A partial directory of the many people using Kyma on creative projects. Click a person's name for more information and a photo.
Agostino Di Scipio, born in Naples, 1962, since 1985 he is based in L’Aquila, a medieval town in the inner mountains of the Italian peninsula. Composer of a variety of sound works, including electroacoustic music, sound installations and music scored for instrumentalists (soloists or ensembles) with interactive computer systems. Many of his compositions develop from unconventional sound synthesis/processing methods inspired to phenomena of noise and turbulence. In recent work, Di Scipio focuses on the 'man-machine-environment' feedback loop (for example his live-electronics solos titled Ecosistemico Udibile).
After many years in low-level computer programming and the development of personal stand-alone audio applications (for a variety of processors and workstations), since 1994 he has continued his computer music research mostly using Kyma. Beside Kyma, he relies on freeshare software, and is taught by his students to use and misuse other (un)popular audio technologies.
Electronic Music Professor at the Conservatory of Naples, and instructor in live electronics at Centre Creation Musicale Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX), Paris. A former visiting faculty member at the Dept. of Communication and Fine Arts of Simon Fraser University (Burnaby-Vancouver, 1993), and visiting composer at Sibelius Academy Computer Music Studio (Helsinki, 1995), in the year 2004 Di Scipio is artist-in-residence of the DAAD Berlin Kuenstlerprogramm, visiting professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana, and at the Summer School 'Media and Beyond' of the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, in Mainz.
Notwithstanding the very personal, uncompromising and autonomous approach, Di Scipio’s compositional work raised international attention. Recent performances include the Warsaw Autumn, Inventionen (Berlin), Synthése (Bourges), SMC (Lausanne), the Int’l Computer Music Conference (Berlin, Thessaloniki, etc.), League of Composers (New York), Nuova Consonanza (Rome), etc. In 2003 he was guest composer of the Musica Viva festival (Coimbra, Portugal), and of the Institut voor Psychoacoustics und Elektronische Musik (Ghent, Belgium). New works have been recently commissioned by the IMEB, in Bourges (multitrack tape), the Lausanne Conservatorie (flute, bassoon, string quartet, and live signal processing) and CCMIX (percussion and live signal processing). Among his large scale works, Sound & Fury (2 actors, 2 percussionists, electronics, slide projection), has been staged first in the Evora 'Orkestra2000' festival (Portugal) and then in Venice ('Risonanze', 2002). Tiresia, composed together with the poet Giuliano Mesa, first premiered in L'Aquila ('Corpi del suono' festival, 2001), received its complete staging in Rome, at the Nuova Consonanza 2003 Festival.
Alain Guisan is a sound artist and performer from Switzerland. His work is based on Butoh dancing in combination with sound sculptures and interactive systems. He is also the artistic coordinator of a European project of research concerning new technologies for tactile detection that will have a great impact for the development of new musical interfaces. More on his work and the European project can be found on
http://www.b-polar.com and
http://www.mec.cf.ac.uk/research/pubs/taichi.html
Ambrose Field, electronic music composer and performer, uses recorded environmental sound sources and custom computer processes to generate a destinctive high-octane soundworld that is dense and uncompromisingly relentless. Winner of four international awards including two Ars Electronica Honourary Mentions, his music is available on Centaur Records (USA), the ORF (Austria), Memnosyne Media (France) labels. Ambrose specialises in Surround Sound production, utilising formats ranging from 6.1 through to Ambisonics on installation, live music and film projects.
Andrew is a new Kyma user interested in re-synthesis of 6 channel guitar audio from hex pickup guitars, after a more advanced version of the Roland VG-99. He has worked in broadcasting systems, mostly in design and implementation of large scale digital production systems. You can find him at
http://www.electro-music.com.
Arne Spech studied Electrical Engineering (Dipl.-Ing. degree). He is an amateur musician and sound engineer, and does sound design for amateur theatre performances. He plans to use his new Kyma system for preparing special sound effects for theatre performance playback.
Barbara Ellison (Ireland) is a composer and artist currently residing and working in The Netherlands (since 2000).
I make noises. I program kyma. I help other people make noises. I like sleep. I dislike writing my own bio. I'd stalk Kurt and Carla if it wasn't so cold during the winter in Champaign.
Bernd Wuertz is a composer and sound designer working mainly for film and advertising in the UK and Germany. Obsessed with sound and noises, crazy about his new gadget, the lovely Kyma, which has now replaced his girlfriend. Numerous side projects including Hanschenklein with video artist and filmmaker Alex Herzog.
http://www.myspace.com/haenschenklein
Bharath Venkatesan is an aspiring sound designer and electronic musician living in California.
Boon is a film composer and sound designer, currently working for Red 5 Studios in Irvine, CA.
Brett Wartchow (b. 1977) is a composer and sonic artist currently active in the Minneapolis / St. Paul area. His creative output includes work for interactive electroacoustic media, instrumental and vocal concert compositions as well as sonic art installations. As an active intermedia collaborator, Brett has worked closely with choreographers, creative movers, performance artists, graphic designers, film makers and multimedia artists in the creation of pieces that explore new and unique expressive possibilities that integrate conventional artistic forms.
Brett holds degrees in Composition and Intermedia Music Technology from St. Cloud State University and the University of Oregon. He is currently a PhD student in Composition at the University of Minnesota.
Brian Belet is a composer, performer, and theorist (reclaiming the exploratory definition of the term) living in Campbell, California. A Kyma user since 1991, his research activities involve algorithmic composition, real-time software sound synthesis, real-time computer improvisation, live performance human-machine interaction, and microtonal theories. He performs primarily contemporary music using Kyma, computer controllers, bass, guitar, and viola. His most recent compositions include
(Disturbed) Radiance (piano and Kyma, 2003),
Lyra (violin and Kyma, 2002), and
Still Harmless [BASS]ically (electric bass and Kyma, 2000). He is currently working on a commissioned composition for trumpet and Kyma.
Dr. Belet serves as Director of the Center for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music at San Jose State University. He has scores published by the Society of Composers, Inc., Warner Brothers / Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp., and the International Trombone Assoc. Press; with music recorded on the Consortium to Distribute Computer Music, the Society of Composers, Inc., and Frog Peak Music CD labels.
Belet’s most recent Kyma-related publication appears in Organised Sound, Vol. 8, No. 3, December 2003 (“Live performance interaction for humans and machines in the early twenty-first century: one composer’s aesthetics for composition and performance practice”), pp. 305-312. Earlier articles are published in the Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference (1991, 1992, 1996, & 2003) He has attended (and survived) five Kyma immersion workshops (1992-2001), and can’t wait for the next one! He is Vice President for Membership in the Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States [SEAMUS], and also a member of ICMA, SCI, with his music licensed with BMI. (http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/music_dance)
Bruno Liberda is Professor of Music at the Musikhochschule in Vienna where he studied composition under Roman Habenstock-Ramati. His opera,
Wieso verschwindet Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag?, was premiered at the Staatstheater Karlsruhe im ZKM October, 1999.
His numerous earlier commissions include compositions for the Wiener Staatsoper (the first electro-acoustic music ever to be heard at the Viennese opera house), for the Burgtheater in Vienna, opera houses in Frankfurt and Ulm, for the Berliner Ensemble, and many others. His music has also been performed at the opera in Amsterdam, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, and on concerts throughout Europe and the United States, and he also composes music for film and television. In his premiere acting role, Liberda recently played the lead in a made-for-TV movie biography of composer Hugo Wolf. Visit Bruno's web site for more information. http://www.ping.at/music/index.htm
Buck Sanders is a composer and musical sound designer for film. He has been working with film composer Marco Beltrami since 1997.
