Franziska Schroeder is a saxophonist, a theorist and improviser.
She is a founder of the digital media collective l a u t and was awarded her PhD by the School of Arts, Culture and Environment at the University of Edinburgh, UK in 2006.

Her research interests include the intersection of philosophy and performance in technology-informed environments, in particular the role of the body in the age of technological change.

Franziska 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). Franziska is on the programming committee for the 2009 DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference.

In 2007 Franziska was awarded a three year full-time Research Fellowship funded by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK). This research is now being carried out at the Sonic Arts Research Centre in Belfast and investigates 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.
This project was supported by an Arts Council Northern Ireland Grant. Franziska has recently released her second CD on the creative source label.

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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