Richard Barrett

Richard Barrett was born in Swansea in 1959. He is internationally active as composer and performer, and his work encompasses a range from free improvisation to intricately notated scores, and from acoustic chamber music to innovative uses of digital technology. His principal composition teacher was Peter Wiegold, and he is currently Professor of Research in Creative Music at the University of Leiden and teaching electroacoustic composition at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague. Current projects include extended works for the Elision Ensemble, with whom he has been collaborating regularly since 1990, as well as the Fonema Consort and Soundinitiative. Ongoing performative collaborations include the electronic duo FURT with Paul Obermayer and a duo with harpist Milana Zarić. He has been a regular member of the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble since 2003. In October 2020 he set up the digital label STRANGE STRINGS together with harpist Milana Zarić. His book Music of Possibility was published by Vision Edition in 2019.

Milana Zarić 

Equally active in classical, contemporary composed, experimental and freely improvised music, harpist Milana Zarić  connects creative performance with contemporary sensibility and new technologies.  Milana has been the principal harpist of Belgrade Philharmonic Orchestra since 2005, working with distinguished international conductors and soloists. She appeared as soloist with the BPO as well as several chamber orchestras, premiering 20th century works in Serbia.Milana is a founding member and leader of Ensemble Studio 6, a contemporary music group active since 2012. Ensemble Studio 6 has toured internationally, advocating collaborative music creation as well as repertoire works. A specialist in harp repertoire from 1960s onwards, Milana has been regularly collaborating with composers and sound artists, many of whom have dedicated works to her. She has commissioned and premiered over 30 solo and ensemble new works. Milana is  internationally active as a chamber musician as well as a free improviser in many formations. One of her most active duets is harp and electronics, with Richard Barrett. They have been performing together worldwide since 2013, playing original composed and collaborative works. Apart from performance activities, Milana has lectured at universities in the US and the UK and regularly takes part in gender equality projects.

Sara Pinheiro

Sara Pinheiro (1985) is a sound-maker. For film and video-art, she does sound recording, editing, foley and mixing. In her solo practice, she makes acousmatic pieces, usually for multichannel performances, radio broadcasts or installations. She is a member of the live-coding group K-o-l-e-k-t-i-v and collaborates with the Bystrouška Sound Studios, in Prague. Pinheiro graduated in Cinema (Lisbon, 2008) and holds a Master of Music in Sonology (The Hague, 2012), where she is a guest lecturer. She has been part of the teaching committee at CAS – FAMU since 2013. Her academic work is practice-based research under the name of “Acousmatic Foley”. She is currently a PhD student at The Department of Music, Drama and Performance at Bangor University (UK), under the Parry Williams scholarship.