Maria da Rocha @ EMS 1-13 July, 2019
Maria da Rocha (Lisbon, PT) plays violin & viola, researches, teaches, creates mostly in the field of new, experimental & electroacoustic music. Her music has emerged from an intimate connection to the violin and from the fascination of how analog synthetised noises can resemble those from everyday life: nature, machines and other sounding objects, partly with a life of their own.
Hideki Umezawa @ EMS 1-8 July, 2019
Hideki Umezawa (b,1986) is an artist living in Japan. He holds an MFA in Inter-Media Art from Tokyo University of the Arts.
His works were awarded Prize Presque Rien 2015 / 1st prize (France), Contemporary Computer Music Concert 2015 / 1st prize (Japan), Luigi Russolo Award 2017 / Finalist, Banc d'essai 2015 & 2017 (Ina-GRM) and more.
In 2018, two installation works are exhibited at "FUKAMI, une plongée dans l'esthétique japonaise" curated by Yuko Hasegawa (Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, France) and "Unexpected Encounter" (Arts Maebashi, Japan).
He is currently working on large electoro-acoustic composition with François Baschet’s sculpture that was restored last year in Japan, originally made for the Japan World Exposition in Osaka 1970".
Photo by Wei Chen
His works were awarded Prize Presque Rien 2015 / 1st prize (France), Contemporary Computer Music Concert 2015 / 1st prize (Japan), Luigi Russolo Award 2017 / Finalist, Banc d'essai 2015 & 2017 (Ina-GRM) and more.
In 2018, two installation works are exhibited at "FUKAMI, une plongée dans l'esthétique japonaise" curated by Yuko Hasegawa (Hôtel Salomon de Rothschild, France) and "Unexpected Encounter" (Arts Maebashi, Japan).
He is currently working on large electoro-acoustic composition with François Baschet’s sculpture that was restored last year in Japan, originally made for the Japan World Exposition in Osaka 1970".
Photo by Wei Chen
Hanna Hartman @ EMS 25-29 June, 2019
Hanna Hartman is a Swedish composer, sound artist and performer living in Berlin. She studied literature and Theater history at the Universities of Uppsala and Stockholm, radio and interactive art at Dramatiska Institutet and electroacoustic music at Elektronmusikstudion, EMS in Stockholm.
Since the early 1990s she has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants includes the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (2005), the Phonurgia Nova Prize (2006 & 2016), a Villa Aurora grant (2010) and the Rosenberg Prize (2011). During 2007 and 2008 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Swedish Radio.
Hanna Hartman is a member of the German Academy of the Arts (AdK), 2017. Her work has been presented in numerous concerts and festivals, among others Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, El Nicho Aural, Akousma, mikromusik Berlin, Eclat Festival and Cut & Splice Festival.
Since the early 1990s she has composed works for radio, electroacoustic music, ensembles, sound installations and given numerous performances all over the world. Her many awards and grants includes the Karl-Sczuka-Preis (2005), the Phonurgia Nova Prize (2006 & 2016), a Villa Aurora grant (2010) and the Rosenberg Prize (2011). During 2007 and 2008 she was Composer-in-Residence at the Swedish Radio.
Hanna Hartman is a member of the German Academy of the Arts (AdK), 2017. Her work has been presented in numerous concerts and festivals, among others Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, El Nicho Aural, Akousma, mikromusik Berlin, Eclat Festival and Cut & Splice Festival.
Andrew Raffo Dewar @ EMS 21 June - 10 July, 2019
Andrew Raffo Dewar (b.1975 Rosario, Argentina) has been active since 1995 as a composer, soprano saxophonist, ethnomusicologist and educator.
His music spans the spectrum of through-composed chamber music, aleatoric composition, electroacoustic music, and open improvisation. As a composer and performer he can be heard on nearly twenty albums, including work with groundbreaking artists like saxophonist/composer Anthony Braxton, trumpeter/composer Bill Dixon, and composer Alvin Lucier.
