Gilbert Nouno
Sound Designer
© Oper Frankfurt
Gilbert Nouno is a composer, sound artist, performer and researcher. In 2011 he was awarded the Prix de Rome (Villa Medici) and in 2007 the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto's scholarship. His music is inspired by visual and digital art and design. As an artist he researched, under the pseudonym Til Berg, interdisciplinary, the synaesthetic relationships between individual art forms. Gilbert Nouno worked very closely with Jonathan Harvey and Pierre Boulez. He appears regularly with artists including François-Xavier Roth, Olga Neuwirth, Michael Barenboim, the jazz saxophonist Steve Coleman, the flautists Magic Malik, DJ Oil and the choreographer Susan Buirge. Gilbert Nouno is a Professor for Composition and Sound Design at the Royal College of Music in London, guest professor at the University for the Arts in Bern, and, in 2016 and 2017, a DAAD guest professor at the University for Music in Detmold. Gilbert Nouno holds Master and Doctor degrees in computer music and artificial intelligence and continues to research the interaction between humans and machines. His latest new compositions are Deejay for string quartet and electronics, Iwona – une opérette électronique and Street Music for trio and electronics.