Andrea Cera
Andrea Cera contributed three works to the CO-ME-DI-A project over the years.
Biography : Andrea Cera studied piano and composition (Conservatorio di Padova, Italy) and computer music (IRCAM Cursus). He produced music for choreographers (during a long series of collaborations with Hervé Robbe at the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre), sound installations (Innig, and D-Day, at the Centre Georges Pompidou; NightRun and Reactive Ambient Music at the Fresnoy Studio in Lille-Tourcoing; Nature and Undertones for many institutions and art centers in Italy), for ensemble (Court-Circuit, Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band). He has worked on research projects with IRCAM (Paris), NOTAM (Oslo), AGON (Milano). He lives in Malo, a small town near Vicenza, Italy.
Christine Gaigg
Biography : Christine Gaigg is a freelance choreographer in Vienna. She holds a PhD in philosophy and completed her dance and choreography training at the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. In 1994 she founded the company CHRISTINE GAIGG /2ND NATURE. Since 2004 she has been collaborating with composer Bernhard Lang. They created a series of works based on the research of sampling/looping in movement and sound: “TRIKE spring, summer, winter” (2004), ”TRIKE” (2005), “V-TRIKE” (2007) was first shown at Kaaitheater Brussels and premiered in full version at Steirischer Herbst Musikprotokoll 2008, “TrikeDoubleThree” premiered at the New Music Festival Wien Modern in 2009. Next to her artistic work she is lecturing on performance theory at the University of Vienna.
Bernhard Lang
Biography : Bernhard Lang is a composer whose works have performed at the Steirische Herbst Festival, at the Moscow Alternativa Festival and the Moscow Modern Festival, Biennale Hannover, Tage Absoluter Musik Allentsteig I and II, Klangarten I and IV, Resistance Fluctuation Los Angeles, Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Salzburger Festspiele, Wien Modern, Donaueschingen, Witten and many others. In 1998 he was a guest lecturer in Peter Weibels Media class in Vienna. In 2006 he was featured artist of the Wien Modern Festival in Vienna. At the Institute for Electronic Music Graz he developed the Loop-Generator and the Visual Loop Generator with Winfried Ritsch and Thomas Musil. He has various sound installations in his list of works, among them ‘Schwarze Bänder’ Musica Viva 2005. Since 2003 there have been a number of collaborations with various choreographers: Xavier Le Roy, Christine Gaigg and Willi Dorner. His main interest since 1999 is music theater, derived from his interpretation of the ideas of difference/repetition: ‘Theater of Repetitions’ 2003, ‘I hate Mozart’ 2006, ‘The Old Man from the Mountain’ 2007.