Roméo Poirier
Roméo Poirier is working in the field of electronic music, focusing on heavy processing of samples and digital collage. He released albums on the London based record label Kit Records (Plage Arrière), the mancunian record label Sferic (Hotel Nota), and Jan Jelinek’s own imprint Faitiche (Living Room), transforming the layering of different times into a free-flowing pulse that sounds both nostalgic and mysteriously ahistorical.
Roméo Poirier’s new album “Off The Record, to be released on Oct 10 on Faitiche, is an entertaining tour de force through the clandestine history of recording studios: 14 collages miniatures based on accidental recordings of studio conversations.
Madalyn Merkey
Madalyn Merkey is a composer and performer of live computer music based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her recent work observes the principles of acoustic instruments and material spaces to design real-time sound synthesis programs for site-specific performances.
In 2015, Merkey translated the pioneer electronic music text, "Due scuole di musica elettronica in Italia" (1968) by composer Enore Zaffiri (b. Turin, 1928), from Italian to English. She first realized the audio portion of Zaffiri’s projects at Mills College in 2014 as part of her MFA thesis in Electronic Music. She then completed further research at the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence, Italy.
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