Dr. Dewar is based in the United States, where he is an Associate Professor in New College and the School of Music at The University of Alabama.
For more info see: www.freemovementarts.com
Photo by Jennifer Caputo
WTCHCRFT & SWEEEP @ EMS June-September 2019
WTCHCRFT is currently working with Sweden based artist and producer Sweeep. Coming off of the newly released collaborative EP “No One Knows Why We Exist” based around the harsh and inevitable reality of climate change, Sweeep and WTCHCRFT are back together in the studio ready to develop their ambient side project Sleeep & Clovis.
Thomas Watkiss @ EMS 4-27 June, 2019
Thomas Watkiss (USA) is a multi-disciplinary artist perhaps most known for his ambient record releases. He has released five full-length recordings, performed and worked across the United States and Europe over the past decade.
The releases are paired with his photography and prints, giving the listener an intimate visual setting to the roaming atmospheres which work with themes of bio-diversity and climate acceleration. Thomas constructs work with a range of sources and instruments including field recordings and bass guitars.
This year, for his first solo exhibit at Black Diamond Gallery in Brooklyn titled "Ecosystems", Thomas paired 11 new paintings with soundscapes based on recordings and photographs from his residency in Iceland and his native Pennsylvania. Each of the recordings were performed live during the exhibit this February and March.
He is currently working with Martin Bisi at BC studios in Brooklyn in completing a new full-length, due this Autumn.
He completed residencies at Listhus Ólafsfjörđur Iceland (2016) and USF Verftet Bergen Norway (2008). Thomas earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University of Art and Design in Stockholm (2006), CuratorLab (2005) and a dual BA in Studio Arts and the History of art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh (2003).
He lives and works in New York City.
Photo by William Murray
The releases are paired with his photography and prints, giving the listener an intimate visual setting to the roaming atmospheres which work with themes of bio-diversity and climate acceleration. Thomas constructs work with a range of sources and instruments including field recordings and bass guitars.
This year, for his first solo exhibit at Black Diamond Gallery in Brooklyn titled "Ecosystems", Thomas paired 11 new paintings with soundscapes based on recordings and photographs from his residency in Iceland and his native Pennsylvania. Each of the recordings were performed live during the exhibit this February and March.
He is currently working with Martin Bisi at BC studios in Brooklyn in completing a new full-length, due this Autumn.
He completed residencies at Listhus Ólafsfjörđur Iceland (2016) and USF Verftet Bergen Norway (2008). Thomas earned an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies at Konstfack University of Art and Design in Stockholm (2006), CuratorLab (2005) and a dual BA in Studio Arts and the History of art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh (2003).
He lives and works in New York City.
Photo by William Murray
ERASMUS+: Francesco Torelli Internship @ EMS 3 June 2019 - 15 March 2020
We welcome Francesco Torelli for a nine month internship @ EMS!
Francesco is a sound lover who graduated in electronic music at Conservatorio G.F. Ghedini Cuneo. His work is based on electroacoustic compositions, live performances and sound design for moving images (documentaries and movies).
In his music, he mostly uses digital and analog elaboration of recorded sounds, with the aim to give sound a meaning, paying attention to perception aspects. He is attracted by musique concrète and from the act of recording sounds, played or from the environment.
Francesco is still working to know his different faces of musical identity better. The work is never ending and lot of fun.
Francesco is a sound lover who graduated in electronic music at Conservatorio G.F. Ghedini Cuneo. His work is based on electroacoustic compositions, live performances and sound design for moving images (documentaries and movies).
In his music, he mostly uses digital and analog elaboration of recorded sounds, with the aim to give sound a meaning, paying attention to perception aspects. He is attracted by musique concrète and from the act of recording sounds, played or from the environment.
Francesco is still working to know his different faces of musical identity better. The work is never ending and lot of fun.
