Here is an
interesting festival from Iklecktic in London and Klanghaus in Austria
Which is
going on now, as I write this note
We are in
it tomorrow, and the only live performance of the festival, but from New York
and Barcelona, for us
phill
niblock, katherine liberovskaya and barbara held
Nov 26 at
2:30 PM EST – Nov 29 at 4 PM EST
IKLECTIK [off-site] and Klanghaus Sound Art Centre present: Klangzeit
Festival 2020
4 days of experimental improvised music and sound art
Klanghaus Untergreith and IKLECTIK have joined forces to present
a multidisciplinary and miscellaneous series of concerts with the participation
of international renown musicians and composers.
Artists:
Me, Claudius (UK)
Viv Corringham (UK/USA)
Rhodri Davies (UK)
Matthias Forenbacher (AT)
Paul Jonas Kinnunen (FI)
Y/Liquid (AT) – Peta Kotzberg + Carmen Rosenkranz
Phill Niblock (US)
Katherine Liberovskaya (US)
Barbara Held (US)
Rahel Kraft (AT/ CH)
Samo Kutin (SI)
Tracy Lisk (USA)
Zahra Mani (UK/AT)
MUG Trio (SI)
Arun Natarajan (IN)
OWL OWL (NO)
Elise Passavant (USA)
Els avn Riel (BE)
Yoni Silver (UK)
Mia Zabelka (AT)
Wolfgang Temmel (AT)
Veronika Gmeindl (AT)
Richard Graf (AT)
Sebastian Leopold (AT)
STATION ROSE (AT)
Lukas MoritzWegscheider (AT)
Programme:
- Day 1 (Thursday 26/11) – 7.30pm (GMT) | 8.30pm (CET)
phonoECHOES competition – finalists performances
Finalist:
Veronika Gmeindl (AT)
Richard Graf (AT)
Sebastian Leopold (AT)
Station Rose (AT)
Lukas Moritz Wegscheider (AT)
Jury:
Mia Zabelka (Chair – no voting rights)
Rupert Huber (AT)
Johannes Kretz (AT)
Zahra Mani (AT)
- Day 2 (Friday 27/11) – 7.30pm (GMT) | 8.30pm (CET)
Zahra Mani + Elise Passavant
Matthias Forenbacher
Rhodri Davies
Wolfgang Temmel
Me, Claudius
- Day 3 (Saturday 28/11) – 7.30pm (GMT) | 8.30pm (CET)
Viv Corringham
Y/Liquid
Tracy Lisk + Mia Zabelka + Els Van Riel
Yoni Silver
Rahel Kraft
Phill Niblock + Katherine Liberovskaya + Barbara Held
- Day 4 (Sunday 29/11) – 7.30pm (GMT) | 8.30pm (CET)
MUG Trio
OWL OWL
Mia Zabelka + Arun Natarajan + Paul Jonas Kinnunen
Samo Kutin
phonoECHOES finalists
Veronika Gmeindl
born 1988 in Herdecke, Germany. Professionally engaged in theatre pedagogy,
freelancing in the cultural sector and as a musician. She is currently active
in artistic director of workshops on diverse topics at schools, based on
methods of Forum- and improvised theatre. Her artistic ambitions focus on
improvisation and experimentation with music/electroacustic music and the
written/spoken word, where she seeks to incorporate here experiences into the
field of theatre and performance.
„Du“
Electroacoustic composition for two players/performers
(Cello/Voice/Live-electronics) by Veronika Gmeindl. „Du“ („You“), a directed
inner monologue. By accident the initial lyrics were printed twice, much like a
double exposure, hardly legible. The subjective expression of a struggling
individual, who in turn pleads guilty of denunciation. The principle of
multiple exposure is mimicked on several levels (structure, soundesign,
melodies and improvisation with double bass and cello). All of this leads to an
ever repeating and ever evolving game, always open to interpretation.
Richard Graf
Studies in music and music education at the University of Music and Performing
Arts Vienna (graduation Summa cum Laude) and the Berklee College of Music.
Lecturer at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles/USA (1995).
Since 2018 Dean and Head of Master Studies (faculty music education) at the
„JAM MUSIC LAB University”. Founder and artistic director of the MAX BRAND
Ensemble. Graf has received several national and international awards and
prizes. His work has been published by: UNIVERSAL EDITION, ADVANCE MUSIC, SCHOTT
MUSIC, RICH ART Records, IAJE (International Association of Jazz Educators),
Austrian Broadcasting Cooperation – ORF, Musikerziehung etc. Co-Producer for
ECM-Records: Michael Mantler & MAX BRAND Ensemble: “Comment C’est”
Matrix
for three guitars and live electronics
Richard GRAF – a composer, guitar player and three guitars plus electronics in
interaction to combine compositional, mathematical, tonal and technical
parameters. The “Matrix” is a nine-tone-row, which develops to horizontal and
vertical musical structures, enriched by live electronics and improvisation He
uses three unique guitars which have been built by Roland Hauke: Bariton
guitar, Fretless guitar, Standard electric guitar.
