Macumbista

Macumbista (Derek Holzer) is an American sound artist based in Berlin DE and Marfa TX, whose current interests include DIY analog electronics, sound art, field recording and the meeting points of electroacoustic, noise, improv and extreme music. He has played live experimental sound, as well as taught noise art technology workshops across Europe, North America, Brazil and New Zealand.

Holzer has an artist-in-residence and/or guest-teacher at the Danish Institute of Electro/acoustic Music [Aarhus DK], KHM-Kunsthochschule für Medien Köln [Cologne DE], STEIM [Amsterdam NL], Access Space [Sheffield UK], Tesla [Berlin DE], EMS [Stockholm SE], Medienturm [Graz AT] and others. He was awarded the 2006 NetArts.Org prize [Tokyo JP] and was recipient of the Basis Stipendium of the Fonds voor beeldende Kunsten [Amsterdam NL] during 2005-6.

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