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OliverAugst born 1962, is a performer, composer and set-designer and has been working in several fields of art: music (electronic, noise, improvisation), media-theatre/performance, radio plays and sound installation since the early 90s. He studied visual arts with emphasis on stage design at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach, and popular music/performance at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Hamburg. He has received numerous grants and scholarships, such as the studio grant from the artists’ house Mousonturm (Frankfurt 1991–93), a DAAD grant for free art (Vienna 1994) as well as a grant for composition at the Schloss Solitude Academy (Stuttgart 1995). In 1997, he was a prize-winner at the Dresden Centre for Contemporary Music, where he and the French composer Marc André showed the première of their collaborative piece "Un Fini". His collaborations together with Blixa Bargeld (singer of the famous German band "Einstürzende Neubauten"), the "electronic music theater" (with Ehinger, Daemgen, Korn), the technoise formation "Freundschaft" (with Beck/Daemgen/Cobra), the trio "Blank" (with Rüdiger Carl, pioneer of the European free jazz movement, and Christoph Korn), the Japanese artist On Kawara (Dokumenta11) and the American art star Raymond Pettibon led him to numerous international festivals of contemporary music and media-art (x-tract/Podewil Berlin, Taktlos Bern, Bregenzer Festspiele, Intermedium/ZKM Karlsruhe, Dokumenta11 Kassel, Ars Electronica Linz, Whitechapel Art Gallery London, Knitting Factory New York, European Media Art Festival Osnabrück, Ruhrfestspiele Recklinghausen, WienModern Wien) Oliver Augst was a curator and organiser of the "pol" festival of new music in the Mousonturm artists’ house in Frankfurt (1999-2003). He is a lecturer in Performance Art, Audio-Visual Installation, Set Design and Aesthetics and Communication at the Academy of Art and Design in Offenbach and the University of Applied Sciences Frankfurt. Currently he is co-curating the monthly "HörRaum - audio art series" at Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt. He lives and works in Frankfurt am Main. Suspicion Breeds Confidence (Tobias Schmitt): recordings, performances, sound-installations, remixing, production, sound-design, formed Acrylnimbus ( (multifunctional platform), visuals, software (conception and execution).

Cfr. nn. Arch. 183.2, 184.2 ZERO is a limited edition collection of one-minute soundworks by international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Contributors were invited to create an original recording of one-minute duration for the CD on the theme of ZERO – whether through their stripped-down, low-tech aesthetic or a focus on themes of absence, abstraction, distortion or a sense of thereshold between one state and another. The CD contains a broad variety of one-minute soundworks and presents the results of artists working thematically in chance juxtaposition. By bringing together this calibre and range of contributions, ZETRO aims to stimulate further interest in the artist work and practice, debate and dialogue surrounding sound art. The artists on ZERO range from well known world figures, to individuals and groups making their first wirks in this field. ZERO was commisioned by the Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (FACT) and was published with the support from Liverpool Art School.