Alexander Schubert

Alexander Schubert is a German composer, electronic musician and multimedia artist born in Bremen in 1979. He studied bioinformatics and multimedia composition and now teaches as a professor at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. His work investigates the relationship between acoustic performance, digital technologies and contemporary musical culture.

He is a founding member of Decoder Ensemble and has created compositions, installations and staged performances involving gesture sensors, virtual reality, electronic processing and artificial intelligence. Drawing on experimental rock, free jazz and electronic dance music, his projects question how technology shapes the experience of live sound. Creative Sources documents his contribution to experimental music.