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Jen-Kuang Chang, a native of Taiwan, is working on the acoustic, electro-acoustic, and audiovisual composition as expressive agents.

Mr. Chang ‘s chamber ensemble work, “Chakra”, was named the Second Prize winner of the JIMS “Stadtpfeifer” International Composition Contest for Improvised Chamber Music in Salzburg and was premiered by the Vienna-based Janus Ensemble under the direction of Christoph Cech. The score of “Chakra” has been selected for inclusion in the SCI Journal of Music Scores, published by EAM, the European American Music Distributors Corporation.

Mr. Chang's works have been selected for inclusion in the International Computer Music Conference, SCI National Conference, SCI Regional Conference, SCI Student National Conference, CMS National Conference, CMS Regional Conference, NACUSA National Conference, Spark Festival of Electronic Music and Arts, Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival, Summer Studies for Jazz & Improvised Music Salzburg, Sonoimágenes International Acousmatic and Multimedia Festival and IV Jornadas Argentinas de Música Contemporánea in Argentina, Visionaria International Toscana Videofestival, Festival Internazionale di Musica Elettroacustica del Conservatorio S.Cecilia, ASTAS ROMAS 404 International Electronic Art Festival, Sguardi Sonori Festival of Media and Time Based Art in Italy, CYNETart Festival, Backup Festival, B-Seite Verein für Visuelle Kunst und Jetztkultur, transNATURALE Festival of Sound and Light in Germany, ElectroMediaWorks Festival and Naoussa International Short Film and Video Festival in Greece, Signal and Noise Festival, NAISA SOUNDplay Festival, and UPART Contemporary Art Fair in Canada, Canariasmediafest Gran Canaria International Festival of Arts and Digital Cultures, International Forum Art Tech Media Códoba, and Zeppelin Sound Art Festival in Spain, FONLAD Digital Arts Festival in Portugal, Expo Brighton and Sound:Space Sound Art Symposium in UK, International Les Instants Vidéo Festival and Festival des musiques d’aujourd’hui Un son par là, Carré d’Art in France, FIAD Festival Internacional de Arte Digital in El Salvador, Australasian Computer Music Conference in Australia and other events.

TRACK INFORMATION

Music Omi International Residency2008 Improvisation Session

Set A. Ivo Bol (Live Electronics) Ute Völker (Accordion) Milo Tamez (Percussion) Jen-Kuang Chang (Piano)

Set B. Ivo Bol (Live Electronics) Ricardo Arias (Balloon Kit) Jen-Kuang Chang (Piano & Singing Bowl)

Set C. Hans Parment (Flute) Udo Moll (Live Electronics) Milo Tamez (Percussion) Jen-Kuang Chang (Piano)

Set D. Ursel Schlicht (Piano) Udo Moll (Trumpet & Live Electronics) Ute Völker (Accordion) Hans Parment (Flute) Milo Tamez (Percussion) Jen-Kuang Chang (Aux. Percussion & Singing Bowl)

Guest Artist:

Ursel Schlicht is an internationally active pianist, composer, improviser, scholar and educator. She has played improvised music, jazz, new music and world music throughout Europe, North America, Russia, Mexico and Australia. Recent performances include: Guelph Jazz Festival (Canada), Festival for Creative Music in Seattle (US), International Music Meeting in Monterrey (Mexico), Melbourne Women's International Jazz Festival (Australia), Symposium für Aktuelle Music and Jazz Festival Kassel (Germany). Schlicht has written for large and small ensembles, dance theater and improvisational scores for silent film. As an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center in New York, she created a score for F.W. Murnau's silent classic film Faust.

Music Omi Fellows:

Ute Völker (Germany)is an accordionist who specialises in improvised music. She gives concerts regularly at international festivals for improvised music in Europe where she performs as a soloist or in ad-hoc positions. She also works in interdisciplinary projects together with visual artists, video film makers, actors, literati and performers. She lives in Wuppertal and works as a music teacher at the Musikschule Bochum (Bochum Music School).

Ivo Bol (Netherlands) is a composer, live performer and sound artist from Amsterdam who specializes in music for film, dance and theatre. He has developed a live sampling and synthesis instrument using various game controllers to trigger and manipulate sound in an intuitive and playful way. Ivo Bol has finished a Sonology course at the Royal Conservatory in Den Haag and has performed in China, the United States, Venezuela and throughout Europe.

Milo Tamez (Mexico) a freelance Mexican percussionist-composer, leads: SchlagArt Project ¨Arte Percusivo Libre¨; rízOmä dance-poetry-percussion-video collective; and the TAMBORERO LAB Percussion Quartet.

Ricardo Arias (Colombia) studied composition and electroacoustic music with Chilean composer Gabriel Brncic at the Phonos Foundation in Barcelona and flute with Hiroshi Kobayashi and Joan Bofill, also in Barcelona. He is currently studying Anthropology in New York City. He has performed most notably in Barcelona (Miro Foundation, Metrónom, etc), Bogotá (BLAA, Auditorio León de Greiff, etc), Cali (Teatro Jorge Izaacs), Berlin (Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Buenos Aires (Centro Cultural Rojas), Amsterdam (STEIM), The Hague (Korzo Theater, etc), Baltimore (Red Room), and New York (Roulette, ABC No-Rio, etc).

Udo Moll (Germany) Cologne-based trumpet player and composer Udo Moll is widely recognized as one of the most innovative minds of the younger German music scene. Having studied jazz trumpet and contemporary composition in Cologne, he founded the legendary groups "Brainslasher," "Teufelshörner" and "Novotnik44," and composed music for dance theatre and a variety of chamber music in cross-stylistic settings. Currently he works a lot with media artists and is researching Eastern European folk music as well as the possibilities of using the computer as an instrument for improvisation. Traveling with diverse groups, Moll has played concerts all over Europe and in Iran, Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Taiwan, Korea and Japan.

Hans Parment (Sweden) has written music for a diverse range of performers and environments, from solo-instrument to orchestra. Today he mostly works with electroacoustic music, often in combination with live instruments. As a flutist, Hans plays improvised contemporary music and often works on interdisciplinary projects bringing together visual artists, performers and video film makers. Currently Hans Parment teaches composition, with responsibility for the Master Class for Contemporary Music at Växjö University, and is also a teacher with the Art & Sound Department at the Culture School in Växjö, is a producer at Contemporary Music and Artists (CoMA), a centre for modern art music in Växjö, is also Chairman of Media Artes, an experimental forum for innovative artistic manifestations.