Michael, Brenda, Hans, & Amy

Teaches at Harvestworks | Digital Media Arts Center

Michael J. Schumacher: is a composer/performer, installation artist and curator. He works predominantly with electronic and digital media, specializing in computer generated sound environments that evolve continuously for long time periods. Schumacher’s sound installations have been heard at festivals and venues in North America, Europe and Asia. He is founder and director of Diapason, a gallery devoted to sound art located in Brooklyn, NY, which has produced exhibitions by David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, La Monte Young and other pioneering sound artists. Schumacher’s composition “Grid,” a computer generated score that unfolds in real time, has been in exhibitions in New York, Barcelona and Houston. His CD "Room Pieces" was rated best of 2003 for “modern composition” by The Wire magazine. Hans Tammen: is a composer/guitarist whose music has been described as a journey through the land of unending sonic operations, and his playing as reverse engineering of the guitar. Tammen’s music is documented on more than 20 CDs, and he’s worked with dancers, light designers and video artists on numerous site-specific projects. From 1997 to 2000 he hosted a weekly 2-hour radio show in Germany, devoted to new and experimental music and sound art. Tammen has a degree in Adult Education, and as a technology consultant from 1992 to 2000 he led more than 120 seminars to advise practicioners about new technologies in the workplace. Tammen is currently Deputy Director at Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, where he is responsible for the studio projects and the education program. Amy O'Leary: was the first audio producer ever hired by The New York Times in 2007, where her work has been nominated for two Emmy awards, and was part of the package that won the Times’s first Peabody award. At present, Amy is a News Editor for NYTimes.com where she plans and edits multimedia features and online coverage for a variety of news sections. Prior to this, Amy worked as a staff producer at "This American Life," was the host and producer of "The Tristan Mysteries" at WNYC, and her radio work has appeared on a number of programs including "Studio 360 with Kurt Anderson," "Radio Lab," "On The Media," and "Weekend America." She is a graduate of the radio program at the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies and AIR Member since 2003.