ECHOFLUXX ENSEMBLE
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Echofluxx Ensemble
The Echofluxx Ensemble will present Perfect for
voices, touchpads, images, and soundtrack. Libretto in eleven boxes by
Michael Karman. Images by Magnolia Stephens Realized and performed by
the Echofluxx Ensemble David Means, director, voice, touchpad, and
soundtrack Michael Karman, librettist, touchpad Mary Garvie, voice,
Oskar Kubica, touchpad, and Matthew Manowski, touchpad.
Five characters set out
to discover a future perfect, one forged out of a
labyrinth of language, longings, and reflections on time and temperament.
“Future, past and present merge and splinter and recombine over and
over again until the whole process has been photographed and all the
characters finish their brief traffic.”Multiple layers of language, sound, and meaning team up to transcend traditional opera performance.
“As we then go our separate ways, the memory of the night to come will
live on in our hearts and minds long before it ever happens.” For
voices, touchpads, images, and soundtrack Libretto in eleven boxes by
Michael Karman. Images by Magnolia Stephens. Realized and performed by
the Echofluxx Ensemble David Means, director, voice, touchpad, and
soundtrack Michael Karman, librettist, touchpad Mary Garvie, voice
Oskar Kubica and Matt Manowksi, touchpads Saturday, May 4.
FESTIVAL SCHEDULE
Wednesday, May 1st, 19:30: International Film
Festival with works by Jenny E. Balisle "Line", Lynn Bianchi Robert Bianchi, & Irina Abraham "Undivine Comedy", Ben Lieberman & Bradley Turner "Aftergrowth", William A. Brown "Slowly Showing", and Young Shin-Choi "Sigan"; Ensemble Terrible (postcard) with
works by J-T Vesikkala Wittmacher "miniatures from Insulae" (premiere) video,
Ravi Kittappa "KUBA" for tenor sax and electronics video, Soňa Vetchá
"Blue-green Colors of Light" (premiere) video, Barry Wan Yuk Bun "The Misty
Morning" (premiere) video, Bruno Cunha "Seja marginal, seja herói, for solo
bass & electronics" (premiere) video. and then Jan Kruml "Instinct Primal"(postcard) video. Program 1 PDF See Night 1 Photos
Thursday, May 2rd, 19:30: International Film
Festival with works by Brigid Burke "Glutonous Wabling", Diego Ratto & Hans Richter "Ghosts Before Breakfast", Nicola Frattegiani "Gusseisen", and Nathan Corder "Sine Study"; Dan Senn "Sleight of Hand"; Jana Babincová & Pavla Zábranská "Zákon/The Law" intro (postcard) video; Phaerentz "Improvisations" (postcard) video; Brigid Burke (postcard) "Crossing Worlds...Vines… Lines" video. Program 2 PDF See Night 2 Photos
Friday, May 3rd, 19:30: International Film
Festival with works by Edward Ramsay-Morin "C-5-11", Jacek J. Kolasiński & Orlando Jacinto Garcia "Stadtluft Mach Frei", Sonja Mutić "sh(out)", Harvey Goldman & Jing Wang "Uriel"; Phill Niblock & William Hooker "Hooker-Niblock" (postcard), James Sutherland-Smith, poetry, "Do What Comes Unnaturally" and "The River and The Black Cat." video (postcard); Hearn Gadbois (postcard) "Time Travel from a Small Cabin in the Timbre"video. Program 3 PDF See Night 3 Photos
Saturday, May 4th, 19:30: International Film
Festival with works by Dong Zhou & Yi Sun "The Silent Land", Charles Peck "Ferrous", Anthony Almendárez "Welcome Valued Customer", Lana Z Caplan "Autopoiesis", Talksong Lee & Jee Seo "The Bride of Frankenstein"; Echofluxx Ensemble (postcard) performing "Perfect" with David Means (director), Oskar Kubica, Michael Karman, Matt Manowski, and Mary Garvie video; Bruno Cunha (postcard) "live improv using clarinet extended techniques & electronics" video. Program 4 PDF See Night 4 Photos
The
Echofluxx festivals are rooted in the mindfulness of Cage, the
interplay of risk-taking and self actualization, and a resistance to
media specificity in art. As spied in the distance to the University of
Illinois in Urbana in the 1960s and 70s, collaborating composers
emerged working graphically, sculpturally, in dance, theatre, film
and clay, and then through a natural post-graduate diaspora, to produce
artifacts, organizations, performances and festivals world-wide, the
sum of which increases today.
Echofluxx
is a festival of new media, visual art, texts
and experimental music produced by FMErá of Prague. This year it will
again present
international and Czech performers in a four-day festival at Paralelní
Polis in Prague, May 1-4, 2019.
ECHOFLUXX ENSEMBLE
 David Means (Minnesota),
director of the Echoffluxx Ensemble, studied architecture at the University of Illinois, where he
participated in John Cage’s first Music Circus. He later pursued DMA
studies in composition with Ben Johnston, Herbert Brűn, and Salvatore
Martirano. Since moving to Minnesota in 1978 he’s received
numerous awards, fellowships, exhibitions and commissions from New
Music America (Minneapolis, Hartford, Houston), IRCAM (Paris),
Documenta 9 (Kassel), and received five McKnight Composer Fellowships
since 1982. In 1997 he founded the Strange Attractors Festivals of
Experimental Intermedia at Metropolitan State University, where he
retired in 2017 as professor emeritus of music and intermedia art. SITE
 Michael Karman
was born some time ago in Northern California. His youth and some of
his adult life was misspent in Southern California. He went to
different schools here and there and was married and divorced a few
times but has three talented sons and many lovely friends, so it all
works out. He also writes poetry, paints, and photographs (the three
P’s). He currently lives in Sophia, Bulgaria and publishes this interesting online magazine -Asymmetry. Michael has written the libretto for "Perfect" as
performed by the Echofluxx Ensemble for this festival. See Michael's work at Echofluxx 18.
 Oskar Kubica (Prague)
is from northern Moravia and found his way to music through friends in
this musically rich location. Later he moved to Prague where he
experimented with the artist group called „Frank Lambert“. Oskar joined
Echofluxx in 2015 while selling beer at the bar at Trafačka which has
since been razed. A year later, for E16, he joined the Ensemble as a
percussionist. Nowadays Oskar can be found jamming in obscure Prague
places with ad-hoc groups of musicians. See Oskar performing at at Echofluxx 18
 Mary Garvie
(St Paul)
sings and makes fine pottery. She was a founding member of the Nobles
eXperimental interMedia Group (Minnesota) and performed in several
dance-theater works by Georgia Stephens (Minnesota). She has also been
involved in collaborations with choreographer Maureen Koelsch, composer
David Means, writers Jon Spayde and Michael Karman, and has performed
with the Echofluxx Ensemble since 2016.
