KunstMusik #15 Biographies
MIGUEL ANGEL TOLOSA
Miguel Angel Tolosa works in the area of field recordings and drones, with a laptop and a guitar, but also als composer. He runs the con-v label in Madrid and focuses on contemporary developments in electroacoustic music with artists many of which he has a collaboration with.
STEVE RODEN
Steven Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles. Studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles and at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In his sound works, site-specific source materials are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create "possible landscapes". Roden has described his work as "lower case" sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening. Since 1989 he has exhibited paintings, sculpture, drawings, sound works, video/film, text works and performance in museums and art spaces worldwide. He has released numerous recordings under his own name as well as "in between noise".
ANTOINE BEUGER
Antoine Beuger studied composition with Ton de Leeuw at Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam from 1973-1978. In 1990 he began to compose again after an interruption of about 10 years. Since 1994 he has been involved in the conception and organisation of KLANGRAUM, a series of concerts at Kunstraum Düsseldorf. Between 1995 and 2001 he worked together with visual artist Mauser as the artistic director of ?Werkraum?, place for Interdisciplinary Artistic events, Cologne. In 1996, together with Burkhard Schlothauer he founded Edition Wandelweiser whose managing director he is. Numerous awards and performances at major festivals. Lives in Haan, near Düsseldorf.
SAMUEL VRIEZEN
Samuel Vriezen (born in 1973) is an Amsterdam-based composer who has written many works for chamber ensembles that have been performed worldwide. Vriezens work shows an interest in non-standard ways of organizing performer coordination and interaction and in exploring the panoramic and contrapunctal possibilities offered by these methods of ensemble playing. Vriezen is also a poet and a pianist. He has written many text compositions (or polyphonic poems), and his writing (including poetry, translations and essays) has been published in many literary journals. As a pianist, he is most known for his unique virtuoso rendition of Tom Johnson's Chord Catalogue.
MANFRED WERDER
Manfred Werder is a Swiss born composer, performer and curator. He focuses on exploring the practical possibilities of rendering a composition and it?s setting as a whole. His recent scores have featured either found sentences from poetry and philosophy, or words that he comes across. His performances, both indoors and outdoors, are aimed at bringing out the worlds natural abundance. Earlier works include stück 1998, a 4000 page score whose uninterrupted single performance has been ongoing since December 1997.
WILL MONTGOMERY
Will Montgomery makes electronic music, sound art and field recordings. His musical pieces explore aural textures and narratives. He is interested in the acoustics of built-up environments, particularly in London. He has numerous CD releases to his credit. He teaches contemporary poetry at Royal Holloway, University of London. He is the author of The Poetry of Susan Howe (Palgrave, 2010) and the co-editor of Frank O’Hara Now (Liverpool UP, 2010). He has published widely on poetry and music.
WADE MATTHEWS
Wade Matthews is a French-American improviser, composer and author. For the last twenty years, he has been living in Madrid where he moved after completing his doctorate in composition and electronic music at Columbia University in New York. Internationally active as a concert artist, he uses dual laptops to manipulate field recordings and for digital synthesis, working primarily with free and/or electronic improvisers. He has also produced many CDs, as well as recorded for Radio France, Radio Nacional de España, the BBC, etc. His book on Free Improvisation, Aquí y Ahora. La libre improvisación musical has recently been released by Turner Publishers.
MATTIN
Mattin is a Basque laptop artist working with noise and improvisation at the crossover between sound art, post punk, free jazz and musique concrète. Mattin also has written about improvisation, socio-economic implications of creating music, free software and against the notion of intellectual property. He has over 70 releases in different labels around the world. He runs the experimental record labels w.m.o/r and Free Software Series as well as the netlabel Desetxea. With Anthony Iles, he published the book Noise & Capitalism.