Miller Puckette
Algorithmic composition
Miller Puckette is one of the most important innovators of real-time music elaboration, creator of Max, currently developing Pure Data, an open-source real-time multimedia arts programming environment. He obtained a B.S. in Mathematics from MIT (1980) and Ph. D. in Mathematics from Harvard (1986). Puckette is professor at the music department of the University of California, San Diego.
Gerfried Stocker
Artificial Intelligence and Biotechnology applied to Music
Gerfried Stocker is a media artist and telecommunications engineer. Since 1995, has been artistic director of Ars Electronica. In 1995-96, he headed the crew of artists and technicians that developed the Ars Electronica Center’s pioneering new exhibition strategies and set up the facility’s in-house R&D department, the Ars Electronica Futurelab.
Kyoka
Experimental Performance
Kyoka is a Japan-born and Berlin-based, electronic producer, DJ, installation artist and field recorder, with an extraordinary capacity to explore and experiment with her pioneer type of approach to sound for her chaotic and direct musical approach and a heavy-rough sound, resulting in a broken pop-beat with experimental yet danceable rhythms.
Kyoka is the first solo female artist signed to what it used to be iconic German experimental label Raster-Noton (posteriorly split into raster-media and NOTON), home to artists like Alva Noto (a.k.a. Carsten Nicolai), Byetone, Frank Bretschneider, Ryuichi Sakamoto, William Basinski and Ryoji Ikeda.
Thierry Coduys
Sound diffusion
Thierry Coduys, composer of electronic music and sound engineer, has collaborated with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Steve Reich to produce electroacoustic and computing systems. After a few years at IRCAM, Coduys became an assistant to Luciano Berio and launch the technology platform La kitchen in 1999. In 2007, Coduys began to collaborate independently with Le Hub to pursue his research in a new, flexible and open format. Over the last fifteen years Coduys has also developed a new graphic interface, IanniX, a software inspired by Iannis Xenakis’s UPIC.
Brigitta Muntendorf
Digital Composition
Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence
The German-Austrian composer Brigitta Muntendorf has created a multi-layered web of analog-digital modes of expression in her works. Her settings range from instrumental, choral and orchestral music to transdigital music/dance theater and 3D sound/AR installations. She is the founder of Ensemble Garage and artistic director of the FMN Festival; since 2018 she has been professor for composition at the HfMT Cologne and director of the Institute for Contemporary Music.
Oscar Pizzo
Sound dramaturgy
Oscar Pizzo is a pianist, dramaturg and artistic director. During the last two decades was artistic director of Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Fondazione Musica per Roma Auditorium of Rome, Eur Culture per Roma/La Nuvola, Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari and several collaboration with Theatre and Modern Art Museum. In 2013 received the Honor of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, from the Ministry of Culture of France.
