Biography / Version 0

Natasa Berk
After finishing studies at the Middle School for Design and Photography, Ljubljana, in 2000 Natasa Berk moved to Vienna where she is still studying video and computer art at the Academy of Fine Arts. She is interested in the succinct and minor matters in her life, presenting her observations in a very direct way, During the last 3 years her photographs, video and installation art has been seen in Maribor and Vienna. She has recently made a DVD for the band PolyPlay.

Colin Bradley / Dual
Continuing the tradition of prime experimentalists such as Tony Conrad, Main and Thomas Köner, the music they make is simple, subtle and special. Above all it is highly textural and organic yet contains rigidly defined and desolate atmospherics. Primarily a studio-based band, Dual are constantly expanding their sonic horizons, their effective use of space and ambient dynamics, align them as much with avantgarde composers like John Cage, Steve Reich and La Monte Young as with the post rock contingent. Originally working through the World Feedback label, Dual produced two excellent album length cassettes Influx and Drylite as well as a self-released CD on the CEE label entitled Caste.

[ dy’na:mo ] Martin Moser / Martin Wagner / Joachim Bock
Dynamo, work in the realm of sound as art and art as technology. The technical aspects of their output are sculptural in its manifestation, and dynamic in its reality. Two thirds of the group (Martin Wagner & Joachim Bock) run and curate the experimental sound and art venue fluc. Martin Moser is the technical craftsman within the group, creating specific equipment, which can perform as an instrument and as a base to further others creativity within the club.

Bernhard Fleischmann
Bernhard Fleishmann played in different bands as drummer including sore! his latest loud melodic guitar-formation; The cd my idea of fun was presented amongst others at clubs including, Szene Wien, Chelsea, Flex, Schlachthof Wels and Kapu Linz. Since early 1998, Bernhard Fleischmann concerns himself concretely with electronic music. Here harmonies and noises from various electronic music devices are in the foreground live. The songs are calm and warm, something for a red salon with deep sofas, pieces to which one easily moves. Noises shouldn’t be considered as strange events, but each tone is to be understood by itself in combination with others.

Franz Graf
From 1979 to the mid 1980s graf/kowanz were working as an artistic duo and quickly became an integral part of the Austrian and international art scene. Right now, Franz Graf teaches fine art and sound in his class at the Academy of fine Art in Vienna. His Art work reacts to his surrounding area and combines it to a social and political context. Working with a network of different media from drawings, photos, text and sound, he creates an interesting position within the art world. His sound projects always involve very complex structures which are generated in different ways and then re-worked. He has participated in numerous sound related arts events including (Trabant, Museumsquartier Vienna, Kunstraum Innsbruck …).

Adam Ebringer
Adam Ebringer was raised in the suburbs of Melbourne, Australia, where he made his musical debut. When not writing silly electronic pop, he busies himself with the serious field of free improvised noise. He now lives and performs in Moscow, often collaborating with longtime Moscow resident Alexei Borisov.

Christian Egger
The works of Christian Egger often combine symbols and images of a popular culture, with a theoretical approach. His use of cheap and non-spectacular materials draws the attention to the multi-bind word plays behind the works titles. There is a great diversity shown in his work, from curatorial to the classical through to an exaggerated abstract in drawings via collage. guy the guy – is a classical one-man performer, playing and DJing his favorite tunes and whispering words of alienation, the impossibility of everlasting love, fear of abandonment and the lack of any original thought into his mic. guy the guy has already shared the bill with acts like Viva la fété, U.N.K.L.E, Christopher Just and Philipp Quehenberger.

Bernhard Gál
Bernhard Gál (a.k.a. gal) is a composer, artist and musicologist from Vienna, who creates electro-acoustic music as well as compositions for acoustic instruments. In his intermedia and sound art installations Gál combines sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. Gál’s work has been presented in concerts, sound installations and exhibitions throughout Europe, and in Japan, Taiwan and the Americas. As a musician, he has performed in solo concerts and collaborated with Aki Onda, Alan Licht, Brian Labycz, Chao-Ming Tung, Kai Fagaschinski, Manuel Mota, et al. He has worked together with architects, choreographers, dancers, musicians, painters, performance, media and video artists, e.g. G.S. Sedlak, Mandy Morrison, Christian Aichinger, P. Michael Schultes, Akemi Takeya and Emre Tuncer. In 1997 Gál began a continuous collaboration with the Japanese architect and installation artist Yumi Kori (‘audio-architectural installations’).

