martin riches — tom johnson — konrad sprenger  

Martin Riches
Born 1942 on the Isle of Wight, England, has lived and worked in Berlin since 1969.
Riches has worked in the fields of kinetic and sound art since 1979. His first music machine
»The Flute Playing Machine« was created in 1979. Starting in the 1980s, Riches built among other pieces a self-playing violin, several percussive instruments, a »Talking Machine« and a »Singing Machine«. Riches presents his works both as installations and in the scope of concerts and performances. His work has been featured in numerous international exhibitions.
http://www.martinriches.de

Tom Johnson
Born in 1939 in Greeley, Colorado, has resided in Paris since 1983.
Johnson studied composition with Elliott Carter at Yale University in New Haven (Connecticut) and took private composition lessons from Morton Feldman. His compositions make use of a radically reduced range of musical material, which is developed with the aid of simple, often mathematical rules and models.

Konrad Sprenger
Born in 1977 in Lahr, lives and works in Berlin.
Konrad Sprenger is the pseudonym of Jörg Hiller, a Berlin based composer, music producer and artist. Hiller runs the »Choose« record label, for which he has produced releases by the likes of Ellen Fullman, Arnold Dreyblatt, Robert Ashley and Terry Fox. Since 2000, Hiller has been working with composer and sound artist Arnold Dreyblatt and composer/instrument builder Ellen Fullman, as well as collaborating with the bands Ethnostress and Ei and the artists collective Honey-Suckle Company, alongside regular performances as a solo artist.