Dayou Yu, born in 2002 in Jiaxing, China, is a composer, sound artist, and electronic musician.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Music and Media from the Shanghai Conservatory of Music. Since 2026, he has been pursuing a Master’s degree in Sound Art-Composition at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Hochschule für Musik Mainz.
Yu received training in composition, violin, and piano, and has worked as a composer, arranger, sound designer, mixing engineer, beatboxer, and vocal percussionist in a cappella ensembles. His work spans sound art, film scoring, electronic music, and orchestral composition. Beyond sound-based practices, he is also skilled in complex origami and 3D modeling, which expand the possibilities for his interdisciplinary artistic work.
Drawing inspiration from sound art, electronic music, philosophy, Buddhist and Taoist thought, Yu investigates how sound shapes perception and imagination. His artistic practice is dedicated to transforming thought into compelling artistic works.
Fatemeh Barzkar, born in 1996 in Tehran, is a sound artist and piano teacher. She has a conceptual approach towards sound and silence and explores the function of imagination regarding sound and other sensory elements. She has a bachelor's degree in handicrafts and aims to bind her diverse experience in working with different materials and media with her ideas to create sound art.
She says "For me, art is an act of pointing—of directing attention. It can be as simple as a finger indicating a landscape, or as complex as referring to an abstract concept through language or other artistic media. My engagement with sound art developed through my interest in art and music, and through a range of artistic experiences that gradually made listening and sound central to my practice. I became interested in how sound can create a sense of wonder and awe, especially in relation to other senses, perception, and imagination. Recording environmental sounds alongside photography was my first attempt to give form to this experience and to share it. As I continue this path through my studies in Sound Art composition in Germany, as well as through traveling and recording sounds to build a personal sonic archive, I remain focused on exploring new sensory experiences centered on listening. My final project is about listening to the environment through earphones. I am working on a site specific album using noises-especially white noise-and recorded sounds that interact with environmental sounds."
Awards
2025 - Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz - Cultural Recognition Award 2026 - DAAD price of the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Exhibitions
Dec. 2024, Fill in the Blanks in the exhibition “Jack in the Black Box” at the Black Box of the HfM
Feb. 2025, two works at OPEN-EXPO as part of the international sound art festival OPENING at the TUFA in Trier
June 2025 Participation in the research project “Sound Art and Industrial Culture at the Sayner Hütte” with three works
Oct 2025 Group Composition of Sound Collage Lab/Donaueschingen Musiktage
June 2025 Culture Prize of the Rotary Club Mainz-Churmeyntz, world premiere of Hamhame
Nov 2025, invitation to present Fill in the Blanks at Tehran Sound Festival, Berlin
Jan. 2026 Invitation to participate in the Playtime:à suivre festival, HbK in Bern
Feb. 2026 exhibition “Coiled Waves” at the Black Box of the HfM, installation: Homage to Khayyam
June 2026 – invitiation to present the installation Homage to Khayyam at the festival next generation XI at ZKM, Karlsruhe
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
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.
Favoring a simple approach towards material and form in composition. maintaining a considerable mobility regarding aesthetics and discursive positions. no intention of overlapping them.
Trained in composition, classical and electric guitar, and latin american contemporary aesthetics
From musical compositions to essays, songs to conceptual works, performing solo or within different musical communities in Argentina and Europe.
Composer, researcher, and guitarist, Tomás Cabado was born in 1993 in Buenos Aires, Argentinia. Currently he lives in Mainz, Germany. Since 2011, he has been active simultaneously in the jazz and popular music scene, as well as in the field of experimental music, working as a composer, arranger, educator, instrumentalist, producer, and manager both in Europe and Latin America.
He holds a Bachelor's degree in Musical Arts, graduating in 2016 with the highest average of his cohort from the National University of the Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentinia); and a National Teaching degree in Music from the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music (Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2011). He also studied in the Advanced Jazz Program at the Manuel de Falla Conservatory (Buenos Aires, Argentinia , 2018) and in the Master's program in Contemporary Latin American Aesthetics at the National University of Avellaneda (Argentinia , 2019). He studied guitar privately with Juan Pablo Arredondo and improvisation with Wenchi Lazo. In 2017, he continued his composition studies in Germany with maestro Antoine Beuger, focusing on experimentation in contemporary music.
Since the summer semester of 2024 he is pursuing the Master’s degree in Sound Art-Composition at the Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Hochschule für Musik., Germany.
He received scholarships for training, mobility, and creation from various institutions such as cheLA (2013), the Center for Artistic Research (2014), the National University of the Arts (2015), the National Fund for the Arts (2016), the Argentine Fund for Cultural and Creative Development (2017, twice), the Pro-Helvetia Foundation (2019), and the Williams Foundation (2023).
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.
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
