Posts Tagged ‘multimedia’
Garth Erasmus: Virulent Strain
Garth Erasmus (b. 1956) is a visual artist and musician whose work focuses on SA’s indigenous people, the KhoiSan, which is his heritage. He taught at the Zonnebloem Art Centre, District Six in Cape Town, from 1982-1997. He is one of the founders of Greatmore Street Artists Studio, and the Thupelo Artists Workshop. One of…
Read MoreKyla-Rose Smith: Here Again
(Submitted by ISCM – SOUTH AFRICA SECTION) Kyla-Rose Smith (b. 1982) is an acclaimed performer, violinist, and multimedia artist, best known for her work as violinist and backing singer with Freshlyground, South Africa’s premier Afropop band. She has toured extensively inside and beyond South Africa and garnered many awards including seven South African Music Awards…
Read MoreTerri Hron: Nesting
(Submitted by ISCM – CANADIAN SECTION) Terri Hron is a musician, a performer and a multimedia artist. Her work explores historical instrumental performance practice and repertoire, field recording, ceramics, movement and video. She often works in close collaboration with others. Besides composing and performing works for and with others, she produces performances, gatherings and events.…
Read MoreAlexander Schubert: Codec Error
(Submitted by ISCM – GERMAN SECTION) Alexander Schubert (born 1979 in Bremen) studied bioinformatics in Leipzig and Multimedia Composition with Georg Hajdu and Manfred Stahnke in Hamburg. During his studies he has worked as a musician and composer in a variety of different environments. In addition, Schubert worked at the ZKM (Centre for Art and…
Read MoreStefan Prins: Generation Kill
(Submitted by ISCM – GERMAN SECTION) Stefan Prins (Belgium, b. 1979, Belgium) graduated as an engineer before studying piano, composition, and electronic music at the Royal Flemish Conservatory, the Royal Conservatory of Brussels and the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. In 2017 he obtained a PhD in composition at Harvard University under the guidance of…
Read MoreMaia Ciobanu: Excessive piano II
(Submitted by ISCM – ROMANIAN SECTION) Maia Ciobanu (b. 1952) served as President of the Romanian section of the ISCM (2002-2003), Director of the Contemporary Music Information Center (1995-2003), and was the Founder and Chief Editor of the Contemporary Music-Romanian Newsletter. Maia Ciobanu has given lectures about her music at the Gothenburg Music Academy, St.…
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