Moritz Simon Geist
PART-TIME LECTURER: THE BERLIN MUSIC TECH START UP SCENE; CREATIVE EXPERIMENTS WITH EMERGING MUSIC TECHNOLOGIES
Moritz Simon Geist is a musician and robotics engineer. He works on the progression of mu- sic and robots and is founder of Sonicrobots.
Geist’s projects range from robotic music per- formances to sound installations. His robot- ic instruments and performances have been shown in numerous European festivals and exhibitions. He collaborates with performers such as Mouse on Mars and Tyondai Braxton and holds talks on the progression of robot- ics and society. He was awarded the Artist-In- Residence-Stipend of the Free State of Saxony and the Visual Music Award 2017.
His background is both as a classical musician and a robotics engineer, with an expertise in prototyping technologies and 3-D Printing.