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Dr. Gabriel Paiuk

  • Gabriel Paiuk (*1975) is a composer, sound artist and researcher whose work interrogates the way material, technical and collective infrastructures inform the ways we perceive sound. Operating at the threshold of music practices and the wider context of sound in the arts, his work takes the form of sound installations, compositions for instruments and electronics and collaborations with various disciplines.

    Gabriel Paiuk’s sound installation work has been presented at Gallery W139, LI-MA, Gaudeamus, and Willem Twee Kunstruimte-November Music Festival. His works for instruments and electronics have been performed by ensembles and soloists such as œsterreichisches ensemble für neue musik, ASKO ensemble, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Maurice Quartet, New European Ensemble, Slagwerk Den Haag, Francesco Dillon, Reinier van Houdt, Ekkehard Windrich and Ensemble Modelo62, among others, across Europe and the Americas. His work Res Extensa was the first sound installation to be awarded the Gaudeamus composition prize in 2006. As a pianist-improviser he has performed and recorded with Axel Dörner, Jason Kahn, Keith Rowe, Andrea Neumann, Burkhard Beins, Gunter Mueller, and Lucio Capece, among others.

    He completed his doctorate in Leiden University in 2023 and is part of the Faculty Staff at the Institute of Sonology (KC) since 2014. His research work has led to publications as part of Journals end edited volumes in Leuven University Press and Cambridge University Press, American Music Journal and the Journal of Sonic Studies, among others. He has been involved as a guest lecturer and workshop leader in the Master in Scenography at the HKU (Utrecht), has lectured on Technology and New Aesthetics at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (BsAs) and led workshops at the Master Artistic Research at KABK (Den Haag), KASK-School of Arts (Ghent). He has given presentations of his research in contexts such as the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (UvA, Amsterdam), UNM Festival – Young Nordic Music Days (Aarhus) and the International conference on the Philosophy of Human Technology Relations (University of Twente).

    PhD project (finished in 2023)