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“He is very experimental because he is searching in a realm of sound which is not usually used for music…he has a good sense of atmosphere.”Karlheinz Stockhausen – BBC Radio 3 Robin Rimbaud, alias Scanner (1964, London, UK) is a composer whose work traverses the experimental terrain between sound, space and image. Since 1991 he has…

Viennese Franz Hautzinger is one of the most distinguished experimental musicians on the Austrian scene, having worked with many big names of the international avant-garde, from Elliott Sharp and John Cale to Christian Fennesz and Keiji Haino.Hautzinger has developed his quarter-tone trumpet into an expressive tool of a completely new kind, from which he elicits…

Tiziana Bertoncini graduated with a Master in Violin at Siena Conservatory and a Master in Painting at the Fine Arts’ Academy in Carrara. Completed by Studies in Art history, and specialization masterclasses for chamber music and music didactics.After being playing in orchestras and chamber music ensembles, she focused on contemporary music, written and improvised.Her work…

Angélica Castelló (Mexico, 1972) is a Mexican-Austrian composer, recorder player and sound electronic artist. Her compositions, abstract improvisations, electroacoustic works and performances are characterized by a sonic magic realism – realismo mágico sonoro. “My music is abstract, but it is very concrete people, stories that inspire me.” Her extravagant style can be heard on her…

The magazine for music culture skug has been offering reports, reviews and discourse from the aesthetic and political underground for over thirty years, for the purpose of making visible those artists and activists that the mainstream sometimes overlooks. For many years, Salon skug has existed as a monthly event. The salons combine panel discussions on…

Norbert Math (born 1962 in Bolzano, lives in Oggau) works in the fields of radio art,electronic music, installation and media art. Since 1997 he is a member of the artist network alien productions.alien productions was founded in 1997 by Andrea Sodomka (A), Martin Breindl (A), Norbert Math (I) and August Black (USA) as an artists’…

In his artistic practice, Julian Siffert (*1993) often investigates the relationships between bodies and spaces at the intersection of socio-political, economic and technological systems. In doing so, he deals with topics such as spatial perception, acoustics, orientation, navigation, cartography or geography as well as their history and produces performances, sculptures, installations, videos, electronic music and…

Austrian guitarist, composer, and electronic musician Christian Fennesz is recognized as the key figure and one of the most distinctive voices of electronic music today. His wide international reputation has been consolidated through his substantial overall contribution to new musical expression. In the beginning of the 1990s, Fennesz became involved with Viennese techno scene. Though…

Wolfgang Mitterer was born in 1958 in Lienz, East Tyrol, and studied organ, composition and electroacoustics in Graz, Vienna and Stockholm. After a scholarship stay in Rome in 1988, he played in bands such as Hirn mit Ei, Call Boys Inc, Pat Brothers, Dirty Tones and Matador, as well as with Linda Sharrock, Gunter Schneider,…

Peter Kutin’s musical works seek and find points of contact and synergy in the field of film art, sculpture, light as well as kinetic art. His works are performed internationally at various festivals for music/film & media art and have received several awards.He has collaborated with numerous artists from various fields, which explains the wide-ranging…

guitar, lap steel, electronics born 1972 lives and works in Vienna works as guitarist & improviser, but also as composer in acoustic and/or electronic contexts; numerous collaborations, and compositions for theater, dance & film. Current projects & bands include:RADIAN (with Martin Brandlmayr & John Norman) TRAPIST (with Martin Brandlmayr & Joe Williamson) ALSO (Duo with…

Maja Osojnik is a freelance composer, sound artist, singer and free improvising musician who in her multifaceted work uses a wide variety of sonic means such as voice, Paetzold bass, field recordings, CD players, radios, effect pedals, cassette players and other electronic lo-fi musical instruments of any origin. Moving in the limbo between analog and…

Bernhard Loibner is a producer of electronic music, musician and media artist from Vienna. Seine Musik wird charakterisiert durch die Verwendung von Computer-Instrumenten aber ebenso analoger Elektronik und “richtiger” Instrumente. The result of his experiments are nested soundscapes and rugged noise structures where his sounds are often carried by a pulsating moment. Collaboration with numerous…