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per->SON
a 4 nights sound event
Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln
Academy of Media Arts
Ecole Supérieure des Arts et Médias
VITAE
Frank Dommert
http://www.a-musik.com
born in 1968 in Cologne, where he lives and works. Since 1987,
Entenpfuhl (label & edition), tape installations, concerts with
band Kontakta, photographic works, cover design, dj-ing and concert
organization. Works at a-Musik since 1995. Since 1997 Sonig (label).
email:fdommert@a-musik.com
Peter Kiefer
born 1961. Composer, percussionist and sound artist. MA in composition
at the Academy of Music, Cologne and music, theater, film theory,
philosophy at the University Cologne.
Several performances of his compositions and music performances
(WDR radio productions); music for European theatre pieces, dance
theatre and film. Electronic compositions at the experimental
studio of the Heinrich-Strobel-Foundation of the SWF Radio; "Tuning
of the World Conference" at Banff Center of the Arts, Canada.
Founding member of the "World Forum for Acoustic Ecology", Vancouver.
Soundart: participation at exhibitions at the Akademie der Künste
Berlin, Soundart Hannover, Bauhütte Klangzeit, Wuppertal. Cooperation
e.g. spatial sound compositions for Fabrizio Plessi, Museum Ludwig
Köln, Fondació Joan Miró, Barcelona; for Charleroi Danses Brussels,
Hamburg, Paris, Biennale Venice, Rome; ART Cologne etc.
Editor of scores for contemporary music at the Edition Dohr, Cologne.
Since 1992 lectures "Music for Audiovisual Media" at the Academy
of Media Arts, Cologne. Since 1996, artistic assistant.
email: pkiefer@khm.de
Anthony Moore (Köln/London)
Born 1948 in London, composer, experimental music.
Since 1969 he has written a large number of scores for European,
independent movies, many of which have won international awards.
In 1971, whilst living in Germany, he recorded three albums of
compositions for strings, woodwind, percussion and singers from
the Staatsoper, for the Polygram label in Hamburg; "Pieces from
the Cloudland Ballroom", "Secrets of the Blue Bag" and "Reed,
Whistle & Sticks".
In 1972 he formed the band Slapp Happy with Dagmar Krause and
Peter Blegvad. They wrote and recorded four albums of songs, "Sort
Of" (Polydor), "Slapp Happy", "Desperate Straights" and, with
Henry Cow, "In Praise of Learning" (Virgin Records). He went on
to write and record his solo albums, "Out" (Virgin 1976),
"Flying Doesn't Help" (Quango 1978), "World Service" (Do It Records
1982), and "The Only Choice" (EMI 1984).
From 1973 on he worked in different European locations as a freelance
composer, writing songs, filmscores and experimenting with sound.
He collaborated with Pink Floyd on two of their albums, and worked
as a record producer in studios both in America and the U.K. for
Warner Bros., Island, Virgin Records and Sony Music.
His on-going experiments with film and vocal music led to a synthesis
of these two forms in music theatre or opera. In 1991 he composed
a one hour television opera commissioned and broadcast by Channel
4 called "Camera". He has been studying singing since 1988.
Since 1996 professor of 'Auditive Gestaltung in den Medien' at
the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne, Germany, where he is working
extensively with the new technology of digital recording, signal
processing and sequencing with computers. Besides teaching he
continues making music, sound compositions and sonic installations.
email: moore@khm.de
PAULINE OLIVEROS (Kingston/New York)
http://www.deeplistening.org
born in 1932. Composer, performer, lives and works in Kingston,
New York.
Studied composition at the University of Houston and in San Francisco
with Robert Erickson.
Co-founder of the San Francisco Tape Music Center (SFTMC, former
Sonics) for early electronic music together with fellow-composer
Ramon Sender. The SFTMC was transferred to Mills College in 1966.
1967-81, Professor for composition and experimental studies at
the University of California, San Diego and responsible for its
new music program. 1996, Darius Milhaud Professor of composition
at Mills College.
1981, foundation of the Deep Listening Band, a non-profit arts
organization. President and co-artistic Director of the Pauline
Oliveros Foundation, Inc., established in 1985 to support collaborations
and all aspects of the creative process for artists and vital
and magnetic center for artists and audiences to explore new relationships
and techonolgies.
Awards: e.g. in 1960 Pacific Foundation prize for "Variations
for Sextet".
In 1973, Guggenheim-Fellowship for composition; in 1992, fellowship
for the national Endowment for the Arts for composing "Epigraphs
in the Time of Aids" for the Deep Listening Band; 1991, Bessie
Award from Dance Theater Workshop for Contenders, a work for Susan
Marshall‘s Dance Company; 1994, performance award from the Foundation
for Contemporary Performance.