The study of sound has lead Carl Golembeski on a path of self awareness and discoveries. He says, "With Kyma, I hope to continue and go even deeper, penetrating the depths of my sonic imagination in accord with my own being. "
Designer of the Kyma language and the president of Symbolic Sound Corporation, Carla Scaletti is also a lecturer at the
Center for the Creation of Music Iannis Xenakis (CCMIX) in Paris. Her music is available under the Centaur and Opus One labels and her research papers have been published in
Computer Music Journal,
Proceedings of the OOPSLA and
SPIE conferences,
Perspectives of New Music, and in several book chapters. Scaletti serves as the president of the
Salvatore Martirano Foundation and as a member of the board of directors of the
Electronic Music Foundation. She has a doctorate in music composition and a master's of computer science from the
University of Illinois and in 2003 received the Distinguished Alumnae Award for contributions in the field of music from
Texas Tech University where she earned master's of music in composition. She was born in Ithaca New York and has lived in Trenton New Jersey, St. Paul Minnesota, Albuquerque New Mexico (where she graduated from public schools and the University of New Mexico), and currently resides in Champaign Illinois.
Carlos Alberto Augusto is a Portuguese composer who writes music-theater and music for theater. Also involved in music and sound design for multimedia and video. Worked in noise control and research. Studied communication.
Craig Berkey, who is originally from Canada, is a free-lance Sound Designer living in San Rafael, California. His film credits include
Superman Returns,
The New World,
I, Robot,
Big Fish,
X-Men and
X2,
Men in Black II,
Behind Enemy Lines,
Sleepy Hollow,
The X-Files, and
Alien Resurrection.
Cristian Vogel is a composer and music producer, known for his experimental DJ and Live performances, studio composition and production. Born in Chile 1972 and raised in the UK, he now lives and works in Barcelona.
Darren is a Singapore-based sound artist whose Ethereal-Ethno-Electronic soundbites have established him as one of the most sought-after sound designers and music composer/arranger in the local theatre scene. His innovative use of microphones with a combination of effect processors define him as a unique designer whose sound is one that critics describe as part primordial and part industrial. Trained in classical piano, he has ventured into the digital realm of sampling and synthesis, bringing a new definition to conventional and traditional instruments, proving himself as one of the new sound forces in the local scene. His ambisonic brainchild -
SoNiCbRaT has been earning him an audio signature in the underground music movement.
Darren graduated from the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies and Philosophy. He has been active in the theatre and sound art scene for the last six years. With two nominations on his belt, he won the coveted award of Best Sound Designer at the recently held 6th Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2006. He was also the recipient of the 5th Straits Times Life! Theatre Awards 2005 : Honourable Mention for Special Achievement, for Best Sound. The local Straits Times has voted him as one of the top 20 personnel to look out for in 2006. He is the first sound artist to be invited by Asian Civilisation Museum (Empress Place) to sound design for the closure of Journey of Faith, Art & History from the Vatican Collections. He is also currently working on a government project—a sound design installation for the new Singapore History Museum due to open in 2006, where his work will be a main feature in the exhibition for the next five years. He is currently an Associate Sound Designer for The Finger Players Ltd.
David McClain worked for the past 20 years as a Senior Scientist for the Space Defense industry in Tucson, Arizona, teaching computers to "see in the dark." He has taken the knowledge gained from that journey into new realms where he now works as a Senior Corporate Scientist for Avisere, Inc., a company specializing in remote sensing and recognition of human gestures and gaits, with offices around the globe from Stockholm to Tucson and to Calcutta. All of this work uses massive amounts of signal processing, and so choosing Kyma as a favorite toy was a natural!
Dirk Veulemans is a composer of electroaccoustic music. You can read about his past and current projects on his homepage:
http://users.pandora.be/alver.bvba/alver/muziek/
Edmund Eagan owns the Twelfth Root studios in Ottawa, Ontario where he is kept busy doing sound for animated features (and tries to set aside time for composing his own computer music whenever he can).
http://twelfthroot.com
Eleonor Sandresky writes music that The New York Times decribes as lovely, but enigmatic, and that TimeOut NY reports as having ever-varying qualities of touch, register and intensity. Her work encompasses music for virtuoso soloists and large ensembles to evening-length collaborations, has been featured in films, and has been recorded on Koch International, One Soul Records, Masterworks of the New Era, and Albany Records. Eleonor has been a composer-in-residence at STEIM in Amsterdam, The MacDowell Colony, and the festival in Hvar, Croatia. Recent premieres include Phenomenon 2: etudes, for piano and electronics, String Quartet, by Ethel, and Voyelles, from the Innocence Lost: Debussy-Berg Project. Her music has been featured at major venues on three continents, from the Philadelphia Fringe Festival to the Totally Huge New Music Festival in Perth, Australia. She has received grants from the NYSCA, Jerome Foundation, ASCAP, American Music Center, and Meet the Composer. Working at the forefront of avant-garde concert-as-theater, Eleonor has reinvented herself as a Choreographic Pianist with her composition, A Sleeper s Notebook, that she premiered at the Kitchen in 2003. For a complete bio and to read reviews, please visit the website:
http://www.easandresky.com.
Enrico Barbaro was born in 1969 in Napoli, Italy. He is an electric and upright bass player and composer, currently based in Madrid, Spain. Enrico is working as a sound engineer-designer for tv commercials and short films. He's working on an on-line project, a sound seeds-sharing with Francesco Albano, named Postal Art. You can listen to some of the compositions at
http://www.myspace.com/enricobarbaro
Brooding. Ambient. Mystery. Filter-sweep trickery. Experimentation. Improvisation. Filled with emotion. These are some of the words that describe the sound of Bluetech, a classically trained pianist and master of the art of software production. Bluetech's love of the melodic and exquisite sense of sound design makes him one of the most ingenius producers today. Currently he is working on expanding his sound by exploring various side projects. The Evan Marc project is dub influences tech-house and minimal dancefloor spaciness. His Evan Bartholomew project is an avenue for deep ambient, beatless, and more symphonic and cinematically inspired music.
Evan
McManaman? likes to compose music. He says: "I thought Kyma might be the perfect addition to my studio because it would simplify many things."
Evan Roberts is a sound designer and a composer with 32 years of experience in broadcast media, voice acting, and audio post production. Visit The Gunnery at
http://www.the-gunnery.com.
Francesco Galante was born in Rome. He studied electronic music with G. Nottoli, and at IMEB in Bourges with D. Keane, P. Boeswillwald and G. Baggiani. From 1980 to 1982 he was artistic director of Musica Verticale Association in Rome. Galante was co-founder of SIM (Society of Music Informatics) in Rome (1982-1990). He took part to ICMC in 1984 (IRCAM, Paris) and in 1986 (Royal Conservatoire of The Hague). He published two books devoted to electroacoustic music:
Musica Espansa (co-author Nicola Sani) and
Metafonie (co-author Luigi Pestalozza). In 1997 he was composer in-residence at IMEB in Bourges, where he realized the piece
Il Mio Paese è la Notte.
