Martin Ritter
Martin Ritter studied composition in Canada and currently lives in Graz, Austria. He writes both electronic as well as instrumental works and is performed across Europe, North America, and Asia. As a composer he is interested in the spaces sounds emerge in/from and the intersection of music, technology, and performance/performance practice. In recent years he has started to explore microtonality as a conceptual space for his work. As a researcher he works with digital tools in order to analyze and understand electronic music.
His music and research are featured regularly at conferences and festivals such as Wien Modern, MikroFest Helsinki, ICMC, NIME, EMS, Audio Mostly, eContact!, Impuls, Darmstadt, ComposIt, MusCan, TENOR, Ars Electronica. He has received scholarships like the Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, the University of Calgary Technologies International Inc. Fellowship Scholarship, Alberta Innovates – Technologies Futures Scholarship, the Joseph and Melitta KANDLER Scholarship for Advanced Music Study. He founded, co-founded, or is on the board of several arts organizations such as Zeitschleife, Die Andere Saite, OEGZM, Graz Orchestra of Noise and Distortion. He currently holds the National Composition Scholarship of Austria.
He holds a DMA in composition from the University of British Columbia where his primary teachers were Drs. Keith Hamel and Robert Pritchard, and a PhD in Computational Media Design from the University of Calgary where he studied with Drs. Friedemann Sallis and Jeffrey E. Boyd. At the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz he studied with Klaus Lang and Dr. Marko Ciciliani.
