The sound performance series Sonic Specters is the first part of the program centering on AIL’s new topic: Haunted – Persistence of the Past. In cooperation with Struma+Iodine, curated by Shilla Strelka and Elisabeth Falkensteiner
About Katatonic Silentio:
Mariachiara Troianiello, the Milan-based sound artist behind the moniker Katatonic Silentio, works at the crossroads of electronic music, performing arts and sound studies. Both as alive performer and an independent researcher, she seeks to bridge different spheres and approaches to sonic production.
Active as a DJ for more than 15 years, her sets adopt multiple forms, fluctuating between an analogue past and a technological, fast-paced future. At times, her sets focus on pure abstraction, consisting of ethereal soundscapes that seek to transcend the tangible through a mix of musique concrète, world, spoken word, ambient or dub. At others, they come across as concrete and club-oriented, crossing techno, broken beats or drum n bass.
Mariachiara views sound as a critical tool and has a genuine interest in exploring sonic possibilities and practices from both artistic and sociological perspectives. As an independent researcher, she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of USMARADIO: Interdepartmental Research Centre for Radiophonic Studies at the University of San Marino. In her undergraduate thesis in 2015, Mariachiara looked at the different notions of radio and broadcasting between underground and mainstream and the multiple performative possibilities of the medium itself – a topic she currently puts into practice through her project Expanded Radio Research Unit. As of now, she holds radio residencies on EOS and LYL.
Mariachiara also collaborates with Anonima/Luci, a light art collective with whom she develops installations that reconfigure architectural spaces by combining light and sound.
Together with choreographer and dancer Olimpia Fortuni, she performs ‘X’, an ongoing compositional study that draws on sound, movement and space.
About dieb13:
Turntablist, hacker, filmmaker, autodidact, composer, collageur, conscientious copyright objector, since the late 1980ies dieb13 has explored the possibilities of vinyls, casettes, vinyls, harddisks, ip-protocols etc. as material for collages and compositions. Using various playing techniques and his own lathe cutter, he has pushed the development of turntables as instruments aside ‘classical dj techniques’ and developed his very unique style.
Since the 1990s, he’s been active in vienna’s electronic-, improvised and noise music scene but also in fields like contemporary composed music, free jazz or pop. Solo appearances as dieb12, dieb13, dieb14, bot, echelon, Dieter Bohlen…
Permanent collaborations include: RISC, efzeg, eRikm/dieb13, dieb13 vs. takeshi fumimoto, swedish azz, phil minton/dieb13, fake the facs, where is the sun, nu ensemble, crsp
Founder of the klingt.orgestra
Performances in more than 30 countries on four continents at various international festivals and locations including: Phonotaktik Wien & New York, Wien Modern, Donaufestival Krems, sonicacts Amsterdam, beyond innocence Osaka, LMC festival London, Huddersfield contemporary music festival, Kilbi Düdingen, Maerzmusik Berlin, Kammermusiktage Witten, Musiktage Donaueschingen, Piksel Bergen, CMMAS Morelia, trans art Bozen, great performers an ideas Colorado Springs, Bienale São Paulo.
Distributed by 1.8sec, absurd, amoebic, antifrost, charhizma, col legno, corvo, doc, Durian, en/of, editions mego, erstwhile, filmarchiv austria, for4ears, gruenrekorder, god rec., grob, hathut, index, interstellar, junkjet, loewenhertz, mego, mikroton, moka bar, nottwo, orf, panrec, pilot.fm, rhiz, sixpack, staalplaat, substance, transacoustic research, the manual, trost, unframed recordings.
music for theater-, dance-, opera-, film- and videoproductions and installations. His collaborative Films with Billy Roisz were shown at Berlinale, Karlovary Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Hongkong Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival, SXSW Texas a.m.m…. (Co-)Organizer of several festivals and the monthly series “der blöde dritte mittwoch”. He was teaching / held workshops at several universities, musical institutes and schools
