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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, 185.2 TRACE is a limited edition collection of two-minute pieces by international sound artists, experimental composers, noise makers and other audio creators. Each artist has produced an original recording of two-minute duration for the CD on the theme of TRACE. TRACE greated an opportunity for a selection of international sound artists to work thematically, as well as providing listeners with further insight into the artists work. By bringing together this calibre and range of contributions, TRACE aims to stimulate further interest in the practice, debate and dialogue surrounding sound art. The artista on TRACE range from well known world figures, to individuals and groups making their first wirks in this field. TRACE was published thanks to a research award from the Centre for Art International Research (CAIR).