Felix Taylor
He is a Sound Artist based in London who is focused in music production, film score and sound installation. He studied in Bristol, and since then been working as an audio engineer and involved in other numerous projects. He also talked about his influences and interests. I found really interesting his works with Max MSP in sound installations, his projects are always immersive and inspiring.
Luciana Perc
Luciana is a composer and sound artist focused in drums and percussive performance based in graphic notation and scores. Her work is really technical and polished, she showed us some really good performances in experimental music and percussion and explained deeply about her theories and research on the field. Definitely a really interesting lecture.
Paul Purgas
Highly influenced by the early techno scene of Detroit techno with Underground Resistance, Paul is a multifaceted sound artist which produces, scores for experimental film and design sound installations. He showed us his heavy industrial drone compositions and his research work in Indian archives of electronic music, related with David Tudor and vintage synths. I enjoyed his work.
Ella Finer
She gave us a very theoretical and philosophical lecture in sound analysis and archives. Ella spoke about her book “Acoustic commons and the wild life of sounds” and also about her Phd research. She also focused in the British Library sound archive where she played some of her favourite recordings, one of them the Mute Swan Heartbeat, a really interesting recording.
Omar Elmi & Kate Carr
Omar is a Phd student of Somali ascendancy with loves to Dj world and jazz music on the Radio, she organises her own event in Hackney and has also worked with ICA and BBC Arts.
Kate has just finished her Phd as a part-time student this year and she explained us about her research which is focused in sonic figures. She also showed us some of her compositions and field recordings.
Shamica Ruddock
This electronic music artist is focused on producing atmospheric and rhythmic music, very danceable in occasions but always building spaces inspired in her British Caribbean roots and dub culture. She prefers to release in physical formats like vinyl and cassette, having leaded her to sign multiple EP’s and albums that are available in record shops and online. Her theoretical vision of her work also captivated the attendants to this lecture.
Dirk Schaefer
He is a really experienced film composer for experimental short films who has worked with Peter Tscherkassky and Matthias Müller. His beginnings started using Casio toy pianos like the SK-1 and 4 track tape recorders which were very limited technologies for film composition but this leaded him to engrave his own style and achieve interesting results. These days he uses more advanced digital technologies, we attended to both his guest lecture and workshop where he showed up his work and it was very interesting and inspiring.