If you use music technology in your creative work then drop in to one of these free practical sessions at the Media Centre to get free information, advice and guidance on the latest cutting-edge music software / hardware trends from some of the leading artists at this year’s Festival. Please bring your laptop!

The Media Centre, 7 Northumberland Street, Huddersfield, HD1 1RL
10am – 12noon

Monday 22 November: Daniel Schorno (Creative Project Advisor, STEIM)

Daniel Schorno studied composition in London with Melanie Daiken and electronic and computer music in The Hague/Netherlands, with Joel Ryan and Clarence Barlow.

Invited by Michel Waisvisz he led STEIM - the renowned Dutch Studio for Electro Instrumental Music, and home of 'New Instruments' - as Artistic Director until 2005. There he collaborated with musicians and artists such as Frank van de Ven, Frances-Marie Uitti, Netochka Nezvanova, Laetitia Sonami, Francisco Lopez, Jon Rose, Anne Laberge, Steina Vasulka, and numerous Dutch New Music Ensembles and organisations like the FNM/Stuttgart and the Theremin Institute/Moscow. He is currently STEIM's composer-in-research and creative project advisor.

Recent works also include the ongoing 'KAIROS Project', where he invites instrumental virtuosi to play along with his new sensor instruments. His concerts and workshops have taken him all over Europe and as far afield as Johannesburg's Soweto, Iceland, Shanghai and the street artists & kids of Guatemala City.

Tuesday 23 November: Monty Adkins

Monty Adkins is a composer, performer, and lecturer of experimental electronic music and audio art. He has created installations, concert and audio-visual works, and a number of collaborations with contemporary dance. His works have been commissioned by Ina-GRM, IRCAM, BBC Radio 3, hcmf//, SpACE-Net and Sonic Arts Network (SAN), among others.

For his works he has been awarded over 20 international prizes including the Stockholm Electronic Arts Award (Sweden), Grand Prize at Musica Nova (Prague, Czech Republic), and five prizes at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France). Having read music at Pembroke College (Cambridge, England, UK) Adkins then studied electronic music with Jonty Harrison at the University of Birmingham where he performed across Europe with the Birmingham ElectroAcoustic Sound Theatre (BEAST), and Simon Waters at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England, UK).

Thursday 25 November: Adam Linson (Low Frequency Orchestra)

Adam Linson is a double bassist, improvisor, composer, and developer of real-time interactive systems for live performance. Born in Los Angeles, he has been active on the double bass and with computer technology since age 11. For the past decade, he has been based in Berlin, Germany, performing and recording on both sides of the Atlantic, acoustically and with electronics, as a soloist and with groups of all sizes.

He has released a solo album on Evan Parker's psi label, as well as a duet album with live-electronics pioneer Lawrence Casserley, which they followed with a performance at the London Jazz Festival (2009). At the Total Music Meeting 40th anniversary in Berlin (2008), he performed in a quartet with Evan Parker, trumpeter Peter Evans, and composer-performer Richard Barrett, as well as in an acoustic quintet led by pianist Fred van Hove. Other work includes performances with the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble and recording with them for ECM, and a guest performance with the Alexander von Schlippenbach Trio (Schlippenbach / Parker / Lovens). His latest performance at the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (2008) was with the John Butcher Group, premiering a commissioned octet work by Butcher, who has released the performance on his Weight of Wax label.

In addition to these and other on-going collaborations, Linson has composed and performed music for international contemporary dance productions. His current projects include Systems Quartet, an electro-acoustic group with Axel Dörner, Paul Lytton, and Rudi Mahall, as well as work designing and implementing his own interactive computer compositions and installations. Past projects include developing custom hardware controllers during residencies at STEIM, Amsterdam, in 2004 and 2008. Before moving to Berlin, he earned a BA in Philosophy at the University of California, San Diego, where he also studied music with George Lewis and Bertram Turetzky and performed regularly with the local symphony orchestra. Currently, he divides his time between Berlin, Germany and Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Free event; no booking required.

Part of hcmf//’s Learning and Participation programme

Produced by hcmf//

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