FERNANDO HESTER (IT)
Zooming (2023)
acusmatico 6’54” – CRM | MA/IN

TAN LIUYANG (CN)
Summer Seen (2023)
acusmatico 7’03” – CRM | MA/IN

ADAM STANOVIC (UK)
To US.S..S... (2021)
acusmatico 9’17” – CRM | MA/IN

YU CHUNG TSENG (TW)
Cymorphosis (2024)
acusmatico 8’10” – CRM | MA/IN

FERNANDO HESTER (IT)
Zooming (2023)

My musical research focuses on the development of a perceptual experience characterized by a fluid or sudden shift through varied sonic landscapes. The stylistic choices employed in my compositions aim to lead the listener through a journey of both estrangement and familiarity, utilizing synthetic and real sounds. Inspired by the
aesthetics and techniques explored significantly by figures such as Iannis Xenakis, Curtis Roads, Autechre and Horacio Vaggione, I incorporate many techniques such as granulation, vocoding, concatenative synthesis, etc.

ADAM STANOVIC (UK)
To US.S..S... (2021)

Over the past ten years, I have been influenced and inspired by the works of my various students and colleagues in the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS) (UK). In early 2022, I left Sheffield’s music department, and this piece was my parting ‘gift’: an homage to my amazing colleagues, students, and friends. To US.S..S… is, in a sense, my view on where acousmatic music is going; a blending, fusing, integration of ideas old and new, clichéd and novel, emerging and disappearing… In my postmodern ‘toast’ to the University of Sheffield Sound Studios (USSS), therefore, please raise your glasses ‘To Us…’ or rather, ‘To USSS…’ or rather, ‘To US.S..S…’.

YU CHUNG TSENG (TW)
Cymorphosis (2024)

Acousmatic and spatial music for multi-channel live diffusion. The source of the work was drawn mainly from the recorded fragments of antique cymbal and Chinese opera cymbal. The Cymorphosis is not absolutely abstract, but oscillates between the real and virtual sound world while the work evolving. As a result, a sense of beauty of Ying and Yang of Chinese philosophy was created. The work was finished on February in 2024 at the Sound Lab at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University in Taiwan (NYCU).

FERNANDO HESTER (Italia, 1990)
Fernando Hester is a composer and sound designer based in Bologna, Italy. He was born in 1990 and grew up in Arezzo, where he went to Art school. He first approached music trough the study of saxophone and then moved on to DJing, which he did for nearly a decade. After years of experimenting with electronic music outside the academic world, he enrolled into the Electronic Music program of the Conservatory of Bologna, where he is currently studying Sound Design. His research focuses on computer music and acousmatic composition.

TAN LIUYANG (Cina, 2001)
Tan Liuyang is a postgraduate student majoring in electronic music composition in the Electronic Music Department of Sichuan Conservatory of Music. He studies with Professor Lu Minjie. His electronic music work The Seed has been selected for the 2022 ICMC and the "Earth Day" Music Festival. Summer Seen has been selected for the 2023 ICMC. And the work Sihouette Won the Excellence Award in the Acoustic Electronic Music Group of the 2023 IEMC International Electronic Music Competition.

ADAM STANOVIC (Regno Unito, 1981)
Adam Stanović (né Stansbie) started composing electronic music over twenty-five years ago, at both Leeds College of Music and University of Leeds (UK), where he was introduced to computer music by Dale Jonathan Perkins. He went on to complete a PhD at City University, London, where he devoted himself to acousmatic music under the supervision and guidance of Denis Smalley. In 2016, he co-founded the British ElectroAcoustic Network (BEAN), affiliated with the International Confederation of Electroacoustic Music (CIME). He is currently a director of the Composer’s Desktop Project (CDP), and Director of Sound and Music at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts (UK).

YU CHUNG TSENG (Taiwan, 1960)
Yu-Chung Tseng, receiving his DMA from UNT in Texas, is a professor of Electronic music composition and serves as the Director of multi-channel Sound Lab at Institute of Music at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) in Taiwan. His music, written for both acoustic and electronic media have received many selection/awards, performances at festivals and conferences, and can be heard on labels including CDCM (U.S.A.), Discontact iii (Canada), Pescara (It.), Contemporanea (It.), Metamorphoses (Belgium), SEAMUS (USA), KECD2 (Demark), Musica Nova (Czech), ICMC 2011 DVD and ICMC 2015 CD, Il Suono delle Lingue (It.), Electroacoustic & Beyond 7 (UK).