Hans Peter Kuhn, composer and artist, lives and works in Berlin and Amino (Kyoto, JP). His light and sound installations are exhibited in many museums and galleries or on public sites worldwide, among others at Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Centre Pompidou Paris, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Seattle Art Museum, Tokushima Modern Art Museum. Internationally acclaimed are Lightinstallations in public places, like: The Pier, New York 1996, A Light and Sound Transit, Leeds (UK) 2009, Vertical Lightfield, Singapore 2009, Acupuncture, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh (US) 2016, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (DE) 2017. The installation "Memory Loss" by Robert Wilson and Hans Peter Kuhn was awarded with the Golden Lion in Venice 1993. He worked for theatre with directors like Luc Bondy, Claus Peyman, Peter Zadek, Peter Stein and is best known for the music and sound environments he created in the long term collaboration with Robert Wilson. He composed the music for dances by Laurie Booth, Dana Reitz, Suzushi Hanayagim Sasha Waltz and Junko Wada. For this he received the Bessie Award New York and the Suzukinu Hanayagi Award Osaka. Hearing and listening are the themes of his performances, that are shown worldwide. Since 2012 he is Guest professor for Sound Studies at the Universität der Künste Berlin. www.hanspeterkuhn.com

Christina Kubisch is a composer, sound artist, performance artist, professor and flautist. She composes both electronic and acoustic music for multimedia installations. She gained recognition in the mid-1970s from her early works including concerts, performances and installations. Her compositions are mostly electracoustic, but she has written for ensembles as well. Since 2003 she works again as a performer and collaborates with various musicians and dancers. Her work focuses on synthesising audio and visual arts to create multi-sensory experiences for participants. She focuses on finding sounds and music in unusual places that participants would normally not think of as somewhere to experience sound. Since 1974 she had numerous solo exhibitions in Europe, USA, Australia, Japan and South America. Numerous participations in international festivals and group exhibitions such as: RUHR2010, European Capital of Culture project, Ruhr area 2010, Salon Urbain de Douala, Cameroon 2010, gateways, Art and Networked Culture, Tallinn 2011, White Walls Have Ears, Hong Kong 2012, Sound Art. Klang als Medium der Kunst, ZKM, Karlsruhe 2012, bonnhoeren, Beethovenstiftung Bonn, 2013, festival NOW, Essen 2014, blurred edges festival, Hamburg, 2015. Her music has been released with various labels such as Cramps Records, Edition RZ, ampersand, semishigure, Die Schachtel, Olof Bright, AA Records. www.christinakubisch.de

Bill Fontana is an American composer and artist who developed an international reputation for his pioneering experiments in sound. Fontana uses sound as a sculptural medium to interact with and transform our perceptions of visual and architectural spaces. Fontana began making sound sculptures in 1968. In a career spanning 50 years, Fontana's sound sculptures use the urban environment as a living source of musical information, all with the potential to conjure up visual imagery in the mind of the listener. He has realized sound sculptures and radio projects for museums and broadcast organizations around the world. His work has been exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, the Post Museum in Frankfurt, the Art History and Natural History Museums in Vienna, both Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London, the 48th Venice Biennale, the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, the Art Gallery of NSE in Sydney and the new Kolumba Museum in Cologne. He has done major radio sound art projects for the BBC, the European Broadcast Union, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, National Public Radio, West German Radio (WDR), Swedish Radio, Radio France and the Austrian State Radio. With the kind support of U.S. Embassy Berlin

Steffi Weismann is a composer-performer and sound artist based in Berlin. After her studies at the Berlin University of the Arts she became a member of the vocal performance group Maulwerker and has been performing experimental music internationally over many years. In addition to her solo performances, she realized numerous interactive installations and audiovisual works for voices, objects and video. Recently she collaborated with Annette Krebs, Özgür Erkök Moroder and Janine Eisenächer. Weismann has received several scholarships and prizes: Villa Aurora (Los Angeles), the Academy of Fine Arts Braunschweig (Erxleben Scholarship), support from the Goethe Institute for international shows and a working stipend (Contemporary Music) from the Berlin Senate (2019). Her works has been presented at Museum Serralves (Porto), ZKM (Karlsruhe), MQ (Vienna), Performance Arcade (Wellington, NZ), and HAU/Heroines of Sounds-Festival (Berlin) a.o. She is a member of the Errant Sound group - a project space for Sound Art in Berlin. www.steffiweismann.de

Sun Woo has been working as a spiritual guide for the last 30 years. He’s trained in South Korean temples for many years. His long practical experience, combined with his Buddhist training led to his extraordinary healing power. He has strong level of empathy, and a loving personality. His guidance made life-changing transfers in his student’s lives. His teachings are not only limited to Zen but also open to all beliefs and cultures. Ji Woo left her successful business career in London to help people in their journey of life. She has a gentle approachable attitude and genuine desire to help, and has enabled many people to change their lives for the better. She has created many personal development programmes. They use sound as the main element in their zen practices. They are currently living in Ida Mountains in West Turkey.

Prof. Dr. Koch’s research group is interested in how our brain „learns“ to understand our acoustic environment. They investigate which genetic and external factors contribute to the proper development of brain circuits that analyze sound patterns. To better understand these developmental processes they investigate neural circuits (ion channels, synapses, anatomical structures) in the auditory brainstem and midbrain using a combination of electrophysiology in acute brain slices and anatomical/ immunohistochemical methods. www.bit.ly/DrKochGroup

Hans Rosenström (b. 1978, Lohja, Finland). Rosenström’s practice centers around installations that deal with the viewers psychological and physical relationship within a specific moment and place. The works are often carefully produced in relation to the sites where they are experienced in. When creating these situations he uses a wide variety of media and material; from the ephemeral yet tactile qualities of sound to architectural interventions. The presence of the viewer is integral in the work which often remains incomplete until it has been activated. Rosenström has participated in multiple group exhibitions including: Anatomy of Political Melancholy, Schwarz Foundation, Athens Conservatory, Greece (2019), Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, 1st Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga (2018), The Garden – End of Times, Beginning of Time, Aros Triennial, Århus, Denmark (2017), The Vanishing Point of History, L’Été Photographique de Lectoure, France (2015), Theater of The Mind, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, USA (2014) and Nouvelles Vagues: The Black Moon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2014). His solo exhibitions include No Land is an Island, Kuntsi, Museum of Modern Art in Vaasa, Finland (2019), a u g u s t, Helsinki Contemporary, Finland (2017) and Off Seasons, in collaboration with Stormglas at EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland (2017) and Du utan jag, The Studio, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Sweden (2011). Rosenström’s works can be seen in multiple collections, including Kiasma, Museum of Contemporary Art, Amos Rex, EMMA, Espoo Museum of Modern Art, and the Saastamoinen Foundation Collection. In 2011 Rosenström was awarded the The Finnish Art Associasion Ducat Prize and in 2015 he was nominated for the Ars Fennica Prize. www.hansrosenstrom.net