WHO

Posted by butch | Date: February 08 2010

Joseph Butch Rovan is a composer, performer, and researcher on the faculty of the Department of Music at Brown University, where he co-directs MEME (Multimedia & Electronic Music Experiments @ Brown) and the Ph.D. program in Computer Music and Multimedia. Prior to joining Brown he directed CEMI, the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia, at the University of North Texas, and was a compositeur en recherche with the Real-Time Systems Team at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM) in Paris. Rovan worked at Opcode Systems before leaving for Paris, serving as Product Manager for MAX, OMS and MIDI hardware. Rovan has received prizes from the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition, first prize in the Berlin Transmediale International Media Arts Festival, and his work has been performed throughout Asia, Europe and the U.S. He frequently performs his own work, either with custom-designed instruments or with augmented acoustic instruments. Rovan's research includes new sensor hardware design and wireless microcontroller systems. His research into gestural control and interactivity has been featured in IRCAM's journal "Resonance", "Electronic Musician", the Computer Music Journal, the Japanese magazine "SoundArts," the CDROM "Trends in Gestural Control of Music" (IRCAM 2000), and will appear in the upcoming book "Mapping Landscapes for Performance as Research: Scholarly Acts and Creative Cartographies," to be published 2009 by Palgrave Macmillan.

Posted by ulrich | Date: February 08 2010

Ulrich Maiss [cello, electronics], born in Düsseldorf, lives in Reiffenhausen, Germany. He works with Lou Reed, Zülfü Livaneli, Joseph "Butch" Rovan, ChillFactor 5, Lynn Miles, Alexander Veljanov, Theodor Franck, Element Of Crime and wortfront, to name but a few. Well known as a performer of contemporary European chamber music, he has also performed with various rock and folk acts throughout Northern Europe, Greece and Turkey. His solo projects in the field of experimental music led him to Japan, the U.S. and Canada.