OTTOsonics Festival

16/09/2023 – 17/09/2023

Alter Bauhof – (Rodlstraße 19, 4100 Ottensheim)

Tickets

Samstag, 16.9.

10:00 Un/electronic Music – An Experimental Lab.  Workshop für Kinder und Jugendliche ab 10 Jahren

Tanja Fuchs, Alter Bauhof

In this workshop we’ll get to know electronic music devices like synthesizers, drum samplers, loopstations, microphones and effects for voice or guitar. With no previous musical or technical knowledge required, the participants get a direct hands on invitation to try out various musical toys, work with everyday objects to create sounds or use their voices on the microphone to improvise together. If you are curious about making music with others, but don’t know where or how to start, if you want to bring in your voice, texts or even an own instrument – at OTTOsonics you will have the opportunity to do so within a 360° speaker setting, which makes for an especially exciting sound experience.This workshop aims to create a safe, playful environment of sharing and curiosity. We want to specifically encourage the girls, the queers, the poor or generally special to join!

As our space for participants is limited, we kindly ask you to sign up via E-Mail manu@goon-studios.com and tell us one short sentence about yourself, as well as if you will bring an instrument.

The Workshop is hosted by Vienna based producer and musician Tanja Fuchs alias Abu Gabi. Tanja Fuchs studied sound production in Salzburg, music & performance in Istanbul and timebased media arts in Linz. As a composer they work in fields of theater, performance and film. Tanja Fuchs hosts workshops circling around music and performance in various contexts reaching from universities to art festivals as well as social and cultural institutions.

15:00 Eröffnung!

15:00 – 18:00 Boris Shershenkov: Phonoptosphere

Interactive multichannel light-sound installation. Alter Bauhof

“Phonoptosphere” is a spatial acousmatic piece and interactive installation for the Dodecahedron sound system combining experimental spatial phonoptic interface with field research of the etheric landscapes and their geography.
Phonoptic signals are an integral part of the artificially created environments inhabited by people. Using new technologies such as electric cars, LED screens and energy-saving lights, we are filling these environments with technogenic light streams containing information that is hidden from the human eye but located within the temporal limits of our auditory perception.
Field recordings of these invisible modulations made in 9 different cities in Europe and Asia have been recomposed and played back using light sources in the installation space. Each light source represents the light environment of one city, and their positions in space around the audience show the directions to the cities from the center of the installation.
To make these compositions audible, the audience can use a custom-made phonoptic interface created with the same type of light-sensitive microphones which were used to make the field recordings in the city. The light sources directed to the different parts of the interface can be heard from the same direction inside the dodecahedron acoustic space.
https://www.shershenkov.com/

15:00 – 18:00 Léa Boudreau

Interactive soundinstallation, Alter Bauhof

Through her work, Léa Boudreau questions interspecies relationships (specifically between humans and nonhumans) by considering animal and robotic life as ground for reflections on hierarchies dividing our world. She is interested in exploring the intersections of capitalism, power dynamics, speciesism, and (various forms of) supremacy to raise awareness over insidious and oppressive structures. She creates installations, soundscapes and electronic ecosystems placing human guests in contact with hybrid and ambiguous beings (e.g., robots with animal features, responsive but not organic, etc.) How can these unusual encounters help us reflect on our own biases? How do we build a better equilibrium between species and take into account the
diversity of existences? Léa Boudreau is an electronic circuit maker, sound crafter, and immersive environment builder based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She has been awarded many prizes and grants over the years, including a Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), the Dora & Avi Morrow Fellowship, a Concordia Fine Arts Scholarship, and two JTTP prizes from the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Her projects have been broadcast and performed around the globe. https://leaboudreau.com/

15:00 -18:00 Sam Dankwart Erpelding: Saxicola Rubetra L.

15:00 Kunstcorner Eröffnung

Inga Hehn

-v.v.-

Inga Hehn ist leidenschaftliche Zeichnerin. Akribisch erarbeitet sie mit der Feder feinste Liniengefüge. Sie ist der Linie auf der Spur, zerlegt sie in ihre Bestandteile. Sie zeichnet auf Wasser und Stein.

Die Serie „v.v.“ ist ein intimer Dialog mit dem Papier. Hehn zeichnet die Zeit auf das Blatt. Auf langen, senkrechten Papierbahnen entstehen mit Tusche und Feder schmale Linien, die bei genauer Betrachtung ihr Geheimnis preisgeben. Die Formen sind zugleich klar und tiefgründig.

