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Ensemble ETSA - Heimatsaal 16.Mai 2023, 19h

Echo Ho's journey as an artist and performer has been a constant dance of creation and exploration. Echo has always been drawn to the intersections of art, philosophy, culture, and technology. Born in Beijing, moved to Hongkong and is now based in Cologne, Germany. Her philosophical understanding of music is informed by a deep engagement with the musical history of the guqin, which spans three millennia. She has been working on the artistic research project SlowQin since 2007. SlowQin transfers the traditional string instrument guqin into contemporary art and music contexts; it seeks new musical expressions by reimagining the ancient in the post-digital age. She has crafted a unique artistic practice that blends various media forms and materials, often resulting in genre-breaking performances and installations or multimedia productions.
Echo's works have been featured at venues including the He Xiangning Art Museum Shenzhen, Center-A Vancouver, ISEA 2010 Germany, and ZKM Karlsruhe. She has also been a fellow and taught at various institutions. Currently, Echo is a doctoral candidate at the Tangible Music Lab in Linz, Austria. 

www.qintronix.space

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Tilen Lebar (b. 1993)

is a Slovenian composer, improviser and saxophonist based in The Hague, the Netherlands. After finishing his studies at Conservatoire for Music and Ballet in Maribor with Peter Kruder, he has continued and completed a Bachelor’s Degree in musical arts with principal study in the saxophone and continued his Master's Instrumental pedagogical studies in Saxophone under mentorship of Miha Rogina and Matjaž Drevenšek at the Academy of Music, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Later on, he studied in the composition class of Uroš Rojko at the University of Ljubljana. Tilen finished his Master Composition studies at Royal Conservatoire in The Hague in the classes of Guus Janssen, Peter Adriaansz and Cornelis De Bondt as well as his one-year saxophone studies in class of Raaf Hekkema and Lars Niederstrasser.
He is actively participating in the field of the improvised music scene and interdisciplinary arts and regularly cooperates with Zavod Sploh, KUD Mreza, Ensemble Szene Instrumental, CONA | institute for contemporary arts processing and Inexhaustible Editions. His sound world reveals a great knowledge of individual instrumental extended techniques as well as contemplated colours, detailed structures in sound tinctures and a thorough knowledge of the tradition of contemporary Western art music and various experimental fields. He had performances on festivals as ISCM World Music Days, Gaudeamus Muziekweek, Leicht uber Linz, New Music Forum, ISC World Saxophone Congress, Opera Forward Festival, etc.
On the 67th International Rostrum of Composers his work ‘Staticotion’ for accordion & electronics was a recommended in the general as well as in the under’30 categories. His collaborations included ensembles as Asamisimasa from Oslo, ensemble Oerknal (the Netherlands), Slagwerk Den Haag (in collaboration with Royal Conservatoire in The Hague), Ensemble Contrchamps (Switzerland), Experimental studio of SWR Freiburg and Dutch National Opera & Ballet, among others. His works were dedicated to performers as Christoph Grund, Luka Juhart, Susanne Peters, Anja Clift and Valentina Štrucelj, among others.
During his studies at the Univesity of Ljubljana he received a Prešeren’s prize by the Academy of Music for his portrait concert ‘Layering time.’ In The Netherlands he received an international RKST21 award by Orkest De Ereprijs for his work ‘Thought Echo.’ He was a recipient of a scholarship by the Ministry of Culture Republic of Slovenia for his postgraduate studies at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague. Recently his duo ‘Bijna Samenhangend’ released two new full CD’s on the Inexhaustible Editions.

https://donemus.nl/composer/tilen-lebar/


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Andreas Weixler

Born in 1963 and home grown in Graz, Austria as a self-taught guitarist and composer with a penchant for atonality, odd beats and electronics.
He studied composition with Andrzej Dobrowolski and Younghi Pagh-Paan at the KUG in Graz and graduated with Beat Furrer.

ART - artistic activities

Andreas Weixler currently specialises in contemporary composition and improvisation with multi-channel live electronics and high quality net performance.
As a performer, he plays electric guitar in a contemporary style with real-time electronics in Austria, Japan, Australia, France, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Norway, Ohio and recently online.
He has presented more than 200 compositions and media works in 26 countries in the fields of computer music, audiovisual interactivity, contemporary composition, theatre, dance, visual arts, film and video, which have received their world premieres at more than 250 international festivals and conferences - ICMC, SMC, ISEA, NIME and many others, in Austria, Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Northern Ireland, Cyprus, Belgium, Italy, Holland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Canada, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, Costa Rica, Mexico, Russia, Ukraine, China, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, South Korea, Australia and the USA - portrait concerts in Austria, Switzerland, the USA and the UK.
Together with Se-Lien Chuang he runs the Atelier Avant Austria since 1996 with a focus on the development of audiovisual interactive systems and audiovisual real-time/non-real-time processing, computer music and algorithmic composition.
In 2018, the ICMA - International Computer Music Association awarded Andreas Weixler and Se-Lien Chuang the best European work for their audiovisual interactive work.