton push. alongside this max for live can be used as a platform to creatively build one’s own instruments and effects, tools for live performance and visuals, and much more.
In 2003 Troi Lee founded Deaf Rave as a non-profit organisation, aiming to create parties with a Rave atmosphere, thumping vibrating bass and amazing technicolor lighting for their audience. It has brought together the Deaf communities as well as providing a platform for Deaf DJ's who were into electronic dance music such as UK Garage and Drum and Bass, but rarely had an opportunity to perform. Troi will be speaking about his experiences as a deaf music lover alongside giving an insight into his projects and to top it off will be performing a dj set at the club night under his alias “DJ Chinaman”. Troi’s work with Deaf Rave has broken down so many barriers that Deaf people have faced in modern society; dispelling the myth that Deaf people can't hear music.
Ecke record’s musical movement Corner Klub is back at acud where they will be hosting Euphonia festival’s club night. Alongside delivering a diverse monthly radio show on Noods Radio, Bristol, Corner Klub is known to invite cult artists to intimate venues around Europe for a profound insight into the artist’s musical methods. For this year at Euphonia, Corner Klub will be welcoming an array of diverse artists using different creative methods and interesting techniques for delivering performances of both live and selected club sounds.
Ludopium is an independent game studio based in Cologne, Germany that specializes in music games and ludic audiovisual installations. The team consists of an international group of highly inventive game developers with backgrounds in different areas of media production. Their passion for music, visually striking art, and experimentation powers the creation of all our work. Ludopium aims to build artistic experiences that invite players to listen, play, and interact while keeping fun and accessibility at the forefront of development.
Soil Troth is a versatile pagan ambient project founded by Slasia Wilczynska, BA of Szczecin Academy of Arts and awarded interdisciplinary artist. Sometimes extended to actions beyond the realm of music, Soil Troth focuses on utilising self-prepared sound recordings, collages of recycled recordings, white voice, kunling and hurdy-gurdy. At times the sound is processed by various effects to amplify the droning, pagan vision of the world.
Solène Wolff is a Berlin-based content strategist, working across the fields of architecture, urban policy and sustainability. She is the co-founder and managing partner of PLANE–SITE, a content and communication agency focused on the built environment and its users. Solène leads the agency’s office in Berlin, as well as their global visual production initiatives. She has directed the execution of complex content strategies, from inception to implementation, using diverse formats across publishing, exhibition making, filmmaking and program curation.
Curator Josephine de Fijter believes art is a gateway to learn more about the world, or oneself. As the Founder of Uncoated she provides a platform for talented artists to present their work. De Fijter likes to show art outside of the art world, partnering with music venues or hotels to showcase art to a wider audience. Last March she launched Studio Uncoated where she designs concepts enabling companies to intertwine their brand communication with the visual narratives of artists. Designing experiences that drive consumer action by bringing brands to life and shaping long-term emotional connections. In spatial design, specifically, she believes art installations can play a role, building “the different layers of an experience”. Platform: www.uncoated.de | Studio: www.studiouncoated.com
Brunno is a curator, art consultant and writer based in Berlin, London and Southern Italy. With a specialisation in Western (and Western-influenced) contemporary art, Brunno has a particular interest in time based media, installation, sculpture and photography. Whilst working with emerging artists he uses current technological and social-political theory to engage audiences with artworks in context with broader aesthetic and political debates. Brunno has an MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Arts.