„Im Ausloten der zeichnerischen Vielfalt und der Strichmöglichkeiten steht Inga Hehn in einer großen Tradition oberösterreichischer Zeichner wie Alfred Kubin, Klemens Brosch, Siegfried Anzinger oder Othmar Zechyr“.

Elisabeth Nowak-Thaller, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz anlässlich der Klemens Brosch Preisverleihung 2013

15:30 Was ist Ambisonics?

Vortrag: Jakob Gille, Alter Bauhof

In diesem 30-minütigen Vortrag stelle ich die mysteriöse Technik zur Aufnahme und Wiedergabe von 3D-Sound vor. Die wird nämlich nicht nur während des Festivals benutzt, sondern erlebt seit einigen Jahren einen großen Aufschwung in Musik, aber auch in Film, VR und Gaming Anwendungen.

17:30 Pablo Pescador

Transdisciplinary gastronomic performance. Alter Bauhof.

A transdisciplinary gastronomic avant-garde unfolds on the ether of the sound festival, breaking down sensory boundaries between culinary and soundscapes. Through the melodic choreography of food presentation, as well as the synesthetic convergence of taste and sound, a new nexus dimension of aesthetic experience emerges. The dynamic interplay between culinary texture, acoustic resonance, and gustatory metamorphosis weaves into a lyrical tableau that redefines the essence of experience. Here, gastronomic epiphanies merge with harmonious sonic textures to create a symphonic act that harmoniously conducts the palate and mid.

18:00 A³ Audio: Building an Open-Source Live Performance Controller for Immersive Audio

Presentation: Patric Schmitz (A³ Audio). Alter Bauhof

The team at A³ Audio set out to bridge the gap between immersive sound technology and the performing artist by developing easy-to-use hardware interfaces for motion sequencing and 3D-enabled live mixing. After three years of development, we take a first step toward the public and present our prototypes to the spatial audio community. We showcase the current state of development and perform a live demonstration. To move forward, we ask for your ideas on how we can sustain future development as a community.

18:30 Enrique Mendoza:  Hybrid Audio Diffusion System (HADS) performance and listening tests in combination with the Dodekaotto speaker array.

The HADS is a monitoring design that combines open headphones and multichannel speaker arrays to create augmented 3D immersive sound fields. During the Ottosonics Festival, listening tests with the Mushra methodology will be applied to test the localization qualities of the HADS system. Then, the piece “Inner outer self-variance and my deranged disembodied voices” will be performed several times for six listeners each time.

19:30 STURMHERTA (live): TFTH

Alter Bauhof

The work is created by an orchestra of oscillators distributed in 3D space. They are single entities communicating and working together, beeing able to operate individually but also synchronize to become one superorganism. A synthetic swarm, dynamically changing from chaos to harmony, from rhythm to melody, from soft sinewaves to harsh noise.

Austrian artist Daniel Haas, born 1992, lives and works in Linz/Austria and studies „timebased andinteractive media arts“ at university of arts Linz. With roots in the modular-synth-community he created the project „STURMHERTA“. Under this synonym he released several digital EPs and tapes, but mostly he focusses on live-performance. In STURMHERTAs repertoire we find hybrid-modular livesets, intense, stroboscopic audiovisual performances and immersive sound installations. A recurring element in his works is the strong connection of sound and light, often found as a direct translation of one to the other. www.sturmherta.com

20:00 Gischt (live)

Alter Bauhof

21:00 DJ Andaka

Alter Bauhof

DJ* Andaka: Angelika Daphne Katzinger – DJ*, Designerin und Musikexpertin. Andaka ist DJ* beim Label Shash Records und seit 2002 an den Plattenspielern. Mit einem umfangreichen Musikfundus ausgestattet der Deepfunk, Glitch, House, HipHop, Trap und eine Vielzahl von verschiedenen Grooves umfasst, die sich nicht in ein Genre pressen lassen, bringt sie nicht nur das Tanzbein zum Schwingen sondern erweitert auch den musikalischen Horizont.

soundcloud.com/andaka
facebook.com/DJAndaka
facebook.com/thefuturesound.linz
shashrecords.blogspot.co.at
backlab.at/andaka

Sonntag, 17.9.