From 1998 to 2000 at Teatro alla Scala, Galante worked in collaboration with Luigi Pestalozza to the realization of the biennale cycle of electronic music Metafonie. He also has been scientific director of the international symposium "Musica e Tecnologia, domani." His music works have been performed in national and international leading institutions, and are recorded on CD by Fonit Cetra edts, Eshock editions, LIMEN editions, Twilight edts/ EMI Italy, CEMAT edts, and published by Ricordi. Francesco Galante is professor of electronic music at Conservatory of Music of Cosenza city.
Franz Danksagmüller studied recorder, piano, organ and theories with his father; further studies in organ, composition and church music at the Universities of Music in Vienna and Saarbröcken (Germany). Franz worked as a teacher for organ and improvisation at the University of Music in Vienna. At present, he is an organist and componist at the Cathedral of St. Pölten (near Vienna). Franz writes for organ, choir and electronics, and also performs with several musicians and actors. In addition to all this, Franz makes film music and club music.
Frederik Van de Moortel is from Belgium, and is a sound designer, mixer, composer, and musician known as
Sakuran.
Sakuran is doing electro-acoustic research into the heart of sound. He specializes in surround sound design for motion pictures, sound dramaturgy for theatre, and non-redundant live music, direct-to-picture scoring for cinema and theatre.
Dr Garth Paine - Academic, Composer, Installation Artist, Sound Designer
http://www.activatedspace.com Garth Paine is particularly fascinated with sound as an exhibitable object. This passion has led to the creation of several interactive responsive environments where the inhabitant generates the sonic landscape through their presence and behaviour. It has also led to a considerable body of work that creates music scores for dance in realtime using video tracking of the choreography.
He has an international reputation as a leader in the area of interactive sound works and has exhibited/performed extensively in Asia, UK, Europe, USA, Canada, New Zealand and Australia. As a composer he has produced original compositions and sound designs for film, theatre, dance and installation works. Hi ensemble SynC explores the musical space that results from bringing ancient acoustic musical instruments together with live electronic processing. Listen here http://www.syncsonics.com
Garth Paine's interactive audio-visual environment installation Gestation was featured in the 10th New York Digital Salon http://www.nydigitalsalon.org/, and was again the featured work at the DesignX: Critical Reflections exhibition in Florida, USA in the same year, where he gave the Keynote address. PlantA, an interactive sound work using realtime meteorological data was exhibited in Australia at the Syndey Opera House, at McGill in Montreal and is being developed as a realtime web presence.
Dr Garth Paine was a freelance sound artist for 18 years before becoming lecturer in Music Technology and Innovation at De Montfort University, UK from 2002 to 2003. He is currently Senior Lecturer in Music Technology, Director of the VIPRE research lab where he has been undertaking research into new musical interfaces http://vipre.uws.edu.au/tiem/ and research member of MARCS Auditory Labs http://marcs.uws.edu.au/ at the University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia http://www.uws.edu.au.
Greg is a British composer / sound engineer specialising in Middle Eastern music.
Hal Wagner is a sound designer in the Boston area.
Hans Holten is an artist and musician living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
Harm Visser is a sound and synth designer who lives in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Harry has been playing and recording electronic music as a hobbyist for about 35 years.
Huibert Boon is a sound designer and sound editor in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Together with Alex Booy, he owns a studio for audio post production and sound design.
Ivan Segreto is a musician from Italy who loves kyma's sound.
Jacek started his computer music and sound composition venture by using MusiCalc a Commodore 64 Synthesizer Sequencer. Involved in many music, theatre, film, animation, concert, installations, productions and organizations. His incessant researching and knowledge of almost every new area of sound composition has allowed him to work with some of world’s best composers, artists, designers and software developers. Amongst a few other talents Jacek is also a seasoned frame drum player, but at heart he is and always will be a painter.
James Drage has been playing music in one form or another since age six when he began Royal Conservatory piano study in England. He probably would have attempted a career in music, had he not been introduced to computers in the mid-eighties. Thankfully those worlds have now collided with the advent of technology in music - and his degree in Computer Science certainly comes in handy. James enjoys tinkering with instruments and devices of all sorts and in every conceivable genre. You might find him soldering together electronic parts in his dining room or trying to tune a dulcimer minutes before an improvisation performance. James is always looking for new and interesting things with which to make sound.
James M. Guthrie is a composer, performer, and music educator. He currently serves as Assistant Professor of Music, Director of the Meherrin Chamber Orchestra, and area coordinator for the Music Industry Track at Chowan University, Murfreesboro, North Carolina. His teaching duties include Strings, Organ, Theory and Composition. Prof. Guthrie coordinates the New Music Day concert series at Chowan, and was recently elected as president of the Virginia Chapter of NACUSA (the National Association of Composers, Inc.).
Born 1969, first synthesizer 1982, hooked ever since.
Jay Zerbe is a composer, artist, and "creative" computer software junkie. Day job: works with computers. Night/weekend avocation: explore software enhancements to creative processes. Focus: abstract art and music
Jean is the Office Manager at Symbolic Sound.
Jesus Gestoso works principally in soundtracks for video-art, installations and multimedia. He also loves mastering, but does this only for friends (Jesus says: I love to work very slowly!). His works are in expositions in the Guggenheim-Bilbao, Reina Sofìa Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, and d'Art Contemporain de Paris.
Job van Zuijlen was born in The Netherlands and grew up in an environment that stimulated art as well as science. This has drawn him to art forms that have a technology component. His interest in electronic music began in the late sixties when he attended an electronic music concert series in Utrecht. He was fascinated and began his own electronic-music experiments with simple equipment that he built himself. After high school, he studied at the Institute of Sonology of Utrecht University (with Gottfried Michael Koenig, among others) from 1969 to 1970 and again from 1979 to 1980. His interest in music technology led to work as a designer of synthesizers and effects equipment for Synton Electronics during the second half of the seventies.
Job continued composing electronic music as well, and in 1976 was commissioned to score a short animation film. Since then, he has written music for several independent films. Job also likes to combine electronic music with other art forms and to collaborate with other artists. This has resulted in music for dance, the theater, and a number of art shows. Most of his standalone compositions have not been published, except for Marsyas, a piece for contemporary flute and recorded electronic music, which was written in 1984.
In collaborative projects, Job looks for ways to add visual content to his music or to compose music inspired by visual content. He prefers a condition in which there is time and freedom to experiment, so he decided that it might be interesting to take a shot at the visual content as well. The results to date are two short 3D animation films in which the images are accompanied by electronic music and sounds.
His move from The Netherlands to the United States in 1993 coincided with a slow transition from his beloved analog world to the digital reality of today. Although his current profession as a systems analyst is not related to music in any shape or form, Job hopes that a revitalized electronic studio with the Capybara as epicenter will give him new inspiration. In fact, starting in 2008, Job is planning to say goodbye to the corporate world and devote himself full-time to his art. Any accomplishments will be duly recorded at http://www.electona.com/newmusic.
John Livengood is an organist and a composer of tape music who records with Red Noise and tours with Planetarium. His musical influences include Soft Machine, Terry Riley, and Miles Davis. During the 1970s, he discovered his first synthesizer (an ARP 2600), founded the group Spacecraft, and created the Livengood Laboratory for the study of electronic and computer music. During the 1980s, he studied computer music at IRCAM, continued the activities of his laboratory, worked as a beta tester for hiperprysm, and composed pieces for his album
File room. In 1993, he teamed up with Richard Pinhas to produce the
Cyborg Sally album, recorded on the Tangram New Series label, and performed that same year in concert at the UK Electronica Festival in London. (
Cyborg Sally, by the way, is the name given to the virtual-personality reflected by the vocoded voice of Norman Spinrad). Livengood's list of compositions includes music for film and theater as well as for live and recorded musical performances.
