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Interventions
with Noises out of Nature. The series of sound interventions at the Otto Wagner Kassenhalle explores the concept of living
matter and questions the notion of nature. Curated by Elisabeth Falkensteiner.
SONIC
BLUE
Sonic Blue is based on field recordings and sounds from the Lofoten archipelago, an island
chain along Norway’s northern coastline starting in February 2013. Angélica Castelló met biologist and bioacoustics researcher
Heike Vester, who founded the organization Ocean Sounds, which is dedicated to the research of marine mammals and the protection
of the marine environment. The vibrations, caused by underwater detonations of the expanding oil industry, that are reflected
back provide information to map the location, density, shape and composition of the rock layers, but they are also a massive
intervention in the natural sound world of aquatic life.
With “sonic blue”, the musician creates her
own imaginary underwater world that immerses the audience into the great sea of sound produced by her subgreatbass recorder,
Castelló’s main instrument. The composition process of this piece is an examination of the profound in yet another respect,
for to Angélica Castelló the sea also symbolizes the subconscious.
In 2014, “Sonic Blue” won the
Outstanding Artist Award – Interdisciplinarity from the Austrian Federal Ministry for the Arts and Culture
CARSMEMORY
Christian Schröder brings together field recordings of isolated cars at night and digital noise bursts
simulating rain. The digitally generated drop sound depicts nature in its hyper-realistic and spatial dimension. The stereo
field recordings of the lonely vehicles are collaged into unreal intersections in the 4-channel setup at the Kassenhalle.
Angélica
Castelló is a composer and Sound Artist. Her sound work and compositions concentrates on fragility, dreamworld and the subconscious.
Performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Numerous compositions for ensembles,
radio works as well as installations that operate at the interface of music, performance and visual arts. Several releases
on labels like Interstellar records, Mikroton recordings, Monotype records, Mosz, chamafu nocords, Orlando Records, einklang_records,
Mandorla Label, Thalamos, upside down records.
Christian Schröder makes sound and composition
tangible and expands them in different media. Since studying sound and media art, composition, electronic music and conceptual
art, he has been interested in interdisciplinarity. He works as a sound artist in the visual arts and as a composer and musician
in the performing arts. In addition to solo performances, in which algorithmic compositions and improvisations are often used,
he often collaborates with artists from different disciplines.