15:00 – 18:00 Boris Shershenkov: Phonoptosphere

Interactive soundinstallation, Alter Bauhof

“Phonoptosphere” is a spatial acousmatic piece and interactive installation for the Dodecahedron sound system combining experimental spatial phonoptic interface with field research of the etheric landscapes and their geography.
Phonoptic signals are an integral part of the artificially created environments inhabited by people. Using new technologies such as electric cars, LED screens and energy-saving lights, we are filling these environments with technogenic light streams containing information that is hidden from the human eye but located within the temporal limits of our auditory perception.
Field recordings of these invisible modulations made in 9 different cities in Europe and Asia have been recomposed and played back using light sources in the installation space. Each light source represents the light environment of one city, and their positions in space around the audience show the directions to the cities from the center of the installation.
To make these compositions audible, the audience can use a custom-made phonoptic interface created with the same type of light-sensitive microphones which were used to make the field recordings in the city. The light sources directed to the different parts of the interface can be heard from the same direction inside the dodecahedron acoustic space.
https://www.shershenkov.com/

15:00 – 18:00 Léa Boudreau

Interactive soundinstallation, Alter Bauhof

Through her work, Léa Boudreau questions interspecies relationships (specifically between humans and nonhumans) by considering animal and robotic life as ground for reflections on hierarchies dividing our world. She is interested in exploring the intersections of capitalism, power dynamics, speciesism, and (various forms of) supremacy to raise awareness over insidious and oppressive structures. She creates installations, soundscapes and electronic ecosystems placing human guests in contact with hybrid and ambiguous beings (e.g., robots with animal features, responsive but not organic, etc.) How can these unusual encounters help us reflect on our own biases? How do we build a better equilibrium between species and take into account the
diversity of existences? Léa Boudreau is an electronic circuit maker, sound crafter, and immersive environment builder based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. She has been awarded many prizes and grants over the years, including a Canada Graduate Scholarship (SSHRC), the Dora & Avi Morrow Fellowship, a Concordia Fine Arts Scholarship, and two JTTP prizes from the Canadian Electroacoustic Community. Her projects have been broadcast and performed around the globe. https://leaboudreau.com/

15:00 -18:00 Sam Dankwart Erpelding: Saxicola Rubetra L.

10:00 – 13:00 Workshop: Ambisonics für Tontechniker:innen

Manu Mitterhuber, Alter Bauhof

Learn how to route and mix live inputs using a digital console, a computer, a stereo and an ambisonics PA at the same time.

14:00 Saxton & MikadoSax

Alter Bauhof

Die vier MusikerInnen Andrea Edlbauer, Evelyne Leeb, Philipp Haider & Stefan Prechtl trafen einander in Linz (AUT), wo sie 2017 das saXTon Saxophonquartett gründeten. Die vier SaxophonistInnen studierten in Linz und Wien und verschrieben sich dem Klang des klassischen Saxophons. Meisterkurse mit dem Raschér Saxophone Quartet, Philippe Geiss, Otis Murphy oder Jean Yves Fourmeau inspirierten und beein ussten die vier auf ihrem saxophonistischen Lebensweg. Stilistisch bewegt sich das Quartett in allen erdenklichen Genres und versucht in den Programmen auch immer wieder über
herkömmliche Konventionen hinwegzusehen & althergebrachte Barrieren zu überwinden. www.saxton.at

Die vier Mitglieder des Quartetts mikadoSax kommen aus den drei Ortschaften Walding (Michael Kitzberger und Christian Lackner), St. Gotthard (Sophie Ehrlinger) und Herzogsdorf (Marlene Rabeder) und lernten an der Landesmusikschule Ottensheim bei Roland Pirngruber Saxophon. Das Ensemble hat sich extra für den Ensemblebewerb Musik in kleinen Gruppen 2022 gegründet und aus der Abkürzung MIKG (Musik in kleinen Gruppen) hat man später den Namen mikadoSax abgeleitet.

Foto: Natalie Paloma

15:00 Conference by Matthias Frank: How to setup a well-sounding Ambisonics loudspeaker system?

Alter Bauhof

Matthias Frank studied electrical and audio engineering at University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz. After receiving his Diploma in 2009, he joined the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics in Graz as teacher and researcher. In 2013, he finished his PhD dealing with spatial and timbral properties of phantom sources created by multiple loudspeakers. Matthias is member of the Audio Engineering Society and the German Acoustical Society.

