CONTRIBUTORS

IVAN MIGUEL

Ivan is a Spanish Art Director/Motion Designer with 15 years of experience working in advertising and motion graphics.

He worked for some of the most relevant advertising agencies in Spain, creating work for a variety of international brands.

In 2015 he moved to the U.S. and has worked as both a freelancer and in-house staff for several motion design studios for Brands such as Meta, Netflix, MTV or Adobe.

He studied school and high-school mostly in Basque. He has written for the news site of El Mundo, and for Quartz the article "Learning a new language changes the way you perceive reality"

ANDY CAMOU

Andy is a 3D artist and motion designer from Long Beach, California. With over 6 years of experience working as both a freelancer and in-house motion graphics artist, as well as having a degree in music performance, he brings a unique perspective to animation.

Andy has produced motion graphics and video content for the New York City Public Library System, Meta, and Run It Up Studios.

Outside of work, he has traveled extensively throughout Europe and spent 8 years studying German. This project gave him the perfect opportunity to share his passion for language and culture.

KRONOS QUARTET

For 50 years, San Francisco’s Kronos Quartet—David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Paul Wiancko (cello)—has challenged and reimagined what a string quartet can be. In the process, Kronos has become one of the most celebrated and influential groups of our era, performing thousands of concerts worldwide.

Kronos completed a monumental education project that will be a cornerstone of their ongoing legacy: 50 for the Future. Kronos commissioned—and distributed online for free—50 new works for string quartet designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals, written by composers from around the world. Scores and parts, recordings, and other materials are available on https://50ftf.kronosquartet.org/

BRYCE DESSNER

Bryce Dessner lives in France and is a vital and rare force in new music. He has won Grammy Awards as a classical composer and with the band The National, of which he is founding member, guitarist, arranger, and co-principal songwriter. He is regularly commissioned to write for the world’s leading ensembles and is a hig-profile presence in ﬁlm score composition, with credits including The Revenant, for which he was Grammy and Golden Globe nominated, Fernando Mereilles’s The Two Popes and Mike Mill’s C’mon C’mon.

He composed "Le Bois" for Kronos' 50 for the future based on Pérotin’s Sederunt principes and inspired by the devastating fire of Notre Dame chatedral's ceiling in 2019