COMPOSER BIOGRAPHIES:
Craig Shepard was born in 1975 in Connecticut. Performances of his compositions have been called "touchingly beautiful" (Wolfgang Fuhrmann, Berliner Zeitung) and "ab-original" (Tanja Hell, Westdeutch Zeitung). On the trombone, he has performed with Christian Wolff, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Jürg Frey, and Collegium Novum Zürich. On the sacbut, he has recorded with the Münchner Vokal Ensemble. He lives in Weehawken, New Jersey. www.wandelweiser.de
Eric km Clark: One of the younger generation's most genre-defying musicians, Canadian violinist, composer, and improviser Eric km Clark splits his time between LA and New York City. He has appeared in concert with many of today's leading interpreters of new music, and performs regularly with the California EAR Unit. Compositionally, Mr. Clark employs many styles, including the use of Hearing Deprivation as a medium to explore hermetic, or individualized, canons; and Simplified Instruments [i.e. Instruments with all of the same string ].
Christoph Ogiermann was born in 1967. He started composing by animation of Erwin Koch-Raphael. Since this time he is writing music. He was engaged in several theatre and dance-theatre projects in Bremen, Berlin and Düsseldorf. He works as a reciter, singer, violinist, pianist, live-electronicist and conductor in the fields of free improvisation (e.g with Dror Feiler, Bernhard Lang, Torsten Müller, Serge Baghdassarians, John Hughes), medieval music and new music. 1998 he got a scholarship of the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. In winter 1999/2000 he got his diploma as a composer in the Hochschule für Künste Bremen, studying with Younghi Pagh-Paan. Important musical and philosophical studies with Georges Nicolas Wolff and Nicolas Schalz. He was one of the founders of the ensemble x-pol-batterie for researches in experimental music and performance. Beginning of the year 2000 he worked in the Archivio Luigi Nono in Venezia/italy by a scholarship of the DAAD. In 2002/03 he is a guest-composer in the Institut für Elektronische Musik at the university of Graz/Austria. In 2003 he is guest -composer of Studio of electronic music of Technische Universität Berlin 2004 he was comissioned to work in the Experimentalstudio of Heinrich- Strobel-Stiftung des SWR. 2005/06 half years stay in the Cité des Arts, Paris 2007 his twins Paul and Marie were born He is member of collective artists association TONTO in Graz / Austria and of the PGNM (projektgruppe neue musik bremen), organizing concerts and a biannual festival for contemporary music, and he is founder and curator of the REM concerts of electronic music in the museum of contemporary art and in the Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK) in Bremen.
Gisburg is a singer and composer who composes cinematographic music and melody minimalism.She performed and toured Classical New Music extensively with Dieter Schnebel's "maulwerker" ensemble from Berlin. She recorded several CDs for Tzadik and an experimental trip-hop soundtrack for "High Life". She sings chinese Pop Music of the 30's and 50's and is a member of the Hai-Tien Choir with Mrs. Pi-Chu Hsiao. As a sound and music editor for film she has worked with Abigail Child, Ethan Coen, Robert Duvall and Rob Marshall (a.m.o.). Currently she is working on the film sound and music for Amie Siegel's documentary DDR/DDR.
Paula Matthusen is a composer, currently living between New York and Miami. She writes both electroacoustic and acoustic music and realizes sound installations. Her work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered and has been described as "entrancing" by Alex Ross of The New Yorker. Her music has been performed by Alarm Will Sound, International Contemporary Ensemble, orchest de ereprijs, Ballett Frankfurt, noranewdanceco, Kathryn Woodard, Diesel Lounge Boys, and Jody Redhage. Her work has been featured at venues and festivals through America and Europe, including Merkin Concert Hall, WAX, The Stone, Judson Dance, Joyce SoHo, the Construction Company, Das TAT, the Aspen Music Festival, Bang on a Can Summer Institute of Music at MassMoCA, Aural Tick Festival, the Gaudeamus New Music Week, SEAMUS, and the Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. She performs with the electroacoustic duo ouisaudei, the oktoschlocks, Groundwave New Music Collective, Gamelan Dharma Swara, Object Collection and recently she has performed alongside Pauline Oliveros, Lukas Ligeti, and amoebazoid. Awards include a Fulbright Grant to work at the Universität der Künste— Berlin with Martin Supper, an ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers' Award, First Prize in the Young Composers' Meeting Composition Competition, the MacCracken and Langley Ryan Fellowship. Matthusen has also held residencies at create@iEar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA), STEIM (Netherlands), and the Atlantic Center for the Arts (USA). Matthusen currently teaches electronic music at Florida International University, where she is the Coordinator for Music Technology.
Aaron Meicht: trumpet, computer, improvisation, composition. Aaron has released several albums on Scrapple Records with AB Duo and The Meicht Group. Venues where his music has been featured include ABC No Rio, Knitting Factory, Munich Experimental Music Festival, Kulturhaus Mitte (Berlin), Falaises (Paris). He curates the Rattlestick New Music Series. Aaron has composed music for theater productions at The Flea, Rattlestick Theater, SPF, Keen Company and Prospect Theater, among others. Education: University of the Arts (Philadelphia) and CCMIX (Paris). www.meichtgroup.com/aaronmeicht/
Quentin Tolimieri Born 1974 Private studies in composition, harmony, and counterpoint with Joe Maneri BFA Piano/Composition, California Institute of the Arts, studies in composition with Michael Pisaro, improvisation with Vinny Golia, and Javanese Gamelan with Djoko Walujo MA Composition, University of Southampton, studies in composition with Michael Finnissy Travis Just comes from a background in improvised music and experimental composition, his work often uses texts, gesture, and unconventional technologies in addition to instruments and electronics. His work has been presented throughout the US and Europe at the Ontological Theater, Experimental Intermedia, Chez Bushwick/AMBUSH, Brooklyn College, Columbia University, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC; TESLA/Podewil, KuLe, Berlin; CalArts, LA; Brown University; Galerie Mark Müller, Zürich; Kunst-Station Sankt Peter, Cologne; Kunstraum, Düsseldorf; Ivan Franko National Theater, Kiev, Ukraine, among others. His music has been performed by numerous ensembles including: Maulwerker, Wandelweiser Composers Ensemble, incidental music, Reihe Elektronischer Musik Bremen, and the Dog Star Orchestra. He studied with Andrew Cyrille, James Tenney, Wadada Leo Smith, Michael Pisaro, and Johannes Fritsch and was a 2003 DAAD scholar in Cologne, Germany. He is a resident artist at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater where he is the sound engineer for Richard Foreman and a curator for the OHT-Incubator.

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