Andrea Szigetvári is an electroacoustic music composer leading the Electronic Music Media Art program at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music in Budapest. In addition to composing, she lectures on electroacoustic music and sound design, and has organized international new music festivals, conferences and pan-european projects. Her creative and research work concentrates mainly on the role of the timbre in new music, synchresis in audiovisual art, interactive performance and political activism thru music making. Her oeuvre includes fixed media soundscapes, acousmatic works, pieces written for acoustic instruments with electronics, interactive music, dance projects and audiovisual works. Her compositions and papers have been presented and performed in many countries of Europe, USA, Canada and China.
Being in connection with artists and researchers committed to sound ecology and the art of listening provides opportunities for communication with people whose interest, life and work matters a lot for me.