VERONIKA MAYER
Composer and sound artist Veronika Mayer is recognized as a laptop musician devoted to free improvisation. Her creative process centres on the fundamental qualities intrinsic to sound itself. From these elemental aspects, she crafts intricate, form-defining structures. Her approach is marked by minimal interventions and the delicate layering of micro-textures. This results in a sensation of expanded time, where the act of listening becomes heightened and immersive. In this way, Mayer invites us to cultivate a heightened awareness, attuning ourselves to the most subtle nuances within her sonic landscapes.
DRØM
C. Hausch and Benjamin Tomasi aka Drøm have been performing as a duo for several years at irregular intervals. Their musical beginnings were cloudy improvisations of noise and melancholically reverberating guitar riffs. Their most recent joint performance was a multichannel composition for Ruprechtskirche in Vienna, a space-specific piece of live-generating and processing of light and sound.
Drøm trace their musical influences to noise, krautrock and lo-fi pop. For SONIC CELL, these influences are joined in a meandering soundscape.
BENJAMIN TOMASI
Sound and media artist Benjamin Tomasi (Bolzano, Italy) works in multidisciplinary ways. His art fuses sound, sensory data, concrete materials and objects with digital, electronic and/or everyday analogue processes, and creates poetic sound installations, sculptures, videos and performances. Throughout his works, Tomasi engages with spirituality, nature, the digital overload, urban modes of acceleration, and loss of control. For this edition of SONIC CELL, he has teamed up as drøm with composer and label manager C. Hausch.
C. HAUSCH
c. hausch – Viennese sound and media artist, graphic designer and head of the MOOZAK label. – challenges the notion of space from the perspective of sound. – sound performances apply real-time signal processing to create shifting tectonic structures that envelop and absorb the listeners and transform the spatial reality surrounding them. – received a master’s degree in architecture for the thesis aural multiplicities: on how sound engenders space and how electronic technology transforms it.
SONIC CELL
Thursday, 28. September 2023, 18:30-22:00.
Schlesingerplatz, 1080 Vienna.
Curator: Lona Gaikis.