Release / Version 1

CD/DVD Edition (Series 2) Ángel Sánchez Borges, Karlheinz Essl, Manfred Grübl / Anna Jermolaewa, Jürgen Klauke, Olga Neuwirth, Norscq, Philipp Quehenberger, Rashim, Gerwald Rockenschaub, Burghart Schmidt, Peter Weibel

The initial project kicked off in 2001 with an event in London showcasing electronic-based sound artists. From this we produced a CD-ROM (03/01) leading to the commission of a number of limited editions CD’s & DVDs. For (series 2) we have commissioned a further edition of CD’s & DVD’s from, to date ten more artists, with the emphasis again on sound as a common material. For this second set we have commissioned specific works from artists working internationally, as a reflection of the ever-increasing dialogue about the use of sound between artists and their peers, and in this, how the use of electronic tools and media molds this exchange. This in turn can be illustrated in the notion that sound acts as a catalyst between artists whose visual practices may differ greatly, yet find a common interest through the use of sound. Please note we feel it important to stress that these limited editions CD’s & DVDs should be regarded as “artists multiples.”

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Ángel Sánchez Borges
Ángel Sánchez Borges, musician-noise maker, video artist, producer, promoter; since the late ’80s part of the experimental music scene in Monterrey, México. In 2002 he started the project called Antiguo Autómata Mexicano, now with an album released thru Düsseldorf’s label Background Records (Microhate, 2005), and one thru Tijuana’s label Static Discos (Kraut Slut, 2007). He also performs as Seekers Who Are Lovers, love songs over glitchy soundscapes. The Wire magazine reviewed this project as a relation between “broken records and broken hearts”. Sánchez Borges works as a sound artist, live performer, theatre and contemporary dance scores composer and as a generative audiovisual artist. In the “4 short Films” DVD he presents some of his visual experiments and electronic music soundscapes as soundtrack.

Karlheinz Essl
Essl’s compositions result from confrontations between ordered, abstract models and original tonal, expressive structures. He has frequently sought to combine music with other genres and has collaborated with the graffiti artist Harald Naegeli (Partikel-Bewegungen, 1991), the writer Andreas Okopenko and the artists’ group Libraries of the Mind (Lexikon-Sonate, 1992-8), the architect Carmen Wiederin (Klanglabyrinth, 1992-95) and the video artist Vibeke Sorensen (MindShipMind, 1996, a multimedia installation for the Internet). During the 1990s he carried out many additional projects for the Internet and became increasingly involved with improvisation. In 1997, Karlheinz Essl was featured at the Salzburg Festival with portrait concerts and sound installations. In 2003, he was artist-in-residence of the festival musik aktuell, and in 2004 he presented a series of portrait concerts at the Brucknerhaus Linz. In 2004, Karlheinz Essl received the cultural prize for music of the state Lower Austria. Besides writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the field of electronic music, interactive real-time. (www.essl.at/records/sndtrx.html)

Manfred Grübl
Manfred Grübl’s work represents a comprehensive concept of art. His multifaceted work comprises installation, performance, photography, video, sculpture and an expansion of all these mediums. Grübl makes interventions in public space: he penetrates these with his art to thereby create the potentials for being creative in everyday life. He turns the recipients of his work into the performers of his art, which aims at reactions. The viewer, the state, society are all challenged into taking up a stance. For him art is a subjective, all-encompassing experience. Interaction and communication characterize his work – not static objects in space. Exhibitions: personal installation / Saatchi Gallery / Lincoln Center / Neue Nationalgalerie / Secession, the invisible touch / Kunstraum Innsbruck, ausgeträumt / Secession, Why Pictures Now / Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig

Anna Jermolaewa
She produces video- and photo works, which deal with questions of relativity of values, the functional structures of our society, the private and the public, force of gravity, color blindness, love, umbrella demonstrations, hope and failure. In Anna Jermolaewa’s work, special emphasis is not given to extravagant productions, she rather picks out social interactions and situations with selected reduced resources as a central theme. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, she lives and works in Vienna and Karlsruhe (professor for New Media at the HFG-Karlsruhe). Individual exhibitions and participation in exhibitions at home and abroad (a. o. Biennale Venice, 1999, Lebt und arbeitet in Wien, Kunsthalle Wien, 2000, Sensitive, Cahors, 2000, Expo 2000 / Die Gouvernementalität, Can You See The Real Me?, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2005, Entdecken und Besitzen, MUMOK Vienna, 2005).

Jürgen Klauke
Born in Cologne in 1943, Klauke was trained at the Kunstakademie of Cologne. He began to use photography as a means of expression in the 1970s and found inspiration for his first works in the street life of this German city. At that time, before anyone had even mentioned body art, he approached the body as a form of expression and an expressive amplifier. Although his work is primarily photographic, it also includes drawings, gouaches and happenings. Over these thirty years, Jürgen Klauke has maintained an extensive and constant artistic activity that has made him one of the most important representatives of German art. Based on assumptions close to the conceptual art so fashionable during the ‘70s, Klauke has enriched his work with existentialist approaches and a questioning of everyday life, the absurd or sexuality. Jürgen Klauke has not only made history as a pioneer; he has also provided the discourse on identity with a visual and intellectual foundation. He has been a professor at the Kunsthochschule für Medien in Cologne since 1994 and has participated in conferences and art encounters all over Europe. Selection of exhibitions: Heimspiel, Galerie Hans Mayer / Düsseldorf, Absolute Windstille, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Postmoderne – hab mich gerne, Documenta 8 / Kassel, Melancholie der Stühle, Performance 2, Künstlerhaus Bethanien / Berlin, Transformer, Kunstmuseum Luzern.

