Isabella Forciniti (AT/IT)

Isabella Forciniti is a Vienna-based sound artist from Italy. Her work moves within tensions created by the essential aspects of sound and improvised music. Her intention is to explore conscious states of sound by exploring the relationships between interwoven sound environments, informal practice and their intrinsic abilities. Her work aims to unleash streams of thought at the edges of the unknown. She created works for the Austrian radio station Ö1, for example for the art program Kunstradio and the Radiokolleg. Isabella Forciniti also gained film experience by working with Kubelka's "Arnulf Rainer" film strips and by scoring gender-critical silent films from the early 20th century. She participated in workshops by Elliott Sharp, Tomomi Adachi, Antye Greie-Ripatti and Cedrik Fermont, among others.

Christoph Punzmann (DE/AT)

Christoph Punzmann is a composer, performer and multi-instrumentalist. The musician works with electronics as well as instrumental music. His compositions range from fixed media pieces to live performances using multichannel array speaker systems. Often material derives from environmental fieldrecordings or sounds of organic origin e.g. the human body. What is heard can be connected to movement, as it is in dance or film. His oeuvre is located within contemporary, experimental, electro-acoustic and new music. In Punzmann’s current artistic research he is exploring new ways of processing the human voice and the Guzheng (chinese zither), using a variety of programming languages to create uncommon, innovative sound situations.

Martina Claussen (AT)

The composer and singer Martina Claussen explores and combines sounds of voices, sound objects, analog and digital electronics, explores the spatial, the performative, and in doing so constantly develops her own, unmistakable "sound writing". She studied computer music and electronic media at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, concert voice at MUK Vienna and composition at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. Performances and concerts at international festivals, such as Ars Electronica, Wien Modern, Festival Futura (Crest-France), Acousmatic Festival St. Petersburg and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.

Michael Fischer (AT)

Michael Fischer works on the linguistic immanence of sounds, whose sculptural and dramatic evidence, in the field of contemporary free improvised and experimental music / Soundart and Instant Composition Conducting. In 1999 he began to integrate the electroacoustic phenomenon feedback into his instrumental work and developed a specific technique and an exclusively analog, non-effect based instrument, the feedback saxophone. Further development of this instrument at the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Peter Weibel) with subsequent presentation at the ZKM 'Globale' festival; the last presentation was at the Parallel Vienna 2019.

Emma Souharce (CH)

Emma Souharce lives with her electric and electronic instruments which she transforms and manipulates sometimes like toys, sometimes like tools of massive decomposition. With a disconcerting freedom of movement, between lo-fi caresses and screams of micro-machines, she sculpts in the sound material to extract the most subtle harmonies and dissonances. Through its turbulent and rugged physical landscapes, this ritualist alchemist works a trance from a series of intense movements to benevolent resolution, with the secret ambition to reach complete symbiotic states. Supported by Pro Helvetia and République et Canton de Genève.

Ganaël Dumreicher - Vienna TransitionBASE (AT/LU)

The "Vienna TransitionBASE", located in the last stock of old trees in the (Aspern) Seestadt, is a place where alternative, sustainable, creative and participatory forms of living have been tried, developed and tested over the last nine years. The usage contract ends on September 30th, one week after the "Wiener Rauschen". The association "United Creations", which is behind the concept of tBase, will have to make way for the permaculture garden, wood and clay houses that have been created over the years to make room for the expansion of the Seestadt. Over the last few months, Ganaël Dumreicher has accompanied the dismantling on film and will provide an acoustic insight into the process.

Julie Semoroz – JMO (CH)

Julie Semoroz is singer, sound artist and head of artistic projects. Semoroz shapes sound using several sources such as field recordings, live microphones and her own voice with software and hardware. She offers sound pieces like inner journeys into the subconscious that penetrate into the darkness. Her work focuses on people’s individual relationship with mechanical and organic time. Her creations address new technologies and our post-industrial consumerist society. In her ecology-based research, in the sense of “habitat”, Julie Semoroz raises the question of how to experience our bodies and lives in the society. Using a high-frequency detector, Semoroz extracts the electromagnetic waves of the surrounding networks and antennas. The result is raw sound material, which is then shaped, controlled and broadcast again. The endless interference which contemporary mankind is subjected to is thus made perceptible. Supported by Pro Helvetia and République et Canton de Genève.

Markus Liszt / Elet / Stephanie Krawinkler - “00-99” (AT)

Back to analog information storage. With pen and ink, a 19-line number-theoretical poem on paper, the "scratching" of the pen is recorded with a piezo microphone and mixed live to earlier recordings. The ink drawing thus becomes an audio-visual experience in a performance that is intertwined with rhythm and symmetry.

Victoria Primus / Elena Shirin - Planetary Oscillation Embodiment (AT)

Victoria Primus, the co-founder of the association Kreatur, is a passionate dancer & choreographer based in Vienna, Austria. Since finishing university she has worked internationally with dance companies & festivals: Theater Ansicht, Vienna Biennale, Noise Aquarium, Angewandte Innovation Lab (AIL), Vienna Design Week, Ivo Dimchev, Tauschfühlung, Bodytalk, and Flowmotion Dance Company. Victoria engages in interdisciplinary work at the interface between art & science. Planetary Oscillation Embodiment is the creative result of the collaboration with the outstanding sound designer Elena Shirin. Elena Shirin: After playing her first solo tour through the U.S. opening for Moon Hooch the vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, producer, photographer and audio-visual artist Elena Shirin finally released her first Album ‘From A to Be’ on May 15th 2020 on Berlin-based record label Motor Music. Collaborations with producers/musicians like Demuja (A), Nathaniel Markman of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (US), Moon Hooch (US), Oehl (A), Aramboa (A), Philipp Lichtblau (A), etc. allowed the Viennese singer to explore the wide range of musical and artistic interests that are interwoven in her album.

Matilda Peruzzo (IT)

Matilda Peruzzo is a 4th Year PhD student attending the Graduate school at IST Austria. She completed an MSci (Bachelor + Masters) at King's College London. Her project involves designing, simulating and fabricating novel superconducting circuits. The aim is to test the quantum behaviour of a Josephson junction (a quantum mechanical circuit element fundamental for the construction of superconducting qubits) in a high impedance environment.

Conny Zenk - PHANTOM RIDES (AT)

Electrified pulses and vibrations overlay the city as invisible electromagnetic waves. An imperceptible sign of the condensation of the world: PHANTOM RIDES moves through the streets of the city as a chorus of signals and works with sounds that are outside the audible range. Electromagnetic sounds are recorded by means of a self-built bicycle antenna during the movement of riding. The structure of the route forms the starting point for the audio-visual composition. Conny Zenk is media artist, sound artist and performer in the scope of visual music. She is working across topics dissecting social media, migration, gender and feminism as well as urban, architectural and spatial concepts. She is founder of the participative performance series named RAD Performance. Since 2013 Conny Zenk had developed and curated many premieres in the context of contemporary performance art, activism and urban exploration. 2008-2012 she co-founded the performance group ffid researching on the intersection between performance, visuals arts and experimental sound.

lentsi biografie - blue (AT)

literature, soundart, cosmic wave turning to different authors. dadaistic, sound poetic approach. Notes are crossed out, mistakes are repeated, papers fly away. surreal sound ways // impasse du paradou, chemin du diable // each composition is made for a specific context and performed once. soundscapes, toys, percussion and delay effects stretch space and time. the composition is approached in an experimental manner: the idea of ​​a setup, followed by graphical notation and text work. nina bauer * 1973 in vienna, freelance artist with a focus on audiovisual media johanna schlömicher * 1991 in salzburg, performer & sound artist

zyzzye (AT)

Vinzenz Landl - Electronics Georg Zichy - Electronics

gedachs (AT)

Fabian Wutti - Bariton Sax, Electronics Georg Zichy - Prepared Guitar, Electronics

Dominik Förtsch - DUST (AT)

Dominik Förtsch started his artistic career with performance art projects. In 2015 he finished his studies of performing arts at University of Music and Performing Arts Graz following engagements as an actor, singer and dancer at different theatres. Being interested in music all his life while playing in different bands, the self-taught musician was able to enter the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, where he started studying composition in 2018. In 2019 he took part in Wien Modern, while also his first orchestral piece "VOID" premiered in Vienna. "DUST is made of fine particles of solid matter // on Earth, it generally consists of particles in the atmosphere that come from various sources" an instrument played via Gametrak-controller.

Queroval - The Lettuce Lattice (AT)

RAD Perfomance CITY OF NOISE: Dance your Bike!

RAD Performance CITY OF NOISE presents a new composition format for the bicycle, realized in motion and with a variety of mobile speakers and wheels. The experimental field is called Sonic Environment & Sound Research. Fixed-media compositions of different sound artists*, the choral movement of the performers* on the bicycle as well as the dynamics and distance between the moving sound sources create unique soundscapes for the audience. Patterns for the choreography are historical bicycle dances and working-class cyclist formations. Artistic Research pilot project - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna In cooperation with KÖR Kunst im öffentlichen Raum Wien (Public Art Vienna) Gloria Amesbauer, Konstantin Kuzmanovski, Rahel Kraft, Conny Zenk Choreography: Petra Sturm Performers: Arik Kofranek, Ina Hoheisel, Judith Pirklbauer, Silvia Poglitsch, Elizabeth Spouse, Elena Tiis, Ingrid Wollinger, Christian Daschek, Elena Floriani Artistic Director: Conny Zenk Technical Director: Georg Hartl Electronic Engineering: Simon Laburda, Aryan Yalefaar

Science Visualization Lab der Universität für angewandte Kunst & ArtSci Center UCLA (AT/USA)

Noise Aquarium is an interactive installation which adapts to various exhibition venues to let visitors dive into the world of plankton. At Wiener Rauschen, it will be shown as a fully immersive Virtual Reality installation. The ecological crisis is a human crisis. Oceans must not be considered as flat blue surfaces which serve as dumping sites where we can let our anthropogenic remains vanish within. There are vast amounts of organisms living down there, some of which suffer from our waste and noise. Some people are aware of the suffering of mammals such as whales and dolphins and the media occasionally informs us of chemical and waste pollution, however, the invisible and inaudible environment is often ignored. Therefore, in this installation, we have created 3D plankton enlarged like whales. In addition, we amplify the destructive noise as participants interact with the animations to simulate how these organisms might experience and perceive this anthropogenic noise. This is a highly interdisciplinary artist-led effort together with biologists, chemists, nano-toxicologists and an animator all working together towards a common goal – to raise consciousness. Noise Aquarium Collective: Victoria Vesna, ArtSci Center UCLA, Alfred Vendl, Science Visualization Lab Angewandte, Martina Fröschl, Science Visualization Lab Angewandte, Glenn Bristol, United Motion Labs, Stephan Handschuh, Vet-Med Wien, Thomas Schwaha, Universität Wien