CO-ME-DI-A

EACEA Culture Project on Network Performance in Music

HCMF – Artist Residencies

Marek Choloniewski

MarekCholoniewskiMarek Choloniewski was invited to a residency to create, realize and rehearse together with the European Bridges Ensemble a new version of his piece GPS-Trans. Pécs D(é)RIVE, the latest iteration of “GPS-Trans”, which combines the data driven audio-visual urban installation with the integrated performance of audio-visual compositions by EBE within Georg Hajdu’s Quintet.net software environment.

Biography : Marek Choloniewski was born 1953, in Krakow. In 1977 he founded Muzyka Centrum Art Society, largely involved in concert work. He is founder and co-founder of many groups: Freight Train (with P. Bikont and K. Knittel), Studio MCH, DoubleMark (with M. Polishook), CH&K&K (with K. Knittel and W. Kiniorski), Mc2 duo (with  M. Chyrzynski), Infinity Quartett (with K. Neuringer, R. Zawel and R. Mazur), Natural Plastic (with A. Knoles) and Kinetic Trio (with W. Kiniorski and R. Mazur), which deals with concert and recording activities. Since 1979 he is a member of Cracovian Group Art Association. Since 2000 he has been the director of the Electro-acoustic Music Studio. Choloniewski writes instrumental and electro-acoustic music for theater, film and radio, author of sound and video installations, audio-visual, outdoor and net projects. He is a world renown lecturer, composer, sound artist and live art performer. Author, founder, artistic director, coordinator and cooperator of many international projects like „audio art“ series (1987), Audio Art Festival (1993).

(Photo by Maria Wiktoria Hübner)

European Bridges Ensemble (EBE)

EBE

EBE completed two residencies in Pécs in the framework of the CO-ME-DI-A project working out new software modules for Quintet.net environment and creating and performing new network music pieces.

EBE was established for Internet and network performance in 2005. Using the term bridges as a metaphor, our initiative makes an attempt to bridge cultures, regions, locations and individuals, each with their particular history.

EBE members  :

Stewart Collinson (GB) has been an artist whose work covers a range of activities: making moving image work for single-screen viewing and gallery installation and live mixing and projection of video and digital imagery for performance. Collaboratively, he has created audio/visual work for The Making New Waves Festival, Sonic Arts Network, The Huddersfield Festival and The BBC. He is a senior lecturer in Moving Image on the Contemporary Lens Media Degree Course at the Faculty of Art, Architecture and Design at Lincoln University.

Georg Hajdu (DE) is among the first composers of his generation dedicated to the combination of music, science and computer technology. His areas of interest include multimedia, micro-tonality, algorithmic, interactive and networked composition. In addition to his compositions, which are characterized by a pluralistic attitude and have earned him several international prizes, he has published articles on several topics on the borderline of music and science. Currently, he is professor of multimedia composition at the Hamburg School of Music and Theater.

Johannes Kretz (AT) studied at the Music Academy Vienna with F. Burt and M. Jarrell and mathematics at the University Vienna. Between 1992/93 he studied at IRCAM, Paris with Marco Stroppa and Brian Ferneyhough. He has been a co-founder of the NewTonEnsemble, of the international composers group PRISMA and of www.ikultur.com. Since 1997 has been teaching at the music university in Vienna, where he became the head of ZiMT in 2008. His music has been performed in Europe, Turkey, Argentina, Mexico, Canada, Taiwan, South-Korea and China.

Kai Niggeman (DE) as composer, songwriter, musician and producer, he realizes projects and soundtracks for film, theater, and dance. He is cofounder of the theater/dance production company PARADEISER productions, the music-duo Resonator as well as EBE. He performs live regularly and runs the label WAF80 music, releasing CDs and MP3s. He produces music and soundtracks for short films.

Ivana Ognjanović (SRB) received a degree in Multimedia Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg in 2007 after completing her degree in composition at the University of Arts in Belgrade and attending the Academy of Art at Novi Sad. She has published solo works on CD, created installations and composed for various artists, occasions and commissions. She became a founding member of the European Bridges Ensemble (EBE) in 2005.

Ádám Siska (HU) has studied composition with Zoltán Jeney at Liszt Academy of Music (Budapest) and with Marco Stroppa at Staatliche Hochschule für Musik (Stuttgart) as well as physics at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2007 he became permanent member of the European Bridges Ensemble  and participated in several performances in many European countries.

Andrea Szigetvári (HU) studied electroacoustic music at Fr. Chopin Academy of Music in Warsaw, and as Fullbright scholar in New York and Stanford. Since 1995 she has taught electro-acoustic music in the Pécs University and at the Liszt F. Academy of Music in Budapest. In 2001 she received two “Prix” of the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition in multimedia and “sound art” categories. Her creative work concentrates mainly on the role of timbre in new music and interactive works involving other genres of art.

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