Gabriel Paiuk (*1975) is a composer, researcher and sound artist whose work interrogates how material, technical and collective protocols inform the ways sound is perceived. In his work, which takes the form of pieces for musical instruments and electronics, sound installations and different types of interdisciplinary projects, he is concerned with the ways in which audibilities are constituted.
His works have been presented at spaces and events like Sonic Acts Festival (Amsterdam), Festival Dag in de Branding (Den Haag), Universität Mozarteum (Salzburg), November Music Festival (Den Bosch), Warsaw Autumn (Warsaw), Gallery W139 (Amsterdam), LI-MA (Amsterdam), Distat Terra (Choele-Choel), CETC (Buenos Aires), among others. His instrumental works have been commissioned and performed by the Österreichisches Ensemble für Neue Musik, ASKO ensemble, Maurice String Quartet, Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Slagwerk Den Haag, Modelo62, New European Ensemble, Francesco Dillon, Arne Deforce and Ekkehard Windrich, among others.
In 2006 his work Res Extensa was the first sound installation to be awarded the Gaudeamus composition prize.
In 2023 he completed his PhD in Leiden University for his dissertation “Mutable Audible - An Operative Ontology of the Sound Image”, supervised by Peter Ablinger, Julia Kursell and Marcel Cobussen. He is involved in research and education as a faculty staff member of the Institute of Sonology in The Hague and as curator of research and public events at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts in Leiden University. His articles have been published in Organised Sound magazine (Cambridge University Press, UK) the Orpheus Institute research Series (Leuven University Press) Kunstlicht Tijdschrift Journal (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) and Reflexiones Marginales (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México). He is also a regular guest lecturer at the Master in Scenography (HKU, Utrecht) and the Master for Experimental Opera (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero, Buenos Aires), and has lectured at the Master Artistic Research (KABK, Den Haag) and KASK-School of Arts (Ghent). He has presented his research in contexts such as the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (UvA, Amsterdam), UNM Festival (Young Nordic Music Days, Aarhus) and the International conference on the Philosophy of Human Technology Relations (University of Twente, Enschede).
Between 2000 and 2012 he was active as a pianist in the international free improvised music scene, having performed regularly and collaborated with musicians such as Keith Rowe, Burkhard Beins, Andrea Neumann, Axel Döerner, Jason Kahn, Lucio Capece, Sergio Merce, Günter Müller and Robin Hayward, among others.
His work improvised music and compositional work has been published in Another Timbre, Cut, Sedimental and Unsounds labels.
Since 2001 he is also stable composer of the Buenos Aires-based La Otra dance company, having developed the sound of numerous works for dance/physical theatre premiered in theatres and festivals in Buenos Aires and internationally.