Matthew Manowski (Pittsburgh) is an interdisciplinary artist working with sound art, performance
installation, video and other lens-based fields. His work examines
social themes often alluding to the natural and ecological though he is
concerned with more formal elements of time, shape and scale.
He has exhibited both nationally and internationally most recently in
Belgrade, Serbia at Kvaka 22 with support from the Foundation for the
Contemporary Arts NYC. In 2017 he presented a major exhibition in the
prestigious 12th century Castello de Evoramonte in Portugal. Matthew is
the founder of the annually presented experimental music festival
Sources of Light. SITE
 Dan Senn (Prague-Wisconsin)
is an intermedia artist working in music
composition, kinetic sound sculpture,
experimental and documentary
film. He has been a professor of music and art in the United States and
Australia. Dan travels internationally as a lecturer, performer and
installation artist living in Prague where he
directs
the Echofluxx festivals, and Watertown, Wisconsin, the USA,
with his
partner & collaborator, Caroline Senn. Dan's work moves freely
between
expressive extremes and languages depending upon the aesthetic joust
at hand. He studied music (composition, French Horn, conducting) and
art (ceramics) at the
University of Wisconsin at La Crosse with Truman Daniel Hayes, Leonard
Stach and William Estes, and at the University of Illinois, Urbana
(composition), with
Salvatore Martirano, Ben Johnston, Otto Laske and Herbert Brün. His
music is
published by Smith Publications of Baltimore. "Any Three
Treble Instruments In the Same Key," aka "Rivus," was released in
2015 by Ravello Records, along with works by Scotto and Cage and
performed by the
McCormick Percussion Group. In 2017 his work "Four Psalms Modal" was
premiered by the Kuhn Choir of Prague, and later performed by the 57
voice Tesas State University Choir in 2019. "Seven for Piano" was
premiered in February 2017 by Caroline Senn in Wisconsin. His feature
length documentary "Voice of Theresa" will be screened in 2019 at the
Indie Wisconsin Film Fest. In 2019 he toured the west coast of the
United Stats performing new works for voice hand-made instruments
and improvised electronics. Dan founded Newsense-Intermedium of Tacoma,
Washington, cofounded Cascadia Composers of Portland, Oregon, Roulette
Intermedium of New York City and the Echofluxx Media Art Festivals of Prague where he serves as director. SITE
 Nathan Corder
(Oakland) is a composer of works for electronics, objects, and arrays
of people. Active as a composer and improviser on custom designed
electronics and guitar, Corder has collaborated with artists such as
William Winant, Jaap Blonk, Tatsuya Nakatani, and Roscoe
Mitchell. Nathan’s music has been honored and programmed at events
such as the International Symposium of New Music (Curitiba, Brazil), Le
festival International des Arts Sonores EXHIBITRONIC (Strasbourg),
MUSLAB (Mexico City), mise-en music festival, NUNC!3, NYC
Electroacoustic Music Festival, N_SEME, Root Signals, the Yarn/Wire
Institute, and SEAMUS. In 2014, Nathan was awarded the Allen Strange
Memorial award from SEAMUS.Corder holds an MFA in Electronic Music
& Recording Media from Mills College, where he studied with Roscoe
Mitchell, John Bischoff, Maggi Payne, Chris Brown, and James Fei. He
also holds degrees in composition (BM) and philosophy (BA) from the
University of South Florida, where he studied composition and theory
with Paul Reller, Baljinder Sekhon, and Ciro Scotto, and has studied
composition at UC Berkeley with Ken Ueno, and privately with Ellen
Fullman. SITE
 Sonja Mutić (Serbia)
finished
postgraduate studies at Kunstuniversität Graz with Clemens
Gadenstätter, graduated from the composition department at Faculty of
Music in Belgrade, and is currently a PhD candidate at Harvard
University, studying with Chaya Czernowin and Hans Tutschku. She
has attended various masterclasses in composition, improvisation,
electronic and film music with Wolfgang Rihm, Chaya Czernowin, Beat
Furrer, Mark Andre, Rebecca Saunders, Enno Poppe, Richard Ayres,
Martijn Padding, Louis Andriessen and Richard Barrett, among others,
cooperating with the ensembles such as Lucerne Festival Alumni,
Schallfeld, Orkest de Ereprijs, mise-en, via nova, pre-art, NJO
Bernstein, LENsemble, Fractales, Ensemble Metamorphosis, trio Timbre
etc. Her music was performed at Lucerne Festival, Gaudeamus Muziekweek,
International Rostrum of Composers, impuls Minuten Konzerte, mise-en
festival, Summer of Sounds, Culturescapes, KotorArt, Weimarer
Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik, NJO Muziekzomer, International
review of Composers Belgrade etc. Prizes and awards: Judith Lang
Zaimont Prize by The International Alliance for Women in Music (USA,
2017); International Festival and Competition Sigismund Toduţă, 3.prize
(Romania, 2017); 17.Weimarer Frühjahrstage für zeitgenössische Musik,
1. prize and audience prize (Weimar, 2016); 20.Young Composers Meeting,
2. prize (Apeldoorn, 2014); 7.pre–art competition, 2. prize and
аrtist-in-residence prize by Künstlerhaus Boswil (Switzerland, 2013);
Josip Slavenski award (Belgrade, 2011).
Residencies: Styria-Artist-in-Residence Graz (2018) and Künstlerhaus Boswil (2014-15). SITE
 Jee Seo
(Berlin) born in 1985, is a South Korean composer. His music has been
performed in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Greece, Italy,
Poland, South Korea, Thailand, Ukraine, and United States (Boston, Los
Angeles, and New York). He has been collaborating on a wide range of
projects with artists, dancers and filmmakers. Jee studied at the
College of Music Chung-Ang University in South Korea and Manhattan
School of Music in New York City, and had a residency at the Isang Yun
Haus in Berlin. Seo's festival work, the sound score, is for "The Bride
of Frankenstein" produced & directed by Talksong Lee.
 Talksong Lee (Seoul)
is the project director of InterTwine.
