Franziska Schroeder - saxophonist and theorist

Founder of the digital media collective "l a u t".

Research interests:
The intersection of critical theory and performance in technology-informed environments, in particular the role of the body in the age of technological change.

Franziska was awarded her PhD by the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh, UK in 2006.

Franziska's book on performance and the threshold appeared in 2009. It is available from Amazon. She has written for many international journals and in 2006 guest-edited a double issue on the body and performance for the Contemporary Music Review Journal (Routledge).
In 2009 she edited a book on user generated content for Cambridge Publishing Scholars.

Franziska is on the development committee of NMSAT (Networked Music & SoundArt Timeline), and has been on the programming committee for the DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference since 2009. She was the Program Chair for DRHA 2010.

In 2007 Franziska was awarded a three year Research Fellowship funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK), based at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast and investigated networked performance environments.

In 2008 Franziska was the Artistic Director for the Roots Ensemble at the ICMC 2008 (International Computer Music Conference).

With her trio FAINT, Franziska has released a double CD (CS088) of Improvised and Electroacoustic Music with Pedro Rebelo (piano and instrumental parasites) and Steven Davis (drums) on the creative source recordings.
Franziska has recently released her second CD on the creative source label.
In June 2011 her most recent CD with Han-earl Park (guitar) and Bruce Coates (saxes) was released with Slam Productions.

Since December 2009 Franziska has been Lecturer/RCUK Fellow at the School of Music and Sonic Arts in Belfast. She teaches 3rd year and MA recitalists.

Link to the Two Thousand + Symposia Series,
a yearly research day held in parallel with the
Sonorities Festival of Contemporay Music

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f.schroeder [at] qub.ac.uk

My book available from online stores!