Sound Craft Summer School

Andrea Agostini’s main areas of interest include composition of vocal, instrumental and electronic music; algorithmic musical formalisation and notation; generative and interactive music systems; sound synthesis, analysis and processing; and everything happening at the intersection of different musical practices and idioms.

An EP of Algorithmic music [music]

Dull Catastrophes and Love Songs [video]

bach: automated composer's helper [software]

Magno Caliman works with software and hardware by investigating electronic, mechanical, and programmable technical objects in his art making. He crafts objects which explore microcontrollers, repurposed and custom made electronic circuits, and programming languages, while transiting between experimental music performance and gallery settings with exhibitions and installations.

Transcription series [solo exhibition]

Arduino live coding [performance]

Juan Parra Cancino’s areas of expertise bridge historical and contemporary music practices. On one hand, his experimental live interpretations of early electronic works explore the performative, analytical, and reconstructive dimensions of vintage electronic repertoire and setups. On the other hand, his work with networked and telematic technologies in music performance investigates the creative potential of distributed systems and the concept of the "expanded concert venue".

An illustrative example that brings both areas into dialogue is his experimental rendition of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Solo, in which telematic technology was used to reintroduce an element of the piece otherwise only present in recordings into the live concert moment.

On Stockhausen’s Solo(s): Beyond Interpretation [article]

Stockhousen Solos network [video]

Jonathan Impett is a composer, improviser, trumpet player, researcher and Director of Research at Orpheus Instituut, long occupied with the new kinds of musical artefact that emerge from an evolving technological world. He brings experience in live electronics (Max/MSP), interactive systems, the improvisation-composition space, and instrument/installation design.

Presence and resonance [project]

Three states of wax [project]

Chonglian Yu’s primary interests and expertise lie in multimedia composition, physical computing, and gamified interaction. He is currently working on experimental wearables with speculative narratives, employing parallel layers of iterative prototyping that combine DIY fabrication of physical objects with virtually mediated digital-twin prototypes developed in the Unity engine.

Social bot [video]

Gamer Duo [video]

Elise is interested in the relationship between tuning, timbre, resonance and what an instrument can be; inspired by the pipe dreams and string theories of an experimental organ builder and instrument inventor from the early 20th century who made a “piano that sings”, her current research explores the shaping of soundwaves through physically filtering and modulating space. She has designed sound for exhibitions, theatre, and listening concerts.