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BIO
Taegyu Lim majored in Music Technology and Computer Science in University. He also making and releasing music after graduation.
Lim worked as a composer, mix engineer. In 2020, he released his own album. In 2022, he also published a thesis on the impact of short-form videos on humans. Taegyu Lim’s art and research typically explores the interplay between nature, space, and their relationships between humans. And primarily grounded in ecological(especially sound ecological) and philosophical perspectives, although at times, it also incorporates scientific elements.
And the result manifests itself in converging compositions, artistic installations, performances or media artworks.

This research goes beyond simply dealing with sound; it will serve as a substantial foundation for transitioning from being a musician to engaging in the broader realm of artistic endeavors, building a complex artistic experience and career.

Taegyu Lim successfully passed his master's exam in July 2026.
We wish him all the very best for the future!

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EDUCATION
BaekSeok Art University (2018~2020)
- Music Technology Major - Associate degree
Korea National Open University (2021~2023, Korea) - Computer Science Major
- Bachelor's degree of Science

SKILLS
Musical Programming Tools (DAW)
- Ableton Live, Max/MSP, Studio one, Cubase and Logic
Musical Programming Tools (VSTs)
- Operator, Analog, Wavetable, Serum, Diva, Massive, Kontakt libraries and etc...
Programming Language
- C#, Java, Max, Python, C++ and C
Programming Tools
- Microsoft Visual Studio, Unity, Touchdesigner, Max/MSP

 

Cat Woywod (it/them)-reflects habits of perception through intermedial and multisensory work
Sound - Light - Performance
Based in Kassel, DE

Instagram @catwoywod
soundcloud.com/catwoywod

Born 1992 in Germany

2014 - 2016 apprenticeship in biological Herb and vegetable cultivation, Benediktbeuern
monastery garden, Benediktbeuern, DE

2016 - 2023 Study of Fine Art and Visual Communication, Focus on Sound, New Media and
Performance. Professors Jens Brand, Mathilde ter Heinje, Beste Aydin (NeneH), Mounira Al Sohl,
Rosa Menkman, Mario de Vega, Joel Baumann at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, Hesse, DE

2023 Artistic degree “with distinction” in fine arts at the Kassel University of Art, specialization in
Sound and Multisensory Works.

2024 - 2026 Post-Grad “Meisterschüler” study in Sound art and Composition at the Mainz
University of Music, with Prof. Peter Kiefer

Cat Woywod successfully passed the

Meisterschüler-Exam (Postgraduate Fine Arts Degree)

on July 22, 2026.

We wish Cat all the very best for the future!

BIO Continue reading "Cat Woywod (Meisterschülerin)"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Juan Bermúdez, born in 1994 in Bogota, Colombia, is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Wiesbaden, Germany. He has a degree in sound engineering and sound art where he studied under the tutoring of Peter Kiefer, Stefan Fricke and Salome Voegelin. Bermúdez's artistic practice spans intermedia installation, sound art, video, and text. He is recognized for his minimalistic and conceptual approach to sound, field recordings, and electronic music using them as a foundation to explore other mediums. His work engages deeply with themes such as the politics of time and non-human measures of time, often through durational processes that transform the public perception over the course of an exhibition.

Bermúdez has showcased his work in numerous venues, including Espacio Odeon in Bogota, Kunstverein Münsterland in Coesfeld (SoundSeeing Festival), Karl-Marx-Haus and Museum am Simeonstift in Trier (OPENING Sound Art Festival), WaveCave Sound Art Gallery in California, and Rhein-Mosel Halle in Koblenz among others. His works have been performed or featured in HR2 Kultur in Frankfurt, Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik, Museo Santa Clara in Bogota, and art.ist - Kooperative New Jazz Walkmühle in Wiesbaden.

He has received several awards, including the Deutschland Stipendium, the Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz Cultural Promotion Award, and a DAAD-Colfuturo Master's Degree Scholarship. Bermúdez's work examines the temporality of waiting, social pluritemporalities, and the interplay of time, sound, and memory, critically reflecting on contemporary society's obsession with accuracy and the multifaceted nature of temporal experiences. Currently he is studying “Sound Art - Composition” as part of the post-graduate studies (Meisterschüler:in) at the Hochschule für Musik Mainz.

Juan Bermudez successfully passed

the Meisterschüler-Exam (Postgraduate Fine Arts Degree)

on June 27, 2026

We wish him all the very best for the future!

Webpage: https://www.juanbermudez.net

Kyungseo Min was born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1993.
She studied applied music (jazz and pop music composition) at Nazarene University in Korea.
As a jazz duo and trio, she has performed at music festivals and served as an accompanist (keyboardist) for Korean singers.
In 2019 and 2021, she released her own single albums, which she produced.

Since 2021, she has been studying sound art and electronic music, mainly trying to focus on how to express various social issues with sound.
Since October 2022, she has been studying in the Master's programme in Sound Art- Composition at the Hochschule für Musik.

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Kyungseo Min

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leon Senger is a drummer, improvisor and sound artist.
Born 1995 in Wiesbaden, Germany, Senger grew up in Eltville am Rhein. In 2020, he completed his bachelor's degree in Jazz & Pop at the ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem (NL). There he discovered his love for improvised music and the exploration of sounds, among other things in lessons with Etienne Nillesen.

Probably equally important was the opportunity to follow a 2-year Honours Programme next to the Bachelor degree that focused on artistic research in the interdisciplinary environment at ArtEZ. After graduating, Leon focused on developing an electroacoustic solo performance based on the feedback tones of an amplified resonating drum.
Having returned to the Rhine-Main region, it was precisely this music that led him to the New Jazz Cooperative in Wiesbaden, which runs the "art.ist" concert space there.

