3.1.1.2. Background of the team members of ‘M.U.S.H.’
Joachim Montessuis (1. in collage 2) has an artistic background in electronic sound, often applied in combination with video. His interactive work explores the boundaries of feedback and the audience's perceptive tolerance. He initiated the Erratum Musical a Besnaçon, an irregular music release. Eléonore Hellio (2. in collage 2) studied drama, focusing on the experimental, in the State University of New York. In the 1990s, she became one of the main co-operating artists of the Electronic Cafe International. She is now the head teacher of the Digital Lab at the Strasbourg School of Visual Art (ESAD) in France. Stock (3. in collage 2), electronics designer at V2_Lab, who has an electro-technical, sound and music background, developed the ‘M.U.S.H.’ hardware device. Joachim Montessuis programmed the ‘M.U.S.H.’ software in MAX/MSP, Jitter and VNS with assistance from Stock. The team is small and thus overviewable, and the backgrounds and expertise are mapped in the aRt&D Triangle in collage 2. The project manager of this project is not included in the diagram, as several people worked on this in the course of the project, due to staff turnover. In the first phase, an all-round project manager dealt with the test setup and the evaluation of the user tests. In the second phase, a project manager with a physics background brought in the research component, and in the last phase, the technical reporting was done in close collaboration with a project manager with a computer science background.