She studied in London, and worked in Europe, U.S., Asia, etc. She has
been making films, music videos and documentaries since 1995, and
enjoys much collaborating with various genres of artist. Talksong has
been experimenting several projects in Seoul since 2016 such as urban
farm party (@farmfarmparty), and just joined SoolCoree and Art Space
DA:MDAA as a contents director. SITE
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"ZÁKON/THE LAW"
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Kostka Gallery installation, The Meetfactory,
by Pavla Zambranská and Jana Babincová
William Hooker
(New York City) is a drummer, composer and poet who has created works
that range from jazz and "new" music to experimental genres and has
released over 70 CDs. Mr. Hooker has performed at the
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Edgefest
Jazz Festival, The Vision Festival,
The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, The Wadsworth Atheneum,
Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Walker Art Center,the first on MTV, The
Kitchen, Roulette, Real Art Ways. He has also presented his work at the
JVC Jazz Festival, Montreal Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, CMJ
Music Festival,Vilnius Jazz Festival, Experimenta Argentina, The
Knitting Factory and the Victoriaville Music Festival. Hooker has
received commissions and support from the New York State Council on the
Arts, Meet the Composer,Tokio Marine Insurance Company, Colleges and
Universities such as Oberlin, Fordham, Columbia,New York University,
Boston University, Princeton, Dartmouth, Yale and many more.
Accompanying musicians have included Billy Bang, David Ware, William
Parker,Thurston Moore, David Soldier, Roy Campbell, DJ Spooky, Steven
Bernstein, Zeena Parkins, Lee Ranaldo, Jason Hwang, Sabir Mateen,
Elliot Sharpe, David Murray, Ted Daniel, JD Parren and many more.
Hooker improvises the fixed sound track for HookerNiblock, a video
collaboraton with Phill Niblock. YouTube
 Phill Niblock (New York City) is a minimalist composer and
multi-media musician and director of Experimental Intermedia, a
foundation born in the flames of 1968's barricade-hopping. He has been
a maverick presence on the fringes of the avant garde ever since. After
an early period studying economics (BA, Indiana
University, 1956) Niblock came to New York in 1958. and worked as a
photographer and filmmaker. Much of this activity centered around
photographing and filming jazz musicians. Thereafter he made a number
of films in a series titled The Movement of People Working. Filmed in
primarily rural environments in many countries (China, Brazil,
Portugal, Lesotho, Puerto Rico, Hong Kong, the Arctic, Mexico, Hungary,
the Adirondacks, Peru), the films look at everyday work, frequently
agrarian or marine labor. These films are remarkable for their
realistic quality and absence of artifice, their use
of long takes in high resolution and their supposedly artless
juxtaposition of compelling images in vivid colors. These scenes of the
movement of human manual labor are treated abstractly without explicit
anthropological or sociological meaning. As in the music, a surface
slowness is countered by an active, varied texture of rhythm and form
of body motion within the frame; this is what Niblock himself considers
the ultimate subject matter of his films. SITE
James Sutherland-Smith
 (Slovakia-United Kingdom) was
born in 1948 lives in Slovakia. He has published seven collections of
his own poetry, the most recent being “The River and the Black Cat”,
from Shearsman Books in 2018. He has translated a number of Slovak
poets and Serbian poets including Mila Haugová, Ivana Milankov and
Miodrag Pavlović. For his translation work he received the Slovak
Hviezdoslav Prize in 2003 and the Serbian Zlatko Krasni Prize in 2014.
“Mouth”, his sixth collection, received the Rector’s Prize at
Prešov University in 2015. His translations of Mária Ferenčuhová’s
poetry, “Tidal Events,” was also published by Shearsman Books in 2018.
A second selection from the poetry of Mila Haugová will appear from Arc
Publications later this year. At the moment he is working on
translations from the poetry of the Serbian poet, Ivanka Radmanović.
Read more about James here.
Pavla Zábranská (Prague) is a performer, improvisor, lecturer, graphic designer, and video artist. Since 2014, she has worked for Czech Television.
She has a Masters degree at the Academy of Art, Architecture and Design
in Prague, and BA from the Royal Academy of Arts in Den Haag, The
Netherlands, and has studied organ at the Prague Conservatory. She
has collaborated with Jana Babincová, on Zákon/The Law, for the Kostka
Gallery, Meetfactory, a portion of which will be seen at Echofluxx. She
and Jana have also collaborated on Gammatone: The White Room, Pragovka,
Prague. Since 2016, she has lectured at FDU, Pilsen, Anglo-American
University, Prague, Seoul, KUCD, South Korea, Prague College, Typoclub
Afterwork lecture, Bern University of Arts, Switzerland, Typocakap by
TypoKaki, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, The multi 2016, SUNY Purchase’s
design conference, New York. SITE
Jana Babincová (Prague)
 has a degree in painting from FAVU in Brno. She has presented her work in a number of Czech
independent galleries and institutions, such as NTK or MeetFactoy
Prague Gallery, Emil Filla Gallery in Ústí nad Labem, Gallery of the
City of Pilsen, Youth Gallery in Brno, and in foreign contexts
such as the Owensboro Museum of Fine Arts, USA and as part of a
residency at Volkshotel in the Netherlands. She has lived in
Belgium, Germany, Spain and
Slovakia for residences and scholarships. Her works are represented in
a
number of private and state collections, such as the Marek Collection,
or the Collection of Jiří Valoch at the National Gallery in Prague.
SITE
 Phaerentz (Prague)
is a electronic musician, promoter and music journalist.
Phaerentz focuses on physical qualities of sound and its reaction with
space and listeners‘ bodies and minds. By phase shifting of short
loops he creates surprising acoustic and polyrhythmic phenomena that
cannot be fully anticipated beforehand. The result is a psycho-acoustic
minimalist experience that focuses on extended repetition as a means to
discovering motion in static. It’s psychophysical! Minimalism. Pulse.
Throbbing spaces. Repetition is the strongest variation possible. Slow
development and living through every single second. We do not want to
skip the time of our lives, do we? Better be real than postmodern. SITE
See Petr at Echofluxx 14.
Bruno Cunha
(Prague-Brazil), as picture  above,
studied his bachelor degree in music composition at the Universidade de
Brasília, Brazil, under the guidance of composer and anthropologist
Flávio Santos Pereira. His compositions incorporate hypertextual
discourses, and several have been played at festivals and on the radio
in Brazil, Mexico, England, Sweden and Czech Republic. He is currently
studying his master’s degree at AMU under the mentorship of composer
Michal Rataj.
