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Richard Lerman — Phoenix, United States

Mon, 20 May 2019 03:58:10 +0000

I have been field recording for many years now, mostly using my self-built microphones (piezo) along with others. Since 2014, I have gathered a lot of audio and video from Arctic regions: Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden. Other work has been gathered in and around Krems, Austria. I have been recording border fences along the US/Mexico Border since 1997. Other work has been recorded at sites of human rights violations including Japanese-American internment camps, sites where the Aleut (Unangan) people were interned during WW2 in SE Alaska, and at Auschwitz and Dachau.

My piece, Travelon Gamelon (1978) for amplified bicycles has been performed widely and I mention this because in designing the transducers to amplify the bicycles was the beginning of my journey to gather sound.

I am taking the liberty of attaching a long link below. in January, both Apple and Roku TV now have \”Sonic Journeys: A Sound Art Channel\” available for subscribers. Maybe this year, I will get to update my website……

https://videoplayer.telvue.com/player/68qsvCvwMj4wgpwqBaPQYaria-e4YBsa/playlists/3540/media/398021?autostart=false&showtabssearch=true&fullscreen=false

Renzo Spiteri — Valletta, Malta

Mon, 16 Oct 2017 08:48:03 +0000

Renzo Spiteri is “an artiste who constantly surprises” and whose music “touches the soul directly”. An internationally respected sound artist, composer and musician, Renzo is renowned for his artistic versatility, creative use of sound and unlimited modes of expression. He shares his work base between the United Kingdom and Malta, although his own projects and collaborations with artists in all genres of artistic expression take him to different countries around the world.

As an experimental soloist and arts collaborator, Renzo blurs the boundaries between composer, improviser, sound artist and live performer to create innovative and dynamic artistic dialogues that bear his unique sonic signature. His on-going concern with expanding the musical vocabulary of his performance practice and compositional technique has led to in-depth study and work process that results in audio experiences that have a strong sculptural and dimensional aspect to them. Such elements are evident in Renzo’s latest solo touring work Quintessence (2015) premiered at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester (UK) in partnership with Future Everything Festival 2015; in music composed for contemporary dance companies including in Anima/Animus (2015), Structured Unknown (2010) and Dance Meditation (2007); the music and sound design for the video projection Shack (2011) by Derek Nice; the installation performance Re:Public that celebrated Cork (Ireland) as European Capital of Culture (2005); and in Sounds Unlimited (2004) presented in collaboration with the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast (N. Ireland), British Council and Arts Council (N. Ireland). Renzo’s on-site projects include scoring and recording of music for the visitors’ audio guide at Hal-Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, which led to the creation of the concept album and live performance Silence, Sounds And Spaces (2011) featuring unique on-site recordings at various Neolithic Sites.

As a creative musician and collaborator with a career spanning more than 30 years, Renzo has performed in major festivals (WOMAD, Festival of the Desert, Musica Viva, PASIC) and venues (Royal Festival Hall- London, LSO St. Luke’s- London, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts- Washington DC, SOTA- Singapore, National Concert Hall- Dublin, Babylon Club- Istanbul, Ludwig Forum- Aachen amongst others), and in July 2016 was invited to be part of the multi-national Mediterranean Concert at the Room of Human Rights and Alliance of Civilisations at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. Renzo has also given masterclasses and collaborated with the music departments at Queen’s University (Belfast), University of Iowa (USA), China Conservatory of Music (Beijing) and The Royal Conservatoire of Music of The Hague (The Netherlands).

In 2004, Renzo spent a 5-week work intensive at the Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC) in Belfast (N. Ireland) as musician in residence, and in 2008 he was appointed National Ambassador to the European Union’s “Year for Intercultural Dialogue”. Renzo is creative director and co-founder of the creative support platform #EngageCREATIVES; artistic director of Għanafest and the Malta World Music Festival; Cultural Ambassador to Le Meridien Malta; artistic director of the annual music event Teatru Unplugged held at Malta’s National Theatre Teatru Manoel, and an endorsed artiste for Yamaha Drums & Hardware, Paiste Cymbals & Gongs, Tycoon Percussion and Schlagwerk Percussion.

Renzo has produced and released four albums with his works: ANIMA/ANIMUS (2015); SILENCE SOUNDS AND SPACES (2011); INKONTRI (2010) and THIS IS MY LANGUAGE (2005).

Alberto Lopes — Lisbon, Portugal

Fri, 29 Sep 2017 23:56:01 +0000

Lisbon, 1953. Studied architecture music and cinema; his artistic and professional activity is theatre, music and multimedia projects design and direction – developing the expressive use of technology and its awareness in stage design and composition. He is a play writer and composes music for different kind of scenic contexts.

