Chuang Se-Lien
*13.8.1965 Chiayi City (Taiwan), since 1991 lives in Austria (Styria/Austria)



training
2005 Magistra artium, University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz: composition (Beat Furrer);
1999 diploma with distinction, Bruckner-Conservatory Linz/Austria: Music and Media Technology (Adelhard  Roidinger, Karlheinz Essl);
1996 diploma, University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz: piano education-teaching license (Walter Groppenberger, second instrument: recorder, Adelheid Creuzburg); 1996 University of Music and Dramatic Arts Vienna: Electroacoustic Music (Tamas Ungvary, Wolfgang Musil);
1990 Bachelor of Arts, Tamkang University/Taiwan: German studies;


activities
pianist for classic and contemporay interactive music, composer for contemporary instrumental music,  computer music, arts video
composer in residence 1996: SAMT (Studio for Advanced Music and Media Technology) Linz/A, UEA  (University of East Anglia) and BEAST (Birmingham Electro Acoustic Sound Theatre) England; 1999:  SUSS (Sheffield University Sound Studio) England; 2000-01: special researcher in computer music and media arts at Nagoya City University/Japan; 2004-05: Elektronisches Studio TU Berlin/Deutschland;
2008:  IAMAS - Japan, International Akademy of Media Arts and Science, SARC - Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queens University Belfast/Northern Ireland

concerts & presentations: d.a.s. (die andere saite) 1997- to date and numerous musical projects and groups 1996- to date in Austria, Germany, Belgium, Netherland, England, Northern Ireland, France, Hungary, USA, Russia, Brazil, China, South Korea, Taiwan and Japan

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