 Hearn Gadbois (Prague)
"I
live in Prague, whence I washed ashore as a
pirate-practitioner,
a miscegenator of numerous musical styles. The paths that
brought me
here are many, so too are the things that I do. I teach, perform
and record; I collaborate with artists of
many disciplines, including
my partner, dancer Rena Milgrom. While living here I have
recorded and
released three solo cds, and recently had my music used in the
documentary City of Gold (premiered at Sundance
Film Festival), and
live-scored Dziga Vertov's silent film, Man With a Movie
Camera at Space NoD. I perform and tour with the
ensembles FysioArt, and have been doing some work with the
Balkan
band BraAgas. II've worked in musical
settings as diverse as
the European Overtone Choir, P.I.O., Slet
Bubiniku, Vladimir
Vaclavek, Philokallia Ensemble, Feng-yun Song, and Boro
Balkan Band. I
play solo concerts, create live and recorded music for dance
and
theatre productions, and participate in numerous projects. I
am often
to be found tinkering in my laboratory, constructing an audio
track, carving or building some sort of special
instrument, or helping
students hone and develop their rhythmic skills." See Hearn at Echofluxx 11.
 Brigid
Burke (Melbourne) is an Australian composer, performance
artist, clarinet soloist, visual
artist, video artist and educator whose creative practice explores the
use of acoustic sound and technology to enable media performances and
installations that are rich in aural and visual nuances. Her work is
widely presented in concerts, festivals, and radio broadcasts
throughout Australia, Asia, Brazil, Europe and the USA. Recently
she has been a recipient of an Australia Council Project Music
Fellowship & new work commissions ‘Coral Bells’ & “Instincts
and Episodes’ also Artist in Resident at Marshall University USA with a
Edwards Distinguished Professor Artist Residency 2015 &17with
ensemble BHZ, Indiana University but and ADM NTU Singapore. Also
recently she presented works on the Big screen at Federation Square
Melbourne, Tilde Festival, ABC Classic FM, International Media Festival
Echofluxx in Prague and Generative Art Festivals GA19 Italy. She
has a PhD in Composition from UTAS The University of Tasmania and a
Master of Music in Composition from The University of Melbourne.
Brigid's gaphic image is used again this year for the Echofluxx banner
above! SITE
Still from "Uriel" by Goldman and Wang
FILM ARTISTS
 Jing Wang (Dartmouth) is
a composer and virtuoso erhu artist, was born in China. Ms. Wang has
participated in numerous musical communities, as a composer and a
performer of diverse styles of music. Her compositions have been
selected and presented in China, Spain, France, Italy, Serbia,
Turkey, Romania, Russia, Australia, Japan, Argentina, and throughout
the United States. They have also been recognized by the American
Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers and Electro-acoustic
Miniatures International Contest Spain. She was the winner of 2006
Pauline Oliveros Prize given by the International Alliance for Women in
Music and has been awarded the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Vilcek
Foundation Fellowship, and the Omi International Musicians Residency
Fellowship. As an active erhu performer, she has introduced the Chinese
indigenous erhu into Western contemporary music scene with her wide
array of compositions for chamber ensemble, avant-garde jazz
improvisations and multicultural ensembles. She has also successfully
performed erhu concertos with several symphony orchestras in the United
States. Ms. Wang is currently an Assistant Professor of Music at the
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth where she teaches electroacoustic
music, composition, and music theory. SITE
 Harvey Goldman (Dartmouth) has
created critically acclaimed work in the fields of ceramics,
digital imaging, animation and music. He is founder of the
Digital Media program at the University of Massachusetts
Dartmouth. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the
United States, Europe and Asia. He has received grants from the
National Endowment for the Arts, The Ford Foundation and the
Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities. Goldman's work
is included in numerous private and public collections including
the Iota Center for Experimental Animation, Boston Museum of Fine
Arts, Everson Museum of Art, Decordova Museum, Currier Museum of
Art, and the Crocker Art Museum. His animations have been screened
throughout the world including, the Smithsonian's Hirshhon Museum,
the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the White Box Museum, Beijing,
China. His interests include gardening, storytelling, world music,
sound exploration, language development, writing systems and
basketball. He resides in Dartmouth, Massachusetts with his wife
and fellow artist, Deborah Coolidge. SITE
A film by Hans Richtor, "Ghosts Before Breakfast", 1928
with new music by Diego Ratto.
 Diego Ratto (Italy)
was born on January 14, 1988, in Alessandria Italy. He is a Musician
and a Composer. He graduated from “A.Vivaldi” Conservatory in
Alessandria (IT) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electroacoustic Music
(under the guidance of Gustavo Adolfo Delgado and Matteo Franceschini)
in 2017, in Jazz Guitar (under the guidance of Pino Russo and Paolo
Silvestri as tutor) in 2016 and in Music Therapy in 2014. Currently he
is studying at the KMH - Royal College of Music (Stockholm). Master
Program in Electroacoustic Composition under the guidance of Bill
Brunson. SITE.
 Anthony Almendárez (West Virginia) is a musician, composer, educator and self-taught video artist who
investigates the inextricability of audio and visual components within
the medium of video. His early works comprise musical compositions that
experiment with narrative structure within the auditory medium through
harmonic language and its utilization of bitonality, symmetrical
scales, extended techniques, and polyrhythms. In more recent work,
Almendárez applies his musical expertise to his video and installation
work, examining characteristics of the human condition such as
alienation, anxiety and inner-conflict while simultaneously isolating
his audience in site-specific acoustic environments. Challenging the
hierarchy between audio and visual, and confronting their respective
stereotypes in relation to identity and within the frame of narrative,
Almendárez ultimately seeks to inject new modes of storytelling that
are inclusive of histories and collective memories of those thriving
along the margins of society. SITE.
 Lynn Bianchi (New York) began working in the video field 5 years ago and has already produced about 20 multimedia works. Some of those
have been featured at CICA Museum in South Korea and included into
International Symposium of Electronic Arts in Columbia – ISEA-2017,
Electronic Language International Festival in Brazil – FILE- 2017,
Piemonte Share Festival – the Italian art fair of electronic art,
digital art and new media, as well as Coney Island Film Festival in
Brooklyn, New York among others. Bianchi’s photographic work has been
shown at Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in Japan; Musée de
l’Elysée in Lausanne in Switzerland; Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto,
Canada among others. Her art has been featured in over forty
publications, including The Huffington Post and Encyclopedia of Food
and Culture, Vogue Italia and Zoom in Italy, Phot’Art International in
France, and GEO in Germany. Lynn’s work resides in numerous private
collections across the globe, including Manfred Heiting’s and Peter
Norton’s, as well as in museum collections including Museum of Fine
Arts in Houston, Texas; Brooklyn Museum in New York and Biblioteque
Nationale de France in Paris, Musée Ken Damy in Brescia, Italy, 21c
Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, etc. SITE
 Robert Bianchi (New York City)
is a
photographer born in New York. Bianchi uses the photographic medium as
a way to explore dreamy and spiritual dreamscapes through carefully
composed digital compositions. His practice merges a deep contemplation
of human nature, suspended between materiality and spirituality, with
an obsessive attention to fractalic details and classical compositions.