Her most recent Cd is "Pauline Oliveros & American Voices", 1994
and "Njinga the Queen King", 1992, a major work of music theater,
created in collaboration with Ione, presented during the Next
Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1993, at Lincoln Center,
New York City in 1995 and at Folger Shakespeare Elizabethan Theater,
Washington D.C, in 1996.
email: paulineo@deeplistening.org
SCANNER (London)
born 1964. Sound/performance/remixing artist, lives and works
in London. Studied at Kingston University, BA Honours degree in
Modern Arts. Major recent recordings/releases in 1997: scanner
- delivery (CD/LP); scanner vs sign ov chaos - michael jackson
(ep, CD/LP); scanner - The Garden is Full of Metal (CD); Robin
Rimbaud - Sound for Spaces (double CD).
Major recent performances in 1997 e.g. Nevers Festival, France;
Impakt Festival, Utrecht; The Listening Room, Cologne; Documenta
X; 1000 Plateaux, Brussels; Live Art - New Theatre for the 90s,
Podewil, Berlin; projects in 1998 e.g.
De Nachten - collaboration with Nicole Blackman, Antwerp; Now
98 - End Tech, Nottingham Arts Festival. Sound design for film,
television, theatre and CD-Rom, e.g. Permanent Flux in co-operation
with De Balie around lectures by Nam June Paik, Laurie
Anderson, Peter Weibel & Siegfried Zielinski. For 1998, Expelling
the Demon, sound design for Channel 4/Manga animation with Nick
Cave & Steven Berkoff.
Numerous installations of time based work, e.g. in 1995: Hearing
i Believing, Tate Gallery, on art radio; in 1997, e.g. Groundwork
- sound installation Beaconsfield, London and at Jutempus in Vilnius,
Lithuania. Numerous collaborations, e.g. with David Toop, Bill
Laswell, Laurie Anderson, Bob Ostertag, David Cunningham, Brian
Eno, Colin Newman, Terre
Thaemlitz. Dance commissions, e.g. Delta +- soundtrack for ballet;
Actual Factual, dance project with Laurie Booth & Tim Head; radio
commissions for BBC, ORF. Various television documentaries, e.g.
Lost in Music, arte 1996; South Bank
Show, ITV, 1997; Scanner, Central TV, 1997.
email: robinr@easynet.co.uk
C. Schulz & Hajsch
since 1996, C. Schulz & Hajsch are producing music for the WDR
radio station, film music and a Microstoria remix on the Mille-Plateax
compilation. At the moment, they are working on their new record,
parts of which will be presented during per->SON.
Cd's and Lp's: Hajsch "Nagual", Quite Artworks, 1992; "Akasa/Für
Cleo", 1992; C. Schulz & Hajsch, "Kontakta", Odd Size, 1993; C.
Schulz, "4. Film-Ton", Extreme, 1992; C. Schulz "Baby, I will
make you sweat", Odd Size, 1995, film music for Birgit Hein’s
film "Baby, I will make you sweat".
SIMULATION (Köln, Dortmund)
founded in 1989 by Peter Simon and Marek Goldowski; Simulation
investigates the relation between natural and electronic sound
and combines it into new sound clousters.
FRANCES-MARIE UITTI (Amsterdam)
http://www.dalton.org/faculty/BCC/uitti.html
Cellist Frances-Marie Uitti is both an accomplished performer
in the traditional sense and a musical creator. She has toured
extensively as a soloist throughout Europe, the U.S. and Canada,
Korea and Japan. Her repertoire ranges from pre-Bach Ricercari
to contemporary works, which include pieces by Scelsi, Nono, Kurtag,
Bussotti, Globokar and Harvey that were dedicated to her. Uitti's
musical creation revolves around a multi-dimensional solo improvised
music using a double-bow technique she developed for cello playing.
This technique allows her to create two, three, and even four
part polyphony playing by using two bows in one hand.
Compositions for example for the Ars Electronica 1990, based on
Kepler's "Somnium" or her "Solo Opera", where she combines text,
music, video and light .
email: uitti@worldaccess.nl
Stephen Vitiello (New York)
http://www.diacenter.org/rooftop/webproj/fprayer/bios/sv.htm
33, electric guitarist and composer who often collaborated with
visual artists, writers and choreographers. Ongoing collaborative
relationships include Nam June Paik, Tony Oursler and Constance
DeJong (The National Galerie, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin), Eder
Santos, Seoungho Cho. Supported Rebecca Moore as part of a Knitting
Factory tour in 1997.
Has been invited to perform the Paik tribute, with Steina Vasulka
in Rome, spring 1998.
In addition to a music career, Director of Distribution for Electronic
Arts Intermix. He recently was guest curator for the Museum of
Modern Art, N.Y. creating the video exhibition "Young and Restless."
CD's:Intriguing People, Chairs Not Stairs.
email: vitiello64@aol.com
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