SONUS - v2
Echoes of Urban Life (2008), 00:06:08Jonas Foerster http://www.jonasfoerster.de
Nationality:
Residence: Germany
Biography: Jonas Foerster was studying music for future employment in education when he discovered his interest in electroacoustic music. He has been studying Electronic Composition at ICEM / Folkwang-Musikhochschule in Essen, Germany since 2005. His current work consists of multi-channel, tape-based pieces and most recently real-time sound and image processing. Complementary to this he is also a composer for popular music productions and freelance sound designer for web media, animation and advertising. Foerster’s compositions have been performed at internationally renowned festivals and conferences such as ICMC, SMC, Musicacoustica Beijing, etc. Recently he was nominated for the Deutscher Musikautorenpreis 2009 (German Music Author Prize 2009), which is awarded by the German performance rights organisation GEMA.
Program Notes: Humans and machines, voices and noises — an urban soundscape. The city as a life and movement representing entity is the inspiration and starting point of my composition. No more. Out of the editing and transformation of the sound material there arises another style of sound which stands for his own and doesn’t imitate the one of a city in any way. There are some very abstract relations to an urban sound, but they appear more like holdovers that integrate in a new context and thus reach a new meaning.
Studio of Composition: University
Hardware Used: Acer Laptop, Motu Interace, Genelec Monitors, etc.
Software Used: Csound, Max/MSP, etc.
Performer(s):
Appeared In:
CEC: Sonus
CEC: JTTP 2009
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GEMA
