collaboration with Thierry Bruehl for the Pocket Opera Festival in Salzburg 2011-2015, in forever overhead (Biennale Munic), iScreen, YouScream! as well as the Public Privacy series for solo per former, youtube-performers and electronics. CAROLI N E LOU ISE M I LLE R (US, 1988) is currently studying a PhD in composition at the University of California. Most of her works and artistic practice deal with a range of reoccurring themes and her fascination with tactility, affect, sociality, wildness, excess, violence and dreams. Sensuous aspects, and in particular tactility, play an important role in Caroline’s artistic processes, and sometimes this leads to somewhat peculiar methods, such as seeking inspiration for and composing new works while blindfold. She feels her way to interesting instruments, materials and sensuous composition, rather than just hearing or seeing them. Caroline is often inspired by social interactions, and she uses the contrasts of the social reality as material for powerful and transitional sound works, ranging from the serene to the disruptive and noisy. CHRISTIAN WINTHER CHRISTENSEN (DK, 1977) is a Danish composer, strongly conceptual in nature and often working with absurd elements. At the same time, his works often play with elements or quotations from older classical music. The greater part of his ensemble pieces have been played by skilled foreign ensembles specializing in new music. Even though he plays with absurd and ironic elements in his orchestral and ensemble works in order to give the music a certain edge and charm, these elements never detract from the work being taken seriously. EA BORRE (DK, 1985) is a Danish artist and organ builder, a graduate of the Jutland Art Academy and Frobenius & Søn organ building activity. She builds mechanical sculptures in both a sculptural and a musical idiom. The small sculptures made of paper and cardboard are run by engines and they appear as symphonic works, with their own distinct movements and compositions. Besides from exhibiting her works, Ea collaborates and performs with electronic composers, such as Sandra Boss and Mikkel Pihl. Together they build installations of home-built musical instruments,
transformed organs and mechanical sculptures, which set the frame for wondrous performances. EGYPTIAN FEMALES EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC SESSION (EG) is a music collective consisting of the four women Asmaa Azouz, Shrouk El Zomor, Jacqueline George, and Yara Mekawei. For years now they have been collectively and individually intertwined within the world of sound art, noise, and experimental music. Each of the five musicians are actuallydirect musical descendants of the brilliant sound artists and curator, Ahmed Basiouny who tragically lost his life while protesting in Cairo during the January 2011 revolution. With the use of tone generators, pitch and timbral deconstructions, jazz structures, field recordings and layers upon layers, this project is a true testament to free and creative expression – a beautifully orchestrated and out rageous experiment. ENSEMBLE GARAGE (DE) is a Cologne-based ensemble founded by composer Brigitta Munten dorf as a platform for musicians, comp osers and other artists to explore and display new ideas, concepts, and works. Since its creation, the ensemble has focused on bringing the works of younger composers to life through the process of collective and cooperative rehearsing. Through its work, the ensemble seeks to answer questions about ‘our’ generation: Who does it consist of? Where does it congregate or belong? What does it think and do? What does it use and create, and, most importantly, hear and want others to hear? FILOMENA KRAUSE (DE, 1988) works as a performer and costume designer. She studied co stume design in Hamburg and has worked on several movie and theatre productions around Hamburg, Zürich and Jena. As a perf ormer, she has previously collaborated with Leo Hofmann and Benjamin van Bebber, on The Reply at A / D /A Festival and Kampnagel Hamb urg. JAGODA SZMYTKA (PL, 1982) is a Polish com poser, performer and artist based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. With a background in philosophy, art history and composition, her artistic practice is highly multidisciplinary, using multiple formats across different media, genres and aesthetics.