Tom Mudd

Tom Mudd makes music with computers. Central themes are the relationships between software and music, software as material, and the histories and cultural lives of synthesis processes. Recent work has revolved around physical models: digital synthesis processes based on physical simulations of acoustic objects and instruments. Brass Cultures (Fancyyyyy) used massed brass synthesis; Guitar Cultures explored the guitar in similar fashion. Previous work, Gutter Synthesis, released on the Entr’acte label, explored similar themes with his own synthesis processes.
tommudd.co.uk

Marcin Pietruszewski

Marcin Pietruszewski a composer and researcher based in Edinburgh.

He is engaged in sound synthesis and composition with computers, exploring specific formal developments in the tradition of electroacoustic music and contemporary sound art, as well as extra-musical domains of auditory design, computational linguistics and psychoacoustics. He works across performance, multimedia installation and radio productions probing the dynamics between formalism of synthetic sound and its material realisation.

He has collaborated extensively with musicians and composers - e.g., Marcus Schmickler (performed and recorded Schmickler's Demos for choir, chamber quintet and electronics), Tristan Clutterbuck (fancyyyyy), Jules Rawlinson and Lauren Sarah Hayes. Recent projects include a collaboration with Florian Hecker and a graphic design company NORM from Zurich and a new commission for ZKM in Karlsruhe.

www.marcinpietruszewski.com
https://soundcloud.com/marcin_pietruszewski

FUA

FUA is a trio of Tina Krekels, Adam Campbell and Tristan Clutterbuck; currently based in Berlin, Glasgow and Manchester. Since 2012 they have collaborated as a trio and as part of larger groups using voice, synthesis, saxophone and guitar. They co-run the fancyyyyy label and synth editions together, which has forthcoming releases from Tom Mudd and Marcin Pietruszewski. Forthcoming open source hardware releases include complex and chaotic oscillators. Two of three members have cats, the other doesn’t, he’s allergic. FUA enjoys making music together.

fancyyyyy.bandcamp.com/album/fua
https://www.fancysynthesis.net/