John Mantegna is a composer and classical guitarist living in Vermont.
John R. Platt is a professor emeritus of psychology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. His research area is music perception and psychoacoustics. He uses Kyma tools to run psychology experiments and has assisted several other laboratories to get started with creating tools to run their experiments.
Jøran Rudi (1954, Oslo) began his career in music as a member of one of the influental Norwegian rock bands that emerged in the end of the 70's. His studies in music theory and composition were conducted at New York University, and Rudi has since developed a portfolio of works for electronic instruments and/or fixed media, as well as for dance, film, performance art, installation and multimedia. Rudi has for the last 15 years been the Director of
NOTAM—Norwegian Center for Technology in Music and the Arts.
Jose Emmanuel Silva, a.k.a.
Abscrete, is an electronic music producer who is trying to give something back to music for all the good things that music has given him all these years. "Music for me is the passion of my world and my way of living."
Abscrete is a fusion of Abstract music and Concrete music, with no limits or specific music styles. His music could be thought of as experimental, based in trip hop and break beats mixed with all kinds of electronic music, jazz, blues, and funk. Silva is a self-taught music and audio lover, always curious about new technology and looking for things to help him make more interesting music using sounds never heard before. His sounds are very synthetic melded with organic. Sometimes he calls his music "sci fi tales".
"Keep grooving hard and nasty, and enjoy music that makes life enjoyable!"
Joshua Batty is a 22 year-old musician/sound designer/New media artist/Trumpet player from Melbourne. He is a full-time producer and teacher of sound design and dance music production. He recently completed his Bachelor of Music degree (Improvisation) from the Victorian College of the Arts in 2007. Joshua plans to use Kyma in processing his trumpet live, and in processing his band live on stage. He plans also to use Kyma in sound design for TV and Film, and, in exploring what frequencies have an effect on the body, then implementing them into his IDM beat-based tracks in order "to push the evolution of music to a whole new dimension."
Julien Bilodeau is a composer from Montreal, Canada. He writes music for solo instruments, small ensemble, chamber orchestra and orchestra mixed with electronics. He is collaborating with an architect and a physicist for the conception of a mobile space of sound and light (2010). He also teaches at the
The Centre de Création Musicale Iannis Xenakis in Paris.
Karl Mousseau is a pianist/synthesist/composer living in Canada.
Kelly Fitz received Ph.D. (1999), M.S. (1992), and B.S. (1990) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where, in addition to digital signal processing, he studied sound analysis and synthesis with Dr. James Beauchamp, and sound design and electroacoustic music composition with Scott Wyatt, using a variety of analog and digital systems in the Experimental Music Studios. Dr. Fitz was Assistant Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Washington State University, where he taught data structures, C++, and digital sound synthesis and processing from 2001 to 2006. He is currently a Research Engineer at the Starkey Hearing Research Center in Berkeley California.
Dr. Fitz is the principal researcher and developer of the Reassigned Bandwidth-Enhanced Additive Sound Model, and of the Loris software, an open source library for digital sound analysis, synthesis, manipulation, and morphing. Previously, he co-developed Lemur, a widely-used software application for sound analysis, transformation, and synthesis based on the sinusoidal analysis method of McAulay and Quatieri, and co-developed the Virtual Sound Server (VSS), a client/server system enabling data-driven sound computation in interactive real-time environments, at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Dr. Fitz is a member of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Audio Engineering Society (AES), the Electronic Music Foundation (EMF) Institute, and the International Computer Music Association (ICMA).
Kenn Mouritzen is a sound artist who was born in Copenhagen and now lives in Vienna.
Kenny is from Edinburgh, Scotland, and lives near London working as an audio designer at Media Molecule, where he is responsible for the audio experience in the PlayStation 3 title
LittleBigPlanet. Before joining Media Molecule, Kenny was employed as a sound designer at Sony Computer Entertainment—Europe's London Studio, where he worked on over a dozen titles including
24: The Game,
EyeToy: Kinetic,
Fired Up,
Gangs of London,
The Getaway: Black Monday, and
Heavenly Sword. Prior to this work, he studied music technology as an undergraduate and went on to gain an MA, with distinction, in sound design.
Kenny is an active member of the game audio community, sits on the Game Developers Conference Audio Advisory Board, and has spoken at GDC, GDC Europe, the Develop Conference, GameCity, the University of Edinburgh, Leeds College of Music and Confetti Institute of Creative Technologies. In October 2005, Kenny set up http://www.gamesound.org as a resource for those wishing to learn more about sound for games.
I have been involved with audio/video production since the mid-80's, primarily focusing on audio engineering and music production, as well as some audio for video work. After much soul searching, I ended up switching professions, diving into the I.T. field. Throughout my I.T. career, I have felt the call of art. This has led me to build up a decently stocked, extremely small audio/video production room, along with other tools/toys to distract me from my primary job as Director of Technical Operations for Citeline, Inc.
Kurt J. Hebel, vice president of Symbolic Sound, has a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois where he taught courses in digital audio engineering, sound synthesis and processing algorithms, and DSP-programming before coming to Symbolic Sound full-time in 1995. His research has been published in the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Computer Music Journal, as well as several book chapters and conference proceedings. The designer of the Capybara-320 hardware (and its predecessors), Kurt has been designing, building and programming hardware and software for computer music for over 25 years, starting out with the KIM-1 based synthesizer he built in his parent's basement while still in high school, and including the Sound Conversion and Storage System for the University of Illinois School of Music (1984), a microprocessor called the Pigtail for controlling the CERL Sound Group IMS digital synthesizer (1981), the Platypus — a discrete logic DSP that he built with Lippold Haken in 1983, along with innumerable software projects ranging from spectral analysis programs to filter optimization software, to microcode assembly languages, and even a Macintosh shareware program called BigScreen Init (popular back in the days of the Mac 512 K and SE/30!). Dr. Hebel is a member of the IEEE, the AES, and has served as both newsletter editor and secretary of the International Computer Music Association.
Dr. Haken has a broad interest in methodology and technology of computer music and computer engineering. He is leader of the CERL Sound Group, and together with his University of Illinois graduate students developed new software algorithms and signal processing hardware for computer music. He is a successful teacher, both at the freshman and graduate level. He is Senior Computer Engineer at Prairie City Computing, and has designed high-speed computers and network equipment.
Luigi is a producer, songwriter and engineer, based in Miami.
Electronic music composer Magnus Birgersson from Gothengurg, Sweden, aka Solar Fields, built a unique sonic universe with a constant shifting from high tech ambient flow into broken beats, powerful sequences and fragmented loops. As a natural born multi-instrumentalist, Magnus plays the Veena, sitar and guitar and is also deeply connected to any sound processing machine. Constantly exploring new musical horizons in his famous high-tech station called Studio Jupiter, Solar Fields likes to develop an evolving dream (unfinished, as he likes to mention), and offers an intense listening experience.
