Sonorities Festival Belfast 2018
Austrian composers Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler - Atelier Avant Austria
Two works of Austrian composers Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas
Weixler have been selected to be performed at Sonorities Festival
Belfast 2018 in the prestigious Sonic Lab at SARC. Multichannel
electroacoustic compositions gula huset by Se-Lien Chuang and
WaterGhosts by Andreas Weixler are created at VICC, Sweden during a
composer in residence.
SARC Sonic Lab, Queens University, Belfast
11:00 on Sunday 22 April 2018
http://www.sonorities.org.uk
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Austrian composers Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler at
Sonorities Festival Belfast 2018
Two works of Austrian composers Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas Weixler
have been selected to be performed at Sonorities Festival Belfast
2018 in the prestigious Sonic Lab at SARC scheduled for performance
at 11:00 on Sunday 22 April.
Both works gula huset - 5 channel electroacoustic composition with
contemporary instrumental sounds and vocals by Se-Lien Chuang and
WaterGhosts - 5 channel electroacoustic composition by Andreas
Weixler are created during a composer in residence at VICC - Visby
International Centre for Composers in February 2017 on the beautiful
Swedish Island.
The Sonic Lab at SARC has it´s little sister in Linz, Austria: 2015
the Sonic Lab of the Computer Music Studio of the Anton Bruckner
Private University was opened a multichannel computer music concert
hall initiated by Andreas Weixler & Se-Lien Chuang.
Andreas Weixler
born 1963 in Graz, Austria, is a composer with an emphasis on
audiovisual interactivity. He is an associate university professor
at Anton Bruckner Private University and director of the Computer
Music Studio CMS. As a trained composer for contemporary
instrumental and electroacoustic music he is also specializing in
intermedia concerts of improvisation and contemporary composition.
Se-Lien Chuang
composer, pianist and media artist, 1965 born in Taiwan, since 1991
residence in Austria. The artistic and compositional emphases range
from contemporary instrumental composition/improvisation, computer
music to audiovisual interactivity.
International productions, research stays and lectures as well as
numerous representations of compositions in Europe, Asia, North- and
South America.
Lecturer at Computer Music Studio, Institute of Composition and
Conducting at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
Atelier Avant Austria
is the arts collective jointly run by Se-Lien Chuang and Andreas
Weixler with key aspects in development of audiovisual
interactive systems and audio/visual realtime/non-realtime
processing, computer music and algorithmic composition.
links:
Weixler-Chuang: http://avant.mur.at
Sonorities Belfast: http://www.sonorities.org.uk
Sonic Lab SARC: http://www.qub.ac.uk/sarc/about/facilities/#soniclab
Sonic Lab CMS: http://avant.mur.at/weixler/bpu/CMS/SonicLab/index.html
CD-Edition 30/4
electroacoustic music and sound art from austria
30 Austrian composers on 4 CD´s
http://avant.mur.at/GEM/CD_30_4.html
gula huset (2017)
5 channel electroacoustic composition with contemporary instrumental
sounds and vocals
composed 2017 at VICC - Visby Internationale Centre for Composers
All electronic sounds are transformed from the recordings of
acoustic instruments and voices. The reminiscence of micro fragments
was recalling consistently by the recurrent variations and nuances
of the saturations during the episodes. Some strokes can
surprisingly pull the listeners out of the state of a trance.
Gula huset is created in the Studio Alpha of VICC during a composer
in residence in February 2017. I would like to acknowledge
especially and respectively to Jonny Axelsson (Sweden), percussion
and Ivo Nilsson (Sweden), trombone, the sounds of them are recorded
2016 at Jonny’s lovely atelier. And others - Jonas Nilsson (Sweden),
double bass and author (Taiwan/Austria), vocal, the sounds of them
are recorded 2017 in Studio Alpha VICC, Visby, Gotland, Sweden.
World premiere
Se-Lien Chuang
composer, pianist and media artist, 1965 born in Taiwan, since 1991
residence in Austria.
The artistic and compositional emphases range from contemporary
instrumental composition/improvisation, computer music to
audiovisual interactivity.
International productions, research stays and lectures as well as
numerous representations of compositions in Europe, Asia, North- and
South America: ICMC, SICMF Seoul, NIME, ISEA, IAMAS Japan, Ars
Electronica Linz, among others.
Lecturer at Computer Music Studio, Institute of Composition and
Conducting at the Anton Bruckner Private University.
Since 1996 jointly with Andreas Weixler running Atelier Avant
Austria, with key aspects in development of audiovisual interactive
systems and audio/visual realtime/non-realtime processing, computer
music and algorithmic composition.
http://avant.mur.at/chuang
WaterGhosts
Andreas Weixler 2017 VICC
5 channel electroacoustic composition
WaterGhosts was created in the Studio Alpha of VICC in Visby, Sweden
during a composer in residence in February 2017. All electronic
sounds are based on recordings of acoustic instruments. A
multichannel realtime audio processing studio session of voice and
double bass gave gestural movements of acoustic as well as generated
electronic sounds in a mutual improvisation. Recordings of the
acoustic sounds of low drums and a trombone are then altered by the
same max msp live processing of granular synthesis and stochastic
spatialisation. The compositions is then completed by a Petzold
subcontrabass recorder audio processing in the studio to configure a
spatial composition in an organic soundscape.
Jonny Axelsson (S), low drums and Ivo Nilsson (S), trombone,
Matilda Andersson (S), vocal and Jonas Nilsson (S), double bass
Julia Russer (GER), Petzold sub contrabass recorder
Andreas Weixler (A) electronics
World premiere
Andreas Weixler
born 1963 in Graz, Austria, is a composer with an emphasis on
audiovisual interactivity. He is teaching as an associate university
professor at Anton Bruckner Private University computer music, music
and media technology, where he initiated the development of the
computer music studios and intermedia multichannel computer music
concert hall, Sonic Lab as director of the Computer Music Studio
CMS.
He is a lecturer at InterfaceCulture at the University of Arts in
Linz and at the University of Music and Performing Arts - in Vienna.
His concepts led to invitations to performances, presentations and
lectures in Europe, Asia, North and South America, selections for
ICMC 2016 Utrecht, 2014 Athens, 2013 Perth, 2012
Ljubljana, 2011 Huddersfield, 2010 New York, 2008 Belfast, 2007
Copenhagen as well as for several NIME, NYCEMF, SICMF, ISEA among
others.
Currently he is specializing in intermedia concerts of improvisation
and contemporary composition.
http://avant.mur.at