Kerry Hagan and John Bowers

Kerry Hagan is a composer who develops real-time spatialization methods and stochastic synthesis algorithms. Her work endeavours to achieve aesthetic and philosophical aims whilst taking inspiration from maths and sciences. In this way, each work combines music with various domains. In 2010, Kerry led a group of practitioners to form the Irish Sound, Science and Technology Association, where she served as President until 2015. Kerry founded the Spatialization and Auditory Display Environment at the University of Limerick (2007-2023). Currently, she is an Associate Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and President of the International Computer Music Association.

John Bowers is an independent artist-researcher and improvising musician. He works with modular synthesizers, home-brew electronics, reconstructions of antique image and sound-making devices, self-made software, field recordings, esoteric sensor systems, experimental film, and spoken text. He has performed at festivals including the Venice Biennale, Experimental Intermedia New York, Transmediale/CTM Vorspiel Berlin, Piksel Bergen, Aldeburgh Festival and Spill Ipswich, and toured with the Rambert Dance Company performing David Tudor’s music to Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest. He contributed to The Prayer Companion – a piece exhibited twice at the Museum Of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and acquired for their permanent collection.