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Kassian Troyer was born in 1977. After having studied audio engineering and computer music at Universität für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Wien, he has been working permanently as musician, sound engineer, sound artist. Now he lives in Berlin. He played and took part in projects in different important festival and locations: Krytptonale in Berlin (2002), Fuenfhaus/Museumsquartier in Wien (2003) with Peter Brandlmayr, Transart 2003 in Bolzano, Schloss Wildberg in Wien (2003), Unsound Festival in Krakow. His works have been exhibited in different important European locations : "Artists in Motion" - groupexhibition in Warsaw and Krakow (Poland), "Processos Oberts" with...

Kassia (also Kassiane, Kassiani, Casia, Ikasia, Cassia, or Eikasia; between 805 and 810 - bef. 867) was a Greek-Byzantine poet, composer, and hymnographer. She is one of the first medieval composers whose scores are both extant and able to be interpreted by modern scholars and musicians. Approximately fifty of her hymns are extant and twenty-three are included in Orthodox Church liturgical books. The exact number is difficult to assess, as many hymns are ascribed to different authors in different manuscripts and are often identified as anonymous. She wrote many hymns for the Christian liturgy; the most famous being the Hymn...