Solar Fields music in fact goes further than these boundaries propulsed by his talent for sculpting hypnotic harmonics and layering sounds. The productive discography of Magnus Birgersson should be considered like a following of drifting masterpieces: 4 solo albums, one collaboration album with French composer Aes Dana under the name H.U.V.A. Network, and more than 30 compilations features for various labels.
Mark Phillips won the 1988 Barlow International Competition for Orchestral Music. Leonard Slatkin has conducted his music with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, and the NHK Symphony Orchestra of Japan. In 2004 Phillips premiered Turning Two Hundred, a 50-minute commissioned work for orchestra, jazz band, drum corps, handbell choir, electronic music, eight instrumental soloists, video, and dance. Commissioned for a 2005 premiere in Memphis, his Dreams Interrupted has received subsequent performances in Pittsburgh, Duluth, Baltimore, Dallas, Birmingham (AL), and Athens (Ohio). Following a national competition, Pi Kappa Lambda commissioned a chamber work from Phillips, which led to the premiere of Bushwhacked! in San Antonio, Texas (September 2006). His music has received hundreds of performances throughout the world —including dozens of orchestra performances — and has been recorded by Richard Stoltzman and the Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra, the Lark Quartet, and several solo artists. Mr. Phillips has also received awards from the Ohio Arts Council, the Indiana Arts Commission, ASCAP, Meet the Composer, Ohio University, Indiana University, the Delius Composition Competition, and the National Flute Society.
A graduate of UC Santa Cruz and Los Angeles Recording School, Mark Sheldon has been an instructor with LARS (Los Angeles Recording School) for 11 years, teaching Pro Tools, Reason, Cubase, Nuendo, and MIDI. Mark also is a
Freelance Pro Tools Consultant and Editor for clients such as Michael Boddicker.
Principal audio editor for two of the most downloaded audiobooks, Raising Atlantis and The Atlantis Prophecy by Thomas Greanias.
Produced songs for Kool Keith.
Owner of Binary Sound and Synatarium.
Prolific award-winning composer and synthesizer collector (over 100 in his collection!).
Multi-instrumentalist (piano, synthesizers, guitar, bouzouki, harmonica, accordion, recorder, percussion.
Sound seeker and noise navigator with a Kyma newly added to his collection.
Born 1980. Drummer turned guitarist turned singer/songwriter turned sound designer.
http://moljen.com/
Matera Enrico is a sound and DVD authoring engineer, working in the field of multimedia products. In his spare time, he is always composing and playng music, but often this hobby turns out to be work in the form of music and sound design for DVD trailers and for corporate videos. Matera is preparing a CD of electronic experimentations that will be self published soon. He says: "I am going to enjoy very much the great help Kyma will give me and the wonderful new sounds I can create."
Audio Mercenary for Feature films, video games, commercials et new media.
Feature Films: The Matrix Reloaded, The Matrix Revolutions, The Animatrix Second Renaissance I & II, The Animatrix Matriculated, Gothika, Spartan, Cursed, The Underclassman, Perfect Man
Video Games: God of War I, God of War II, God of War Chains of Olympus, LAIR, Uncharted, WarHawk, Syphon Filter Logan's Shadow, Secret Agent Clank, SOCOM Confrontations, SOCOM Tactical Strike, SOCOM Combined Assault, SOCOM III, SOCOM FireTeam Bravo I, SOCOM FireTeam Bravo II, Enter the Matrix Video Game, Prince of Persia II The Sands of Time, Doom 3, Jak 3, NeoPets The Darkest Faerie, NeoPets The Wand of Wishing, NBA 07 The Life Vol2, NBA 08 The Life Vol3.
Mike Meyer has been composing original music for corporate clients since 2001. His music has been the centerpiece for several national and international theatrical productions. Currently his work can be heard across the globe and most notably at Casino Estoril, Europe's largest casino.
Michael is a new Pacarana/Kyma user. He says he is also a loud guitar player and engineer.
My name is Michel van Osenbruggen and I'm from the Netherlands. In 2005 I started composing and producing my own synthesizer music. I'm not trying to imitate any style. I just do my own thing. I am for sure influenced by 80's synthesizer music though. Listen and judge for yourself. More information and music on
http://www.synth.nl/. I released two solo albums so far on the Groove Unlimited label.
Miguel Gil Ruiz graduated in composition in 1993 with Summa cum Laude at "Berklee College of Music" (Boston). He studied composition and South Indian Classical Music studies at Sweelinck Conservatory (Amsterdam), and took Ph.D courses at "Universidad Autónoma" (Madrid). Miguel has received the Prix de Rome in 1994 and the "Villa de Madrid" in 2008. His classical XX century music has been programmed around Europe and the U.S.A. He is also composing, arranging, performing and producing flamenco, jazz and African music projects. Miguel has worked for cinema, theatre and dance, with companies like the Cuban National Ballet or "Centro Dramático Nacional" (Spain). Besides steady teaching at the "Conservatorio Superior de Oviedo", Miguel gives lectures and seminars in universities and conservatories and has been professor during one year as a part of an international cooperation project in Indonesia. Visit his website
http://www.miguelgil.com.es.
I have been involved with electronic music for 14 years, most of the time in a group called 'Leftfield'. I have always been interested in unique sounds whether they be of an organic nature or electronic. This has led me to experiment more with synthesis and particularly the blending of accoustic sounds and electronic. Currently I am finishing work on a new album with my new partner Nic Rapaccioli.
Nick
McCabe is a producer and sound artist, and a guitarist with and founder of The Verve — twenty years this year (2009). He is still amazed at the possibilities offered by guitar bass and drums—see http://www.myspace.com/nickmccabeuk for some of Nick's krautrock inspired/psychedelic stuff. Nick will be using Kyma for transformation of found sound and real world instruments, which are already featured heavily in his remixes. Llive granulation of various sources plus realtime spectral treatments are amongst Nick's favourites in all of Kyma's possibilities.
Øivind Idsø (b. 1972) is a composer of sorts.
Oscar Caraballo is a composer and sound designer who studied Electro-acoustic Music at the Institute of Phonologie of the Venezuelan National Youth Orchestra, Piano at the Conservatory of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Caracas, and Physics at the Universidad Central de Venezuela. During the years of 1992 to 1996, Oscar studied Composition at California State University, Sonoma.
A.k.a Sr. Curí. Composer, performer and stage manager. Oscar has composed music for more than 40 performances. He is a co-founder of Gichi-Gichi Do together with Niña Jonás. Gichi-Gichi Do's aim is the design and the creation of scenic projects that develop under various formats such as scenic-intallations, concerts, and live performances. http://www.gichi-gichi.com
Paul McFadden is a Sound Editor working on features and high profile drama in the UK. He is currently employed as Sound Editor/Designer on the new Doctor Who series for the BBC, where they plan to use Kyma to make Alien voices and morphing audio.
I have been making music for about 18 years just for fun. Most of my music is performed live and often features unusual sources. Lately I am enjoying playing the 'digital' Kyma and my Modcan analogue modular together.
Pete Johnston is known among his peers as the "rocket scientist" of sound design and the master of audio morphing. He also came up with the algorithm and wrote the assembly language code for one of the best-loved modules in Kyma: the CrossFilter.