Since October of 2021 he has been following the Master Klangkunst-Komposition at HfM Mainz in order to expand his artistic practice beyond pure instrumentalism. Here he investigated the sounds of drawing and painting and what aspects of these artistic expressions lay in their sonic qualities that do not completely show in their visual products.
In his sound art work, he consciously adopts the starting position that he does not act as a creative spirit and sole starting point in the creative process, but is in a constant improvising exchange with his environment or his material - be it in resonance or dissonance. This connects his various projects, which can range from "automatic drawings" and their sonic aspects to an examination of geological phenomena. In 2022 he was a scholarship holder at the 8th international winter campus of the artists' town of Kalbe.

He graduated in Master Soundart-Composition in Spring 2024 with his work UnTod – Leise sprechen die LautSprecher in the artist in Wiesbaden.

https://www.leon-senger.net/

Leon Senger auf soundcloud
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BIO

Nicolás is a music composer, multi-instrumentalist, and independent music producer, who also performs under his alias Nico Yurgaki.

He has also researched the musical traditions of the Colombian coast and Cuban music. He has a double bachelor's degree in piano jazz performance from the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Superior Music School of Catalonia in Barcelona, Spain, where he also completed a postgraduate degree at the Liceu Conservatory.
He is the founder and director of the Yurgaki music project, which mixes Caribbean music with contemporary tendencies in the whole language of jazz. With this project, he has recorded and released four albums and toured the world several times in countries such as Colombia, Spain, Equator, USA, Morocco, France, Italy, Romania, Croatia, and Azerbaijan, exchanging and learning from the music of all these different cultures.

Nicolás continues to work with the director and set designer Elena Tilli, co-founder of the Cistifellea Theatre Collective, currently based in Dortmund Germany, where he works as a sound designer, text, and project writer.

With this collective, he had the opportunity to collaborate with stage performance artists in Spain, Mexico, and Germany and to start active research in scenic languages at the Scuola Conia of the Societas Raffaello Sanzio in Cesena, Italy.
In Europe, Nicolás has worked as a music producer, composer, and performer since 2009.

He investigates unconventional forms of participation of the audience while attending a performance and as inspiration to his process with sound. He develops specific tools for interaction and builds custom-based small-scale instruments.

Using software, and electronic sounds, together with live played instruments, Nicolas allows himself a fullscale exploration that together with his wide versatility as a musician and composer, opens up a high level of complexity that translates into a beautiful, inspiring, and sometimes provocative experience for the public.

Since the summer semester of 2024, he has been studying for a Master's degree in Sound Art Composition at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Hochschule für Musik and completed his master's degree in May 2026.

www.yurgaki.com
www.cistifellea.eu

EDUCATION Continue reading "Nicolás Alejandro Cristanco"

Juan David Bermúdez is a Colombian sound artist, composer, and music producer. His work as an artist revolves around the relationships between sound, space, and time and how to experience existence through sound. Juan David has a Music bachelor degree with emphasis on Sound engineering from the Javeriana University, finishing his studies with academic honors in 2018. His sound installations have been exhibited in Matik-Matik, Biblioparque Marqués de San Jorge, Javeriana University and Espacio Odeón. Since 2018, he has been part of the experimental music ensembles Time Canvases and Indemo that perform and compose music in non-conventional settings, hoping to create experiences in which the music becomes part of everyday situations.

He studied for a Master of Music in Sound Art Composition at the Mainz University of Music under Peter Kiefer, Stefan Fricke and Andres Bosshard, graduating with top marks in October 2023.
He has been a master student in the Sound Art Composition class since summer semester 2024 - see here: https://soundart.uni-mainz.de/2024/05/17/juan-david-bermudez-meisterschuler/

https://www.juanbermudez.net

Wingel Pérez Mendoza was born in Mexico City (1982). He got the Trinity College Bachelor degree in composition in 2009, later he studied at Rotterdam Conservatory with Robin de Raaff (composition Professor) and Rene Uijlenhoet (Electronic music Professor) in The Netherlands in which he got the Master degree in composition in 2014. Later, he studied his Meisterklasse Komposition in the Hochschule für Musik Würzburg in Germany with Professor Robert HP Platz. He is studied the Master's program Klangkunst Komposition in the Hochschule für Musik Mainz with Prof. Peter Kiefer and Prof. Ancke Exckardt.

For Wingel, the sound is a material that is made not only by sonic energy, but it is made with images, memories, lights, movements, actions like touching, thinking. Therefore, my personal interest as a composer and sound artist is to expand the context of sound interacting with external sources such as electronic means (live electronics, video, space [sound environment and the interaction with nature], image, movement, sensors) and also the interaction with other arts such as dance and/or Theatre, in order to create new possibilities and new ways of perception. Moreover, I improvise and perform with different devices (digital and analog) as a part of sound practice. Finally, as an exploration, I create my own analog devices or digital instruments in order to find new sources of sounds.

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Soundcloud

Youtube

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Danbi Jeung was born in 1991 in Seoul, South Korea. She studied musical instrumental- and electronic composition in Seoul and Hanover (Germany). Since 2019, she has been studying composition and sound art at the University of Music Karlsruhe and HfM Mainz.

Her works have been performed and exhibited by various ensembles and in several places such as Ensemble Harmony, Trio Surplus, Ensemble Musikfabrik, Ensemble cross.art in Seoul, Karlsruhe, Bremen, Lüneburg, Hanover, and Fulda, etc. In her work, she deals with the combination of sounds, plays, and text, and uses new scene phenomena.

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