Franziska Schroeder is a saxophonist and theorist.
She is the 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 DRHA (Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts) conference.

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.

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