Robin Minard was born in Montreal in 1953. He studied music composition and electroacoustic music in Canada and Paris. Since the early 1980’s his work has focused in the area of electroacoustic composition and sound installation art. Since 1997 he has been professor for electroacoustic composition and sound design at the Liszt School of Music and the Bauhaus University in Weimar, where he is also director of the Studio for Electroacoustic Music. He has been artist-in-residence of the DAAD Berlin Artists Programme, the Canada Council Paris Studio, the Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), Künstlerhof Schreyahn and Schloss Wiepersdorf (Germany), the Institut für Elektronische Musik (Graz), the Het Apollohuis (Eindhoven), the Villa Serpentara (Olevano Romano), the Mattress Factory Museum of Contemporary Art (Pittsburgh), IRCAM / Centre Pompidou and the Ten Drum Artist-in-Residence Project (Taiwan). His works have been presented in festivals, museums and public spaces worldwide. He has published several articles and books on the subject of sound installation. His books "Silent Music — Between Sound Art and Acoustic Design" and "Four Spaces / Four Installations" are published by the Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg, Germany.

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