Annie Aries
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| Biography | Annie Ruefenacht (*1988) aka Annie Aries is a Swiss-Philippine composer and musician based in Bern, Switzerland. She holds a Master of Arts in Music & Media Arts from Bern University of the Arts, and studied Historical Musicology at the University of Bern. In 2017, Ruefenacht lived in Berlin and studied in the program Popular Music History & Theory at Humboldt University, specializing in experimental practices within pop and club culture. Since 2019 she has been a faculty member in the Sound Arts department at Bern University of the Arts. She has shown her works at Mis-En Music Festival in Brooklyn New York, New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media, Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik Bern, Gray Area San Francisco, Sonic Mountains Dampfzentrale Bern, among others. Ruefenacht produces music with her modular, custom-made synthesizer and focuses on how her instrument fosters the interplay between generative musical approaches and improvised live performance. In her work she aims at a minimal, reduced, yet complex textural sound world. She combines contemporary electronica music with club and synthesizer influences with the experimental approach of contemporary and experimental music. |
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