Biography
Education
2005 - Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music, Budapest,
Faculty of Composition
(Zoltán Jeney, Zsolt Serei)
2002 - Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Faculty of Natural Sciences,
Departament of Physics
2000 - 2005 Bela Bartók Music College, Budapest
(Miklós Kocsár, Miklós Csemiczky)
1996 - 2002 Dániel Berzsenyi Secondary School, Budapest
1994 - 1996
1990 - 1994 Isaac Albéniz Elementary School, Madrid
Prizes
2006 3rd Young Composers’ Festival,
Audience’s prize — Concerto
2005 Competition of the Clavicembalo Foundation,
2nd […]

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Besides a practical training in programming and electrical engineering, Alexander Carôt has actively been playing bass and Chapman-stick in several rock, pop and jazz ensembles. Combining this with his passion for sound engineering, he passed an interdisciplinary study program in order to integrate arts and technology in his research and performances.
Driven by the dream […]

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Andrea Szigetvári studied sound recording and electroacoustic music at Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw. After finishing her studies she worked as a music editor, sound engineer, musical producer for Hungaroton Recording Company and Hungarian Radio.
She has worked at the Institute of Musicology as a member of the first computer music research project in […]

Anne La Berge’s career as a flutist/improvisor/composer stretches across international and stylistic boundaries. Her most resent performances bring together the elements on which her international reputation is based: a ferocious and far-reaching virtuosity, a penchant for improvising delicately spun microtonal textures and melodies, her wholly unique array of powerfully percussive flute effects, all combined with […]

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Music technologist and composer Anthony Paul De Ritis was born in New York in 1968. He has completed his Ph.D. in Music Composition at the University of California, Berkeley, holds M.M. in Electronic Music Composition from Ohio University ; and B.A. in Music with a concentration in Business Administration from Bucknell University, studying composition […]

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Chris Brown’s music has explored the intersection between many traditions and styles. Beginning as a classical pianist, he was influenced by American experimental and improvisational musics as well as by studies of Indonesian, Indian, and Cuban musics. Since the late 1970’s he has been building a personal electronic instrumentation. At first these were amplified acoustic […]

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Born 1951, guitar, live electronics, guitar synthesizer
musician and promoter of improvised, experimental and new music
Erhard Hirt started playing blues guitar when he was 16 and for the next ten years played with jazz-oriented groups, experimental rock bands, a free jazz combo (Jazzcomunity, in Leverkusen/ Köln), and toured with blues bands (Delta Blues Band and the […]

Georg Hajdu, born in Göttingen, Germany in 1960, is among the first composers of his generation dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. After studies in Cologne and at the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT), he received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley.
In 1996, following residencies at IRCAM and […]

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Studies of musicology, communication science (Berlin) and broadcast communication arts (San Francisco). Audio practice in radio, sound art and tape pieces. Research on sound installation art, contemporary music and audio media. PhD on networked music in 2002. Curatorial work a.o. for sonambiente (Berlin 1996 & 2006), net_condition (Karlsruhe 1999), Networkshop (Dresden/Berlin 2001) and RadioREVOLTEN (Halle […]

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Hans Tammen calls his style of performance “Endangered Guitar,” because of the extreme alterations he enacts upon his instrument’s sound and construction. Originally inspired by Sonny Sharrock’s and Pete Cosey’s fiery and energetic playing, his rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating sounds capture the energy and abstract musicality that Coltrane brought to the saxophone.
His […]

Born in Ruma, Yogoslavia, she received a degree in Multimedia Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2007 after completing her degree in composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade and attending the Academy of Art at Novi Sad.
She has published solo works on CD, created installations and composed for […]

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János Négyesy was born in Budapest. He has studied, lived and worked in Paris, Vienna, New York, and other world capitals. In 1979, he joined the faculty of the University of California at San Diego and began a parallel career as a computer artist.
Long an advocate of new music, Professor Négyesy has appeared at major […]

Born 1968 in Vienna. He studied composition and pedagogy at the music academy of Vienna, as well as mathematics at the University of Vienna. 1992-93 he studied computer music at IRCAM, Paris, and developed a software environement (”KLANGPILOT”) for sound synthesis.
1996-2001 he was teacher for music theory and composition at the city conservatory of Vienna. […]

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JOHN BISCHOFF (b. 1949, San Francisco) is an early pioneer of live computer music. He is known for his solo constructions in real-time synthesis as well as his ground-breaking work in computer network bands.
Bischoff’s music is built from intrinsic features of the electronic medium: high definition noise components, tonal edges, imperfections, transitions, digital shading, and […]

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Jörg Stelkens, Dipl.-Ing. and Dr. Phil, * 1965, is an independent curator and software developer, as well as head of büro stelkens München (www.stelkens.de), an office where he creates sound art- and software. He teaches computermusic at Munich University (LMU) and at the University of Newcastle (England). He is curator of the t-u-b-e gallery for […]

Kai Niggemann
born 1972 in Bochum, Germany. Studied German and Philosophy at the Ruhr-University in Bochum and Applied Cultural Studies at the University of Münster, concentrating on the study of popular culture, music and film. During his studies he started to work as a sounddesigner and musician and to perform in Germany and abroad.
Kai works […]

Performances on Video
Sonnez la cloche! (2002/2003)

Video of a live performance by Karlheinz Essl
Böheimkirchen: WÜRTH Art Room (3 Nov 2003)
duration: 7:36
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Lexikon-Sonate (1992 ff.)