Born in Lucerne in 1964. Matura A. Studied the piano under Eva Sherman and Grazia Wendling at the Lucerne Conservatory. Teaches the piano at various music schools in central Switzerland, e.g. at the teacher training college Hitzkirch. Further education at the Music Academy Basel (sound engineering) und at the Zurich School of Music (computer sound synthesis). 1992-2000 sound engineer at the ‘Schauspielhaus Zürich’ (municipal theatre). From 2000-2005 responsible for light, sound and video at the Zurich School of Music and Drama (HMT). Technical head of the Swiss Centre for Computer Music (SZCM) and member of the ‘Forschungsrat Schweiz’ FORA (music research).
Since 2005 responsible for computer music technology at the ICST at the ZHdK.
Various sound technical and musical works for independent theatre companies. Sound and technology for exhibitions in museums. Sound installations. Compositions for records, for instruments and live electronic. Teaching position at the Zurich School of Music and Drama (HMT) and at the Zurich school of Art + Design (HGKZ).
Peter is a high school music teacher who studied music at the University in Freiburg, Germany. He is very interested in composing. For experimental electronic music, he says Kyma is the best!
Ricardo Villalobos is a Chilean-German electronic music producer and DJ. He is well-known for his work in the minimal techno and microhouse genres, and is one of the most significant figures in today's minimal techno scene. Villalobos was born in Santiago, Chile in 1970. He began as a DJ in 1987, became a producer in 1988, with many recordings published since 1992 on different experimental and electronic dance music labels. At the end of 2008, Ricardo came in 1st in Resident Advisor's Top 100 DJs of 2008.
Riccardo is a composer, programmer and well-known sound engineer in the world of professional production in Italy and abroad. He is especially known as an artist for his specialization in the use of advanced technology in music and sound. As a member of the teaching staff at the School of High Musical Specialization in Saluzzo, Riccardo has collaborated with many prestigious stars in the world of Italian music. Today he’s forwarding an advanced research about sound spatial positioning and multimedia interaction of elements. On this matter he developed a suite of highly technical software that allow special sound and image treatment, thus achieving an higher emotional impact. Enthusiastic reviews and advertisements have appeared in many of the most important international magazines (Mix, Pro Sound News, Audio Media EU and U.S., SM etc.) InternationalPress. Among the many productions and installations Riccardo created we mention, the "Renaissacesfx Dolby Surround encoded library" RenaissanceSfx , the first sound library for cinema and TV that was entirely created in Dolby Surround standard (1998-1999), the soundtrack for Simon Aaberg’s video presented at Seul Art festival (2000), 4 “surround-sound” rooms for the “Etruscan” exhibit at Palazzo Grassi in Venice (2000), the interactive Opera “De Umbris Idearum” a “sensor based” system developed for dancers, presented at Modern Art Galery (GAM) in Turin (2000) , the interactive installation “A Lot of Reality” with artist E.T. De Paris presented at Contemporary Art Museum (PAC) in Milan (2000), the interactive sound installation with artist Ferdi Giardini presented at Basic Village in Turin (2000), the interactive audio installation of Cosmogenie of artist Mario Airò for Luci d’Artista inTurin (2002-2003), the auto generative system presented at the Biennale of Venice (2003), the multi screen installation for the 50th anniversary of Italian national television RAI (2004) and more.
Beside his artistic activity Riccardo created surround soundtracks for many of the most leading Italian fashion and design industries like Martini-Bacardi (1999-2001), Robe di Kappa (2000-2001), Alfa Romeo (2001), Fila (1999-2000), Wind (2003) etc.
Austrian Richard Eigner writes spook-inducing ambient tracks that ransack your cranium's music shelves for boxes marked 'jazz', 'minimal' and 'electronica'. His hypnotic passages won Austria's Elektronikland Award (for experimental electronics) in 2005 and will soon be showcased on his record label Wald-Entertainment. A multimedia whiz, session drummer (for example on Patrick Wolf's album "Magic Position") and animator, other projects include the soundtrack for dance piece 'Urgent Appetite' by Canadian choreographer Laura Kappel, music clips for I-Wolf and Mika, and six months spent as Patrick Pulsinger's 'studio slave', helping on remixes and building a sound library. Richard also reckons he can distinguish the different saw-waves from Nord Modular and N.I. Reaktor, and there's no way we're calling him a liar. Richard has performed, collaborated, and recorded with Patrick Pulsinger, Patrick Wolf, Carl McIntosh (Loose Ends), Todd Simon, Toby Laing (Fat Freddys Drop), Flying Lotus, August Engkilde, Andreya Triana, Gerald Votava, Thomas Jarmer (Garish), Matthias Kertal (Mika), Tibcurl, Barca Barxant (Silicone Pumpgun), Oliver Hangl, Ellen Muhr (A Bunny Situation), Gerhard Daurer, Roman Gerold.
Richard also has played at Sónar/Barcelona, Horse Bazaar/Melbourne, Honkytonks/Melbourne, Basics Festival, Temp~ Festival, ORF Radiokulturhaus/Vienna, Soho Ottakring/Vienna, Flex/Vienna, Fluc/Vienna, Rhiz/Vienna, Das Veilchen/Graz, Arge Nonntal/Salzburg. Visit Richard at one of his web sites: http://www.myspace.com/richardeigner/, http://www.virb.com/richardeigner/, http://www.ritornell.at, http://www.wald-entertainment.com
Richard Lainhart is an award-winning composer, author, and filmmaker—a digital artisan who works with sonic and visual data. From childhood, he's been interested in natural processes such as waves, flames and clouds, in harmonics and harmony, and in creative interactions with machines, using them as compositional methods to present sounds that are as beautiful as he can make them. "Lainhart crafts sounds in a tonal, musical fashion— sustained tones, drones, melodic fragments—and electronically manipulates them into beautiful tapestries of sound." (Waterfront Week) [His] "music reflects the spirit of possibility that once defined electronic music, bringing with it a sense of past, present and future that transcends time, technology and cultural assumptions. The spell- binding music seemed to evoke feelings that can't quite be named, and suggest music I might rather imagine for myself in silence than trust most composers to compose." (The Village Voice)."He's evolved a singular vision as a composer, performer and engineer of darkly seductive minimalism." (Peter Marsh, BBC). Visit Richard's website at http://www.otownmedia.com Lainhart studied composition and electronic music with Joel Chadabe at the State University of New York at Albany. He has composed music for film, television, CD-ROMs, interactive applications, and the Web. His compositions have been performed in the US, England, Sweden, Australia, and Japan. Recordings of his music have appeared on the Periodic Music, Vacant Lot, and XI Records labels.
Lainhart's animations and films have been shown in the US, Canada, Germany, and Korea, and online at ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0. He won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto.
As an active performer, Lainhart has appeared in public approximately 2000 times. Besides performing his own work, he has worked and performed with John Cage, David Tudor, Steve Reich, Phill Niblock, David Berhman, and Jordan Rudess, among many others. He has also played vibes in a swing band, sharing the stage with musicians like Woody Herman, Nick Brignola, the Widespread Depression Orchestra, the Manhattan Rhythm Kings, and Asleep At The Wheel.
As a writer, Lainhart has authored technical manuals for music and video hardware and software, served as Contributing Editor for Interactivity and 3D Magazines, and contributed to books on digital media production published by IDG, Peachpit Press, McGraw Hill, and Miller Freeman Books. In addition, he has engineered audio for recordings and live sound, and served as technical director for Intelligent Music, a pioneering music software company.