Eli Gottlieb
Eli Gottlieb is a magazine editor, critic and novelist whose first novel, The boy who went away (published in German by Ulstein Verlag as Stachelkind) received the Rome Prize of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the McKitterick award of the British Society of Authors.

Elisabeth Grübl
Elisabeth Grübl’s practice in visual arts incorporates sound. Her exhibition 9000 hz (Secession, Vienna, 1998) connected the auditive with observation rooms, which created a new access to visual art. Following this she had audio installations at Fishe Gallery (London 2000) and ausgeträumt …, an exhibition curated by Kathrin Rhomberg (Secession, Vienna, 2002). Of particular interest in these works is the use of “sine wave tones” which spread as a constant into the room. This effect together with the spacial dimensions creates the installation, where visitors become moveable tactile elements to change the reading of the space. The essence of Elisabeth Grübl’s investigation includes the artistic and technological examination of acoustic perception inside a space in which relations of movement, sound and architecture are tightly connected.

Clegg & Guttmann
The international Artist duo Clegg & Guttmann work between art, culture, politics and a general public situation as a social sculpture. Previous projects include The Open Library and the Firminy Open Music Library.

Werner Moebius
Werner Moebius works with sounds, beats and files between conceptual art, contemporary music, electronica and pop. From abstract sound material he creates a unique mix of styles between minimalistic soundscapes and weird instrumental poppy tunes. Varied projects involve him as an electronic multi-instrumentalist, percussionist, drummer, performer, composer, producer, as well as DJ, curator and music journalist. In the middle of the eighties, Werner Moebius began to work with different media at complex levels and started to experiment with photography, graffiti, DJing, concerts and exhibitions. Since 1990, he specialized in electronic percussion with the octapad, formed the experimental industrial band N.W.O. with Christoph Kurzmann and Gernot W. Koza and founded the artist-project Workstation in Innsbruck. He has subsequently concentrated on improvised electronic music in relationship to pop and the fine arts, and formed the concept-pop duo Play the tracks of with Frenk Lebel.

Daniel James Newnham
His work is based in drawing and sound. Coming to terms with himself and others, and the many environments (sensory, geographical, political) we all exist in. Language, mobility and memory are the primary tools for negotiating the world; deal with and move on, have some fun … the interesting stuff is in the gaps between …

Rashim (Yasmina Haddad / Gina Hell)
Rashim (Yasmina Haddad / Gina Hell) was founded by Gina Hell and Yasmina Haddad in 2001. Based on DJing the group started out, cutting the surface of CD’s, and playing them on turntables, which produced a quite raw minimal sound. Meanwhile laptops, keyboards and samplers were added, while still sticking to the idea of minimalism, often using only one single sound, to produce a whole track. RASHIM also cooperates with Berlin-filmmaker K. GOLDT, making soundtracks for her experimental short films, often based on political issues. As a team they have played several festivals throughout Europe. Since 1998 they have organized many special events, constantly moving between experimental electronica and intelligent dance music with guests, such as: C. Kurzmann, Alois Huber, D.J.DSL, Thomas Brinkmann, Vladislav Delay and Jan Jelinek

Ursula Maria Probst
Art historian, critic for Kunstforum International, artmagazine, Präsens, Spike, dérive and Skug, freelance curator of projects at the Künstlerhaus Wien and at Fluc Vienna. Co-initiator of the performance collective female obsession.

Rainer Machné
Works in systems biology at the theoretical biochemistry group at the Institute for Theoretical Chemistry, University of Vienna.

Leo Fessler
Leo Fessler has a background in computer science and works as what they call a “language engineer” at a speech recognition enterprise in Vienna.

Ute Pinter
Ute Pinter studied: history of art, film and cultural management, is a curator, project manager and organizer in the fields of fine art, film, performance and music. Currently working for “jeunesse” in Austria, specializing in contemporary music, jazz, improvisation and mixed-media and as promotor of the series Open music in Graz