Dr. art, Dipl. Media Art, MA GERRIET K. SHARMA
is a composer and sound artist.
He studied Media Art at Academy of Media Arts Cologne and Composition/Computernusic at University of Peforming Arts Graz. He took part in the Dr. artium programme at KUG.
His thesis is titled Composing Sculptural Sound Phenomena in Computer Music.
Within the last 15 years he was deeply involved in spatialization of electroacoustic compositions in Ambisonics and Wave-Field Synthesis.
Performances, site-specific sound installations, exhibitions and concerts were presented in Europe and abroad e.g. at SPARK Festival of Electronic Music 2006 (Minneapolis/USA), New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival 2009, the DAFx-10 Int. Conference Graz 2010; ELIA-Art Schools NEU/NOW Festival Vilnius 2009 and 2011; Int. Conference for Spatial Audio (ICSA) Detmold 11, New Musical Interfaces Conference (NIME) Oslo 2011; International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) Ljubljana 2012.
He was scholarship holder of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) in 2007 and 2009.
In 2008 he was awarded with the German Sound Art Award and with the Chargesheimer Media-Arts Grant Cologne in 2009.
Within his Residency at the Institute of Musicology Wuerzburg (DE) from 20011-2013 he conceived and established the Atelier for Sound Research with Elena Ungeheuer.
In spring 2014 he was composer in residence at ZKM Karlsruhe (DE). In WS 2017/18 he was appointed Edgard Varèse guestprofessor at Technical Universitiy Berlin (DE).
Publications in international journals and books on spatial practices and sound since +++. His book Aural Sculpturality. Spatio-temporal Phenomena within Auditive Media Techniques was published by ZKM in 2019.
Since 2019 he is head of innovation at IKG Madrid (SP), member of the board conceiving and establishing the IKG-doctoral school (DART) for artistic research, and professor for sound and space. Besides that he regurlarly gives workshops and masterclasses at instiutions like Technical University Berlin, HAW Hamburg, Hafencity University Hamburg, Aalto University Helsinki, Queen Mary London, Northumbita University New Castle.
Ass. Prof. Dr. FRANZ ZOTTER
was briefly co-director of the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz, 2012-2014.
His work focuses on compact and surrounding spherical arrays of loudspeakers and microphones for surround sound field recording and playback, most prominently Ambisonics, tools to record the directivity of musical instruments, and the icosahedral loudspeaker for sound projection.
He is involved in the board of the Ambisonics symposium and part of an initiative for Virtual Acoustics within DEGA, the German acoustical society, which awarded him the Lothar Cremer prize in 2012.
DI, Dr. MATTHIAS FRANK
studied electrical and audio engineering at University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
After receiving his Diploma in 2009, he joined the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz as teacher and researcher.
Last year, he finished his PhD dealing with spatial and timbral properties of phantom sources created by multiple loudspeakers, such as in Ambisonics. For his PhD thesis, he received the Award of Excellence from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research.
Besides his interest in spatial audio, he works on product sound quality evaluation and design for non-audio products, such as home appliances and cars. Matthias is member of the Audio Engineering Society and the German Acoustical Society.
DI Dr. MARKUS ZAUNSCHIRM
is a researcher and musician based in Graz. He studied electrical and audio engineering at the University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (KUG).
After receiving his Diploma in 2012, he joined the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics as a researcher and was part of the wireless large scale microphone array (WiLMA, wilma.kug.ac.at) development team.
In October 2014 he started a PhD program at the KUG. His research focuses on the generation of individualized sound zones in rooms using loudspeaker arrays with controllable directivity and the psychoacoustic evaluation of the generated sound field.
Further areas of research include microphone array technologies, measurement strategies for directional room impulse responses and low-latency audio coding.
DI Dr. FLORIAN WENDT
studied electrical engineering at University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz.
After finishing his studies in 2013 he started his professional career as auditory research engineer in the field of cochlear implants at MED-EL Innsbruck.
In October 2015 he joined the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz and started a PhD program. His research focuses on fundamental phenomena of spatial sound perception in rooms and its modelling.