Currently Technical Director for Total Training, an innovative digital media training company based in New York, Lainhart is also an Adobe Certified Expert in After Effects and Premiere, an occasional demo artist for Adobe Systems, and co-founder of the official New York City After Effects User Group.
Composer Robert Hamilton (b. 1973) is engaged in the integration of technology and musical performance. Currently studying computer music at the CCMIX studios in Alfortville, France, he holds a masters degree in Computer Music Composition from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, where he studied computer music with Geoffrey Wright and McGregor Boyle, as well as degrees in Music and Cognitive Science from Dartmouth College, studying with Jon Appleton, Larry Polanksy and Charles Dodge. Recent composition studies include studies with Michel Merlet and Narcis Bonet at L'Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris. Mr. Hamilton is a recipient of the Prix d'Ete award (first prize, Peabody Conservatory), the Johns Hopkins Technology Fellowship, and a Peabody Career Development Grant, and has had his work featured at the Salerno Italy Contemporary Music Festival, the 3rd Practice Festival, the ISMIR international conference, the Smithsonian Institute, and the Dartmouth Electric Rainbow Coalition Festival.
Robert is the owner of DigiPost.TV, Inc. in North Hollywood, CA which specializes in Sound Design and Mixing for Animation, including Batman, Superman, X-Men & Pinky and the Brain and many more...
Rob Solheim is slowly becoming a sound adventurer. He sometimes uses the name Muied Lumens for music projects.
Russell Brower is a Composer and three-time Emmy-winning Sound Designer, with over 25 years of experience creating and producing sound and music for television, film, theme parks and video games. After scoring his first interactive game in 1981 for Disney’s Epcot, Russell’s career highlights include: Sound Supervisor and Mixer for Warner Bros. Animation (Animaniacs; Batman the Animated Series), Media Designer and Musical Director for Walt Disney Imagineering (DisneyQuest Virtual Reality Games; Tokyo DisneySea theme park), among many others. His freelance career spans from the original motion picture TRON to the MTV series Aeon Flux to the best-selling game DELTA FORCE: BLACK HAWK DOWN. Russell is currently the Audio Director for Blizzard Entertainment, developer of the award-winning MMORPG game, WORLD OF WARCRAFT.
As a composer, Ryan's music has been performed by the Miami Symphony Orchestra, the Royal College of Music Symphony Orchestra, the Baberi String Quartet, and the London Chamber Players amongst others. As a sound designer and sound editor, Ryan has had much experience in the field of post-production audio, working on projects that range from audio for broadcast television, to sound editing for major Hollywood motion pictures.
Samuel Pellman was born in 1953 in Sidney, Ohio. He received a Bachelor of Music degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, where he studied composition with David Cope, and an M.F.A. and D.M.A. from Cornell University, where he studied with Karel Husa and Robert Palmer. Many of his works may be heard on recordings by the Musical Heritage Society, the Cornell University Wind Ensemble, Move Records, and innova Records, and much of his music is published by the Continental Music Press and Wesleyan Music Press. He is also the author of An Introduction to the Creation of Electroacoustic Music, a widely-adopted textbook published by Wadsworth, Inc. Presently, he is a Professor of Music at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he teaches theory and composition, and is Director of the Studio for Digital Music.
Sarth Calhoun is an electronic composer, bass player, synthesist, and sound designer. Lately, he's more been a general contractor, but arguing with masons and demolition crews feeds the creative spirit. Or something. Anyway the studio is almost done man, stop hassling me. He uses Kyma as his primary sound source for "live sound design" with his New York-based rock/electronic band Number 19. Visit his web sites at http://www.myspace.com/lucibelcrater and http://www.noxix.com.
Scot Solida has been synthesizing sounds for 25 years, and is currently a full time sound designer and writer on the subject of the wide world of computer music and software. He writes for the UK's Computer Music magazine, whose goal, he says, is to unleash the artist in computer owners. In addition, Scot writes for Grooves here in the US. He also does a great deal of professional sound design, providing sample content for the magazines on a monthly basis, as well as providing presets for a great many commercially available software synths. http://www.olscratchrecordings.com
Scott Miller is a Professor of Electroacoustic Music and Composition at St. Cloud State University in Minnesota. Current compositional interests are electroacoustic music with live peformance components and multimedia collaborations. Visit his website and listen to his music.
Simon-Pierre Gourd is professor of creative sound design and media in the École des médias (School of Medias) http://www.faccom.uqam.ca/edm_temp.html at UQAM. For more than 15 years he has been teaching music, musical aesthetics, sound design for the theater and sound applied to media and multimedia at various institutions: Drummondville CEGEP (Junior College), Concordia University and UQAM. He has a large number of sound creations to his credit in various fields: in acousmatic music as well as sound creations composed and produced for film, radio, television, theater, the visual arts and dance. He has also designed and installed technical setups (Studio Phlizz, theatre and communications departments), worked as a sound engineer (Montreal International Jazz Festival), post-production sound creator (Ciné-Groupe, Cinar) and has several audio CDs to his credit (Fêtes de la Nouvelle France, Musée de la Civilisation, Québec). Professor Gourd's research, funded in part by the Fondation Daniel Langlois pour l'Art et la Science, VidÉographe, Fonds d Innovation Techno-pédagogique of the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), and Hexagram deals with the development of interactive systems for new media and real-time performance, as well as the study of sound issues in a context of interactivity and use of new technologies. He is more particularly interested in the perception of music language and the phenomena of representation emerging from new practices.
Part of his current work involves a meeting of living beings and artificial automatons in the development of an art of the imagination. He is a member of the research teams of Hexagram, l'Institut de Recherche et Création en Arts et Technologies Médiatiques http://www.hexagram.org, in the VAAR laboratory, the LMI, and the Vitamin Beziehungen research collective (UQAM-Vidéographe).
Simon-Pierre Gourd has a Master's degree in interactive multimedia (communication) from UQAM, and a Bachelor s degree in music from the Université Laval. He has also done undergraduate and graduate work in electroacoustic composition at the Université de Montréal and in drama at UQAM. He is currently a doctoral candidate in the interdisciplinary program for the study and practice of art at UQAM (artificial life, cybernetic performance and sound expression). He has been in residence at GRM in Paris (Groupe de Recherche Musicale), the Vancouver School for the Contemporary Arts (Simon Fraser University) and GMEM (Groupe de Musique Expériemntale de Marseille).
Sotiria Adam was born in Athens. She studied piano, musical composition and musicology at the Athens University. She also studied computer and electroacoustic music composition at the Center of Contemporary Music Research (CCMR), founded by Iannis Xenakis in Athens and in Paris-France at the Paris VIII University. Sotiria has composed works for instrumental groups, solo instruments and electroacoustic music. She has also composed and produced music for theater, cinema and multimedia
Stanley Cowell, the pianist and composer, performs and lectures professionally as a solo pianist, and in ensemble formations from duo to orchestra. He performs in a variety of venues, from jazz club to concert hall, often utilizing electronic sounds and African finger piano. Visit his website: http://musicweb.rutgers.edu/info/fac-bio/cowell/
Stephen David Beck is Professor of Composition and Computer Music at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. He is Interim Director of the newly established Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies (LCAT), a research group in the LSU Center for Computation and Technology. LCAT is focused on research in the intersections of creativity, technology and human expression, and has research efforts in arts-based high performance computing, scientific visualization and sonification, and immersive audio environments. Previously, he served as Director of the Music & Art Digital Studio (the MADstudio) at LSU, a collaborative effort between the Schools of Music and Art which brings composers and visual artists together for the creation of digital art. He is, along with saxophonist Griffin Campbell, a founding member of the experimental electroacoustic band "Guys W/ Big Cars." Visit the MADstudio website or Professor Beck's personal website for more information.
