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Elisabeth Schimana
- 1958 | female
- Vienna, Austria
Arbeitet als Komponistin, Performerin und Radio Künstlerin seit 1983. Sie studierte Elektroakustische und Experimentelle Musik an der Hochschule für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wien, Computermusik - Komposition am IEM, Graz und Musikwissenschaften und Ethnologie an der Universität Wien. In ihren Arbeiten beschäftigt sie sich seit vielen Jahren mit Raum / Körper / Elektronik. Sie kooperiert laufend mit dem ORF Kunstradio und forscht im Bereich Frauen Kunst und Technologie. Elisabeth Schimana hält international Vorträge und Kompositionsworkshops.
Methods
Live generated audio score
The electronic resonating sound body is generated live during the performance and is the audio score for the acoustic instruments. It corresponds to the image of a host cell. The acoustic body corresponds to the image of a virus, because the musicians have to attach and adapt to the electronic sound body, they penetrate into it and a synthesis between the two resonating bodies results. The musicians sit or stand spread out in the space in front of a loudspeaker and try to play what they hear as precisely as possible on their instruments. The electronic sounds – the sound score coming from the loudspeaker – as well as the interpretation by the musicians are audible. The instruments are unplugged, so the speakers project only the sound score. It is important to consider the distances between the musicians, in order to give each participant the possibility to focus on his or her own part within the sound score.
Virus #3.0
In Virus #3.0 23 instruments, 15 voices, 75 oscillators, 75 meters. 24 pairs of ears open themselves to a feedback loop. I – the electronics – the host – the recursive control unit – a complex machine. Both bodies are audible. The virus series is an expedition into acoustic perception, a sounding of the responses of our brains in the span of milliseconds, a plea for the precise acoustic moment. And what do you hear?
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Virus #3.0
In Virus #3.0 23 instruments, 15 voices, 75 oscillators, 75 meters. 24 pairs of ears open themselves to a feedback loop. I – the electronics – the host – the recursive control unit – a complex machine. Both bodies are audible. The virus series is an expedition into acoustic perception, a sounding of the responses of our brains in the span of milliseconds, a plea for the precise acoustic moment. And what do you hear?
00:00
00:00
Track Title
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Audio score based on acoustic memory
The electronic resonating sound body is generated live during the performance and is the audio score for the acoustic instruments. It corresponds to the image of a host cell. The acoustic body corresponds to the image of a virus, because the musicians have to attach and adapt to the electronic sound body, they penetrate into it and a synthesis between the two resonating bodies results. The musicians sit or stand spread out in the space in front of a loudspeaker and try to play what they hear as precisely as possible on their instruments. The electronic sounds – the sound score coming from the loudspeaker – as well as the interpretation by the musicians are audible. The instruments are unplugged, so the speakers project only the sound score. It is important to consider the distances between the musicians, in order to give each participant the possibility to focus on his or her own part within the sound score.
Virus #3.0
In Virus #3.0 23 instruments, 15 voices, 75 oscillators, 75 meters. 24 pairs of ears open themselves to a feedback loop. I – the electronics – the host – the recursive control unit – a complex machine. Both bodies are audible. The virus series is an expedition into acoustic perception, a sounding of the responses of our brains in the span of milliseconds, a plea for the precise acoustic moment. And what do you hear?
00:00
00:00
Track Title
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.
Virus #3.0
In Virus #3.0 23 instruments, 15 voices, 75 oscillators, 75 meters. 24 pairs of ears open themselves to a feedback loop. I – the electronics – the host – the recursive control unit – a complex machine. Both bodies are audible. The virus series is an expedition into acoustic perception, a sounding of the responses of our brains in the span of milliseconds, a plea for the precise acoustic moment. And what do you hear?
00:00
00:00
Track Title
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit.