KunstMusik #16 Biographies
MARC SABAT
born in 1965 in Canada, has been based in Berlin since 1999. His work with acoustic instruments and electronics draws inspiration from investigations of the sounding and perception of Just Intonation, American folk and experimental musics, and the relations between musical and visual artforms. His pieces have been presented internationally in radio broadcasts and at festivals of new music including the Donaueschinger Musiktage, MaerzMusik, Darmstadt and Carnegie Hall. Sabat studied composition, violin and mathematics at the University of Toronto, at the Juilliard School in New York, and at McGill University, as well as working privately with Malcolm Goldstein, James Tenney and Walter Zimmermann, among many other close colleagues. He teaches at the Universität der Künste Berlin, and has been a guest artist at the California Institute of the Arts, at the Escola Superior in Barcelona and the Paris Conservatoire. In 2010, he was an artist-in-residence of the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles, followed in 2011 by a one year residency at the German Academy in Rome, Villa Massimo.
GARY SCHULTZ
born in Birch Run, Michigan, in 1982. He studied at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (2000-5), the Center for the Creation of Music: Iannis Xenakis in Paris (2005-6), and the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles (2008-10), where he received an MFA in Experimental Sound Practices. Schultz’s work combines elements of music, conceptual art and curating. It draws on a range of materials, including those from economics and distribution to intonation and writing, in order to foster a dialogue between increasingly divergent worlds, such as the experimental and the popular. He was a research scholar at the University of Art’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in Berlin from 2011-13, during which time he founded the label Care Of Editions. He lives and works in Berlin.
CHIYOKO SZLAVNICS
Chiyoko Szlavnics was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, and has lived in Berlin, Germany, since 1998. She studied music at the University of Toronto, and privately with the composer James Tenney. Chiyoko Szlavnics has composed more than thirty works for a wide variety of instruments and ensembles, and has created several sinewave installations for resonant spaces. A central aspect of her work is the audible phenomenon called "beating", which is highlighted through her particular use of extended sustains, glissandi, tuning systems, and her way of combining acoustic instruments with electronics. Chiyoko Szlavnics lives and works in Berlin.
JEREMY WOODRUFF
Ph.D. from University of Pittsburgh. He studied composition at the Royal Academy in London with Michael Finnissy from 1999–2001 and Ethnomusicology at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam 2002-2004, with field research in Chennai, Bangalore and Mysore, India. Since April he is Academic Head of the Preparatory Department and Composition Faculty at the KM Music Conservatory in Chennai, India. He previously taught at the Neue Musikschule Berlin from 2007-2014. He has been commissioned by Percusemble Berlin, and by the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, among others. His writings have been published by Klangzeitort (Berlin) Errant Bodies Press, Interference: A Journal of Audio Culture, Journal of Sonic Studies and by Verlag für Moderne Kunst (Nürnberg). His scores are published by Neue Musik Verlag Berlin. Jeremy is an active performer of experimental/electronic music with various wind instruments.
ANTJE VOWINCKEL
is a sound artist, radio artist and performer. She creates radioplays and sound art compositions for a variety of public radio. Works have also been presented on various internationally noted festivals. In recent years, she has also created musical live performances e.g. organ and objects. Her focus in radio art is on the musicality of the spoken word; automatic speaking tours and composition with dialects. She has been awarded with Karl-Sczuka-Förderpreis, Plopp-Award, Prix Europa, ZKM-Award "Ferrari recouté", Ars Acoustica Award of RNE Madrid, Honorary Mention of Prix Ars Electronica, Linz and was artist in residence in USA, Italy, France, Portugal. CDs: WERGO, gruenrekorder. Her next project will be in Benin/West-Africa.
ADRIAN KOYE
was born in 1971 in Berlin. Studies of composition with Walter Zimmermann at the University of Arts in Berlin. Aside he studied philosophy, educational science, literature and linguistics in Berlin. Most of his pieces are chamber music, some were written in interdisciplinary projects with artists and dancers. Currently exploring the possibilities of creating a harmonic context rooted in the range of harmonic series and overtones. He also deepens his knowledge of the Asian cultures as a source for a new fundamental approach. He collaborates with colleagues world wide, lately within an interdisciplinary project of International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and Musik der Jahrhunderte Stuttgart. He lives and works in Berlin.
WOLFGANG VON SCHWEINITZ
Composer, born in Hamburg (Germany) in 1953. He studied in 1968-76 with Esther Ballou, Ernst Gernot Klussmann, György Ligeti, and John Chowning. Since 2007 he is living in Southern California, where he is professor for musical composition at the California Institute of the Arts. - Within the past twenty years, his compositions have been concerned with researching and establishing new microtonal tuning and ensemble playing techniques based on non-tempered just intonation.
CLARENZ BARLOW
1945 born into Calcutta’s English-speaking minority. 1951-65 studied piano and music theory. 1957 first compositions. 1962-65 studied natural sciences in Calcutta. 1966-68 active as pianist, conductor, music theory teacher. 1968-73 studied composition and electronic music in Cologne. 1971 first use of a computer as a compositional aid. 1982-1994 taught computer music at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. 1984-2005 lecturer on computer music at Cologne Music University. 1990-94 artistic director of the Institute of Sonology The Hague. 1994-2006 professor of composition and sonology in The Hague. Since 2006 Corwin professor and head of composition at the Music Department, University of California, Santa Barbara.