Hilary Jeffery (England) e-mail: hiljef@mailcity.com
Trombonist and composer, improvisor
and performer. Studied at Dartington College of Arts, University
of York and with Jim Fulkerson at the European Dance Development
Centre in Arnhem, Netherlands. He often composes and performs
for theatre and dance productions.
Recordings include collaborations with the electronic music group
Germ, the instrument inventor Hugh Davies and with his group Sand. Sand also
perform in the UK and around Europe in a wide variety of venues
including a graveyard in London, a squatted car park in Paris
and the Volksoper in
Vienna! In improvised music he has played with Evan Parker, Paul
Dunmall, Uchihashi Kazuhisa, Helge Hinteregger and Christoff Kurzmann
amongst others. Work in progress includes the formation of two
new performance groups: 'Kreepa'
a European electronics/improvising enesemble and 'All Motion'
a new dance group based in Vermont. He composes instrumental and
electronic music and is a memberof The Barton Workshop - a new
music ensemble based in Amsterdam.
Yolande Harris (England) e-mail: yolandeh@terra.es
(1975) is a
composer and visual artist concentrating on the boundaries between
disciplines through performance, improvisation and event. Her
compostions often use graphic or visual scores, and explore the
changing roles of composer/performer/improvisor. Her work increasingly
incorporates sound and moving image (video) placed in site-specific
space in live performance. She began her studies in history of
art, music and philosophy at Edinburgh University, and completed
her first degree in twentieth century music composition and performance
at Dartington College of Arts (Devon UK). After living and working
in Palma de Mallorca and the Netherlands she moved to Cambridge
University (UK) where she completed a postgraduate MPhil in architecture
and the moving image based in the department of architecture.
Yolande has studied composition with Peter Sculthorpe, Lou Harrison
and Frank Denyer. During residencies at STEIM in Amsterdam she
worked on real-time video manipulation, an issue she further explores
in her collaboration with Bert Bongers. Her compositions have
been performed by Joanna MacGregor, the Composers Ensemble and
Evan Parker. She is now living in Barcelona.
Shigeto Wada (Japan). e-mail: shigetowada@mac.com.
His web site can be found here.
Composer. After
finishing BEd at Niigata University (Japan) by musical composition,
joining to BA in Music at University of East Anglia. But withdrew
at 1st year and converted the course into MMus in Electro Acoustic
Composition from the next Sep. Recent interests are "conversion"
and "animation". Works > on homepage. Pianist. Prized
as Highly Commended of regional final of EPTA (European Piano
Teachers Association) UK piano competition. Publisher. Issuing
"MAX
i MUM" (MAX/MSP magazine)
Also having experience of making film with non-linear editing
on Macintosh.
Cléo Palacio-Quintin (Canada) e-mail: cleopq@xs4all.nl
(1971) grew up in Québec province and studied
music at the Université de Montréal (Canada) where
she completed a Master degree in Flute Performance specialized
in contemporary music (1997). Her previous studies also bore on
different styles of music (classical, pop and jazz) and her work
in the fields of music analysis and ethnomusicology as been of
a great influence on her musical development. She did several
performance courses with Robert Dick, and composition courses
at the CEAMC (Centro de Estudios Avanzádos en Musica Contemporánea,
Buenos Aires 1997), IRCAM (Institut de Recherche et Création
Acoustique/Musique, Paris 1999) and Dartington International School
of Music (1999). In 1998-1999, she was supported by the FCAR (Fond
pour les Chercheurs et l'Avancement de la Recherche, Québec)
to study flute performance with Anne LaBerge and to work on new
compositions in Amsterdam. Since then, she lives in Holland where
she is very active as a performer/improviser/composer. She is
now studying at the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatory
in Den Haag to extend her flute playing and composition works
with live-electronics. She builded a system of electronic controllers
on her flute to be able to send data to a computer while playing.
The acoustic sound of the flute can then be processed by the computer
which is always under the control of her hands. Her creative activities
have been supported by the Council of Arts of Canada and the Conseil
des arts et des lettres du Québec.
Cesar Villavicencio (Brazil) e-mail: cevill@knoware.nl
Born in Peru in 1968.
After following musical studies in São Paulo, Brazil, obtained
the soloist diploma in recorder at the Royal Conservatory, The
Hague.
In the field of the contemporary music his main focus of interest
is the development of new techniques which give the recorder the
possibilities of interacting with the electro-acoustics. He created,
in cooperation with the Sonology Department of the Royal Conservatory,
a MIDI counterbass recorder which interacts with the environment
of improvisation and live sound processing.
As far as baroque music is concerned, he has performed with the
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and periodically teaches and performs
in music festivals in Brazil and Peru.
Davide Tosato (Italy). e-mail: d.tosato@pd.nettuno.it
My name's Davide
Tosato, 1962, I live in Padua, Italy. I got organ, music didactic
and electronic music diplomas at the local Conservatory "C.
Pollini". I was conductor of a choral for 8 years (1986-1994).
I followed various improvement courses like "The art of Bach's
organistic interpretation" at the Cattolica University of
Milano, informatic music and csound programming at the CSC, Computing
Sonology Centre of Padua and "course for specialits in informatic
music" at "Tempo Reale" in Florence (Art director
Luciano Berio). At present I'm studying composition with M. Bonato
Giovanni at the local conservatory
Simone Dal Maso (Italy). e-mail: simodm@tin.it
Martin Schüttler (Germany) e-mail: martinschuettler@gmx.de
(1974) Composer.
He studied with Diego Feinstein (Kassel), Nicolaus A. Huber and
Ludger Brümmer at the Folkwang Hochschule in Essen, Germany.
His work contains pieces for solo instruments, works for orchestra,
for choir and ensembles, tape music, sound installations and film
music. Most of the instrumental compositions
use electronics or live-electronics, trying to combine the diffent
rooms of physical and electro-acustic music. His main interests
are the artificial connotation of electronic music, the noisy
sound-spheres of the rough electronic peculiarities, making the
medium cognizable and the aspect of the room as an filter of perception.
He received several awards, including a performance at the Nachwuchsforum
junger Komponisten in Frankfurt and the Stipendienpreis der Darmstädter
Ferienkurse 2000. At the moment he lives in Karlsruhe, where he
works as an artist in residence at the ZKM.
Corinna Kniffki (Germany) e-mail: corinna.kniffki@gmx.de