current & former residents
Mári Mákó
Mári Mákó is a sound artist and composer based in Rotterdam and Berlin. Her work has been described as avant-garde electronic and post-club, characterized by a controlled yet abstract complexity in her music. She builds her own instruments to produce unique and unconventional sounds in her compositions. These practices are informed by her research interests, which include the ecology of listening, experimental notation, interactive design, and conducting processes. She is pursuing her Doctor of Liberal Arts program at MOME in Budapest and participating in residencies between Rotterdam and Berlin. Mári has been working on adapting a tactile stone interface for spatialization and sound composition. Additionally, she has been preparing a live set for multichannel performances in Ambisonics while incorporating a powerful software tool developed by spæs lab fellow Daniele Fabris into her musical repertoire.
https://marimako.com/
Zhao Jiajing
Zhao Jiajing, hailing from China, is a composer, sound artist, and new media artist currently based in London. He completed his studies at the Royal College of Art in 2022, majoring in Information Experience Design with a focus on Sound Design. Jiajing's work encompasses a variety of disciplines, such as spatial sound, new media, performance, and installation. His work is inspired by time, consciousness, chaos, and surveillance themes. He explores sound as a pathway to multiple worlds. Using field recordings, sound collages, and granular synthesis techniques, he creates immersive sonic experiences that stimulate multi-sensory imagination. His work has been showcased at prominent venues, including Old Street Gallery, EiS Immersive Audio Conference, and IRCAM. Since 2019, he has actively collaborated with trailblazing theatre groups, performers, and installation artists to provide music and sound for their projects. Jiajing has been developing an alternative interface solution for spatializing analog live sounds by experimenting with different methods of integrating a Theremin with Ambisonics spatialization software at @spaeslab. He has also been working on a new composition customized for a half-sphere setup, which has earned him an invitation to the 2024 New York Electronic Music Festival.
https://zhaojiajing.com/
Eric Raynaud
Fraction (Eric Raynaud) is a new media artist whose work focuses on immersive and audiovisual experience design. His practice has developed from a background in music composition and spatial sound, which led him to put together complete skills in the field of new media art. He now devotes his time writing and producing pieces integrating digital materials of different kinds. He is particularly interested in forms of experience that have strong interactions between generative art and sonic matter. Combining complex scenography and hybrid digital writing with visuals, sound, and physical media, he aims to forge links between contemporary art and digital scope within the frame of radical experiences.
www.fractionisnoise.art
Verena Lercher
Verena Lercher is an award-winning media artist based in London and Berlin with a 15-year background in professional stage play, theatre ensemble work, and off-production performance. She had ongoing collaborations with Christoph Schlingensief, Anja Behrens, Søs Gunver, Anna-Sophie Mahler, Krystian Lupa, Alexander Giesche, and Bram Jansen. From 2018 to 2020, she was a postgraduate student in exmedia at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (KHM, DE). Since 2021 she is engaged in practice-based artistic research on Sounding out Identities of the Artificial Voice with Adrian Heathfield, P.A. Skantze, and Angus Carlyle (GB).
www.verenalercher.com
Andrea Parkins
Andrea Parkins is a Berlin-based sound artist, composer, and electroacoustic musician who engages with interactive electronics as compositional/performative process. She is known for her pioneering gestural/textural approach on her electronically processed accordion and investigation of embodiment and chance with her custom-designed software instruments. [photo by Trond Lossius]
www.digitalinberlin.de/andrea-parkins
