29. Internationale Studienwoche für zeitgenössische Musik vom 13.-20. Mai 2007
Sonntag, 13. Mai 2007, 21 Uhr Glockenhaus, Glockenstraße, Lüneburg

Nachtkonzert Elektro-akustische Tonband-Musik aus Bourges, Frankreich

Compendium International - Bourges 2003

George Skip BRUNNER (USA)

George Brunner is a composer and performer, researcher/writer, recording engineer/producer and teacher. His music has been performed throughout the United States, in Europe, Asia, and South America.

Brunner has served as composer-in-residence three times at EMS (Electroacoustic Music Studios) in Stockholm, Sweden and in 2001 at Kungliga Musikhögskolan i Stockholm (Royal College of Music in Stockholm), Sweden. A recent recipient of a research grants from the American Scandinavian Foundation and the Svenska Institutet of Sweden, he is at present writing a book on Text Sound Composition and is considered an authority on the subject.

In May 2002, Mr. Brunner was Co-Director of the first Electroacoustic Music Festival in Istanbul, Turkey sponsored by Bilgi University. Bilgi University commissioned Brunner to write a new work for the festival.

In 2002 Mr. Brunner received a commission to create an all electronic score for sixteen 45 minute radio programs on Sound Poetry for the Radio/Radio program, London England; Martin Spinelli , producer.

Brunner currently holds a tenure track position and serves as the Director of the Music Technology Program for the Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College and is the founder of the Brooklyn College Electroacoustic Music Ensemble, which under his direction produces an annual CD. He also founded and coordinates the biannual International Electroacoustic Music Festival at Brooklyn College, New York City. Mr. Brunner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Nicola Sani (Italie)

was born in Ferrara in 1961. After his first musical experiences with Maura Cova, his musical training included studies in composition with Domenico Guaccero and Karlheinz Stockhausen and electronic music with Giorgio Nottoli. He attended the computer music workshops at the CSC-University of Padova and at the IMEB in Bourges (France). He is the author of numerous instrumental and electroacoustic compositions, stage operas, dance operas and multimedia installations commissioned, produced and performed by internationally renowned Institutions, ensembles and performers within the most important seasons and festivals (among which Experimental Studio der H. Strobel Stiftung Freiburg, WDR-Köln, Eclat-Stuttgart, Deutschlandradio, Sender Freies Berlin, Akademie der Künste-Berlin, Konzerthaus-Berlin, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Inventionen Berlin, Ars Electronica Linz, INA-GRM Paris, IMEB Bourges, Diem Aarhus, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Warsaw’s Autumn, Time of Music Vitasaary, CCRMA-Stanford, Lacma Los Angeles, Juilliard Music Festival New York, CCRMA Stanford, Irish National Chamber Choir, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, La Biennale di Venezia, Teatro di Roma, Palermo Novecento Festival etc...).

Currently his commissioned project include compositions for orchestra, choir, multichannel electroacoustic music and a new stage opera.

In 1990 he was awarded the "Prix Ars Electronica" in Linz (Austria) together with Mario Sasso, for the video composition Footprint, produced by RAISAT. With Mario Sasso he started a collaboration aimed at developing a language through a synthesis between sound and images which led to the multimedia installations Le città continue/La stanza di Vertov ("Sonambiente" Berlin 1996), Omaggio a Giacomo Leopardi ("Quadriennale" Rome 1999), “La Torre delle Trilogie”. The latter has been presented at the major international museums and at the World Expo' 2000 in Hannover. In 1994, together with Daniele Abbado and Roberto Andò, he was awarded the special jury mention at the Prix Italia in Turin, for the opera "Frammenti sull'Apocalisse". In 1997, he was awarded the Premio Erato of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which included a period of six months as a resident composer in Berlin. In 1998 was awarded the Guggenheim Prize for the multimedia installation La torre delle trilogie.
Nicola Sani's compositions are published by the Edizioni Suvini Zerboni, Milan. Most relevant cd recording are published by Stradivarius, Agorà, PH Music Worx, Wergo, Warner Fonit, Limen, Musicaimmagine Records, Prestel, Taukay, National Gallery of Ireland.

He managed the music section of the Festival Arte Elettronica in Camerino and was responsible for the Electronic Art section of the Festival RomaEuropa and artistic director of the Contemporary Chamber Music series “Emergenze” in Rome. He is currently member of the artistic board of the IUC-Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti di Roma (University Concerts Institution). He is artistic director of the "Sonora" Project, founded by the Italian Foreign Affairs and Culture Ministry with the purpose to promote the Italian New Music worldwide. Since 1990 he collaborates with RAI (television and radio).

Since October 2004 he is President of the “Scelsi Foundation” in Rome.

He writes for the magazine Musica/Realtà and collaborates with the daily newspaper L'Unità and the weekly magazine Diario. He is the author of the books "Informatica: Musica/Industria" (published by Unicopli, Milano) and "Musica Espansa" (with Francesco Galante, published by Ricordi-Lim, Milan). He held numerous workshops, master classes and conferences as a guest lecturer for national and international institutions and was jury member in international composition competitions.

Jorge RAPP (Argentine)

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1946. In 1971 he got his degree as Bachelor of Composition at the Argentinian Catholic University (UCA). During 1973 he was awarded a scholarship from the National Arts Bureau (FNA) and from the Massive Research Art and Technology Centre (CICMAT) in the City of Buenos Aires, for the study of Composition with electronic means, where he composed his first electronic piece. His tutors were Gabriel Brncic-Isaza, José Ramón Maranzano and Francisco Kröpfl, from whom he received further tuition in composition and musical analysis.

He was the "Juan Carlos Paz Prize” winner granted by the National Arts Bureau (FNA) in 1978 for his work“Cotidiana”. In 1994 he was awarded a special mention at the International Electroacoustic Music Contest in Bourges, organized by the Institut International de Musique Electroacoustique (IMEB). He won the Municipal Government Prize in Composition in 1995. The work “Alrededores” was commissioned by the IMEB; it was composed in the Charybde studio of the IMEB in 2003. Winner Magisterium Prize at the “33nd International Competitions of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art”, Bourges 2006.

He is a Founding Member of the Musical Studies Centre that opened in Buenos Aires in 1978, and the Director of the Sound Laboratory of that Centre. He has been a member of the executive Committee of the New Music Group (ANM) since 1974. He is also a Founding Member of the Argentinian Federation of Electroacoustic Music (FARME, 1984). He has been the President of FARME-Buenos Aires since 2001. He was a member of the International Jury at the “30nd International Competitions of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art”, Bourges 2003.