Thursday Sept 24
Embassy of Switzerland
2900 Cathedral Ave NW, Washington, DC
Metro: Woodley Park
Parking available on Embassy lot.
7:00pm $10
Bernd Schurer
Martin Neukom
Thomas Peter
Jan Schacher
Marcus Maeder
Marcus Maeder, born 1971 in Zurich, has studied Art at the University of Applied Sciences and Art in Lucerne and studies Philosophy at the University in Hagen. He realized his first musical projects mid of the nineties, when the term “Digital Culture” was just beginning to gain usage. The setting was the Kombirama, an artists collective and project space in Zurich. It was during this period that he and Bernd Schurer founded the domizil music label. domizil is a platform for recorded music, an occasional concert venue, a loosely connected group of artists, and, as a label, an interface and instrument for reaching the public. The focus of Marcus Maeders work is on Computer Music and Sound Art, which he regularly tries to integrate into broader contexts, creating networks and building bridges, either in connection with theatre projects and installations or in his capacity as author and curator.
http://www.marcusmaeder.net
Bernd Schurer, born 1970 in Zurich; Studies in Philosophy and Film Science at the University of Zurich. Bachelor of Arts at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Bernd Schurer is an artist who mainly focuses on the work with sound in a variety of contexts. He has realized compositions and audioworks for film, media- and sound installations, as well as for the stage and he has realized one opera score, all of which cover a broad spectrum of distinct aesthethics. His main interest lies in conceiving systems, that are autonomous, interactive or self- contained, trough the use of digital- and computer aided techniques, mostly applying „experimental methods“, as well as a healthy dose of research, „skepticism“ and daydreaming. He often collaborates closely across different media with other artists. His works have been staged internationally and have received some acclaim and rewards.
http://www.domizil.ch/schurer
A doublebass-player, composer and digital artist, Jan Schacher is active in electronic and exploratory music, in jazz, contemporary music, performance and installation art as well as writing music for chamber-ensembles, theatre and film. His main focus is on works combining digital sound and images, abstract graphics and experimental video in the field of electro-acoustic music and in mixed-media projects for the stage and in installations. Jan Schacher has been invited as artist and lecturer to numerous cultural and academic institutions and has presented installations in galleries and performances in clubs and at festivals such as Résonance Festival (Paris), Sonar Festival (Barcelona), Transmediale Festival (Berlin), the Holland Festival (Amsterdam) and many other venues throughout Europe, North America, Australia and Asia.
http://www.jasch.ch
Martin Neukom was born in 1956. He studied musicology, mathematics und psychology at the University of Zurich, music theory at the Musikhochschule Zürich and choral conducting at the Kantorenschule Zürich. He works as a teacher of music theory and as a composer. He is engaged in sound synthesis and composition with computers. He was commissioned by the HMT (Hochschule Musik und Theater Zürich) to write the book „Signale, Systeme und Klangsynthese - Grundlagen der Computermusik“, which was accepted as his doctoral thesis by the University of Zurich. He is head of the department Computer Music at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology ICST.
http://www.domizil.ch/neukom.html
Thomas Peter (*1971) is a musician and composer. His activities range from composing electro-acoustical music and theatre music, performing improvised music, creating sound installations to realizing and interpreting of live electronic. His main interests lie in the digital form of electronic music, in its adaption as an acoustical content in different spaces and in computer operated sound installations. Thomas Peter studied audiodesign, composition and improvisation at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel.
http://www.tpeter.ch
