In the context of the impuls Academy 2011 the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) will hold a workshop on Live Electronics for composers and instrumentalists. During the workshop, existing and new pieces for soloists and Live Electronics will be rehearsed in depth and presented at a final concert on February 14th within the impuls Festival 2011 and also as part of the Signale-Graz concert series.

The workshop and concert will take place in the György Ligeti hall of the MUMUTH, which provides an ideal acoustical and technical infrastructure. Workshop participants will have the possibility to use the new Live Electronics software environment developed in the context of the European Culture 2007 project Integra II.

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Gerhard Eckel, born in Vienna in 1962, takes both an artistic and scientific interest in matters of sound. His sound and music installations for real and virtual spaces touch upon the topics movement, space, and body. His scientific interests range from research in auditory perception and digital sound processing to immersive media. After having worked for many years at IRCAM in Paris and at the Fraunhofer Institute for Media Communication in Bonn, he is now teaching as Professor for Computer Music and Multimedia at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz. Since October 2007 he is head of the institute.
His scientific and artistic work has been presented at international festivals, conferences and fairs (e.g. CeBIT, ICMC, Expo2000, Donaueschinger Musiktage, Inventionen, Archipel).