Sounds of the Living: Robert Schwarz
Live-Performance von Robert Schwarz, anschließend offene Diskussion
Angewandte Interdisciplinary Lab
Sounds of the Living: Robert Schwarz
Live-Performance
von Robert Schwarz, anschließend offene Diskussion
Die Reihe der Klanginterventionen in der Otto Wagner Kassenhalle
untersucht das Konzept der lebenden Materie und hinterfragt den Begriff der Natur. Teil VI ist die Auftaktveranstaltung für
den Kurs „Auditory Cultures“ der Theoretikerin Kristina Pia Hofer (Institut für Medientheorie).
Kristina Hofers’s class at the University of Applied Arts Vienna focuses on field recording as an artistic practice
and as a subject for critical academic inquiry. It will question field recordings as a practice of capture: How are they entangled
with extractivist logics old and new, with binary epistemologies of ‘Nature’ and ‘Culture,’ with gendered and racialized structures
and dynamics of power?
The AIL series picks up on these questions, and adds some of their own: How has our understanding
of nature changed over time? How have these changes shaped the soundscape on planet Earth? How do the sounds of abiotic elements
such as wind, water or earth movements intra-act with the sounds of living organisms like humans and further their technology?
The AIL sound performances take a very close listen at our surroundings and soundscapes of today.
Please note:
The performance will be open to the public, no registration is needed to participate. If you want to attend the performance
as part of Kristina’s class, please register for the course via base.
Guest of Sounds of the Living VI is Robert
Schwarz, who incorporates a background including computer music, sound studies, and architecture into his installations, live
performances and recorded music. The Vienna-based sound artist’s current works, especially his recent album, ‘Stridulations
1-14’, for Superpang, investigate the acoustic dimensions of insects with a particular focus on swarm behaviour, in conjunction
with speculative resynthesis. With more than 20 years of experience as a sound artist, Schwarz attunes to the internal logic
of his subject, creating new and abstract entities from synthetic and organic sound sources that suggest profound, dissociative
states of listening.
Robert Schwarz has released critically acclaimed albums for Superpang, Gruenrekorder, ETAT
and ALTER, and developed a series of walk-in sculptures in Los Angeles, Brussels and Vienna. He has presented works at institutions
and festivals such as MAK Center for Art and Architecture in Los Angeles, Kunsthalle Wien, Tokyo Arts and Space, CTM Berlin,
Skaņu Mežs and Musikprotokoll. Schwarz was selected for the 2023/24 year of the SHAPE+ Platform for innovative music and audiovisual
art, and is co-founder and curator of the ‘PARKEN’ festival in Vienna.
https://ail.angewandte.at/program/sounds-of-the-living-robert-schwarz 
