Music and Technologies

Darius Kučinskas is a Musicologist and Professor at Kaunas University of Technology and the Head of the Department of Audiovisual Art Technologies. In 1993, he graduated from the Lithuanian Music Academy as a pianist and defended his PhD in Čiurlionis’ music in 2002. Kučinskas worked as a researcher for over 10 years at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum and at the J. Petronis Music Edition. Darius Kučinskas is the author of the monographs Musical Text of M. K. Čiurlionis’ Piano Music (Aspect of Genesis) (2004) and Chronological Catalogue of Čiurlionis’ Music (2007), and has also been the editor of several music editions. His research interests include synthesis of arts, musical semiotics, music information retrieval, and the history of Lithuanian music publishing.

Stephen Davismoon is Professor of Contemporary Composition and Director of Music at the University of Salford, Manchester, England. He is internationally known as a composer with works utilising a breadth of musical media – from traditional acoustic instruments and voice, through to interactive, live electronic and sound-art installation pieces. Ideas and techniques from the fields of emergent and generative computing consistently appear throughout the body of his work, irrespective of medium. Stephen also writes regularly on matters relating to music technology as well as contemporary music history and practice. His scholarly works on Luigi Nono and Edgard Varèse in particular were well-received.