Guest lecture: Boris Hegenbart

Boris Hegenbart was Artist in Residence at the MuseumsQuartier Vienna in February 2024.
In the small living studio filled with the original loudspeakers of the TONSPUR_passage directly under the roof of the MuseumsQuartier, he developed a site-specific work for the TONSPUR_passage | Micro Museum for Sound: ROTAPHONIE.

In a lecture at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Boris Hegenbart will report on this creative process and explain various aspects of the compositional design and specific material production. There are various cross-connections to the development of his live instrumentarium, which has evolved over the years with each performance, as well as to the relationship between contemporary music and DUB.
Another project that Boris Hegenbart will present is FLAECHENFINDER, a series of works for performers in separate rooms and an installation for the dimmable view outside.

Boris Hegenbart [#/TAU] is a Berlin-based composer and artist. Hegenbart’s works include sound installations, electro-acoustic concerts and computer performances, compositions for solo instruments, chamber ensembles, theater, media art, dance and experimental video works.

In his electro-acoustic compositions, Boris Hegenbart combines the aesthetics of historical musique concrète with contemporary digital means of production, without submitting to their dictates of sound design and form. Modern music software is just as malleable a material for him as the musical and everyday sounds of his surroundings, from which Hegenbart assembles his differentiated soundscapes. Desemantization and recontextualization of the acoustically found are the methods, sensitization and concentration the consequences of his art.

Photo Georg Weckwerth

The guest lecture was made possible with the support of TONSPUR Kunstverein Wien.

Time & Venue:
16. April, 12:15h
mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Vortragssaal
Anton-von-Webern-Platz 1
1030 Wien
Admission free