BIO

Dustin Zorn is a Berlin-based composer, doctoral candidate, researcher and lecturer. His works include instrumental and live-electronic pieces in which he is also composer-performer. They have been presented at festivals such as Ultraschall, Mehrlichtmusik, Klangwerkstatt and Crescendo and broadcast on Deutschlandfunk and Rbb Kulturradio. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as Mosaik, Lux:NM, Trio Noir and Echo-Ensemble. He is currently working on his doctorate at the mdw vienna in the artistic reseach centre. He is a research fellow in the state funded project Etudes for Live Electronics at the Institute Wiener Klangstil at the mdw vienna. He has presented his research at conferences such as Eparm and Orpheus Institute Gent.

CV

International lectures/workshops:

2024 Ljubljana Slovenia, European Platform for Artistic Research (EPARM)
2023 Ghent, Belgium Orpheus Institute
2023 mdw Vienna
2019 Bilkent University Ankara
Employment:
2022- Research assistant at the mdw in the project „Etudes for Live Electronics“
2022- foundation of the composers‘ collective Stir
2015- freelance work in the field of sound direction (Ultraschall, Klangwerkstatt)
2015- freelance work as a copyist
Teaching activity:
2023- Practice Seminar Crossmodulations Institute Klangzeitort (hfm Hanns-Eisler, Udk Berlin)
2023- Certificate course Art of Teaching 4.0
2022- Lecturer of the hfm Hanns-Eisler analysis of electronic music
2015-2019 Tutor in the electronic studio of the hfm Hanns-Eisler

Education

2023- Artistic doctorate at the mdw Vienna „Connect Create Reflect Setup design in live-
electronics as a compositional task and a social research process“

2022 Master’s thesis Extended Speaker Instruments as resonance chambers for loudspeakers
2019-2022 Master electronic music with Wolfgang Heiniger at the Hfm Hanns-Eisler
2022 Master’s thesis „Analysis and reflection on the combination of acoustic and electroacoustic composition techniques in the historical context of Pierre Boulez „Réponds“
2020-2021 Two Erasmus semesters in Paris at the CNSMDP with Stefano Gervasoni
2019-2022 Master Composition with Eun-Hwa Cho at the Hfm Hanns-Eisler
2019 Bachelor thesis „Comparative analysis of the 1994 and 2001 versions of Incises by Pierre Boulez“
2015-2019 Bachelor: Composition at the Hfm Hanns-Eisler with Eun-Hwa Cho
2014 Bachelor thesis „Stadtgesang“
2013-2015 Pre-study training at the Paul Hindemith Music School Neukölln
2010-2014 Bachelor’s degree in Sound and Music Production at the Berlin University of Popular Arts
2000-2010 A-levels at the Wilhelm-Dörpfeld-Gymnasium Wuppertal

Scholarships

2021 Residency at the Beethoven House Bonn
2020-2022 Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes
2019 Promos Scholarship