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Trevor Wishart (b. 1946) is an Englishman that has worked almost exclusively in electronic and computer music, and vocal music. He has held composer residencies in Australia, Canada, Holland and the USA and at the Universities of York and Cambridge. His works have been commissioned internationally and have won prizes at the Gaudeamus Festival, Prix Ars Electronica in Linz, and the Bourges Festival. Furthermore he has written books on the technique and aesthetics of electronic and computer music, as well as a great part of the software behind the Composers' Desktop Project computer music system. <More on Wishart>
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Peter Apfelbaum (b. 1960)
is an American that mastered the drums, piano, and saxophone at an early age. He has worked with groups such as Berkeley Arts Company, Hieroglyphics Ensemble, his own sextet, and Pagan Love Ochestra, besides working with musicians and groups such as Don Cherry, No Good Time Fairies, Phish, Cecil Taylor og Don Buchla. He has also been commisioned to compose music for the Kronos Quartet and the Swedish Radio Orchestra. <More on Apfelbaum>
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Jöran Rudi (b. 1954) is a Norwegian that began his career as a member of the Norwegian rock band "Kjøtt", but later took up music studies at New York University. Rudi has concentrated his work within the genre of computer music. His list of works contains for the most part compositions for electro-acoustic instruments or tape, and he has written for dance, film, performance art and multimedia. His music is performed worldwide. He holds a number of art related positions in Norway and abroad, and is currently the director of NoTAM - Norwegian network for Technology, Acoustics and Music, and Editor-in-Chief for ArtNet Norway. <More on Rudi>
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Konrad Boehmer (b. 1941)
is a German composer that studied with G. M. Koenig and finished a Ph.D. in Musicology in Cologne. In 1966 he moved to The Netherlands and started working at the Institute of Sonology. He has been its leader from 1989, besides teaching at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. He has also worked as a music journalist, chairman of the Dutch Composers' Society, the Dutch Performing Rights Organization, as well as the "Conseil International des Autheurs et Compositeurs de Musique". Besides composing music, Boehmer has written a large number of articles and lectures on most aspects of electronic and computer music. <More on Boehmer>
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Paul Lansky (b. 1944) is an American that studied composition at Princeton University. After 1970 he started working with computers and since then most of his works have been computer based. His works are most often based on speech and ambient sounds where the computer is used as a kind of aural microscope, diving into the details of our everyday sound-world and exposing new sides to it. He has written his own software, most notably the programs Cmix and "rt". Lansky teaches composition at Princeton University, where he has also been chair of the Music Department since 1990. <More on Lansky>
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Jack Vees (b. 1955)
is an American composer and electric bassist. He studied composition at the California Institute of the Arts with Louis Andriessen, Vinko Globokar and Morton Subotnik. He has been active as a performer and composer, appearing in places ranging from New York rock clubs to European high-art festivals, as well as having pieces commissioned by Ensemble Modern, Zeitgeist and the California EAR Unit. He is also the author of a book on Bass Harmonics which has become a standard reference for bassists since its publication in 1979. He is currently operations director of the CSMT (Center for Studies in Music Technology) at Yale University. <More on Vees>
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Aake Parmerud (b. 1953) is a Swedish composer that after a career as a photographer and rock musician, and having done studies at Gothenburg University and the EMS studio in Stockholm, has worked as a composer since 1978. He has received considerable international attention as a powerful maker of electro-acoustic music and Multi-Media works than have more often than not assaulted the audience's senses in memorable ways. His works have won many international awards, i.e. at the Bourges and Ars Electronica festivals, as well as a Swedish Grammy. Commissions have come from both sides of the Atlantic and his works are regularly performed all over the world. <More on Parmerud>
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Clarence Barlow (b. 1945)
is an English citizen, born and raised in India and educated in India where he studied science and Indian Music, and in Germany where he studied composition with Herbert Eimert, Bernt Alois Zimmerman and Karlheinz Stockhausen. From 1971 he has used the computer to calculate compositional processes that are then used in works for ordinary instruments. He is probably best known for the gigantic piano piece Çogluotobüsisletmesi and various works for Player-Piano. He lives alternatly in Cologne and Amsterdam where he teaches at the Hochscule für Musik in Cologne and is artistic director of the Institute of Sonology in The Hague. <More on Barlow>
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Wayne Siegel (b. 1953) is an American that studied composition in Denmark and has worked there ever since. He has written a lot of music where computer sounds and live instruments are blended together. In latter years he has also worked on music for dancers where body sensors enable the dancer to control the progress of the music. He has received commissions from i.e. the Kronos Quartet, Singcircle and Harry Sparnaay, as well as many Danish performers, and his music has been performed all over the world. He is currently director of DIEM, the Danish Institute of Electro-Acoustic Music in Aarhus. <More on Siegel>
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Bernhard Guenter (b. 1957)
is a German composer that started playing drums and electric guitar as a rock musician. From 1980-86 he stayed in Paris, where he studied at IRCAM and Collége de France to acquire contemporary compositional techniques. After his return to Germany he started to work on music using the computer. Since 1992 he has released a series of CDs that have made his name renowned in experimental music circles the world over. <More on Guenter>
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Don Buchla is an American educated in physics, physiology, and music. His creativity has been applied to fields as diverse as space biophysics research, musical instrument design, and multi-media composition. As a musician he has collaborated with such luminaries as David Rosenboom, Anthony Braxton, David Wessel, Morton Subotnick and George Lewis. He is currently developing exotic controllers that provide expressive alternatives to traditional musical input devices, and will introduce two recent inventions, Lightning and Marimba Lumina, at this evening's performance. <More on Buchla>
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Hans Peter Stubbe Teglbjaerg (b. 1963)
is a Danish composer that studied at the Conservatory in Copenhagen and specialized in computer music at the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and IRCAM in Paris. He taught at IRCAM for a while and has worked at the studios of ZKM in Karlsruhe, DIEM in Aarhus and ACROE in Grenoble. Teglbjærg has been a free-lance composer since 1996, concentrating on works that combine computer sounds with live instruments. <More on Teglbjaerg>
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Martin Knakkegaard (b. 1955) is a Dane and lecturer at Aalborg Univeristy in Denmark where for the last decade he has been setting up studies in Music Technology, both as a main subject and as a minor for all students in the department. He has written books and articles on computer music, as well as investigating the interaction of technology and music in the widest sense. <More on Knakkegaard>
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Biosphere
Under the name Biosphere, Geir Jenssen has made five albums than have earned respect the world over. He has also received commissions from the Norwegian "Rikskoncerter", worked on collaboration projects, and given concerts around the world. His re-mix of several "classical" electronic pieces of the Norwegian composer Arne Nordeim under the name Nordheim Transformed, has received big attention. Biosphere has for years been one of the biggest names in ambient music. <More on Biosphere>
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