Sounds of the Living VI Event

with Rent, Ulla Rauter, Christine Schörkhuber, noid, Christoph Punzmann

Using the acoustics of Otto Wagner’s Kassenhalle, the series of sound interventions at Café Exchange explores the concept of living matter and nature.

Rent – Haunted
For Sounds of the Living VI Rent develops a piece that combines sounds from the upcoming release with recordings from the Viennese Alberner Hafen, an industrial site in the outskirts of Vienna. In this haunting and idiosyncratic landscape Katrin Euller aka Rent and colleague Adina Camhy worked on the radio piece Droneland, that was dedicated to the forced laborers of the Nazi regime, that were held prisoners at a camp located in the area of the harbour.

About Rent
Rent focuses on experimental, analog sounds combined with stock voices and dark, glitched ambiences. Harsh machines and digital remnants work together to create strongly processed sounds that relate to bodily experiences as well as to digital dissociations.

Christoph Punzmann – Vertigo
Liveset, Electronics & Guzheng, Stereo

The Live enactment Vertigo is building a bridge between Punzmanns four part electroacoustic composition cycle about climate change and new recently produced music. Moreover the music is interspersed with improvisations, electronically and acoustically on the Chinese Zither.

For the composition of the cycle, Punzmann is traveling since 2018 collecting sounds and learning about different environments and their specific climatic situations, and finding ways to express them in an abstract musical context.

Fieldrecordings were made in the rainforest and at the pacific coast of Columbia, the medieval hanseatic city of Visby on the island Gotland in Sweden, from volcanic activities on Yangmingshang Mountain north of Taipei, in the oyster fishing regions of Fukuoka in Japan, and from high up the nepalese Himalaya and the Inka Trails in Peru.

Christoph Punzmann
is a composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist. After graduating with a focus on musicology and art history in Germany, he moved to Vienna to study experimental and electroacoustic composition at the University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna. The musician with Peruvian roots works with electronics as well as instrumental music. His compositions range from stereo fixed media pieces to live performances using multichannel array speaker systems and the Guzheng (Chinese Zither), as well as music composed for western classical instruments. Often material derives from environmental fieldrecordings, sounds originating from the human body, or analogue/digitally synthesized sounds. What is heard is occasionally connected to movement, as it is in dance or moving image. His oeuvre is located within Contemporary, Experimental, Electro-acoustic and New Music. Apart from in Europe, compositions were performed in South America, USA, Russia, Scandinavia, and in East Asia (Taiwan, Japan).

Ulla Rauter, Christine Schörkhuber, noid – 1000000000 heartbeats
The total number of heartbeats in the life of all mammals is about one billion, only they beat at different speeds. The slowing down and acceleration in the form of transcription of animal sounds into the spectrum of human (time) perception is the common starting point of the 3 artists.

Christine Schörkhuber: Elektronik

Ulla Rauter: Stilleflöte / Talking Hand

noid: Love, 64 mating calls of a nightingale, transcribed for Violoncello at 10 % speed

Christine Schörkhuber
is working as sound- and media artist, video maker and musician. She realizes big sound installations in public space as well as video art, musical composition and silent/noise performances.

Ulla Rauter
works at the interface between sound and fine art. Her works include performative sculptures, music performances and self-built instruments.

noid (Arnold Haberl)
is an improvisation musician (cello, electronics), composer and sound artist. His fields of activity include cello improvisations, sound installations, sound art, video art and compositions.