SO.UND.ING Acousmonium
14–15 March 2023
Kino Šiška, Cathedral
PAST EVENTS
15. Mar. 2023
Kino Šiška14. Mar. 2023Kino ŠiškaThe Acousmatic Project is an arts organization devoted to acousmatic music as a practice of focused listening and spatial sound dramaturgy. Its compositions create sound worlds whose sources remain unseen, placing listening at the core of the experience.
At the centre is the multichannel loudspeaker orchestra The Vienna Acousmonium—a sophisticated setup of loudspeakers, hardware, and control units that enables the spatial projection of acousmatic works and the shaping of ephemeral, dynamic-motion sound sculptures.
With guest artists, Thomas Gorbach brings together authorship, spatial diffusion, and performative listening, positioning the audience inside a sculpted sound field.
Andraž Fijavž Bačovnik (Kino Šiška), Marcel Obal (Kino Šiška)
The Acousmatic Project is an arts organization devoted to acousmatic music as a practice of focused listening and spatial sound dramaturgy. Its compositions create sound worlds whose sources remain unseen, placing listening at the core of the experience.
At the centre is the multichannel loudspeaker orchestra The Vienna Acousmonium—a sophisticated setup of loudspeakers, hardware, and control units that enables the spatial projection of acousmatic works and the shaping of ephemeral, dynamic-motion sound sculptures.
With guest artists, Thomas Gorbach brings together authorship, spatial diffusion, and performative listening, positioning the audience inside a sculpted sound field.
An interdisciplinary musician, performer and composer of acousmatic music. As the founder and organiser of The Acousmatic Project, he and Marco Schretter developed The Vienna Acousmonium, a multi-channel sound orchestra, and a method for interpreting acousmatic works and producing ephemeral, dynamically moving sound sculptures.
Works across many areas of music-making, including original compositions, sound design and compositions for film and theatre, sound installations and custom-made electronic virtual instruments.
An artist and researcher in the field of bio-, geo- and hydroacoustics, auditory perception, interactive sound performance in a concrete acoustic space and digitally enhanced reality, online transmission and artistic radio.
A music producer, composer and psychologist from Zagreb. Her artistic work blends analog and digital sound design, marked by deep introspection and a multidimensional emotional charge.
A curated selection of outstanding sound compositions from current studio achievements and archives of important and renowned composers, selected by Thomas Gorbach, who will interpret the works on his acousmonic instrument.
Pioneers
- Anestis Logothetis: Untitled_Coloured Noise | 1962–67
- Edgar Varèse: Poème électronique | 1958
- Thomas Gorbach: Modulated Resonances | 2021–22
- François Bayle: Déplacements 1. Vertical-Horizontal 2. Spiral 3. Diagonal (Octophonie) | 2011–12
The Acousmatic Project: Winners of the Young Lion_ess Competition 2022
- Diego Bermudez Chamberland: Punto Maximal | 2021–22
- Elliot Hernández: Ritual | 2021
- Mariana Vieira: The Unexpected Encounter with Diversity | 2021
- Mattia Loris Siboni: Translucido | 2020
- Marta Mendes Pereira Domingues: Brincar de Pensar | 2022 (Audience Award)
Repertoire: Masterpieces
- Annette Vande Gorne: Vox Alia II: Cathédrales | 2021
- Anestis Logothetis: Wellenformen | 1981
- Beatriz Ferreyra: Jazz’t for Miles | 2001
- Beatriz Ferreyra: Vivencias | 2001
- Åke Parmerud: Growl | 2014–15
Guest live performances
- OR poiesis [Petra Kapš]: Furīfōru / fluvial | 2023 | premiere performance
- Andrej Kobal: Air Transitions | 2023 | premiere performance
- tonota [Ivona Eterović]: uncertainty | 2022
Works by invited artists
Air Transitions explores the sound of the junction between the materiality of the surface and the dynamics of air. The composition is based on the transformation and manipulation of sound recordings of the bora and wind-related sound elements. Working with the sound techniques of granular, concatenative and spectral synthesis offers a unique reinterpretation of the sound mass of the source material.
Furīfōru / fluvial pursues the ecstatic feeling of floating in the spherical music of waterfalls. In the free fall of water, its dispersion and the shaking impacts of water molecules on the stone, an endless attraction, an ecstatic vibrational field that elevates the bodies, is passionately created. The work was created in a fluvial composition and with the help of performative field recordings of waterfalls and rocks. By searching for frequency resonance, it delves into the elemental rituals of nature.
uncertainty is a confrontation with the unknown and the establishment of order where there really is none. The feeling of uncertainty in a powerful moment of confusion and loss of clear judgment becomes an auditory exploration of noise in silence. The work is based on rhythmic patterns in the form of a spatial sound composition that explores human mechanisms for dealing with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Artists: Thomas Gorbach, Andrej Kobal, OR poiesis [Petra Kapš], tonota [Ivona Eterović]
Photography: Andraž Fijavž Bačovnik (Kino Šiška), Marcel Obal (Kino Šiška)
Organisation: Irena Pivka, Brane Zorman
Public relations: Matej Tomažin, Anja Pia Biščak
Design: Matej Tomažin
Translation and proofreading: Daniel Sheppard
Production: Cona for Steklenik Gallery
Coproduction: Kino Šiška
Partners: The Acousmatic Project
Supporters: Kontejner – Bureau of Contemporary Art Practice, Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport (Austria), City of Vienna – Department of Culture
The festival is supported by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Slovenia and the City of Ljubljana, Department for Culture.
