HORNYPHON a.k.a. CHRISTIAN STEFANER SCHMID, ist renommierter Untotenerforscher, Gestalter post-apokalyptischer Szenarien, ehem. Mitglied des Wiener Musikkreis ms20, hat unter anderem Musical Instrument Technology studiert und haut unvorbereitetes Publikum gerne mit wuchtvollen Improvisationen an altehrwuerdigen metallenen Kästen aus den Socken und nimmt Musik ernster als erlaubt.
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in 2006 I started to use an electronic setup as an instrument. A combination of piecoelectric contact microphones and speakers. The instrument is based on the feedback between the microphones and the speakers. It is a unstable system which allows me to play in an indirect way. The aim is not to control a technical appartus, but to create an associative field. The sounds have their own live. The playing tries to keep them alive.
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Olaf Hochherz
born 1981 in Wuppertal, Germany
Education
2008-2010 Study of Media-Design/Media-Art at Bauhaus University Weimar and Tongji University Shanghai. In the study program: “Integrated International Media Art and Design Studies (Master) / IIMDS“
2006-2008 Study of Media-Design/Media-Art at the Bauhaus University Weimar, finished with a bachelor thesis about “sound design in documentary Film”. The degree is a Bachelor of Fine Arts
2005-2006 Study of computer science and philosophy at Humbold University Berlin
2003-2005 Study of electronic Composition at Folkwang Hochschule Essen
2000-2001 Civil service at a residential home for disabled Children