Keynote Speakers

Born in Vienna, Austria, Tae Hong Park is a composer, bassist, and music technologist. Park received his Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronics from Korea University in 1994 and worked in the area of digital communication systems and digital musical keyboards at the LG Central Research Laboratory in Seoul, Korea, from 1994 to 1998.

Laetitia Sonami is a pioneering French sound artist and performer known for her innovative use of technology in her work. After studying with Eliane Radigue in Paris, she moved to the United States in the late seventies to pursue her electronic music studies.

Atau Tanaka studied electronic music with Ivan Tcherepnin (brother of modular synthesizer designer Serge) at Harvard University. There he met John Cage during his Norton Lectures. Tanaka went on to carry out his doctoral work with John Chowning and Max Mathews at CCRMA Stanford and there began his work with the BioMuse (ICMC1993).