Bianchi has been a visiting artist at the American Academy in Rome and
his work has been exhibited and collected by Museums around the world.
The Museum of the City of New York purchased twenty-eight images of his
West Side Highway series, and his work is also part of the collection
of the Brooklyn Museum, the Chrysler Museum, The Museum of Fine arts in
Houston and the Museum de l’Eysee, Lausanne Switzerland. Robert Bianchi
was the first artist working in photography to be given a one-person
exhibition at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, highly acclaimed
in the New York Times. His work has been exhibited and toured by the
Kinsey Institute and recently shown at the Leslie Lohman Gallery in New
York City. Some of the other galleries and Museums in which Robert
Bianchi exhibited and had one person shows are: the Fotografie Fourum
Interntional, Frankfurt Germany, Valloadold Museum,Spain, The Ken Damy
Museum Italy, The Isses Gallery, Kyoto Japan, Mocha, New York, The
Alternative Museum, Ledel Gallery, New York, the Barbara Greene and
Fotosphere Gallery in New York, and the Joel Soroka Gallery in Aspen.
More recently, he has exhibited in New York City at the Armory Show at
Salomon Arts Gallery, in a two-person show at One Art Space, and in a
two-person exhibition at Shchukin Gallery. SITE
 Irina Abraham (New York City),
editor, is an award winning theatre director (Best Director, Planet
Connections Festival 2017), film and theater actress, choreographer,
editor and writer. For the past ten years Irina has been working as a
film and art video editor. Working with Lynn Bianchi has given her the
opportunity to use her skills as a performer, editor and writer. In
2007 Irina came to NYC and studied acting, directing and writing at HB
Studio. In 2010 Irina wrote and directed her first show Playgrounded.
From 2010 to 2014 Irina worked as a choreographer and actor with such
companies as the Russian Arts Theater & Studio, Nylon Fusion
Theater Company, Yangtze Repertory Theater of America, the Bedlam
Ensemble, etc. In 2015 Irina co-founded Necessary I.T.E.M.S. Project
–an experimental theatre collective. She grew to love cinematic
language and played leading roles in According to Her (2015, feature
film, dir. Estelle Artus) and 2050 (dir. Princeton Holt, 2019), she
also appeared on TV Shows and in 2016 Irina joined the innovative Off
Off Broadway Theatre Company Blessed Unrest as an actress. In 2018
Irina wrote a children’s show Mozart And Me that was performed at
Baruch Center for The Performing Arts. SITE
 Jenny E. Balisle (USA)
earned a
B.A. in Art and Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens
Point and a M.F.A. from the Academy of Art College in San
Francisco. Exhibits include the de Young Museum
Artist-in-Residence, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago
Cultural Center, Korean Cultural Center, Harvard University, Farmington
Museum, Museu Brasileiro Sao Paulo, and Shanghai Oil Painting &
Sculpture Institute Art Museum. Her work has been featured in such
publications as The Huffington Post, WOMENCINEMAKERS, A5 Magazine,
ZYZZYVA, The Drum Literary Magazine, and Sculptural Pursuits
Magazine. Public art includes The Cube Art Project, Hearts in San
Francisco, and South San Francisco Utility Box Mural Project. Balisle
currently works as an artist, curator, advocate, writer, lecturer, and
instructor at the Academy of Art University and UC Berkeley
Extension. Locally, she serves as a Richmond Arts & Culture
Commissioner and Public Art Advisory Committee member. SITE Bradley Turner (Alabama)
is a composer
and animator who lives alone in Alabama. His main goal in life is to be
rich and famous. His songs have been played on over 150 college radio
stations in North America, and in 2017, he completed an MFA in Music
Composition at Vermont College of Fine Arts.
 Nicola Fumo Frattegiani (Perrugia) graduated
from D.A.M.S. (Academy of Arts Music and Show) at the University of
Bologna, with a thesis on Luigi Nono’s work “Intolleranza 1960”. Later
he has advanced Master’s degree on “The musical cultures of 1900’s” at
the University of Tor Vergata in Rome, and a bachelor’s degree on
“Electronic Music and New Technologies” at the “Francesco Morlacchi”
Conservatory of Music of Perugia. Currently Nicola Fumo Frattegiani is
attending the Master’s degree of “Electronic Music and New
Technologies” at the “Licinio Re^ice” Conservatory of Music in
Frosinone. His works have been presented at various national and
international festivals, including BFE / RMA, Noise^loor Festival (UK),
Synchresis (Spain), Evimus (Germany), MUSLAB (Brazil), ICMC (South
Korea), NYCEMF (USA), SMC (Cyprus), XXII CIM, Architecture Biennale of
Venice (Italy). Author and performer, his research deals with
electroacoustic music, soundtracks of images, video, sound theater and
sound exhibition. Since 2016, Nicola collaborates with Alessandro
Fiordelmondo in several productions of live electroacoustic music, with
whom he experimented many types of generation and manipulation of sound
dimension. Both are part of the Ensemble A23, a research group in the
field of sound installations.
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ENSEMBLE TERRIBLE
Ensemble Terrible at Echofluxx 18,
Petr Hora conducting.
Ensemble Terrible
(Prague) is composed mainly of students and graduates of the Music and
Dance Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The ensemble
focuses on contemporary and experimental music of the 21st Century and
was introduced to Prague audiences in the autumn of 2016 at a
MeetFactory concert. An important social and aesthetic concern of the
group is to assist bringing new audiences together by the simple
selection of the presentation space. This was the case with recent
concerts at Venus in Švehlovec, Pianka Dalibor, and Paralelni Polis for
last year's Echofluxx 18, an interdisciplinary art festival. This
effectively links the academic environment with related forms of
contemporary art. Ensemble Terrible rejects the division of art genres
as well as judgments such as "high and low art," or even "good or bad
art." What may now seem terrible, in time, may become terribly
beautiful. SITE
Ensemble Terrible Musicians
.
