Immerse yourself in the music of a pioneering Austrian electronic musician and composer

Legendary Austrian electronic musician, Elizabeth Schimana comes to perform at the B2! Schimana has been an active force in experimental electronic audio since the 80s (read more below). This performance will feature two full live electronic sets:

1001 needle pricks

A live electronic multichannel solo performance

1001 needle pricks stitch an acoustic pattern into the space.Ìý

Hem stitching and cross stitching.Ìý

Trickling – pouring – and subsiding.Ìý

Virus # 2.3

The live generated electronic resonating body is the host to which the sounds of the string players attach and adapt, they penetrate into it and use it for their replication. At first the body is immune, but during the course of the piece the body stops resisting, takes in the sounds of the string instruments, and allows the viruses to multiply freely. It is a struggle and synthesis between two resonating bodies. Together they stay alive.Ìý

Both bodies are audible. The virus series is an expedition into acoustic perception, a sounding of the responses of our brains in the span of milliseconds, a plea for the precise acoustic moment. And what do you hear?Ìý

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elise performing live

Elizabeth Schimana

Since the 1980s the musician and composer Elisabeth Schimana has been active as one of the Austrian female pioneers of electronic music with projects marked by a radical approach and equally unconventional aesthetics.Ìý

After completing vocal training, she earned degrees in composition, computer music, musicology, and ethnology. She has worked intensively with the theremin in Moscow and with the Max Brand Synthesizer in Vienna. Not only has she created countless radio works in cooperation with ORF Kunstradio but numerous sound installations and interdisciplinary and performative projects as well.Ìý

In her artistic work, Schimana examines questions of space, communication, or the body in its presence or absence, especially the imparting of compositional concepts (scores), which gives rise to completely new approaches that experimentally explore how we hear and demand a heightened musical presence on the part of the performer. Her probing approach also led her to found theÌýIMA Institute of Media Archeology, which has dedicated itself to acoustic media at the analogue/digital interface and to the subject of women, art, and technology since 2005.Ìý

(Milena Meller)Ìý