Experimental Music Concert:: k:ITA, Weidenweg 44/46, BersarinPlatz, Friedrichshain :: July 26, 2008; 9:00 pm :: with Juan Parra Cancino, Daisuke Ishida, and Yutaka Makino.

Juan Parra Cancino (b. 1979): Composer, Improviser, Live Electronics Performer and Guitar player. Studied Composition in the Catholic University of Chile and Sonology at The Royal Conservatory of The Hague (NL). His Compositions, that include pure electronic and electro acoustic mixed media with solo instruments and ensembles have been performed in Europe, North and South America in festivals and have been selected and awarded at the Bourges Electroacoustic Music Competition of 2003 and 2004. As a guitar player he has participated in several courses of Guitar Craft, a school founded by Robert Fripp, becoming part of various related guitar ensembles such as the Berlin Guitar Ensemble, the Buenos Aires Guitar Ensemble and The League of Crafty Guitarists.

He is currently a PhD candidate of the Leiden University in Holland and the Orpheus Institute in Gent with the research project “Towards a Performance Practice in Computer Music”, supported by the Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds, and the Institute of Sonology of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.
contact: jotaparra[at]hotmail.com

Daisuke Ishida (b.1980,TOKYO): Daisuke Ishida is working in the field of Sound-Art and NewMedia-Art based in Berlin Germany. Started his activities in 2000. His sound works seek to realize synthesized unnatural sound space, beyond the natural understanding of sound, explore and emphasize the contraries “minimum – maximum”, “rhythmic – arhythmic”, “harmony – cacophony”, “signal – noise”, “melodiousness – unmelodiousness” and “silence – audible moment”, in the context of electro-acoustic music, computer music, experimental music and noise music after the time of artists such as Karlheinz Stockhausen, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage and Yasunao Tone, by using technologies or methods such as Real Time Digital Signal Processing, Granular Synthesis, Spectral Morphology and Fast Fourier Transformation. Participated MobLab: Japanese-German media camp 2005. He is a member of The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA and The SINE WAVE QUARTET founded in 2002 with Ken Furudate, Kazuhiro Jo and Mizuki Noguchi, received Honorary Mention in Digital Music category on ARS Electronica 2004. see: http://www.myspace.com/isddsk

Yutaka Makino: Yutaka Makino is an artist and researcher. His research seeks to integrate the historic precedents of electronic music and contemporary techniques in architecture towards new materiality, involving research in microsound synthesis, spatial perception, form-finding, complex dynamical systems and emergence. His works have been recognized/performed at numerous festivals and competitions internationally including the MusikTriennale Cologne (Germany), the Bourges International Competitions of Electroacoustic Music and Sound Art (France), Bucharest Youth Biannual (Romania), the International Gaudeamus Music Week (The Netherlands), STRP Festival (The Netherlands) and Seoul International Computer Music Festival (South Korea) among others. He has recently won the Prix Ton Bruynel 2007 for his composition Cryosphere. With Takuro Mizuta Lippit of STEIM, he frequently performs as Audile. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles.