Selection of various sound-artists and projects that are currently featured at this year’s Wien Modern Festival in Vienna.
»Believe« (Levitation in the Studio) 2002 and »Untitled« (Vulture in the Studio) 2002 are two of three videos taking place in João Onofre’s Lisbon studio. »Believe« pits the eternal power of magic against technology by inviting a traditional magician couple to perform a levitation in the artist’s studio. In (Vulture in the Studio) the wild animal climbs onto the tables mounted on easels that enclose the studio space, nibbling on the sheets of paper pinned to the wall as well as the books and catalogues arranged on shelves, and tries to take flight.
In the third video »Catriona Shaw sings “Baldessari sings Lewitt” re-edit, “Like a Virgin”« 2003, a passable vocalist interprets Madonna’s famous song Like a Virgin, but with altered lyrics: excerpts from Sol Le Witt’s “Sentences on Conceptual Art” 1969, which had already been sung by John Baldessari in 1978. Accompanying the video is an extended version original video soundtrack was released. Vinyl record, edition of 20 pieces.
»Instrumental Version« 2001, features the Chamber Choir of Lisbon, performing an acappella version of “The Robots,” an old electronic favorite from Kraftwerk’s 1978 album Man Machine. Vinyl record, edition of 20 pieces. All works by João Onofre.
»Oahu« is a wooden wave island placed in front of the water-castle Villa Concordia in Bamberg/Germany.
»Jungle & House«.
The installation »Holiday On Ice« is based on a classic ice skating rink built inside a penitentiary in Erbach/Germany, in which the inmates were invited to participate in an icehockey tournament. By Gregor Passens.
Still from »Conversations Wit de Churen 3: Da Young And Da Mess«.
»Kalup Linzy as Labisha The Diva«, performance documentation. Kalup Linzy is a video and performance artist. He plays many of the characters in his videos himself and enlists artist friends to perform the others. Many of the characters appear in drag, their vocal tracks either exaggeratedly sped up or slowed down. His videos build a narrative series which alternately mimics, lampoons, and inhabits TV soap operas’ fevered, melodramatic tenor and suspenseful cliffhanger endings.
Sportscar motor rotating at around 800 revolutions, reduced to 33 revolutions by a gearbox, playing records on a turntable mounted to the engine block.
Bicycle playing a 7 inch record mounted to the back wheel. Both projects by Alexander Laner. Further vinyl based projects: Helmut Smits and Jeroen Diepenmaat.
Stuffed birds play records by putting their beak into the groove.
»loop/loop« is a recordplayer that changes its pitch depending on the walking speed.
In the instalation »in honour of a new affair«, a needle is installed above each recordplayer that connects the vinyl with the large pieces of paper. The sound of the records are being transported to the paper and the paper makes it audible. The needle constantly changes its position, due to the wind. All three projects by Jeroen Diepenmaat.
Pictures from ‘Mock N’ Roll’, a story about tribute bands and
“Stripper for a day” by Michael Schmelling.
Mobile Booster by Nik Nowak.
Mobile Booster performance by Nik Nowak and Masahiro Fukuyama at art fair Köln 2005.
Without Title, video by Nik Nowak.
“The Robotics Project 2″, a device consisting of electrodes that when triggered, send a small shock to the positive and negative electrodes on either side of the arm muscles, forcing the arms and fingers to move. The device is connected to the guitar of Clinton Watkins. When ever a particular bar chord is played (acting as a switch), the external nervous system triggers the arm movements and creates a mechanical sound. By Hadleigh Averill performed with Clinton Watkins.
“The Lightning Project” by Hadleigh Averill in Collaboration with Ryan Douglass and Medicine Man Wakiyan Sna Mani. Video.
Too Slow To Live is Delaware’s seventh album. The audiovisual compositions will only be published and exhibited online.
Not a Time Machine is an interdisciplinary project that uses dance, music and video as forms of expression. The two central elements (water and electricity) constitute the fundaments of a gestural interface. By Miha Ciglar, Mojca Kasjak and son:DA.
»Ultra Sound« consists of a water filled, 90 gallon aquarium dissected by a piece of ground glass onto which a video of a musician playing a xylophone underwater is being projected. By Joe Kelly.
Videostills taken from the Think That Thought by the audiovisual artist Janine Rostron aka Planningtorock.
“The only die-hard avantgarde group of new postrock generation leading from Estonia”: Luarvik Luarvik
The fashion label ____fabrics interseason positions itself and its work within an international network of electronic music, fine arts and design.
A glass shelf (10x15feet) filled with crystal glass objects was crashed down a set of stairs.
In a collaboration with the ensemble für neue musik zürich, the recorded soundscape was transscribed into a composition and performed at the Center d’art Contemporain in Geneva. Reality Hacking #202 by Peter Regli.
Electronic sounds combined with rough unprocessed voices, sung by common Ukrainian people: Zavoloka.
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