Olga Neuwirth
The worlds of sound in Olga Neuwirth’s compositions are like twisting labyrinths, and are not fully revealed on first hearing. Looking for points of orientation, one is left groping: the pitches, instrumental timbres and formal processes – that is, all the factors that can give the ear a certain support – are either absorbed or wiped away by the music. Behind the baffling wealth of sound patterns lies a systematic deconstruction of everyday acoustic experience. Here, many things familiar from daily life are sharply distorted and put into new contexts. The less recognizable the sounds become, the more susceptible they and their tonal qualities become to the listener’s own associations. It’s because the composer often resorts to extreme means to achieve this effect that her music is so interesting and exciting. Compositions and sound installations. She develops software environments for algorithmic composition and acts as a performer and improviser. Most of her compositions are published by TONOS (Darmstadt). Since 1992, she acts as the music curator of the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg, Vienna.

Norscq (Jean-Louis Morgere)
Paris-based electronic musician Norscq has been one of the key instigators of the French underground scene for the last 20 years, mainly as composer, producer, remixer, sound engineer and from time to time as video artist, fashion model or actor. He founded the iconoclastic cult group The Grief in 1984, producing 10 exceptional releases which are still in demand today and in 1998/1999 he released two albums under the name of The Atlas Project, mixing electronic music and Arabic tunes and sounds, playing with their clichés, moods and atmosphere. 5 streams’ is Norscq’s third album under his name after Lavatronic (2000) and its cousin Lavatron.X (2002). In 2001, Norscq started to work intensively for Ibrahim Quraishi, US Pakistani director of Compagnie Faim de Siècle scoring several performances. In 2004, they both took part in a special project produced in Japan and India called Baburnama and in 2005 and 2006, Compagnie Faim de Siècle produced the 5 streams show in the US which is still in action. During the summer of 2006 Norscq worked a lot on the material he composed for those two shows, editing, re-composing, mixing and melting some of them together to get brand new pieces, rearranging, recording new instruments and vocals.

Philipp Quehenberger
Philipp Quehenberger was born in Innsbruck in 1977, grew up in Tirol, Seattle (US) and Newcastle (GB). He discovered his love for electronic music in “his father’s” studio and started playing the piano and fooling around with synthesizers. Played in local bands of various styles, ranging from Death-Metal to Rock. In 1994 he started performing alone, abusing his collection of toy instruments and wearing strange costumes. At the same time, the Original Devil Duo with singer Otto “Horror” Horrwatt and the first release appeared. After moving to Vienna, Philipp Quehenberger kept his head above water with piano lessons.

Rashim (Yasmina Haddad / Gina Hell)
Rashim (Yasmina Haddad / Gina Hell) was founded by Gina Hell and Yasmina Haddad in 2001. Based on DJ’ing 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 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.

Gerwald Rockenschaub
1952 in Linz (AT), lives in Berlin (DE), Rockenschaub’s seductive emblematic forms are drawn from the history of art, popular culture and architecture. Drawing our attention to spatial and perceptual relations, his works direct and enhance the aesthetic experience. Of parallel importance is the artist’s work in electronic music and advertising, where he applies his analytical approach to different contexts. Exhibitions: ZKM – Centrum for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, 2007 (DE); mumok – Museum of Modern Art Stiftung Ludwig Vienna, 2004 (AT); Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, 2003 (CH)

Burghart Schmidt
Dr. phil. habil. professor of language and aesthetics and vice-president of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach a. M. Visiting professor at the university of Applied Art, Vienna. Born 1942 Wildhausen/Olbg., Wilhelmshaven school. Course of studies biology, physics, chemistry, then philosophy and art history at the university Tübingen 1962-70. Research associate from Ernst Bloch for publishing his complete edition 1968-77. Teaching 1977-97 in Vienna, Klagenfurt, Graz, Salzburg, Hannover. From 1997 in Offenbach. Publications: Strategien des Vergessens, Frankfurt a. M. 1994. Bild im Ab-wesen, Vienna 1998, Am Jenseits zu Heimat, Vienna / Darmstadt 1994.

Peter Weibel
Peter Weibel follows his artistic aims using a large variety of materials, forms and techniques: text, sculpture, installation, film and video. In 1978 he turns to music. Together with Loys Egg he founds the band Hotel Morphila Orchester. In the mid-1980s he explores the possibilities of computer-aided video processing. At the beginning of the 1990s, he realizes interactive computer-based installations. Here again he addresses the relation between media and the construction of reality. In his lectures and articles, Weibel comments on contemporary art, media history, media theory, film, video art and philosophy. As theoretician and curator, he pleads for a form of art and art history that includes history of technology and history of science. In his function as a university professor and director of institutions like the Ars Electronica, Linz, the Institute for New Media in Frankfurt on the Main and the Center for Art and Media (ZKM) Karlsruhe he influenced the European Scene of the so-called computer art through conferences, exhibitions and publications.