Roland Bucher (CH)
Roland Bucher is a musician and sound artist born in Küssnacht am Rigi (1977) in Switzerland. He grew up and now lives in Lucerne. Roland Bucher enjoys working in the vast tension field of music in different styles in addition to his work as a drum teacher at the Küssnacht music school. Among other things, he develops instruments in the field of live electronics, like his wonderfully named “Noise Table” where he samples acoustic instruments and everyday objects and creates fascinating sound collages. The music that is created oscillates between the sounds of the acoustic source material and electronically modified sound clouds. In addition, Bucher is a drummer in various groups (including Blind Butcher, Kion, The Shit), which have enjoyed great success here and abroad and have also released various recordings. He is also active in the field of theatre and film music (including the Lucerne Theater). He completed his training at the Lucerne University of Music between 2005 and 2010, which he completed with a Master of Art in Music Education.
Website: www.rolandbucher.ch
Soundsamples clips: www.rolandbucher.ch/index.php/noisetable/
Henrik Rylander (SWE)
Henrik Rylander is an artist, composer and photographer born in Malmö (1966) in Sweden. He lives and works in Göteborg. As an artist Rylander works mainly with sound art: The artwork has its origin in a sound-related issue or a large part of the artwork consists of sound. Often he uses the installation art form with audio and audio-related objects such as mixing consoles, speakers, and microphones. The objects in the installation, and its relation to each other, the title of the artwork, along with the sound, attacks problems and thoughts about information and disinformation, power and propaganda, and thoughts on the act of listening in relation to the act of seeing. When becomes information disinformation or propaganda, and thus exercise of power?
Rylander is and has been active in the Swedish underground music scene since the mid-1980’s and started his musical career as the co-founding drummer of Union Carbide Productions, one of the most influential bands in Sweden. The band made a successful comeback in 2017, playing at the Azkena Rock Festival, and in 2018 when they played in front of thousands of spectators in Gothenburg and Stockholm. A documentary film about the band is in the making and will be premiered in early 2022. Rylander is also a member of the bands Autosound, Orchestra of Constant Distress and Saturn and the Sun. Apart from playing the drums, he also masters the ancient electronic instrument called the Theremin.
Website: www.henrikrylander.com/
Works:www.henrikrylander.com/works/
Brian Foster - University of Oxford
Brian Foster is Donald H. Perkins Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Oxford and is a Fellow of Balliol College.
Foster was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 1999 and the Max Born Medal of the German Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in 2003. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Society, whose Vice-President he was in 2018. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
He is a passionate populariser of science, having given over 200 lectures in the last 15 years to an audience totalling around 30,000. He is a member of the Royal Society’s Committee on Public Engagement. He is currently writing a biography of Albert Einstein for Oxford University Press, with an emphasis on his love of music and the violin.
Domenico Vicinanza - Anglia Ruskin University
Having received his MSc and PhD degrees in physics, Domenico worked as a scientific associate at CERN for seven years. His research there mainly focused on the development of an innovative time-of-flight detector for one of the biggest High-Energy Physics experiments for the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva. The detector design was based on Multi-gap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPC), reaching a sensitivity of 70 picoseconds (the highest ever reached) and its use in a large-scale experiment marked an important milestone for particle physics.
As a music composer and researcher in auditory display, Domenico worked with organisations like CERN and NASA, creating music from scientific data. He has been involved in the application of grid technologies for science and the arts since the late 1990s, chairing the ASTRA (Ancient instrument Sound/Timbre Reconstruction Application) project for the reconstruction of musical instruments by means of computer models using the European Grid Infrastructure (EGI.eu).
Domenico's research has been featured on several international peer-reviewed magazines (Physics Letters B, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, European Physics Journal) and in interviews for (among the others): Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, BBC, CNN, Discovery Channel, Discover magazine, New Scientist and Scientific American.
