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| Création sonore | | | 40'0'' | Frankreich | 2005 |
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Rudolf Robert is born in Bratislava in 1963. He studied composition and computer music. After his composition studies at the Conservatory and University of Fine Arts in Bratislava, he continued his studies in Paris. The classes with Yoshihisha Taira and François-Bernard Mache inspired his musical and compositional development.
Curses of computer music at Stockholm and to work in Bratislava Experimental Studio confirmed his interest in electroacoustic and computer music.
His recent work is inspired by the live electroacoustic performance and the possibilities of the Pedalophone (some live electroacoustic equipment). He takes part as composer, organisator and musical advisor, to several contemporary music and electrocoustic concerts and workshops.
Born in 1964, Peter Machajdik grew also up in Bratislava, Slovakia, but he has been living in Germany for the past 14 years. At six, he began music lessons and at seven he took up the piano. In the 1980’s he wasn’t accepted into the Music Academy of Bratislava, because of his concept of music, at that time, was heavily influenced by the Western avant-garde. At 27, Machajdik graduates from the University of Economics in Bratislava.
In 1992 he was invited to live and work in Berlin as a guest of the DAAD Künstlerprogramm and in 1999 he was a composer in residence at the Schloss Wiepersdorf, also in Germany. In 2003 he was a composer in residence at the Künstlerhäuser Worpswede. In autumn 2004 Machajdik was a composer in residence at the Künstlerhaus Lukas in Ahrenshoop on the Germanic Baltic coast.
He has received commissions and award, among others, from the Slovak Music Fund, the Kulturfonds Foundations and the Luigi Rossolo Foundation. He has also lectured on new music, led workshops and curated festivals of contemporary music, his music has been broadcast many times on radio a TV, all over the world.
David Moss is considered as one of the most innovative singers and percussionists in contemporary music.
He was born in New York City in 1949 and with 14 he began to study percussions at Hartt College of Music and Hartford Symphony with Joe Procaro, Al Lepark and Richard Lepore.
Between 1969 and 1970 he is percussion student for Tanjore Ranganathan at Wesleyan University and then during two years composition student for Bill Dixon at Bennington College.
Since 1973 he has performed over 1000 solo percussion/voice concerts and over 3000 concerts with groups, collaborator, theatres and orchestras all around the world and received for his achievements a Guggenheim Fellowship (1991) and a DDAD Fellowship (1992 – Berlin).
David Moss is co-founder and artistic director of the Institute for Living Voice (ILV), which had his premiere in September 2001 in Ghent, Belgium, in 2004 their participated at the Holland Festival in Amsterdam and at the Melbourne Festival.
Since 1995 he has also performed as guest with the Ensemble Modern, most recently in their “Frank Zappa Project” at the Paris Festival and Hamburg Music Fest in 2002.
Moss is considered as an accomplished opera singer, improvising musician, performer, composer, percussionist, vocalist, artistic director and project organiser.
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