Christian Rønn @ EMS 18-23 February, 2019
Christian studied Organ at The royal Danish Academy of Music (DKDM) in Copenhagen, with a speciality in improvisation, and free playing has always been part of the output, as well as a great interest in textural transformation, feedback and transcendence in general. The latest bigger release is an LP with Ikue Mori called "Chordis et Machina" (Resipiscent Records/Nische 2018). Over the years a few aliases, such as "Ganga", has seen the light of day and tours include Middle East, Japan, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain, Ibiza and the US. Released albums on the labels Resipiscent Records, Escho, Insula Music, Flinc Music, Nische, Skrat, Kid Recordings, Wormland, Universal, Sony and many more.
At the moment he is working on a multichannel sound-installation together with Swedish composer Eva Sidén, using Organ and Piano recordings from a travel to Studio Acusticum in Piteå, Sweden.
Eva Sidén is a Swedish composer and a concert pianist within the field of notated art music. Her artistic work is multifaceted. As a composer she mostly composes chamber music and electroacoustical music and she often works in cross-artistic contexts within fields such as visual arts, space/architecture and poetry/literature, often in collaboration with art institutions, concert halls, cultural centers and theater.
Yohei Yamakado @ EMS 11-24 February, 2019
Graduated from les Beaux-Arts of Le Mans, after his studies about philosophy and cinéma, he cofounded RÉCIT, a music label based in Paris, in 2012.
Yohei Yamakado is also resident in Le Fresnoy - Studio national des arts contemporains (2017-2019). His last monochrome 16mm film La lyre à jamais illustra le taudis was screening in the studio’s exhibition Panorama 20.
He is now preparing a new feature film inspired by Bucolics of Virgil.
http://www.yoheiyamakado.com/
Photo © Le Fresnoy - Studio national
Hugo Esquinca @ EMS 8-21 February, 2019
Berlin-based sound researcher from Mexico. He investigates the diverse spatio-temporal relations deriving from transductive interactions between indeterminacy in digital signal processing and the sonorous, expanding within and beyond audibility.
His work has been presented in diverse contexts and venues such as Fondazione Antonio Ratti, Mira Contemporary Art Museum Siberia, Berghain, Loop Festival Funkhaus Berlin, Berghain, NII Science and Arts Moscow, CMMAS Center For Music and the Sonic Arts Mexico, Aalto University Finland, Forum Stadtpark Graz among others. He is a founding member of the Berlin-based oqko collective.
Personal Website:
https://www.dekj.org/actualities/
Collective Website:
Yasmine Baramawy @ EMS 4-28 February, 2019
Yasmine Baramawy is an Egyptian musician, sound artist and composer based in Cairo.
She develops an original sound universe around her practice of the oud (modified and increased by a bass string) but also around the concrete music and other electronic experiments.
Her approach is characterized by a permanent sound research exploring both the acoustic tradition of the oud and the adventurous and transversal sound practices.
Facebook: www.facebook.com/YasmineBaramawy
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/yasminebaramawy
ERASMUS+: Otso Aho Internship @ EMS 16 January - 10 April, 2019
At EMS he wants to hone his skills, work with artists and have interesting conversations. He is currently particularly interested in live sound design, how sound manifests in different mediums, multichannel compositions and in ways to bend field recordings and samples to the atoms.