16:00 – 18:30 Workshop by Lukas Gölles: Curved and Phased Line Arrays for Sound Reinforcement

Alter Bauhof

Lukas Gölles is a researcher based in Graz, Austria. He studied electrical and audio engineering at the University of Technology and University of Music and Performing Arts in Graz (KUG). In 2021 he started a PhD program at the KUG and joined the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) as a researcher in April 2022. His research focuses on mid- and largescale immersive sound reinforcement systems and their optimization. He is also interested in technologies for online-based playback of immersive sound material and 3D recording techniques. In addition to his research activities, he also works as a sound engineer at live events.

19:30 Jakob Gille (live): Pendulum

In my composition „Pendulum“ I used compositional methods to translate natural gestures, especially those driven by gravity, into music. I was inspired by the simple yet complex patterns in natural phenomena, such as breaking waves and flocking birds. To capture natural movements in music, I used the visual software Processing to simulate these gestures, including a double pendulum simulation.

Jakob Gille studied composition and music theory at the Hochschule für Musik Carl-Maria von Weber Dresden. As part of a scholarship, he worked with the Akusmonium of the GRM Paris at the ZKM Karlsruhe. This led to an increased involvement with multi-channel composition and the Into Sound concert series in Berlin. He taught room acoustics and Ambisonics at the Catalyste Institute Berlin and works as a coach for electronic music production. As a composer of electroacoustic music, he focuses on working with Ambisonics and publishes electronic music under the pseudonym Ioka. He is currently studying Computer Music & Sound Art at the IEM Graz.

19:45 Veronika Mayer (live): momentum

breath is rhythm is motion is sound.

sound is motion is rhythm is breathing.

(in Newtonian mechanics, momentum is the product of the mass and velocity of an object)

Veronika Mayer (*1977 in Vienna, Austria) is a composer of electroacoustic and instrumental music, conceives and composes sound installations and is active as a laptop musician in the context of free improvisation. In her working processes she reacts to sound-inherent properties developing form-giving structures from these. Minimal changes in sound and textures are characteristic of her works, creating the sensation of stretched time. A deepening aspect is the thematisation of listening and of the creative process itself – thus she demands in her music the willingness to listen as well as openness for subtle details. Numerous performances and commissions, including Musikprotokoll, Wien Modern, music unlimited, Neue Musik in St. Ruprecht, Ars Electronica, Madrid International Festival of Contemporary Music COMA, CoCArt Music Festival Torun, Ostrava Days Festival, a.o. In addition to her artistic projects Veronika Mayer holds a permanent teaching position in the Computer Music and Sound Art programme at the IEM (University of Music and Performing Arts Graz) and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Veronika Mayer is a member of snim (spontaneous network for improvised music) and is co-curator of the annual sound art festival Klangmanifeste in Vienna. www.veronikamayer.com

20:00 Redrift (live)- Bernd Preinfalk + Alexander Jöchtl (Kontrabass + Elektronics)

Alter Bauhof

„Redrift“ is based on the composition for double bass „drift“ by Bernd Preinfalk. Through the cooperation of sound artist Alex Jöchtl aka Höllenfürst and Bernd Preinfalk, this for long periods rough solo for double bass changes its shape and character in a considerable way. Some passages are stretched, some are shortened, Jöchtl brings additional colours  – in the beginning quite subtile but in the course of the piece more and more present – with his musical thought and his personal approach and transformes „drift“ in a „pas de deux“ for double bass and audio processing: redrift

21:00 /kry

/kry is an instrumental trio, formed in 2019 by Alexander Yannilos, Mona Matbou Riahi and Philipp Kienberger in Vienna. The band’s eccentric blend of contemporary grooves, avant-garde jazz and electronica leaves it completely untethered from any single genre and defying categorisation.

/kry’s sound is a revelry of simplicity and intuition, a celebration of complexity and control and an intricate fusion of its individual members’ broad musical spectrum. The first album was recorded by the drummer Alexander Yannilos in 2021 at ORF Radio Funkhaus, who also mixed, mastered and published the record on his label Freifeld. In 2022 they were selected for NASOM, the New Austrian Sound of Music 2023/24 edition.

Mona Matbou Riahi – Clarinet/fx

Philipp Kienberger – Bass/fx

Alexander Yannilos – Drums

How to get to the Festival

Rodlstraße 19, 4100 Ottensheim

Parkplätze befinden sich ausschließlich in dem gekennzeichneten Bereich entlang des Dammes (in ca. 50 m Entfernung Richtung Donau)