Alfred Lenz works in Vienna and Studenzen / Styria. He studied Transmedia Art at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna and Sound Technology at the Tone Art in Vienna. As an Erasmus Student, Lenz studied at the Institute of Generative Art at the University of the Arts in Berlin. He worked in the SeMA Nanji Residency of the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea. Lenz founded the project Piano Feedback Distortion and the Studenzen Studios in cooperation with the composer Christian F. Schiller. He produces electronic music, published under a variety of labels in Germany, Austria and England, since 1998. He was part of countless solo and group exibitions in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Croatia, Greece, South Korea and the USA. In the year 2021 he created the art space L 201 in Studenzen, housing different performances, artworks and concerts every year.
Gabriele Sturm focuses on the coexistence of life forms in her artworks. She takes care of plants and animals, which are voiceless in our society. In her artistic work, species-appropriate vegetative symbiosis, insects, wild animals and anthropogenic habitats coexist.
Lukas Weithas is not only educated in several Art Master programmes but also as an agricultural worker. He spends each summer on the Tamons Alp, Switzerland in the company of cattle, which he takes care of. This project showcases these processes artistically.
Jung An Tagen (Stefan Juster) invites us to examine the diffuse but ever-present concept of “experimental”, not aesthetically unorthodox but as a design and implementation of compositional systems resulting in unexpected and unique sounds. “Electronic” music dissolving instrumental traditions while simultaneously returning to aesthetic openness. Thus, creating a fragmentation of theoretical and mystic musical syntax through obsessive repetitions, sequential motif mutations, aleatoric arrangements, pareidolia illusions, and Moiré effects; “electronic” as the ultimate split, dehumanization, and mechanical strangeness.
Kurt Strohmeier is a pianist, and drummer and mainly does entertainment music. For his concert in the Artspace L201, he will perform a series of critical folk songs.
Gischt / Ursula Winterauer creates raw sounds in between brutality and harmony. Her electronic soundscapes give differentiated interpretations of the genres Industrial, Techno and Ambient utilizing base guitar, synthesizer, and electronic smog clouds. She performed at Austrian festivals as well as at places such as Zurich, Berlin, Priština, and New York. Additional to her work as a curator she owns the record lable Ventil Records and works as a composer and sounddesigner for movie productions.
Scarabæusdream is an orchestra consisting of two artists. Their music is a duel between piano and drums, which focuses on the moment of creation letting everything come into being without exception resulting in a sound collision. Without adhering to any framework, they test the genre limits and challenge the spectators’ listening habits.
