Benjamin Flesser is a Berlin-based composer, performer of live electronic music, sound designer, and instrument builder. Specializing in analog and hybrid modular synthesizers, and custom or manipulated electronics, he has designed and refined several hundred systems for studio, performance, and environment-sensing installations. Before his current role as a teacher and mentor, he worked as a product consultant at Berlin's renowned modular synthesizer retailer, Schneidersladen. His solo and collaborative performance and installation works have been featured in festivals, galleries, and concert venues such as Berlin Atonal, Blurred Edges Hamburg, Silent Green Berlin, Arkaoda Berlin, Contemporary Divan Ficarra, and on record labels like Cloudchamber Recordings. His artistic and research endeavors have received funding from Musikfonds and Pro Helvetia, among others. Since 2021, Benjamin has been teaching and mentoring bachelor's and master's students, while he has been working with private clients with professional backgrounds in sound art and electronic music since 2019. In 2016, he founded Hyperlinear as a concert edition, with recurring collaborations with NK Project. Benjamin offers mentoring, consulting, and development in the following fields:
— modular synthesizers
— sound design
— advanced pattern synthesis
— algorithmic/generative music
— studio and performance setup improvement
— custom electronics and instrument building
Book a session with Benjamin
benjamin@hyperlinear.net
Gabriel Francisco Lemos (São Paulo, Brazil) is a composer, performer, visual artist, and researcher based in Berlin. Graduated in Visual Arts and Composition with an emphasis in Electronic Music, Lemos's work concerns composition, sound design, writing, and audio technology implemented in fixed media for electronic music, instrumental ensembles, installations, performance, and audiovisual. He has participated in São Paulo's music and art scene, presenting his work at the International Electroacoustic Biennale of São Paulo, Novas Frequências Festival, Pinacoteca of São Paulo, VideoBrasil and the SP Jewish Museum. He had compositions premiered at festivals, events, and exhibitions in London, Holland, Germany, Monaco, and Portugal. Since 2022 Lemos has taught electronic music, performance, and composition in Berlin institutions and as a private tutor. Currently, Lemos is a doctoral candidate at the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP), where he researches the implementation of neural networks in sound synthesis and composition, focusing on its aesthetic influence during multimedia and organized sound creative processes. His work has received funding from FAPESP, DAAD, and Capes. Between 2013 and 2018, Lemos composed pieces for percussion ensemble, and electronic medium and organized concerts in partnership with the Percussion Group of the University of Sao Paulo State (PIAP) and the electroacoustic studio PANaroma. Since 2015 Lemos has taught in universities, schools, and cultural centers. Between 2019 and 2022, he taught sound design for video games at the University of Information (FIAP) and 20th and 21st Century Musical Theory, Notation, Improvisation, and Electronic Music at the Sao Paulo State School of Music (EMESP).
Lemos offers mentoring and consulting in the following fields:
— Electronic music composition
— Introduction to computer music using SuperCollider
— Hybrid forms of music notation and conceptualization of performance
— Electronic music production and arrangement
— Conceptualization and development of interdisciplinary artistic projects
— Composing for spatial sound and installations
— Development of creative processes in sound art
— Aesthetics and music history
Book a session with Gabriel
gabriel@hyperlinear.net
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