 Janina Alachnovič (Belarus)
is a student at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She started
to learn music theory at seven years old and play flute at eight. At
the age of twelve, during study at Music school №1 in Minsk, she made
her debut at music competitions in Minsk and Kaunas. In 2006 she won
the 3rd prize The First Christian Festival “Blagovest” Minsk. At the
age of sixteen Yanina decided for professional music education and
continues her studies at Gymnasium-college of Arts “I. O. Akhremchik”
in Minsk. In 2012 she won 2nd prize at the XVII International
Competition n.a. E. Coca in Chisinau, Moldova and in 2013 and 2nd prize
at the V International Competition “Surmi Bukoviny” Chernivtsi,
Ukraine. Also as a soloist she performed with youth wind orchestra
“Fanfares of Nemiga” on festivals in Belarus, Italy, France and Poland.
In 2015 Yanina become a student of Jiří Válek’s and Mario Mesany’s in
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. She also studied at master
courses with Samuel Coles, Michael Schmid, Janet Richardson and summer
school in Diekirch, Luxembourg. Yanina performs in the concerts of
classical, contemporary and improvisation music. From 2017
working as the flute teacher in The International School of Music and
Fine Arts in Prague. SITE
 Štěpán Drtina (Prague)
studied with Renata Strašrybková at Prague conservatory and graduated
at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where he studied with prof.
Miroslav Petráš and Michal Kaňka. He attended many competitions such as
Prague Junior Note, international competitions in Liezen, Austria (2004
and 2008) and competition of Bohuslav Martinů Foundation (2012). He
participated in masterclasses with Miroslav Zicha, Jiří Bárta, Dmitrij
Ferschtman, Anner Bylsma, Wolfgang Boettcher, Ludwig Quandt and Rudolf
Gleissner. He is member of Bořkovec String Quartet and performs with
prominent Czech orchestras and ensembles, such as FOK, Orchestra Berg,
Talich Chamber Orchestra or Prague Modern).
 Tomáš Novák (Prague)
studied double bass with Jakub Waldmann at Gymnázium Jana Nerudy. He
continued his studies with Anton Schachenhofer at Anton Bruckner
Universität in Linz and now continues his Master’s Degree with Jiří
Hudec at Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. He regularly attends
masterclasses at JAMU with accomplished double bass teachers such as
Catalin Rotaru, Ekkehard Beringer or Thierry Barbe. He is currently a
member of Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra and Orchestral Academy of
Prague
Radio Symphony Orchestra.
 David Danel (Prague),
violin, received his musical education at the Janacek Conservatory of
Music in Ostrava and at the University of Ostrava Institute of the
Arts. Mr. Danel has won prizes in several national and
international competitions including the L. van Beethoven International
Violin Competition and the L. Janacek Violin Competition Brno, appeared
as soloist with orchestras in the Czech Republic and abroad, and he
performed as soloist at such festivals as the Prague Spring,
Contempuls, Forfest ao. Between 2000 – 2011 he was a member of the PKF
- Prague Philharmonia and Guest Lecturer at the University of Ostrava.
His strong interest in contemporary music is reflected in his
performances with the new music group MoEns (formerly Mondschein
Ensemble), the international Ostravska Banda, the Prague-based Early
Reflections and in his artistic direction of ensemble Prague Modern (in
2015 the group was awarded Coup de Coeur Award by the French Academy of
Charles Cros for the recording of Dai Fujikura music, appearances at
Musica Strasbourg, Festival Besancon ao.). He is also a founder of a
string quartet fama Q that has performed at the prestigious festivals
such as Contempuls Prague, Prague Spring Festival, Israel Festival
Jerusalem, Cluj Modern (Romania), ISCM World New Music Days,
MusicOlomouc (CZ), Exposition of New Music Brno (CZ) etc., on concerts
and tours to France, Japan, Romania, Slovakia, Spain and the USA. SITE
 Michael JERMÁŘ (Prague)
studies
at the Prague Conservatory (prof. Pavel Fiedler, Pavel Škrna). In July
2014 he accepted the invitation of excellent French saxophonist
Philippe Portejoie to study in his class at the Conservatoire ŕ
Rayonnement Régional de Paris, the Paris Conservatory, where he stays
2014-2016 studying both schools simultaneously. In 2016 Michael begins
his Bachelor studies at the University of Ostrava (prof. Zbigniew
Kaleta, PhD.), in the same year he graduates at Prague Conservatory
playing Jacques Ibert’s Concertino da camera accompanied by the
Conservatory orchestra and giving a Graduation recital. In academic
year 2017/2018 he does his Erasmus+ Programme at the Uniwersytet
Muzyczny Fryderyka Chopina (UMFC - Chopin University) in Warsaw, where
prof. dr. hab. Paweł Gusnar and Mgr. Pablo Sánchez-Escariche Gasch lead
him. In 2014 Michael recorded the saxophone episode of “Filharmonici na
ulici,” a show by the Czech Television, and premiered “Three pieces for
alto saxophone solo” by Hanuš Gočár. In 2018/2019 he is looking forward
to premiere “BACH’erevko,” a piece written and dedicated to him by
world-famous French composer François Rossé. Under the baton of flutist
Philippe Bernold, Michael performed Ravel’s Boléro with the Janáček
Philharmonic Ostrava and collaborated with the Czech Philharmonic
Student Orchestra as well as the Orchestre Symphonique du CRR de Paris. SITE
 Petr Hora (Prague)
was born in Chrudim and studied organ and composition at the
Conservatory of Teplice. Then he continued his studies in composition
with Hanuš Bartoň and Luboš Mrkvička at the Music faculty of the
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Ensemble Terrible Composers
 Soňa Vetchá
(Prague) studied piano at the Brno Conservatory in class of Dagmar
Pančochová and composition in class of Pavel Novák - Zemek. Now she
studies composition at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, where
she started her first year of doctoral studies with Ivan Kurz. She is
also a member of the international association of composers and
performers Föreningen Musikspektra T since 2017. She has also
participated in several international contemporary music festivals
abroad (Brussels, Italy, Sweden, Slovakia, etc.). As part of her
master's and doctoral studies, she researches the influence of auditory
illusions on the compositional process and its consequences on
subjective perception of musical structure, form, and tectonics. SITE
 Ravi Kittappa (New York City)
is an American composer currently living in Prague. The New York Times
recently described the “vivid soundscapes” of a recent performance of
his work, Decantations III, as “alluring” and “meditative”. Ravi has
been commissioned and premiered by Color Field Ensemble, Ensemble Dal
Niente, TIGUE and Concert Black, Quince Contemporary Vocal Ensemble,
percussionist Owen Weaver, and Talea Ensemble among others. He has been
honored to be selected as a participant at international festivals like
Ostrava Days, Bowling Green New Music Festival, MATA Festival, and the
Bang on a Can Summer Institute. In Spring 2012, Ravi founded the
NYC/SF/LA new music series, Permutations, which he co-curates with
pianist, Karl Larson. Ravi studied philosophy at The Johns Hopkins
University and music at Columbia University. He completed his Ph.D in
music composition at University of California, Berkeley. For 2018-19,
Ravi is a visiting composer at The Academy of Performing Arts, Prague
(HAMU) through the J. William Fulbright Commission. SITE
 J-T Vesikkala Wittmacher
(Finland-Prague), aka Juhani Topias Vesikkala, is a composer, baritone
singer, multi-instrumentalist, teacher and writer of music literature.
