John Hails (b. 1978) is a composer, improviser, and lecturer based in Edinburgh, UK. Within his research, ethnomusicology, aesthetics, and music psychology form a symbiotic relationship with compositional and performative activities to produce new avenues of investigation. He is currently Senior Lecturer: Reader in Music at Edinburgh Napier University, the Subject Group Leader for music, and the D...

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Ronny Hardliz is an independent practising artist and researcher holding an MA in architecture from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Lausanne. Currently he is a candidate for a mixed mode PhD entitled “‘wall sandwich’—The Architectural in Art Practice from Destruction to Non-Construction” at the Art and Design Research Institute of Middlesex University in London and is...

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HERMESensemble Antwerp is a collective of contemporary music and art. The repertoire and performance practice of the classical avant-garde forms the starting point of the productions, but the ensemble strives consciously to shift artistic boundaries: on the one hand seeking confrontations with early music, pop, and non-Western music, on the other hand examining synergies with other disciplines, su...

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Juliana Hodkinson is a composer and independent researcher. Her artistic work ranges from intimate semi-staged object and chamber pieces to large-scale electroacoustic works, often involving text or visual or theatrical elements. She has also created installations and electronic performances embracing field recordings, samples, voice, radio, and Foley. Her work has been commissioned widely—by,...

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