The connection between humans and machines is a fundamental principle of electronic music. Two former scholarship recipients present this connection in very different ways: In a new multichannel piece, Pedro Oliveira focuses on special Mel filters, which are used in everyday life for speech recognition, among other things. Clara Maïda presents a spectacular new work featuring robotic, sounding pendulums, video projection, and multichannel audio.
Pedro Oliveira is a Sound artist working with echo, distortion, and feedback as material explorations of the limits and failures of machine listening. Through live performances involving analog synthesis as well as manipulation of voice and text, his practice focuses on the productive intersections of listening and the body as a site of struggle for identity, migration, and belonging. Currently guest faculty in Sound Studies and Sonic Arts at Universität der Künste Berlin. Holds a PhD from UdK Berlin.
Clara Maïda lives in Paris and Berlin and is a composer, musicologist, and pianist. She holds a PhD by publication in Composition from the University of Huddersfield (UK), a Master’s in Musicology, a French National Diploma in Piano Teaching, and a Bachelor’s in Psychology.
Her works have received international awards and commissions, including from the Arditti Quartet, Donaueschinger Musiktage, GRM Paris, and ECLAT Stuttgart. She has held residencies in several electroacoustic studios, published monographs and recordings, and taught as a guest professor while giving lectures, seminars, and masterclasses internationally.