Sebastian Leopold
Sebastian Leopold is a musician, instrument maker and engineer based in Vienna.
After three years of internationally working as an engineer, he settled down to
set up his own workshop where he could focus on building sounding objects and
installations. Leopolds fascination for vibrating strings, membranes, blocks
and blobs shows in his workpieces, which experiment with the eigenfrequencies
of bodies and their manipulation through means of electronics.
„drift“
The workpiece “drift” is a big self-resonating feedback mirror made from
stainless steel driven by an air coupled 4×10″ speaker. The sounds you hear are
the intrinsic vibrations of the metal sheet, simply generated by feeding the
signals recorded by a contact microphone back to the mirror through the
speakers. The reflections caused by the mirror’s vibrations visualise the
spatial expansion of the structure-born sound and magnify the moment when the
stable oscillation breaks down into chaotic noise. “Drift” explores the
boundaries and intersections between control and collapse, dissipation and resonance,
reflection and transmission.
STATION ROSE
STATION ROSE/STR was founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1988 by Gary Danner (sound)
and Elisa Rose (art). As one of the first digital groups worldwide, STATION
ROSE have used the potential of live audio visual media and the internet for
performing in their work. Their Gunafa Clubbings were the first AV- and
online-clubprojects worldwide (Frankfurt, 1992). STR are online since 1991 and
are regarded as „Pioneers of Digital Culture (Frankfurter Allgemeine). Danner´s
career as professional musician/composer spans 4,5 decades, quite often using
reliable structures like Beat, Punk, Techno, and Minimal Music. STATION ROSE
operates at the interface of digital art, music and pop. Their artistic output
is characterized by exploring the boundaries between reality and virtuality,
audio and video are organically interwoven by definition.
“WEBCASTING STReaming 2020“
In Frankfurt in 1999, STR developed a new online broadcast format,
„Webcasting”, which included animations, live music, live composition and
improvisation, talks and performances. It was streamed live from the STATION
ROSE Studio, Elisa Rose’s image workstation and Gary Danner’s sound
workstation/DAW were broadcast over the internet. In 2020, by the circumstances
of quarantine, this unchanged contemporary STReaming format was used again and
developed further – from the studio in Vienna.
„For a STReam, I will prepare certain samples, rhythmic parameters and music
hardware minimally, compose and arrange live in real time, and treat this
composition with digital effects. Music is created LIVE and synaesthetically
with the visual art that is created simultaneously.“ Gary Danner
Lukas Moritz Wegscheider
Lukas Moritz Wegscheider is a composer for experimental music, sound- and media
artist. In his work he currently deals with time, the ephemeral, the
imperishable and what remains. Memories. He treats this subjects with live
performances, sound- and video installations and exhibitions. Since 2016 he
studies at the university of music and performing arts in Graz. http://lukasmoritzwegscheider.com/
”memoire”
In the room an impression of what has happened is presented, as the first
memory, taken up again and sent to the ether. This sonic memory then gets
picked up by the radio and confronts the audience once again. A remembered
memory. The installation addresses the fact that you cannot simply forget, that
you cannot simply make forgotten and that even after forgetting, you will
always remember what has been forgotten. From forgotten forgotten – to
memorized memory.
The theme of KLANGZEIT Festival 2020 is Human Life / Green
Sounds / Artificial Emotion.
‘Green Sounds’ are not just sounds of nature, they are sounds of the natural
interaction of humans with the environment and at the same time the design of
life (environment). Working with sound is the embodiment of a political demand:
reflecting on the self-regulation of nature, listening to the importance of the
culture of designing for people. The design of “Green Sounds” means, a way of
life of nature as “art (of) living”. As the overcoming of the culture of the
rationality of seeing, “auditory culture” means not only the transfer of the
nature of hearing to culture, but the merging of nature and culture into
“Converged realities” – the virtual and the real overlap, the difference
becomes null and void.
About phonoECHOES
In spring 2020, ÖKB (Österreichischer Komponistenbund – Austrian Composers’
Association) and Klanghaus Untergreith announced for the first time
‘phonoECHOES’, a competition for sound art and electronic music. The award
ceremony will take place on November 26th.
Klanghaus Untergreith
Klanghaus Untergreith is an international centre for sound art focusing on
interdisciplinary, experimental and border-crossing projects spanning visual
arts, literature, performance art, media art and music.
https://klang-haus.at
Project supported by
Österreichischer Komponistenbund - AACS - austrian cultural forum london
Flyer by Lisa McKendrik