Sam Auinger
Sam Auinger, composer and installation artist, co-founded O+A with Bruce Odland in 1989 to create installations that transform city sounds into music. The created Elevated Harmonies for Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
www.samauinger.de
Shankar Barua
Artist, musician, writer & designer, Barua has been networking cutting-edge e-Creative Practitioners around the world under the auspices of
Imadjinn and The IDEA. Since January 2005, Barua has been Managing Trustee for The Academy of Electronic Arts in New Delhi.
Joel Chadabe
Composer, author, pioneer in developing interactive musical instruments, Chadabe composed One World 1 for Ear to the Earth in October 2006. He is the author of Electric Sound, a comprehensive history of electronic music. He is based in New York. Website:
www.chadabe.com
Alvin Curran
Democratic, irreverent and traditionally experimental, Curran travels in a computerized covered wagon between the Golden Gate and the Tiber River, and makes music for every occasion with any sounding phenomena -- a volatile mix of lyricism and chaos. Website:
www.alvincurran.com
Philip Dadson
Instrument inventor, performer, sound and video artist, Dadson performed and presented his Polar Projects at Ear to the Earth in October 2006. He founded From Scratch, New Zealand's most original rhythm/performance group. Website:
www.sonicsfromscratch.co.nz/
james Danoff-Burg
Researcher and faculty member at Columbia University in New York City, Professor Danoff-Burg's interests are in the effects of human activities on biodiversity. Of particular importance are those involving linear intrusions into intact habitats.
David Dunn
Composer and sound artist, Dunn's recent projects include sonification of deterministic chaotic systems with physicist James P. Crutchfield, the bioacoustics of bark beetles, and ultrasonic audio phenomena in both the natural and human environments. Website:
www.daviddunn.com
Stephen Feld
Musician, writer, ethnomusicologist, Feld presented a program of his documentary sound works from the Bosavi rainforest region in Papua New Guinea, Japan, Norway, and Ghana at Ear to the Earth in October 2006
Luc Ferrari
Composer of instrumental and electronic music, Ferrari coined the term "anecdotal music" to describe music that tells a story. His Presque Rien No. 2 (1977) and Far West News (1998) were presented in Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Thomas Gerwin
Performer, composer, musicologist, installation artist, Gerwin's Acoustic World Atlas is permanently installed at ZKM Karlsruhe. He is artistic director of the Berlin Loudspeaker Orchestra and director the Institute for Multisensorial Arts.
Joe Gilmore
Sound installation artist based in the UK, Gilmore works across a broad range of media including music composition, installation, video, internet art and live performance. He presented N., a collaboration with Andrea Polli, at Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
joe.qubik.com
Bernie Krause
Musician, naturalist, environmental recording artist, Krause records natural habitats, lectures on bioacoustics, consults, and presents installations of his work. Under his company name Wild Sanctuary, he continues to share his field-recording experiences through CDs. Website:
www.wildsanctuary.com
Joan La Barbara
Composer, sound artist, and performer, composes for electronics, voice, and instruments. She collaborated on Suspended Sounds at Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Her current project is an opera inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Website:
www.joanlabarbara.com
Cécile Le Prado
Composer, installation artist, Le Prado works primarily with environmental sounds in concerts and installations. Based in Paris, she presented Le Triangle d'Incertitude, with sounds from the coast of Europe, at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Annea Lockwood
Known for her explorations of natural sounds and environments, Lockwood's works range from sound art and installations to performance art and concert music. She presented A Sound Map of the Danube at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Pierre Mariétan
Composer of works in a wide range of mediums, including solo instruments, orchestra, and electronics, Mariétan is known for his interest in environmental sound. He presented his work Hanoi, Cité Musique at Ear to the Earth in October 2006
Steven M. Miller
Composer, performer, educator, audio engineer, and producer, Miller's primary musical interests are in electroacoustic and computer music, improvisation, world music, and acoustic ecology/acoustic communication.
David Monacchi
Composer, sound artist, researcher, Monacchi's primary research activity is recording natural environments. His Fragments of Extinction, recorded in the Brazilian Amazon region, was presented at Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
www.davidmonacchi.it
Bruce Odland
Sonic thinker, composer, sound artist, Odland co-founded O+A with Sam Auinger in 1989 to create installations that transform city sounds into music, among them Elevated Harmonies for Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
www.bruceodland.net
Maggie Payne
Composer known for her multimedia works, video, and coloristic and sensitive approach to sound, Maggi Payne's music is based on location recordings where each sound is carefully selected. She presented her work Apparent Horizon at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Andrea Polli
Digital media artist whose work addresses issues related to science and technology in contemporary society, Polli's projects often bring together artists and scientists. She presented N., a collaboration with Joe Gilmore, at Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
www.andreapolli.com
Jean-Claude Risset
Researcher, composer, among the early pioneers in computer music in the 1960s, Risset has composed many musical works that include computer-synthesized sound. He presented his work Sud at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Robert Rowe
Composer, author, researcher, Rowe works with computer sound and traditional instruments. His primary research concern is interaction between computers and musicians. He composed Freesound Mix for Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Laurie Spiegel
Composer, software designer, pioneer with early electronic music instruments, Spiegel wrote Music Mouse, a software-based instrument, in 1984. She presented her installation Ferals, on the lives of New York City pigeons, at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Morton Subotnick
Composer, electronic music pioneer, Subotnick's recent work includes the development of creative tools for young children. He was among the contributors to Suspended Sounds in Ear to the Earth in October 2006. Website:
www.mortonsubotnick.com
Jim Tolisano
Chair of Global Conservation Assistance (GCA), an international non-profit organization facilitating community-driven biodiversity projects worldwide, Tolisano was a panel participant in Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
Barry Truax
Composer known for his innovative technology-based research, Truax is among the pioneers of the World Soundscape Project of Vancouver, developed in the 1970s. His musical works are focused on artistic transformations of natural sounds.
Hildegard Westerkamp
Composer of musical soundscapes, Westerkamp's CD Into India explores the implications of transferring environmental sounds from another culture into the context of electroacoustic composition.
Iannis Xenakis
Composer of instrumental and electronic music, Xenakis was among the most radical of 20th-century composers. Widely recognized for his work in electronic music, his Concrète PH was presented at Ear to the Earth in October 2006.
