Our intimate salon series is back in its new home: The Fridman Gallery Listening Room, an 8-channel cube that we installed for the Plasticity Office Summer action.
For this inauguration and continuation we welcome Austrian Velak Collective with sets by agar agar and Nava Hemyari + Frederic Stritter
Oct 15 2023
8pm
Fridman Gallery Listening Room
169 Bowery
$10 (members free)
agar agar
agar agar is an audiovisual performance by Martina Moro and Fabian Lanzmaier. Combining analog and digital tools they create an immersive space of abstract sound and visuals. Setting up an instrument in which the visual and auditory parts influence each other, they generate a system with its own dynamics and dependencies, resulting in a synesthetic experi- ence. agar agar is a performative instrument, a miniature stage, that under many spotlights, reveals an ecstatic choreogra- phy of patterns interacting with each other.
Nava Hemyar
Nava Hemyar studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 2013 until 2020 with Wolfgang Suppan and Kalrheinz Essl. Quite early in the studies I started experimenting with compositional forms and realized that I enjoy working with a few chosen fragments, which develop in time. Parallel to these, since 2015, with some early-age expe-rience in singing, I start- ed experimenting with my voice – rather a high soprano – wrote some pieces for it and performed them, and also sang in several performances of works of my colleges‘ and of other composers.
Frederic Stritter
Frederic Stritter is based in Vienna as a composer and sound artist. His works range from electroacoustic and live-electronic to real world music and installations. He is dedicated to exploring a particular sounding element or a certain location. Often his performances implement soundscape and field recordings exploring the Pankroama, the acoustic horizon. He studied electroacoustic music, composition and sound art at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Mdw/ELAK) and theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna.
CT::SWaM and Velak Collective present:
For the upcoming event CT::SWaM is hosting members of the Austrian Velak Collective – an artist collective organizing concerts and performances with the focus on electronic, experimental and improvised music, consistently and regularly for almost 20 years. The concert series focuses on hosting local and international acts has a nomadic form of organization playing in different settings and spaces around Vienna, but also has collaborated with other organizers from abroad to play velak-export events in Tokyo, Berlin, Paris and Brussels and was engaged to run a radio stream around the world over the last years.
Oct 25 2023
8pm
Fridman Gallery Main Room
169 Bowery
$15 (members free)
Performances by::
Stella Kyan
Paul Gründorfer
Eduardo Triviño-Cely
Stella Kyan
Stella Kyan is a greek multidisciplinary artist working with analogue and digital media, experimenting through different disciplines with a focus on photography and sound. Her musical practice is based on improvisational experimentations, playing with virtual instruments, synthesizers, percussion, e-bass, field and voice recordings, machine learning algorithms, children’s music toys and more. Her current sonic interest is investigating the boundaries between intuitive playing and structured patterns in sound compositions.
Paul Gründorfer
Artistic practice in the scope of conceptual and process art, site specific intervention, sound sculpture and performance. Paul Gründorfer develops process-related systems and explores variable or unstable conditions within the occurrence of sound when exposed to amplification, feedback and plural signal streams. His works focus on processes that evolve in a social space, where sound is considered a found object and event, that directly relates to, influences and reflects the environment. They deal with the instability of systems, questioning the role of control and reaction, and researching mechanisms of hidden signals.
Eduardo Triviño-Cely
(1990, Bogota) artistic practice involving sound, sculpture, multimedia, and performance. Their work is characterized by interventions in spe-cific spaces, the use of sound objects and installations. Through self-taught research, this explores the relationship between the limits of the body and different territorial spaces, encompassing cultural practices, political issues, and exercises in reflection on our environment.
Further information about the series can be found at: velak.klingt.org and ctswam.org
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