sonic.focus.2: SF2 2007 Bios
bios
Thomas Brinkmann is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm. Brinkmann later founded the Ernst record label and introduced his own productions on a series of 12″ records taking their titles from female names. He has since expanded his extensive production catalog on his own Max Ernst label, as well as other highly respected outfits such as Traum Schallplatten, Raster-Noton and Mute Records (under the Soul Center alias).
Beth Coleman is a new media artist working in multiple formats, including text and sound. Since 1995, she has been co-director (with Howard Goldkrand) of SoundLab Cultural Alchemy, an electronic-media event, and one of its resident artists. She has created works for exhibition, performance, and tours internationally as electronic composer and DJM Singe. She was a featured speaker at the Race and Digital Space conference, MIT and the Center for Civic Dialogue, Harvard University. Her work has been exhibited at Electronic Arts Intermix, 2003; Diverse Works, Houston, 2002; MIT List Gallery, 2002; Vancouver Art Gallery, 2000; P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, 2000; and Mirrors Edge Exhibition, 1999. Coleman was MacCracken Fellow at New York University from 1996 through 2000. She created text for painter Chris Ofilis exhibition at the 2003 Venice Biennale.
As filmmaker, motion designer, and spatial reconstructionist, Scott Pagano creates moving image content utilizing shards of architecture, disfunction, and futurism. With influences ranging from minimal painting to cinema, his work offers a re-envisioned perspective on the graphic stratas that saturate our visual perception. His meticulously constructed abstract artworks push the boundaries of audio-visual composition and process using a dynamic mix of cinematographic and synthetic imagery. His music videos and motion art works have been screened in venues ranging from international film festivals to MTV. He has worked with a wide range of notable musicians including BT, Christopher Willits, Funkstorung, Joan Jeanrenaud, Kid606, the Kronos Quartet, Twerk, Richard Devine, and Speedy J.
Daniel Perlin is an artist based in New York. He works across media creating sound, video, objects and installations. His work has been shown at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, The Chelsea Art Museum,Postmasters Gallery, DAmelio Terras, TN Probe Tokyo, Temporary Contemporary Gallery London, Guggenheim Film and the Centre Pompidou. Recently, he has collaborated with Natalie Jermijenko on the installation For the Birds for the Whitney Biennial 2006, Rem Koolhaas and Sanford Kwinter on the installation of Mutations, and with Vito Acconci on the public sound installation Viraphone in Madrid, Spain. He has also been the sound designer for such films as as Kelly Reichardts Old Joy, Errol Morris Fog Of War and Phil Morrisons Junebug. In 2006 he completed a residency as studio artist at the Whitney Independent Study program. Currently, he is performing live video, sound and researching mapping techniques.
You won’t find another musician as agile and reckless as DJ /rupture. He’s performed in over 25 countries, released records on Soul Jazz & Tigerbeat6, DJ’ed in a band with Norah Jones, done two John Peel Sessions, and was turntable soloist with the 80-member Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Rupture also runs Soot Records, an independent label with impeccable curation, dedicated to international urban music. Rupture plays in a band called Nettle — violin, cello, electronics, banjo, guembri, voice. Rupture does duo performances with guitarist Andy Moor (The Ex). Both projects will release albums in 2008.
Jan Jelinek has recorded under the names Farben and Gramm, as well as his given name. Over the past decade he has become a revered producer of electronic music. Moving to Berlin in 1995 to work on a university degree in philosophy and sociology, Jelinek started experimenting with sampling media. In 1998 he started releasing records under the moniker Farben on Klang Elektronik. Using his sampler as a tool to dissect and suture together sounds, Jelinek created the well-known “Loop-Finding-Jazz-Records” for the Scape label. Jelinek appropriated jazz sequences from the ’60s and ’70s, rearranging them with audio software for a unique sonic result. In addition to performing live at clubs, he has created multimedia land and soundscapes for exhibition contexts. Recent recording projects include the earthy, neo-psychedelic “Kosmischer Pitch” (2005) and “Tierbeobachtungen” (2006).
Hanno Leichtmann (aka Static) creates subtle melodic tracks contradicted by glitchy noise elements. For ‘Eject Your Mind,’ his first album released in early 2002, Leichtmann worked with a variety of vocalists from other electronic pop contexts: Ronald Lippok (Tarwater, to rococo rot), Valerie Trebeljahr (Lali Puna), and Justine Electra. Recent releases include ‘Flavour has No Name’ (2003), and ‘Re: Talking About Memories’ (2006). Leichtmann has also worked as a percussionist with John Zorn and Berlin-based electronic artists Pole and Jan Jelinek.