Recent works include «MetaMorphis», adapted from Kafka’s Metamorphosis (premiered at Temps’ d’Images festival, Lisbon 2005), Wedekind’s «Lulu», «Wrong Target» (#4, #3), «O Dia do Desassossego», (co-directed with João Garcia Miguel), «Acqua Matrix», (the daily multimedia show of EXPO´98 Lisbon) or Howard Barker’s «Scenes From an Execution», (directed in collaboration with São José Lapa, for the National Theatre).

Melissa Pons — Stockholm, Sweden

Mon, 31 Jul 2017 12:26:27 +0000

Sound designer and field recordist with focused interest on resonant structures, hidden sounds, nature conservation and social justice. Enjoys working primarily on documentaries and animated films.

Vassilis Roupas — Athens, Greece

Thu, 13 Jul 2017 17:24:26 +0000

Vassilis composes electroacoustic soundscapes based on concrete sounds recorded by himself or in collaboration with his brother Andreas Roupas who is a sound engineer.

Mirko Ettore D\’Agostino — Napoli, Italy

Wed, 04 Nov 2015 15:08:56 +0000

My personal approach to field recording is mainly focused on capturing and preserving all those distinctive environments and sound/musical sources that are under serious threat of disappearing due to globalization, cultural changes, noise pollution and overbuilding. In A Walk Through Karaköy my intent was to recreate an imaginary soundwalk from past to future in the city of Istanbul, specifically showing the enormous changes that the neighborhood of Karaköy is undergoing in the past few years. Historically occupied for centuries by artisans, craftsmen, merchants and their workshops, the neighborhood has being quickly converted by the municipality into a posh, expensive and bohemian area oriented towards upper-class people and tourists, completely transforming the original atmosphere. Nowadays it is still possible to witness the coexistence of these two opposite realities, but in the near future more and more of the original inhabitants will be compelled to sell their properties and leave the area.

Molly Balcom Raleigh — Turku, Finland

Tue, 28 Jul 2015 12:37:31 +0000

Molly Balcom Raleigh makes participatory performance and installation through media including food, singing, found objects and vernacular texts. Through a widely-varied practice, she seeks to surface the places within large social systems where individual actors, working solo or collaboratively, can effect radical change and regain agency. She has presented her work at many public sites and galleries, including Northern Spark, The Soap Factory, the Walker Art Center, The Nash Gallery, and The Wormfarm Institute. She is twice a fellow of Public Art Saint Paul’s groundbreaking City Art Collaboratory and a 2014-2015 Art(ists) on the Verge fellow. Balcom Raleigh studied playwriting and directing at the University of Minnesota and holds an Individually-designed Bachelor of Arts in Food Studies and Performance Studies from Goddard College. Originally from the US, she currently lives and works in Finland.

Laszlo Umbreit — Brussels, Belgium

Tue, 09 Jun 2015 07:32:18 +0000

Born in Brussels in 1986.
His interest in electronic musics and different sound experiments lead him to study sound in INSAS (cinema school in Brussels).
He is working as a sound engineer, sound editor and soud designer for fdocumentary films and video artists. When not working for other people’s projects, he is composing sound pieces based on the material recorded all over the world, mainly during shootings.

Max Haberl — Vienna, Austria

Thu, 04 Jun 2015 18:38:03 +0000

When i lived in Valencia i started recording sounds in public spaces. I was really interested in soundscapes and field recordings so i collected sounds in spain, italy, france, germany and austria. With the sounds a made different soundcollages and presented them on soundcloud and an art exhibition in Berlin 2012. I was traveling and recording in India this year and a new project or record will be produced soon.

Oppetit David — Marseille, France

Wed, 06 May 2015 11:14:00 +0000

I’m a sound artist based in Marseille. I’m using sound, performance, radio, edition and field recording to create my own universe. My work is drifting between dream and absurd. I imagine a work of art acting on the body and the spirit of the audience. The implication of divert purposes, permit me to show absurdity of situations and environments .
I’ve been invited for concerts, sound performances, exibitions and artist residencies in northern, south, eastern Europe, China, Brasil for events such as : RIAM, Nuits d’Hivers, Printemps de l’Art Contemporain, FID,
I’m interested in working on sonor material and its perception; Questioning about psycho-acoustic phenomenons, noises and unreal-
My past experiences, my movings and driftings, show how I’m involved to share and discover a living part of freedom.