Kari Watson & Aaron Holloway-Nahum Live in the Studio

Kari Watson (they/them) is a composer, performer, and sound artist working between the mediums of contemporary concert music, electroacoustic music, live performance, and interactive installation work. As a performer playing analog synthesizers, they engage a customizable spatialization software built in MaxMSP with spatial speaker arrays to further explore issues of tactility and drama in immersive, sonic environments. Watson holds a BM from Oberlin Conservatory in Composition, with a minor in TIMARA (technology in music and related arts) and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Chicago on a full fellowship from the Division of the Humanities.

Aaron Holloway-Nahum is a composer, conductor, recording engineer and sound artist. His music is characterised by its intimate portraiture of its performers, and his work in Spatial Audio systems such as d&b Soundscape. In his role of Head of Immersive at Southby Productions he has supported artists ranging from Holly Hearndon to Chase & Status. He is also the co-founder and co-Artistic Director of Riot Ensemble, and is on the composition faculty of the Royal Academy of Music, in London.

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