Amper-o-mat, OR poiesis, Bojana Šaljič Podešva: ICEmelting
Tuesday, 29 Jan 2019 at 7:00 p.m.
Live Sound Event
link to ICEmeltings sound exhibition
Acoustic artists try to unhinge the acoustics of icy winter landscapes, of their gradual or sudden mutations. Based on a prearranged sound structure, the artists will perform a live group event using various different approaches to the creation and selection of sounds from nature. This will serve to create a composition of closeness and secluded winter landscape. Even if this place first evokes silence and creates the conditions for increased sensory perception, it is still abundant with diverse sound ambients. Sounds are piercing the silence. Especially when natural phenomena (such as sudden temperature changes) cause thickening and breaking of ice. At the same time, these sounds, in particular, open up numerous questions concerning the atmosphere, climate changes, ecology, and sound ecology, thus stimulating the listener’s sensibility with the help of a sound medium. This is the kind of spectrum of a winter sound landscape that is being set under a microscope by a group of artists in the composition entitled ICEmeltings.
Due to the limited space of Tivoli Greenhouse just three artists perform live ICEmeltings, created by Amper-o-mat, beepblip, Boštjan Perovšek, Bojana Šaljič Podešva, OR poiesis, and Brane Zorman. The live presentation of the sound composition, produced by Cona in collaboration with ARS – Channel 3 of Radio Slovenija is to be part of Art’s Birthday 2019 celebration on the Austrian ORF Kunstradio – Radiokunst.
About participating artists in composition ICEmeltings:
Petra Kapš, performs as OR poiesis and holds an MA in philosophy, she is an artist, writer, curator, and independent creator. She is active between the art of sound, radio, time-space poetry, performance, critical and essayist reflection of art, creation, and organisation of exhibitions and festivals.
Bojana Šaljič Podešva is a composer and musician that focuses on electro–acoustic music and composes multichannel works and works that employ real-time sound manipulation of live instruments. Besides works for concerts, she also creates music for drama and puppet theatre, dance shows, film, and other audiovisual projects.
Ida Hiršenfelder [beepblip] is curator and artist in the field of sound and intermedia art. She is interested in the history of media, archives, their disappearance and media archaeology. She is a member of DIY sound collective Theremidi Orchestra and co-founder of initiative ČIPke.
Borut Peternel performs as Amper-O-Mat and works as a composer, musician, artist, and producer, who mostly uses the predecessor of synthesizer – oscillator.
Boštjan Perovšek is a musician, composer, and sound designer who composes experimental electro-acoustic music. His speciality is creating bio-acoustic music based on the sounds of animals, especially bugs. He also performs with music group SAETA, creates music for film, theatre, performances, and multimedia installations as well as soundscapes for museums and galleries.
Brane Zorman is a composer, intermedia, sound, and radio artist, sound manipulator, and producer who composes for musicals, theatre, dance, and intermedia events and shows. He researches the possibilities of manipulation, presence, perception, placement, and re-interpretation of sound and uses old and new technologies to cross the fields of music, multimedia, and visual realm.