Since 2018, Vesikkala is a doctorate scholar in composition at HAMU,
Prague, and specialises in free microtonality and instrumental noise
under supervision of Michal Rataj. Vesikkala completed a Master’s
degree at the Sibelius Academy with T. Nevanlinna and V. Puumala.
Between 2012 and 2013, Vesikkala studied with B. Furrer and P. Billone
in Kunstuniversität Graz, as well as electroacoustic composition at the
IEM.Compositions spanning most acoustic genres, electronic,
comprovisation, and intermedial music have been performed worldwide,
since 2002 when Vesikkala studied with J. Trbojević and L. Wennäkoski.
An extensive thesis on integrated piano multiphonic flageolets research
from Vesikkala’s previous 2015 Florence acoustics congress paper was
published in 2016.
Vesikkala’s singing career has generated several globally acclaimed
premiere recordings of current music with the Helsinki Chamber Choir.
Vesikkala’s creative flow draws influences from travel, queer feminism,
genetics, and Engaged Buddhism. SITEBarry Wan Yuk Bun
(Prague-Hong Kong) is diverse musician, Czech-based composer, sonic
artist and guitarist Barry Y.B. Wan’s music has been performed in USA,
Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Belarus, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia,
Spain, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Taiwan and Hong  Kong.
He consecutively awarded as selected works for its performance during
the FORO INTERNACIONAL DE MÚSICA NUEVA MANUEL ENRÍQUEZ, 2012 and 2013
in Mexico City and finalist at SIME international Electroacoustic Music
competition 2015 in Lille, France. His work has been presented in
numerous concerts and festivals such as Muestra Internacional de Música
Electroacústica MUSLAB in Mexico and Brazil (2014,2017), FEASt Festival
in Miami, USA (2014). Örebro contemporary music festival in Sweden
(2016), [EX_NIHILO] in Mexico, OUA festival in Japan (2017),
PERFORMENSK in Belarus (2018), International Festival of Video Art and
Visual Music in Mexico (2018), Festival Nuovi Affreschi Sonori in
Italy(2018) and Musica Nova competiton in Czech Republic (2018). In the
year 2003 started his musical, animation and photography studies in
Hong Kong. From the year 2010-2015 he studied music composition,
multimedia composition and Guitar Performance at the Janacek Academy of
Music and Performing Arts (JAMU) in Brno, Czech Republic. He earned the
LLCM title (bachelor equivalent) of music composition in the year 2014
from London Collage of Music. In 2017, he received the master degree of
composition at the Academy of Performing Arts (HAMU) in Prague with
specialization in Electroacoustic Music Composition. Currently he is
completing the Ph.D. degree at Jan Evangelista Purkyne University in
Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic SITE
FILM ARTISTS
 William A. Brown (Atlanta)
is a Senior Lecturer (Emeritus) in Emory’s Film Studies
Department. I’ve been teaching at Emory since 1974, first as adjunct
faculty in the Art History Department, then as a Lecturer
with a joint appointment in Film Studies and Visual Arts. I’m an
independent filmmaker producing both documentaries and avant-garde
short films. My primary interest is in the history of avant-garde
movements and their influences on technological media, including
photography, film, and video. I also own Atlanta Video, Inc., a
production company specializing in documentary and arts programming. SITE
 Lana Z Caplan (California)
works across various media, including single-channel films or videos in
essay form, interactive installations, video art, and photography.
Inspired by particular locations and notions of utopia, her work often
explores the implications of the social landscape on the physical
landscape and the transformative experience images and media have on
our psyche. Her work has been shown internationally at festivals,
galleries and museums including Anthology Film Archives, Chicago
Underground Film Festival, Edinburgh International Film Festival,
CROSSROADS Festival, Black Maria Film Festival, Antimatter [media art],
Montreal Underground Film Festival, Experiments in Cinema, Alchemy Film
and Moving Image Festival, Microscope Gallery Brooklyn, Inside Out Art
Museum Beijing, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo Mexico City and the
Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson. She is the recipient of several
grants including from Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Puffin
Foundation, and the Film/Video Studio Program Fellowship at the Wexner
Center for the Arts in Columbus OH. Caplan is currently an Assistant
Professor of Photography and Video at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. SITE
Edward
Ramsay-Morin
(Texas) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at Sam
Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas. His work includes
experimental animation, video, and sound. His films  have been screened
at festivals and galleries in over 70 events in 12 countries. He
received an MFA from Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York, and a
BFA from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas. His work in
digital media includes animated collage, stop-motion animation, collage
film, and generative media. His work has been exhibited at the Taubman
Museum of Art in Roanoke Virginia, the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New
Orleans, Louisiana, Box13 ArtSpace in Houston, Texas, the Video Art
Festival Midden in Kalamata, Greece, and the Without Words Film
Festival in Metz, France. He is currently an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Art at Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas
where he serves as the coordinator for the Computer Animation
Program. Edward lives
in Huntsville, Texas with his wife and daughter. SITE
Charles Peck
(Cornell)is a composer whose work has been called “daring”
(Philadelphia Inquirer), “wild and shimmering” (Broad Street Review),
and “substantial, personal, genuine” (Roger Shapiro Fund for New
Music). His music, s panning
a range of chamber and large ensembles, has been performed by the
Minnesota Orchestra, the Albany Symphony, the Columbus Symphony, Alarm
Will Sound, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra, the JACK Quartet, Sandbox Percussion, percussionist Ji Hye Jung, clarinetist Derek Bermel, and pianist Holly Roadfeldt. Recently, Peck has received an
ASCAP Morton Gould Award and a commission from the Barlow Endowment and
has been named a winner of composition competitions with the New York
Youth Symphony, the Lake George Music Festival, the Boston New Music
Initiative, the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble, the Salvatore Martirano
