Category: Performance
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Revisiting the third ear: Solo for Maryanne Amacher
In my durational music I am working extensively with psychoacoustic phenomena commonly known as ‘combination tones’ or ‘difference tones’. Maryanne Amacher initially termed these phenomena ‘ear tones’ and later began referring to them by the psychoacoustical terminology of ‘otoacoustic emissions’. She thought that when to two pure tones are presented simultaneously to the ear, the ears will act as…
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Fo(u)r Cellos (A homage to Tony Conrad)
Fo(u)r Cellos (A homage to Tony Conrad) explores how sounds that are usually considered disruptive or incidental can be transformed into music. Rather than separating noise and music, the piece asks the listener to hear both as part of the same spectrum, where order and structure can emerge from what first seems chaotic. The work…
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Birds in glass cabinets tell their dreams of flying
Some years ago I visited the Bird Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna, which was a surreal experience. It holds more than 130.000 objects: skins, skeletons, eggs, and tissues. More than 10.000 mounted birds form part of the systematic collection. About 25% are permanently on display in the public galleries. My immedeate reaction was…
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ORA ET SPIRA
A performance by Kinga Tóth and Ausgesuchtestenohren with students of the sound art workshop Sounds of Isolation ORA ET SPIRA is a noise-prayer-performance by renowned Hungarian artist Kinga Tóth and Ausgesuchtestenohren (Karl Katschthaler) which premiered at MODEM, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen, Hungary on December 2, 2021. Our performance took place in…
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