PLAYThis is the studio version of a series of "musical double-readings" which were performed by composer/author Curd Duca and author/musician Stefanie Wolff in the Perinet basement, once a venue of the Viennese Actionists. This is the first of twelve episodes featuring various texts spoken in stylized fashion as well as abstract and musical sounds. Duca and Wolff describe their work as "symbolist audio poetry" and "dadaist role prose", containing neo-expressionist lyricism, inner monologue and psychedelic audio tracks, making for an associative journey through inner and outer worlds.
PLAYThe nine short audio pieces were created by students of the Institute for Sprachkunst at the University of Applied Arts, Vienna and the Master's Program for Sound Design, FH-JOANNEUM/Kunstuniversität Graz, based on a book object by Emil Siemeister and Ferenc Jadi. The nine projects were supervised by Orhan Kipcak, who teaches at the Sprachkunst in Vienna as well as in Graz, and by Astrid Drechsler, who recently became head of the Major for Sound Design in Graz. The production was supported by the Schule für Dichtung, Vienna. The visual artist Emil Siemeister, who works with systems of notation, has a colleague in the philosopher Ferenc Jadi - or perhaps one could say an admirer - who has been thinking phenomenologically about Siemeister's working methods and visual language for some time and has now written an extensive essay about it. Siemeister, for his part, has responded to this text by adding illustrations, or, as Siemeister calls them, notation systems, to Jadi's semiotically inspired remarks. The result is a large-format book-art work entitled "Iris and Pupilla" (*). In order to add an acoustical dimension to this interplay between text and image, Viennese students of language arts and sound design in Graz have collaborated to create nine audio miniatures as paraphrases of "Iris und Pupilla". In this way they followed a suggestion by Siemeister, who also wants his picture series to be understood as notations, as codes of songs. The general theme of these audio productions also comes directly from Siemeister: "Im Vorzimmer der Notationen”. Radio pieces: „MILCH“ by Hannah Bründl Sound Design: Hanna Brühwiler Voices: Bettina Gjecaj, Stefanie Wolff Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 104 ff „atmen sie mir nach“ by Nora Hofmann Sound Design: Elisabeth Hacker Voice: Stefanie Wolff Refernce „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 96 ff „Flatterndes Nass“ by Anouk Doujak Sound Design: Hanna Brühwiler Voice: Stefanie Wolff Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 91 ff „Das fensterlose Universum“ by Lennart Kos Sound Design: Celia Moosbrugger Voice: Thomas Wehling Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 96 ff „wabbeln“ by Greta Pichler Sound Design: Felix Wagner Voices: Bettina Gjecaj, Stefanie Wolff Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 74 ff „träum 22. - 21./2. 2021“ by Mae Schwinghammer Sound Design: Celia Moosbrugger Voice: Bettina Gjecaj Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 46 ff „Seestücke — eine Montage von Texten Ferenc Jádis und Emil Siemeisters“ by Laura Anton Sound Design: Thomas Alpers Voices: Bettina Gjecaj, Stefanie Wolff Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 48 ff „Seite 22“ by Veronika Zorn Sound Design: Felix Wagner Stimme: Bettina Gjecaj Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 22 ff „X ist er“ by Felix Senzenberger Sound Design: Elisabeth Hacker Voice: Stefanie Wolff Reference „Iris und Pupilla“, page: 104 ff * Ferenc Jádi, Iris and Pupilla: to the artistic work of Emil Siemeister, Essay by Fernec Jadi with notations by Emil Siemeister, 2019, ISBN 3200057734, 9783200057739 |