Memorial Award, the Foundation for Modern Music, the National
Federation of Music Clubs, Frame Dance, and Symphony in C, among
others. His music been featured at a variety of venues and festivals,
including Carnegie Hall, the Aspen Music Festival, the Cabrillo
Festival, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, the Civic
Orchestra New Music Workshop, the Minnesota Orchestra’s Composer
Institute, the Beijing Modern Music Festival, the Mise-En Music
Festival, the American Music Festival, the New Music Miami Festival,
and the New Music Gathering. Peck currently teaches at the University
of the Arts in Philadelphia and is a doctoral candidate at Cornell
University. SITE
 Orlando Jacinto Garcia (Florida)
was born in Havana, Cuba in 1954, and migrated to the United States in
1961. In demand as a guest composer, he is the recipient of numerous
honors and awards from a variety of organizations and cultural
institutions including the Rockefeller, Fulbright, Knight, Dutka,
Civitella Ranieri, Bogliasco, and Cintas Foundations, the State of
Florida, the MacDowell and Millay Colony, and the Ariel, Noise
International, Matiz Rangel, Nuevas Resonancias, Salvatore Martirano,
and Bloch International Competitions. The distinctive character
of his music has often been described as “time suspended- haunting
sonic explorations” qualities he developed from his studies with Morton
Feldman among others. Most
recently he has been the recipient of 4 Latin Grammy nominations in the
best Contemporary Classical Composition Category (2009-11, 2015). With
performances around the world, his works are recorded on New Albion,
O.O. Discs, CRI /New World, Albany, North/South, CRS, Rugginenti, VDM,
Capstone, Innova, CNMAS, Opus One, Telos, and Toccata Classics. SITE
 Jacek J. Kolasiński (Poland-USA) is the founding Director of the Ratcliffe Incubator of Art + Design in
the FIU College of Communication, Architecture + The Arts, is an
Associate Professor of Art at the Art + Art History Department at
Florida International University where he previously served as the
Department Chair for six years.
He came to the United States from Poland where he studied history and
philosophy at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He holds a
Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations. Kolasiński received
his MFA and BFA from Florida International University in Miami. He is a
Ph.D. Candidate at the prestigious Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw,
Poland. Kolasiński is an
interdisciplinary artist and curator, whose work is rooted in an
international dialogue between two worlds: the “Old World” of Europe in
Krakow, and the “New World” of the United States in multicultural
Miami. These convergent worlds create a running theme that surfaces in
many of his works: the search for identity in the vortex of cultural
displacement. Through his creative work, Kolasiński has tested complex
trans-disciplinary collaborative productions, multimedia installations,
single and multiple channel video projections, 3d digital fabrications,
as a well as community-based, and site-specific projects. He is a
research-based artist who actively engages with art historical and
artistic communities. SITE
 Young-Shin Choi
(Korea), D.M.A. is a composer for both instrumental and
electro-acoustic music with a strong interest in interdisciplinary
digital media. Dr. Choi is striving to cultivate an aesthetic based
upon a unique combination of musical elements drawn from Korean
traditional music and modern Western musical idioms. Recent works were
presented throughout the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Dr. Choi
received his Doctorate degree in music composition (D.M.A.) at the
University of California Santa Cruz. He taught Music Theory, Electronic
Music and Recording Technology courses at San Diego State University,
UC Santa Cruz, Rochester Community and Technical College. SITE
 Dong Zhou
(Hamburg) was born in 1992 in Shanghai. Although from her
great grandfather, all generations of her family play traditional
Chinese Sizhu Music, she learnt piano from 3 and violin from 9 and
played in orchestra from 12. She had her BA in electroacoustic music
composition at Shanghai Conservatory of Music and names Qiangbin Chen
and Yi Qin as her most significant former mentors. As a composer and
multimedia artist, she always tries to create different spaces and
layers of sound and combine different languages of art to fully express
her point of view and imagination.
Her works were presented in Shanghai International Art
Festival(2013/2015), the ‘Sound of World’ Microsoft ringtones
collection (2014), SMC(2016/2018), Blurred Edge(2016/2017/2018),
WOCMAT(2016/2017), EUROMicroFest(2017), NYCEMF(2017), KlingtGut(2017),
ZKM Next Generation(2017) and ICMC(/2018).
She was commissioned by Shanghai International Art Festival in 2015 and
CLAB Festival Hamburg in 2018. In ICMC 2018 Hacker-N-Makerthon, her
project with Deborah Kim got the first prize. Apart from composition,
she has also strong interest in literature, sociology and performance a rt. She won the second prize in “New Concept” Chinese Youth Literature
Contest in 2013 and worked as a trainee editor in Shanghai Writer’s
Association. As a violinist and performer for multimedia piece, she
performed with different groups
and bands in Shanghai, Hamburg, Karlsruhe, Hannover, Bremen and
Oldenburg. Now she is studying multimedia composition (MA) in
Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg under Professor Hajdu and
Professor Lampson’s supervision.For her Echofluxx video she is2017 collaborating with Yi Sun (Sunny) who is pictured above.
 Benjamin Lieberman (Queens) is
a composer, guitarist, and singer who lives and works in Ridgewood,
Queens, with his partner, Emily Rubin, and two very ridiculous
creatures some might (questionably) identify as cats, known formally as
Alice Coltrane and Francesca Schubert (née Pretzel and Mustard). His
musical interests span the gamut from emotive folk songs to psychedelic
rock to microtonal chamber music. Ben received a B.A. from
Columbia University, where he studied composition and classical guitar
with Arthur Kampela, and jazz performance and composition with Paul
Bollenbeck, Chris Washburne, Don Sickler, and Ben Waltzer. As a
guitarist, Ben has performed throughout New York as well as
internationally. His performance credits include the Late Show with
Stephen Colbert, the Whitney Museum, the Roundhouse in London, and the
KigaliUp festival in Kigali, Rwanda. Presently, he is pursuing an
MFA in music composition at Vermont College of Fine Arts, where his
advisors include John Fitz Rogers, John Mallia, and Michael Early.
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