Website Pierre Alexandre Tremblay (Montréal, 1975) is a composer and a performer on bass guitar and sound processing devices, in solo and within the groups ars circa musicæ (Paris, France), de type inconnu (Montréal, Québec), and Splice (London, England, UK). He is a member of the London-based collective Loop. His music is released by Empreintes … Continue reading Composer Profile: Pierre Alexandre Tremblay
Christina Vantzou ~ Brain Fog
Website In the last decade Christina Vantzou has gone from an art student playing around with motion graphics and animations to designing projections for touring musicians, co-founding The Dead Texan with her partner Adam Wiltzie and eventually creating her own solo audiovisual project. The Dead Texan toured extensively in 2005-2006 and in 2007 Christina was … Continue reading Christina Vantzou ~ Brain Fog
New Voice: Ben Jacov
Ben Jacov describes a recent work ~ "being far away from myself. the alps - mountain tops, dust drowned valleys, moss covered bridges, noise gargling rivers. foreignness - not being away from the comfort zone. simply feeling foreign. letting go physical awareness and wandering on that thin line, a point where future is about to … Continue reading New Voice: Ben Jacov
Composer Profile: Felipe Otondo
Website | Soundcloud Felipe studied acoustics in Chile where he started composing and performing music for experimental theatre developing several performance projects with actors and musicians. In 1999 he moved to Denmark to do post-graduate studies in sound perception at Aalborg University focusing on spatial sound and timbre perception. He studied composition at the Carl … Continue reading Composer Profile: Felipe Otondo
Composer Profile: Alistair MacDonald
Website | Soundcloud Dr. Alistair MacDonald is a composer and performer based in Glasgow. Much of his work is collaborative; working with performers, artists and choreographers from different media and backgrounds, he makes work for performance, broadcast and installation internationally. Current projects include Strange Rainbow, a live electroacoustic duo with Scottish harp player Catriona McKay … Continue reading Composer Profile: Alistair MacDonald
New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
Matthew Ricketts describes a recent work ~ A recent work is Women Well Met (2013) for vocal sextet, premiered last November by the uncannily gifted Ekmeles Ensemble. The text (by Lauren J. Rogener) concerns different portraits and sculptures of women at the Metropolitan Museum, incidentally one of my favorite places here in New York City. BIOGRAPHY … Continue reading New Voice: Matthew Ricketts
Composer Profile: Vladimir Hirsch
Website | Facebook | Soundcloud | YouTube Vladimir Hirsch (born July 3, 1954, Czechoslovakia, today Czechia) is an avant-garde composer, instrumentalist and sound experimenter, integrating contemporary classical, industrial and dark ambient music. His compositional style is characterized by poly-modal and poly-microtonal architectonics, the usage of a wide range of modern technologies to enhance sonic means … Continue reading Composer Profile: Vladimir Hirsch
New Voice: David Vélez
David Vélez describes a recent work ~ Unseen Terror is a work that I composed using the sound captures I recorded during the creative process and exhibition of my installation Adrift and Catastrophe, which explores the notion of destruction and catastrophe. Listen to "Unseen Terror" Watch the installation video BIOGRAPHY David Vélez was born in Bogotá. He moved to New York … Continue reading New Voice: David Vélez
Composer Profile: Natasha Barrett
Website | Soundcloud Natasha Barrett is a freelance composer working with music, research and creative uses of sound. She studied in England for masters and doctoral degrees in electroacoustic composition, after which, in 1999, Barrett moved to Norway where she has since lived. During her doctoral research Barrett focused on acousmatic music (electroacoustic music without … Continue reading Composer Profile: Natasha Barrett
New Voice: Abul Mogard
Abul Mogard describes a recent work ~ This track is taken from my second album "Drifted Heaven" and is one of my favorite ones. I find it difficult to translate my own music into words. I can say that it's quite melancholic and it still moves me. BIOGRAPHY Abul Mogard approached music in … Continue reading New Voice: Abul Mogard
