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.
Sang-jin Lee is a Korean musician, electronic music producer and sound designer.
Since 2007, he has been working on various electronic music projects, and is currently experimenting with creating a new composition method by sampling irregular daily sounds. He continues experiments to incorporate electronic music into Korean traditional and classical music.
He has been working as a Music Producer and sound engineer on many Korean albums, exhibitions and Independent movies.
In 2012 he started various collaborative works based on traditional music using Korean traditional musical instruments like Gayageum and Geomungo. Another performance, started in 2016, is a reinterpretation of a Korean traditional play called 'Nolympic'. It participated in the 2016 Seoul Namsan Hanok Village Project and 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics.
He has released a number of albums including ‘UNIQUE-SHADOW’ (Fermata(2009) / 2ND(2012), ‘Numeric SeeHearter’(2015) and ‘Across the Universe’(2016).
Sang-Jin Lee's residency is kindly made possible by the Arts Council Korea, ARKO.
He was born in Seoul, Republic of Korea, studied composition and electro-acoustic music at Chugye University for the Arts (BA), Music Technology at Korea National University of Arts (Artist Diploma). His electro-acoustic works were performed at the Nong Project, Seoul International Computer Music Festival and recently he was commissioned a Quartet (Daegeum, Ajaeng, Violin and Piano) piece by contemporary music ensemble ‘Geori'.
Yoo’s work focused on live electronic music with instruments and dance performances. He composed and played trumpet and live electronics at many international and external improvisation festivals with improvisation dance group <Just Body>, and as a composer, he worked with Sang-cheul Choe (ONA, Choe contemporary dance company), Yann lheureux (companie Yannlheureux.Etre en scene), etc. Through collaborations with numerous choreographers he continues the experimental work between electro-acoustic music and performance.
Taesun Yoo's residency is kindly made possible by the
Arts Council Korea.
Ryberg’s work embodies her rich production history. Her 2016 debut AFTRYK, released on Contort Records, for which she processed her own field recordings made inside a mountain on Svalbard, is a meticulous exploration of textures and timbres that has an undeniable live quality. With a broad background in performance and production, her works encompasses multichannel installations, live concerts, performance art, video games, and much more. For video games, Ryberg has created music and sound design for two acclaimed indie productions: the multiple award-winning ‘INSIDE’, which she worked on with Martin Stig Andersen; and, as part of SGR^CAV, a collaboration with Cristian Vogel, for twin-stick shooter game ‘THOTH’.
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point has made it possible for SØS Gunver Ryberg to work at EMS.
Photo by Emil Hornstrup Jakobsen
Aarni's sounds are based on dense timbres and static harmony, and the soundscapes yield rhythmic repetition and create worlds to get lost in: like reality condensed into magic or a hidden valley between new age and noise.
Aarni's discography spans over 20 tapes, vinyls and CDs released on four continents, and he has performed in Japan, Belgium, The Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Estonia, Russia and Finland.
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An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point
has made it possible for Olli to work at EMS.
Photo by Mia Tarkela
Ragnhild May's (DK) works are centered around the relationship between body and instrument. Musical instruments can be seen as extensions of the body, and her works explores their structures, systems and cultural connotations as well as acoustic qualities.
Ragnhild May has been artist in residency at International Studio and Curatorial Program, she has studied at visual arts at The Jutland Art Academy (DK) and Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (AT) and composition at Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts Bard College. 
Photo credit: Phoebe D'heurle
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point
has made it possible for Ragnhild to work at EMS.
She also works with a.o Lotta Melin, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra and Fire Orchestra. Tafjord is renowned as a versatile musician and has rewritten the sonic possibilities for the french horn. She also concerts as a soloist, and has released two soloalbums "kama"(picadisk) and breathing (+3db). An AiR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point has made it possible for Hild Sofie Tafjord to work at EMS.
Marja Ahti (f. Johansson) is a Swedish-Finnish musician and composer based in Turku, Finland. Her main creative output is the solo moniker Tsembla.
Using electronics, modified samples of acoustic instrument,
non-instruments and environmental sounds, she makes music that rides on waves of warped melodies, abstract voices and mutating textures – rough edged compositions, rich in detail,
that come together into instrumental miniatures. She also composes music for dance performances and film.
An AIR-programme grant from Nordic Culture Point
has made it possible for Marja to work at EMS.
Photo by Barbora Linka
After finishing her Master degree’s course works, she went to Paris and studied compostion with Mr. Jean-luc Hervé and orchestration with Mr. Pierre Farago at CNR de Boulogne.
She went back to Korea in 2009, and is currently the representative manager of an inter-disciplinary composition group, and an instructor.
Since 2011, she has founded two experimental music groups named "Oze" and "Ensemble zGzz". The fomer is dedicated to collaborations with other art forms such as dance, fine art and experimental performance. The latter is for non-instrumental music, making sound with objets like balloons, papers and other materials. Also keeping acoustic music, she is expanding her musical languages through possible ventures.
Arts Council Korea.
In 2010, she went to Japan where she audited classes at the Tokyo University of the Arts (Geidai) and at the Music University of Kunitachi in Masakazu Natsuda's class.
In 2012, she came to France to continue her education. She studied with Allain Gaussin as well as Jean-Luc Hervé and Yan Maresz at the CRR de Boulogne-Billancourt.
In 2013, she was accepted to the Conservatoire de Paris (Cnsmdp) where she studied composition under Fréderic Durieux.
She spent one year at IRCAM for the Cursus in 2016.
Her music has been performed by the Ensemble intercontemporain, the ensemble Divertimento, the Quartetto Prometeo, and others.
Arts Council Korea
Christian Skjødt is a Danish artist and composer who explores the temporal and spatial aspects, as well the physicality of sound and aesthetics of noise.
Christian Skjødt currently lives and works in Copenhagen, Denmark, and holds a Master's degree from the Royal Academy of Music in Denmark. He has done exhibitions at Overgaden - Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen (2016); Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark (2015); A plus A Gallery, Venice (2015); Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest (2014); Cruce Contemporáneo, Madrid (2014); 68 Square Metres, Copenhagen (2013), and participated in sound art festivals like Spor, Aarhus (2016), Üle Heli, Tallinn (2015); Sound Reasons, New Delhi (2015); Skan II / Skanu Mežs, Riga (2014); Verona Risuona (2012); GAS, Göteborg (2012); Ostrava Days, Czech Republic (2011).
Besides his solo career he has taken part in numerous collaborations, working interdisciplinary in the fields of composition, installation, theatre, dance and performance.
He is also the founder and curator of the vinyl imprint Tonometer, objectifying exploratory sounds and music.
Christian Skjødt's residency has been made possible by a contribution by Nordic Culture Point.
Photo by Giovanni Bertani
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