Sydney Wallace Stegall earned his B.M. and M.M. in Composition from the College-Conservatory of Music of the University of Cincinnati, where he studied privately with Jenˆ Tak·cs and John Cage. He was active for many years as a rock musician, performing in two bands with the legendary Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret., as an audio engineer and businessman, and as longtime collaborator with Dick Robinson of the Atlanta Electronic Music Studio, where he realized many of his compositions. He also has long been involved in theatre, including touring with the original company of the rock opera "Tommy" and directing off-Broadway. He completed his formal education at the Institute of Liberal Arts of Emory University, where he earned an interdisciplinary Ph.D. Dr. Stegall currently lives in Seattle and is Chair of the Music Department at Highline Community College.
Sylvain Kepler is French composer who proposes another version of techno rhythms: the sound material isn't frozen any more but is really alive. Taking advantage of a Discovery shuttle flight ticket, in the way of a 21st Century Cristopher Colombus, his music invites us to explore sonic worlds featuring undefinable reflections. Throughout some synchronous reflected melodies, also tinted with both positivism and melancholy, telluric hummings, atmospheric choirs, sunny climates, oxyacetylenic rains, twinklings in levitation, and other cloudy calmness, atmospheres are meeting...
Taylor Deupree (b. 1971) is a sound artist, graphic designer, and photographer residing in Brooklyn, New York. On January 1st, 1997, he founded 12k, music label that focuses on digital minimalism and contemporary forms. In 12k’s 6 years of existance it has released 27 CDs and become one of the most respected experimental electronic labels in the world. In September 2000, Deupree and collaborator Richard Chartier launched LINE, a sublabel of 12k that explores conceptual, ultra-minimalist digital sound and the relationship between sound, silence and the art of listening. LINE is a carefully balanced counterpoint to the rhythmic, granular textures of 12k. In January 2002 (as a celebration of 12k’s fifth anniversary) Deupree launched term., an online series of MP3 files from artists around the globe. While 12k’s emphasis lies not only in sound but also on design and presentation, term.’s function is the exact opposite: existing entirely in the digital domain with no tangible object or package, term. is the representation of pure data and imageless sound information. In September, 2003, Deupree started a 3rd label called Happy to release what he terms as “unconventional japanese pop.” Happy was born from Deupree’s interest in Japanese pop music and the fact that it is quite unknown outside of Japan. He hopes to change that with Happy.Deupree also records for a number of other labels including Spekk (Japan), Ritornell/Mille Plateaux, Raster-Noton (Germany), Sub Rosa (Belgium), BineMusic (Germany), Fällt (Ireland), and Audio.NL (Netherlands). In addition, over the past 11 years he has worked with Instinct Records, Caipirinha Music, Plastic City (USA), Disko B (Germany), and Dum (Finland), among others. In January 1999, Deupree currated a compilation for New York’s Caipirinha Music label that he called “Microscopic Sound.” This release was among the first to gather together artists of this style and helped put a name to a rising genre of electronic music. Deupree has received much critical acclaim and recognition for his past musical projects including the techno and ambient sounds of Prototype 909, SETI, Human Mesh Dance, and Futique (1992-1996) and has many recording accomplishments and a substantial discography. His design work has appeared on dozens of record labels around the world and published in a number of design books in Japan and the UK.
For the past 6 years Deupree has focused his energy on 12k, solo productions under his own name, networking with a family of like-minded sound artists, and the furthering of his sound experiments that take influences from his passion for architecture, photography, and interior design.
Ted is a sound designer who says he has lots of toys but not enough time! He adds that he is a now a "proud owner of a Pacarana" in addition to his Capybara!
As a spirited amateur, Tim hopes to learn a lot about sound. He says that he is sure new doors will quickly open up for him as he learns what makes Kyma tick.
Based in Adelaide, South Australia, Tom Heuzenroeder works as a freelance sound designer, composer and re-recording mixer primarliy for film and television. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0381928/. He has also worked in radio and theatre and with art/sound installations. Tom's passion lies with just about any aspect of sound, its design and its interpretation. Whether it's the sonification of other forms of data, the sound of early computer games, naturally occurring music, or any other sonic curiosity, Tom will be interested in it (and will probably want to record it) so Kyma fits the bill purrfectly. For more information, contact Tom via his website. http://www.sonicart.com.au
Toru Iwatake is a composer, and a professor at Keio University SFC, in Japan.
Will Grant was born in 1947 on a farm in Ohio and now lives near San Francisco. Most of his work has been with experimental vocal techniques in theater, though more recently he finished a couple graduate degrees in music (Mills & UCSC). He loves improvising vocals or keyboards in a wide range of styles and is totally available if anybody would like to jam. He was on the panel of judges for Woodstockhausen this year and aspires to a geeky musical life in northern California. He's also involved in the musical life of Burning Man, where his playa name is Blue Fire. He just got his first Capybara and is learning Kyma.
With more than 20 years in the recording and videogame industries, Will Loconto brings a comprehensive body of knowledge, experience, and creativity to his work. He was lead vocalist/songwriter for T42 (Columbia Records) and spent several years with Information Society (Reprise Records). In the game industry, Will has served as Audio Director at two companies (ION Storm and Third Law Interactive). He has been a featured lecturer at Southern Methodist University s Guildhall, the premiere program for game development. Will is a member of NARAS, ASCAP, the International Game Developers Association, and the Game Audio Network Guild. Visit Will at http://www.WillLoconto.com.
Yannis Kyriakides was born in Cyprus in 1969, and grew up in England in 1975. He has been living in The Netherlands since 1992. His musical language synthesizes disparate sound sources and explores spatial and temporal experience. Recent large scale works include the operas: The Buffer Zone, Escamotage and The Thing Like Us. His conSPIracy cantata was awarded the Gaudeamus Prize in 2000, and his recent CD Wordless recieved an honorary mention at the Prix Ars Electronica 2006. Yannis founded the label for electronic music "unsounds," and is the artistic director of the Ensemble, MAE. He is also a member of the composition faculty at the Royal Dutch Conservatory.
Yasushi Yoshida is a composer/sound engineer living in Osaka, Japan. He has written the title music for numerous television shows including "Walk Alone in Arktos", and most recently "Mr. Hyohichi Kohno Walked to the North Pole". From 2001, he started multi channel surround-sound live performance "audioHologram". Visit http://www.eonet.ne.jp/~channel-d/ and http://audiohologram.sblo.jp/ (written in Japanese).
Zlatko Tanodi (born 28.01.1953, Zagreb, Croatia) graduated in composition at the Academy of Music (University of Zagreb). He collaborates as keyboard player with many ensembles and orchestras (from pop and jazz to avant-garde). He has been a freelancer since 1981. Zlatko is also an editor-producer in the Music Production Department of Radio-Television, Zagreb. At the end of 1996, he joined the Academy of Music at the University of Zagreb, lecturing in theory and electronic music. Since 1987, he has been recording music in his own electronic home studio. Tanodi is the author of many orchestral, chamber and concert works including music for electronic instruments, theater and film.
