Kirsten Reese

Born in Kiel in 1968; Kirsten Reese is a composer and sound artist. She grew up in the Rhineland, Hong Kong and the Philippines and studied flute, electronic music and composition at the Hochschule der Künste and the Technische Universität in Berlin, and in New York in 1992/93. Her work is concerned with the interrelationships between hearing and physical perception, between acoustic and social spaces, with immersive constellations of loudspeakers and instruments, and with electronic media. Since 2005 she has taught electroacoustic composition at the Universität der Künste Berlin, where she was also guest professor for artistic transformation processes from 2007 to 2009; in 2011 she taught at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, and in 2018 composition at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music. She received fellowships from the Stiftung Kulturfonds in 2001, for the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2005/06 and for the Villa Aurora in Los Angeles in 2009; in 2011 she was guest artist at the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe. Since 2021 she has been a member of the music section of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. On the Cybele album DEGEM Vol. 8 – 90 Seconds of Reality (2005) she is represented with “Windrad 1” (2002).