Elisabeth Schimana

  • St. Aegyd am Neuwalde, Mitterbach (AT)

Works as a composer, performer and radio artist since 1983. She studied Electroacoustic and Experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Computer Music - Composition at the IEM, Graz and Musicology and Ethnology at the University of Vienna. In her work she has been dealing with space / body / electronics for many years. She regularly cooperates with ORF Kunstradio and conducts research in the field of women's art and technology and Sound as Score. Elisabeth Schimana gives lectures and composition workshops internationally. 2005 she founded the IMA Institute for Media Archaeology, which she has been managing ever since.

Methods

Live generated audio score

Each musician will sit or stand spread out in the space in front of a loudspeaker and interpret what she/he hears as precisely as possible on her/his instrument. The electronic sounds – the soundscore coming from the loudspeakers – as well as the interpretation by the musicians will be audible. The instruments will be unplugged, so that the speakers will project only the sound score. We will consider the distances between the musicians, in order to give each participant the space to focus on her/his own contribution within the sound score. The composer will generate the score live and will be therefore a part of the interactive system that builds a feedback loop together with the musicians. The composer will listen and react to the sound and, like the musicians, make decisions for the further progress of the composition. The audience will sit amongst the musicians and will listen to the score and the interpretation. 

Virus #1.3

Virus #1.3 
Composition for live generated electronic resonating body and percussion

Live electronic: Elisabeth Schimana
Percussion: Igor Gross

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