Daniel Iglesia
Biography : Daniel Iglesia creates music and media for humans, computers, and broad interactions of the two. He works with live manipulations of sound and video, with automation and algorithmic composition, the magnification of inherent chaos in sounds, and real-time media performance with traditional instruments. His works have taken the form of audio and video performance, instrumental works with live electronics, gallery installations, and collaborations with many disciplines such as theater and dance. His concert works for instruments and electronics have been performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble, the Talea Ensemble, So Percussion, the Ostravska Banda, and the International Contemporary Ensemble, Yarn/Wire, and the Argento Ensemble. His work has been presented throughout New York City in such diverse venues as Lincoln Center, Eyebeam Gallery, The Stone, Ontological-Hysteric Theatre, Merce Cunningham Studio, Roulette, the Public Theater, Le Poisson Rouge, and the Kitchen. They have also been presented at concerts and festivals throughout the US and abroad, including the Experimental Media Series at the Hirshhorn Museum (Washington D.C.), Art.Tech@The Lab (San Francisco), the Hamburger Klangwerktage (Hamburg), the Guangdong Modern Dance Festival (Guangzhou), and the World Expo 2010 (Shanghai). He recently completed a doctorate at Columbia, while a Teaching Fellow at the Columbia Computer Music Center. He is a visiting instructor at Pratt, and a visiting lecturer at Princeton, where he is the current co-leader of the Princeton Laptop Orchestra.
Jacob Sello
Biography : Jacob Sello (*1976) began to play violin at the age of four, then switched to flute, trumpet and guitar. He played in various ensembles and bands besides performing as soloist. In the mid 90´s he got introduced to electronic music and began to experiment with the new possibilities given by the computer-technology. After leaving a school for audio-engineering in 1998 he started to study Systematic Musicology at the Hamburg University and graduated in 2008 (writing his final thesis on sonic installation art). Since 2007 he is in Georg Hajdu´s Master-Class for Multimedia Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater in Hamburg.
Though focusing on electronic sound creation and production for more than 10 years, he is highly interested in the exciting possibilities that arise from the interaction between traditional acoustic instruments and state-of-the-art technology. These days he experiments with techniques of algorithmic composition, digital signal-processing and 3D video animations. He develops innovative controllers for interactive computer music and multimedia performances.
Alexander Schubert
Biography : Alexander Schubert was born in 1979 in Bremen and studied computer science and biology in Leipzig focusing on neuroinformatics and cognitive science. During his studies he has worked as a musician and composer in a variety of different environments. Schubert worked for one year at the ZKM (Centre for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe at the Institute for Music and Acoustics. In 2007 he started a degree in multimedia composition at the Hamburg Academy for Music and Drama, which he finished with a concert exam at the end of 2009. Since 2009 he focuses on sensor-based gestural composition in both his writing and research activities (as a PhD student). In this work field he is contributing to international conferences and researches with various institutes worldwide. The combination of aesthetic, technical and scientific aspects of this interdisciplinary approach have encountered a very positive reception. In 2009 he was awarded with a Bourges residency prize and was a prizewinner in the international competition JTTP and received scholarships in Montreal from the ICMC and from NIME in Sydney. In 2010 he was a residency guest at the University of Birmingham and stipendiary at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. In 2008 and 2010 he was a guest artist at the ZKM in Karlsruhe.
Frederick Olofsson
Biography : http://www.fredrikolofsson.com/