Committee

Program chair

Elisabeth Schimana

Elisabeth Schimana has been working as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She studied electroacoustic and experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Computer Music Composition at IEM Graz and Musicology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna. In her work she has been dealing with space / body / electronics for many years. She regularly cooperates with ORF Kunstradio and conducts research in the field of women’s art and technology and audio scores. Elisabeth Schimana gives lectures and composition workshops internationally. In 2005, she founded the IMA Institute for Media Archaeology.

Scientific committee

Alex Hofmann

Alex Hofmann is a professor at the Department of Music Acoustics (IWK) at mdw, sound artist and saxophone/live-electronics performer. He investigates tools and methods to enhance expressiveness in music performance by advancing creative music technologies.

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Susanne Kogler

Susanne Kogler is professor of musicology at the University of Graz. She studied music education, classics and musicology. PhD in musicology in 2001 (Am Ende, wortlos, die Musik. Sprache und Sprachlichkeit im zeitgenössischen Musikschaffen, Wien: Universal Edition 2003). In 2012 postdoctoral lecture qualification (Habilitation) (Adorno versus Lyotard: moderne und postmoderne Ästhetik, Freiburg: Alber 2014). Visiting professor at the New York City University (NYU), the Université Paris 8 and the University of Ljubljana. Publications on music history and aesthetics of the 19th – 21st centuries.

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Piotr Majdak

Piotr Majdak works on better understanding the mechanisms underlying spatial hearing and on applying that knowledge to improve acoustic and audio systems. With an academic background in psychoacoustics, signal processing, and audio engineering, he strives to translate his fundamental findings in cognitive science to the audio engineering community. Auditory modeling, software toolboxes, and open-source, reproducible research are his key tools for outreach. See

Katharina Pollack

Katharina Pollack studied electrical engineering and audio engineering at the Technical University of Graz and the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and is currently doing her PhD in the field of spatial hearing at the Acoustics Research Institute in Vienna. Her main research interest is making personalised head-related transfer functions more accessible to the public, with the focus on parametric and statistic approaches to pinna shape deformation. She is an active member of the Austrian Acoustics Association, the Austrian section of the Audio Engineering Society and the Austrian section of the Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineering.

Artistic chair

Thomas Grill

Thomas Grill works as a composer and performer of electroacoustic music, as a media artist, technologist and researcher of sound. His artistic work encompasses most varied fields of audible and trans-media art, focusing on loudspeaker-based music, electroacoustic improvisation, as well as installations and interventions. He heads the program in electroacoustic and experimental music and co-heads the Artistic Research Center at mdw.

Organisation

Barbara Maria Neu

Barbara Maria Neu is a clarinetist and performance artist based in Vienna. In addition to her work as a classical clarinetist, she explores the fusion of music with performing, visual, and performance arts, focusing on intertwining classical approaches with contemporary developmental forms.

Her solo performance Von Gläsernen Himmelsscherben was recently presented at the Music Theatre Days Vienna (2023) at WUK. Since 2021, she has performed regularly with the ensembles MERVE and ANNEA, including at the opening of the European Capital of Culture 2024 in Bad Ischl. Her debut performance Stalltänze (2020) was showcased both as a video work and as a stage performance, taking her to various venues such as MuTh Vienna, Transart Bolzano, and Schaumbad Graz. She has also performed in various ensembles at venues such as the Musikverein Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC, Jazzfestival Saalfelden, and Jazzfest Berlin. Additionally, she has served as a substitute with RSO Vienna. In 2020, Barbara Maria Neu was awarded the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts’ Start Grant for Music and Performing Arts.

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Ernst Reitermeier

Ernst Reitermaier studied philosophy, music & movement education and cultural management in Vienna. He works as a freelance philosopher, musician, and project manager with a focus on the conceptual and organizational support of projects in the fields of experimental music, performance and sound art. Ernst has organized projects for the Wiener Festwochen, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Wien Modern and especially loves to cooperate with artist-run cultural associations. As a cultural worker he is very interested in transdisciplinary collaborations and connecting different worlds. He is also active in various artistic projects himself, such as the “institute for transacoustic research”, the poetic band “3 knaben schwarz” and small festivals such as „reheat“, “graetzlrauschen,” and „GRNZ!“.

He lives in Vienna and Zhejiang, China.