How natural and real is a sound environment when it is recorded? Especially when heard through the ears of a foreigner? Sounds easily appear to be extraordinary and new if heard for the very first time or in a specific situation. When habits of perception are put into question, also listening to familiar sounds in a familiar place can trigger new forms of attention.
“During my artistic residency at KORDON, I collected field recordings on the island Hiiumaa to compose an electroacoustic piece for a multichannel sound installation. Besides sound manipulation with electronic processing, the piece is played back not as usual with common loudspeakers but through various material like wood, concrete, tiles, etc., to change the sound characteristics and timbres of the field recordings additionally in an analogue way. The music oscillates between states of recognition, alienation and uncertainty about the perceived and balances between the boundaries of the original and the recorded, the natural and the manipulated, the real and the abstract sound.”
There will be a listening spot in the garden and sounding objects indoors, where also the concert will take place.
Veronika Mayer is a Vienna-based composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music, creates sound installations and is active as a laptop musician in the context of free improvisation. Her music is dedicated to the effect of minimal sound changes and demands openness for subtle details. Pure sounds, natural given phenomena and material are the basis of her work, following the characteristics and intrinsic behaviour of sound. An in-depth aspect is the thematisation of listening and the creative process itself. She has numerous performances and composition commissions and holds a permanent teaching position in the Computer Music and Sound Art programme at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and on the Master’s programme Contemporary Arts Practice at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. www.veronikamayer.com
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