Video of a live performance by Karlheinz Essl
Vienna: Porgy & Bess (4 Apr 2005)
duration: 4:19 (excerpt)
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GRIDS (2001)

Video of a live performance by Karlheinz Essl
Vienna: Austrian National Library (17 Apr 2002)
duration: 7:22
Biography

Born in Vienna, 1960. […]

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British guitarist Keith Rowe (1940) is one of the improvisors who has most contributed to the definition of a new vocabulary for the guitar.
Rowe began his career playing jazz in the early 1960’s and was a founding member of AMM in the mid-1960s (though in 2004 he quit that group for the second time) and […]

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The LOOS Ensemble is the leading formation of the LOOS Foundation under the direction of composer and multiinstrumentalist Peter van Bergen. Since the late 1980’s this exceptional and highly specialised group initiated, generated and developed an extensive and impressive repertoire of contemporary music. In 2000 The LOOS Ensemble received the prestigious GeNeCoPrize 2000 (Dutch Composers […]

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(born 1953, in Krakow)
studied organ (with L.Werner), theory of music and composition (with B.Schaeffer) at the Krakow Academy of Music, since 2000 the director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio . In 1977 he founded Muzyka Centrum Art Society, largely engaged in concert work. Founder and co-founder of many groups: Freight Train (with P.Bikont and K.Knittel), […]

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Mark Trayle works in a variety of media including live electronic music, installations, improvisation and compositions for wireless chamber ensembles. He uses re-engineered consumer products and cultural artifacts as interfaces for electronic music performances and networked media installations. In recent pieces for chamber ensembles he places performers in an interactive network where composers, performers and […]

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Miklós Peternák, Director
Studied history and art history, graduated from the Eötvös Lorand University
of Sciences and Arts, Budapest, in 1981, received Ph.D. degree in 1994
1981-83: curator, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest
1983-87: researcher, Art Historical Research Team, Hungarian Academy of
Sciences, Budapest
1987-97: guest professor, postgraduate Video and Communication Department,
Eötvös Lorand University of Sciences and Arts, Budapest
1990-: associate professor, head […]

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In 1989 Nick began writing software that generated compositions for his band Doctor Nerve.  Since that time he has written a number of iterations of software with a similar mission, using it to compose pieces for Bang On A Can, California EAR Unit, Meridian Arts Ensemble, Sirius String Quartet, and others. Most recently he used […]

° Many have claimed that ‘The laptop is the new folk guitar’; if this is so, then PB_UP is the first acoustic computer music folk band: The laptop is their only device, and now it is understood as a fully autonomous musical instrument, including being its own hand-held sound system:
player + laptop =
improviser + instrument […]

At 14.00 h (2pm) on thursday, september 6th, the registration for all participants begins. Please register at the registration desk to receive all sorts of conference materials, schedules and important information.

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Scot Gresham-Lancaster (b. Redwood City, CA USA 1954) is a composer, performer, instrument builder and educator with over three decades of professional experience. He is dedicated to research and performance using the expanding capabilities of computer networks to create new environments for musical and cross discipline expression.
As a member of the HUB, he is one […]

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Sergi Jorda` holds a PhD in Computer Science and Digital Communication from the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona, where he teaches computer music, audio programming, HCI, and interactive media arts. As a luthier and improviser he likes to invent new digital musical instruments without forgetting to make music with them. His music has been released […]

is a practicing Artist Filmmaker. His work with moving image is profoundly informed by the body of work created by artists since the beginning of cinema. As the moving image became appropriated by storytellers and conveyers of ideology and information in the early part of the 20th Century, visual artists have used […]

The European Bridges Ensemble was established for Internet and network performance. Its current members are Kai Niggemann (Münster), Marlon Schumacher (Stuttgart), Johannes Kretz (Vienna), Andrea Szigetvári (Budapest), Ivana Ognjanovic (Hamburg/Belgrade), Georg Hajdu (Hamburg), and Stewart Collinson (Lincoln, England), performing with Georg Hajdu’s interactive network performance environment Quintet.net.
Using the term bridges as a metaphor, our initiative […]

The Hub is one of the first ensembles to investigate the unique potentials of computer networks as a medium for musical composition and performance. The group came about as associations of computer music composers who were also designers and builders of their own hardware and software instruments.
Their approach to the computer music medium was […]

XTENDED GUITARS: Erhard Hirt - Keith Rowe - Nick Didkovsky - Hans Tammen
The Xtended Guitars play contemporary tabletop guitar music. The ensemble came from my collaboration with Erhard Hirt, started around 1996. Previous versions included Hainer Wörmann from Bremen and Roger Kleier from New York.