Meet MCT Group C 2019
Group C
We are a diverse group of people, with members originating from France, Singapore, United States and Norway. Our background stems from different fields of the music industry. Music performance, music technology, musicology, sound design, spatial audio, acousmatic composition and music recording are amongst our expertise fields. We are all eager to get started with the hard work, and hopefully, change the world as technological humanists.
Bio
Aleksander Tidemann
Im a musician and sound technologist from Kongsberg, Norway. I started off as a drummer but gradually got more interested in various music and media technologies after high school. Prior to this degree i´ve studied jazz drumming, live electronics, musicology, sonology and sound design in both Norway and Australia. Apart from university and working part time as a technical supervisor at an arts/comedy stage in Oslo, I like to play with my bands, watch russian movies, read books and climb plastic mountains at the gym.
Antoine Hureau
I’m a french composer, sound designer and art technology consultant based in Bergen, Norway. I used to be a choir singer when is was younger but I dropped any kind of acoustic instrumental practice to focus on live and studio electronics, putting emphasis on spatial audio and acousmatic composing, I’m very much into audio networks as well. I like to work on my own synths when I have a bit of time and I compose and work with other artists on several kind of collaborative projects (ensembles, installations, soundtracks). I also work at the university of Bergen as an AV technician in the art, music and design department.
Paul Koenig
Back when the earth was still cooling and mobile phones had not yet coalesced from the analog mist, I received a degree in Music Composition from the University of North Texas. After running away for a bit (i.e., several decades) from music as a career, I finally ran out of options and have made my living for the past ten years as an Arizona-based songwriter and performer, touring all over the U.S. and eating a lot of ramen, both literally and figuratively.
Being both frightened and mildly aroused by the beeps and boops of digital things, and with a philosophical interest in the concept of Technological Humanism, I enrolled in the MCT program in an attempt to move from tech voyeurism (I like to watch other people do it) to a more hands-on approach.
In the meantime, I love to manually manipulate acoustically-vibrating media and bellow my compositions into a microphone, performing as a one-man-band under the nom de guerre PK Gregory.
I also love cooking, long walks on the beach, and soup. I have a wife (Erin) and two kids (River, 12; Zevon, 4) who are still unsure of what just happened but are going with the flow for the moment.
Tom Ignatius
I’m a Record Producer with specialisation in Vocal Production and Recording from Singapore. Studied in Liverpool, United Kingdom. I play a lot of instruments and with most of them at a horrible level. I have worked on music featured on Top Gear and the Grand Tour and I am obsessed with pushing the limits of sound design and the limits of recording techniques. I still work with musicians from all over the world and I’m head of sound with the company Andsoforth.
Thomas Anda
I´m a guitarist, composer and educator who originates from the west coast of Norway. I have a broad range of interest fields, and as a consequence of that, I have a somewhat diverse academic background. I´ve studied music performance, social studies, business, musicology and songwriting & production. When I´m not studying I work with music-related stuff, play music with my friends, eat panang gai and binge-watch sports documentaries.