Katherine Bergeron
Professor
Department of Music
Brown University

A musicologist and a singer of eclectic tastes, Katherine Bergeron has performed Gregorian chant and the blues, the court music of central Java and contemporary pop music, as well as the experimental vocal idioms associated with the 20th century avant-garde. As a professor of musicology at the University of California at Berkeley, she has specialized most recently in the vocal repertories of turn-of-the-century France. Her first book, Decadent Enchantments (University of California Press, 1998), was a study of the 19th-century revival of plainchant by French Benedictine monks, and won the Deems-Taylor Award from ASCAP in 1999. She is currently at work on Voice Lessons, a history of the French mélodie in the years around 1900. She has been making music with Joseph Rovan since 1995.

Ulrich Maiss
ulrich.maiss@cellectric.de

Ulrich Maiss is a freelance musician, composer, and sound designer.After finishing his music studies at the Conservatory of Art in Berlin in 1993, he started an international career in both contemporary and classical music, which led him from Western Europe to the US, Canada and Japan. He premiered numerous pieces by composers such as Butch Rovan, Mario Bertoncini, Withold Szalonek, Ulrich Krieger, Phil Niblock, Conrado del Rosario, Il-Ryun Chung and Helmut Zapf, to name but a few.

In the area of pop, rock, and folk music, he has recorded and toured with: Lou Reed, Element Of Crime, Vinx (Sting), Alexander Veljanov, Dave Young (John Cale), Maria Farandouri (Mikis Theodorakis).Bands and ensembles he performed with or was a member of include zeitkratzer, Kammerakademie Potsdam, Ensemble Oriol Berlin, KooKoon, ZsaZsa Buschkow, boris blacher ensemble Berlin and the Trio Filou.

His compositions and sound design installations premiered in New York, Toronto, Berlin, Munich and at the Biennale in Venice. Applied sound design includes work for the German Children's TV ("Die Sendung mit der Maus", "Sandmännchen") and for multi-media exhibitions ("The Story Of Berlin", "SIEMENS-Forum" Munich, EXPO 2000 Hanover). For updates on current projects, please visit http://www.cellectric.de

Vincent Hayward, Ph.D.
Dept. of Engineering & Computer Science
McGill University
hayward@cim.mcgill.ca

Vincent Hayward, Ph.D. Computer Science 1981, University of Paris. Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University. Chargé de recherches at CNRS, France (1983-86). Hayward is interested in haptic device design and applications, perception, and robotics. He is leading the Haptics laboratory at McGill University (www.cim.mcgill.ca/~haptic) and is Director of the Center for Intelligent Machines there (www.cim.mcgill.ca). Over 100 reviewed papers, 5 patents, 1 pending. Haptech spin-off company (1996), now Immersion Canada Inc. (2000) . Past Associate Editor IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, Program Vice-Chair 1998 IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation, Governing board Haptics-e.org.

Emmanuel Fléty
Hardware Engineer
IRCAM (Institut de Rechercher et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique)
Emmanuel.Flety@ircam.fr

Graduated from an Institute of Technology in the suburb of Paris in 1995. Continued studies at the ENSEA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l¹Electronique et de ses Applications) Engineering School teaching Electronics and Computer Science. Completed specializations in AI, image processing and algorithms, graduating in 1998. Joined IRCAM full-time as a designer of interactive hardware in October 1999

Fléty's work is essentially articulated around building and prototyping electronic devices and systems for stage and live performance. The aim of those designs is to provide composers, instrumentalists and performers new ways of expression and control, allowing a communication with machines.

One of these tools is AtoMIC Pro, and its little brother EoBody (a light version of AtoMIC Pro). AtoMIC Pro stands for Analog to MIDI Converter : this units allows the translation of electric voltages sent by sensors to the MIDI protocol, widely used to communicate between gestural controllers and sound generators. AtoMIC Pro is particularly useful for interactive sound (and video) installations since the machine can learn about external parameters and execute certain sound processes (reverberation time, distortion, granular synthesis control etc.).



Jon Christopher Nelson
Professor of Music, Associate Dean of Operations
Division of Composition Studies
University of North Texas

Jon Christopher Nelson's (b. 1960) electro-acoustic music has been performed widely throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America and has been honored with numerous awards including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Fulbright Commission. His electroacoustic music has been awarded both a Luigi Russolo and Bourges Prize. He has composed in residence at Sweden's national Electronic Music Studios during the 1989-90 academic year as well as the fall of 1994. His works can be heard on the Bourges, Russolo Pratella, CDCM, NEUMA, ICMC, and SEAMUS labels. Nelson is currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Texas where he is associated with the Center for Experimental Music and Intermedia (CEMI) and serves as the Associate Dean of Operations.

Marcelo M. Wanderley
E.Eng., M.Sc., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Music
McGill University

PhD. in Acoustics, Signal Processing and Computer Science Applied to Music (Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI and Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique - IRCAM, France) M.Sc. in Analog Integrated Circuit Design (UFSC - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil) Electrical Engineer (Electronics), (UFPR - Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil)

Research interests: Gestural control of sound synthesis, new instrument design, analysis of performer-instrument interaction.

Palindrome Inter-Media Performance Group
Robert Wechsler | Frieder Weiss
robert@palindrome.de | frieder@palindrome.de

Based in Nuremberg, Germany, Palindrome IMPG is a leading player in the area of electronics and software for the interactive stage. Since 1995, they have created computer-based systems allowing movement to control or create music, stage lighting and projected art. Hundreds of performance pieces world-wide have been made based on their use. Palindrome has appeared at leading festivals and venues throughout Europe and the United States, including the Berlin Transmediale, ZKM-Karlsruhe, The Place Theatre in London, Gasteig Munich, ISEA Paris, Arizona State University (IDAT'99), Connecticut College, American University, Temple University, Ludwigsforum Aachen, STEPS Festival Zurich, and in New York, San Francisco, Oslo, Prague, Budapest, and Vienna to name a few. See www.palindrome.de for more information.