Resonator Participants:
Nurit Bar-Shai - site
Nurit Bar-Shai is an inter-media artist. Her main interest lies in exploring tensions between the mundane and the uncanny in everyday life. Emanating from her creative roots in fine arts, Bar-Shai employs video and new technologies to explore fundamental questions of presentation and representation, to reframe the familiar and turn audiences into foreigners in their own ontological domains.
James D'Angelo - site
Since 1994 James D’Angelo, the author of "The Healing Power of the Human Voice" (Inner Traditions International, July 2005), has developed and led therapeutic sound and movement workshops in England, Scotland, Italy, Spain and the USA and is considered an authority on the subject of sound healing therapies. His study of breath work, overtone singing, tuning forks, self-actualising psychology, his practice of sacred Sufi movements and his initiation into Reiki healing form the basis of his work and its continuing evolution.
Yolande Harris - site
Yolande Harris is a composer and artist working with sound, its image and its role in relating humans and their technologies to the environment. Through her performances, installations, instruments and writings, she investigates how sound relates us to our surroundings, both architectural and ecological.
Martin Howse - site
Martin Howse is an artist, programmer, theorist and film- maker. Martin gained a Fine Art BA degree at Goldsmiths College, London. Martin has performed and collaborated worldwide using custom, open software and hardware modules for data/code processing and generation. In 2005, Martin was part of a team awarded first prize in the VIDA 8.0 art and artificial life competition. In 2006 he initiated xxxxx as a research centre in Berlin, Germany, producing the acclaimed xxxxx [reader] and maintaining a series of workshops.
Brandon LaBelle - site
Brandon LaBelle is an artist and writer working with sound and the specifics of location. His work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally. His writings appear in various books and journals, including “Experimental Sound and Radio” (MIT). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004). He is the author of “Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art” (Continuum 2006).
Kanta Horio - site
Kanta Horio studied acoustics and sound art at the Kyushu Institute of Design in Fukuoka, Japan. He presents audio performances using physical phenomena with electronic devices, kinetic objects, and assorted self-built gadgets. In recent presentations he has explored installations too. He has performed widely both internationally and throughout Japan. Alongside his performance activities, he organizes some unique events such as dorkbot tokyo.
John Stuart Reid - site
John Stuart Reid resides in England and is an acoustics engineer, scientist and inventor. He has studied the world of sound for over 30 years and speaks extensively of his research findings to audiences throughout the United States and the United Kingdom. John is the inventor of the CymaScope, a 21st century electro-acoustics device which makes it possible to see actual sound patterns. He is researching how sound creates form through vocal sound, natural sound, music, sacred language and how sound is influenced by sacred space. John has performed acoustic experiments in the Great Pyramid of Giza and has published a booklet of his research results, Egyptian Sonics.
Ann Rosén - site
Sound, space, people, meetings, processes and collaborations are all important factors in Ann Rosén's art. In her recent works such as Deputy Silences, Schhh and Spatial Silences she explores different aspects of sound and the social context in which it is encountered. In 2005 she produced a solo exhibition entitled ‘schhh…’ at the Academy of Fine Art, Stockholm. She is also involved in research at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Ryu Hankil - site
Ryu Hankil was born in 1975 in Seoul, South Korea. Hankil was a keyboard player in two famous Korean indie pop groups, but eventually left the groups because he was tired of typical music making and sounds. Then he started his own solo electro pop project, Daytripper, and released two solo albums. he saw a concert by Otomo Yoshihide, Sachiko M, Axel Dörner, and Taku Unami in Seoul. He changed his musical instrument and concentrated more and more on improvised music and projects based on the sounds. Hankil has organised a monthly event called RELAY since 2005. He established his own publishing office called Manual, and releases improvised music and magazines. He is a member of Otomo Yoshihide’s new project ‘FEN (Far East Network)’.
Will Schrimshaw - site
Will Schrimshaw's work focuses on issues of environmental interaction and sonorous individuation. These concerns are often realized through technological means in installation and performance settings. His current installation work seeks to test the role of sound as a catalyst for movement and a material for the construction of intensive spaces. Live performances are mostly improvised and are built upon circuits, earth and code.
Jamie Allen - site
Jamie Allen makes art and sound with his head and hands. He works with a range of media – whatever most fittingly serves the central idea of works that are intended to be invitational, participatory, and oftentimes humorous. He is interested in technologies that suggest ways of reinventing traditional relationships to art and performance. His work in digital media, music, performance and public art seeks to create physical relationships between people and with media.