Artist Name

Zu​mofen Livia

Residency Program Title

Master Series 2025

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Institute Lab Title

Mesoscopic Systems Group, PSI

Artistic Background

Music, Composition, Transdisciplinarity

Scientific Discipline

Material Science

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Biography

Biography

Livia Zumstein works and lives in Winterthur. Her diverse disciplinary background includes broad experience in music, material science, chemistry, as well as research and development in these fields. By studying in the MA Transdisciplinary Studies, she aims to combine her artistic and scientific backgrounds, which were relatively clearly separated until about three years ago, to bring them into a dialogue and to explore their connections.

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Artist and musician Livia Zumofen will exchange with researchers of the Mesoscopic Systems Group of PSI/ETH from January 2025 onwards. In her Master Series Residency, she will focus specifically on the interstices between music and materials science, to analyze and explore them, to find a way to engage with them in depth and to further develop her artistic practice.

In her current artistic practice, Livia focuses on sounds, sound generation and recording techniques. She is interested in topics such as material-sound interactions, sounds of processes, overlays of sounds, microscopic sounds, the aesthetic effect of sounds in space, as well as feedbacks and their temporal component. She explores these topics from the point of view of music/sound art, but also from a social and (material) scientific point of view. In her master's project, she explores the medium of sound and her main instrument, the electric guitar.

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