Chaz Underriner
Context Collage Vienna, 2024 • TONSPUR E
Context Collage Vienna
Selected by and in cooperation with Fulbright Austria
TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2024
Panorama © Frank Paul
The concept of the piece is to collage images and sounds that I think create energy or harmony together. The sounds of my playing the guitar juxtaposed with the sounds of the birds calling at 0400 outside the window of my MQ studio, the sounds of the gospel choir rehearsing my new composition after a long period of sort of ‘architectural’ sounds—the sounds of stairways in large buildings with sustained pitches of the guitar, and violin. I composed a beginning and ending that both contain easily recognized musical sounds—electric guitar and voices—and the middle section is a meandering and subtle combination of sounds from the MQ itself, Florida, and New York City.
Biography
Chaz Underriner (b. 1987 in Texas, USA) is a composer, transmedia artist and performer based in DeLand, Florida where he is an Associate Professor of Digital Arts at Stetson University. Chaz’s work explores the representation of reality in art, especially landscape, through the juxtaposition of video projections, audio recordings and live performers.
Chaz’s work has been programmed both nationally and internationally at festivals and venues such as Gaudeamus (Utrecht), the Moscow State Philharmonic Society (Russia), the International Computer Music Conference, the Impuls Festival (Austria), and Timucua Arts Foundation (Orlando, USA).
As an engineer, composer, and performer, Chaz’s work has been released on Edition Wandelweiser Records, Slubmusic, New World Records, Fleur du Son, Task Records, Sedimental Records, and Delos.
Website chazunderriner.com
CV download
Photos @ Frank Paul
opening words • Marko Ciciliani, Kunstuniversität Graz (KUG) – read
Image © Chaz Underriner
TONSPUR E
Chaz Underriner
Context Collage Vienna
Selected by and in cooperation with Fulbright Austria
TONSPUR für einen öffentlichen raum 2024
location
TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound
Museumsquartier Wien
Museumplatz 1
1070 Wien
opening
Sun 28.4.2024, 17:00 h
introduction
Georg Weckwerth – TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien
Hermann Agis – Fulbright Austria
Marko Ciciliani – Kunstuniversität Graz
duration
29.4.–15.6.2024, daily 10–20 h
The seven images were captured in Cape Canaveral, Florida, inside and outside of Studio 7 in the Museumsquartier Wien, and in the Atchafalaya River Basin in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana, USA.
