MI, 11.12.2019

20:00 | Conny Zenk und Veronika Mayer

Foto-Credits: Conny Zenk, Veronika Mayer - 11. CoCArt Music Festival 2019

scanning dimensions
audio-visuelle Performance
4-kanal Sound, 6-kanal Video

scanning dimensions befragt den Raum auf seine Mehrdimensionalität und seine audio-visuellen Perspektiven. Dabei steht die Auseinandersetzung mit der räumlichen Ausdehnung von Projektion und Klang im Vordergrund der Live-Performance. Im ständigen Dialog der auditiven und visuellen Elemente wird versucht mittels Skalierung und perspektivischer Verzerrung die Vektoren des realen und digitalen Raumes ineinanderfließen zu lassen und neue Punkte und Achsen zu lokalisieren. Im Grenzbereich zwischen einer präzisen Verortung von Klang und Projektion und dessen Auflösung wird das Wahrgenommene zersetzt und immer wieder neu zusammengefügt.

Conny Zenk (Visuals) und Veronika Mayer (Elektronik) arbeiten seit 2012 als künstlerisches Duo. In einem fortwährenden gemeinsamen Entwicklungsprozess hinterfragen und erforschen sie dabei ihre audiovisuelle Sprache und ihre Kompositionen ständig neu. Allen ihren Werken, sowohl improvisierten Live-Performances als auch audiovisuellen Installationen, ist ein starker Fokus auf Zeitlichkeit inne, der durch ihre audiovisuellen Schichten selbst generiert wird. Ihre installativen Arbeiten realisieren sie mittels ortsspezifischer und improvisatorischer Herangehensweise.

Conny Zenk is a visual composer, video and media artist working across topics dissecting social media, migration, gender and feminism as well as urban, architectural and spatial concepts. Active as a performer in the scope of visual music she is composing and visualizing in collaboration with inspiring musicians and sound artists. In various audio visual music projects her main work is about creating a language of improvisation between the body, the (digital) space and video based architecture. By means of generative programs she creates abstract elements such as oscillating lines and surfaces, granular flickering and stroboscopic impulses. Conny Zenk plays with the concept of perception and of what is not visible. Her work is framed by digital methods within the context of social and political questions.

connyzenk.com

Veronika Mayer, composer, sound artist and musician, active both in experimental electronic and instrumental music, creates in her improvisations flickering-noisy atmospheres and explores the effects of minimal electronic sound manipulations. The engagement with sound materia and space, the experience of soundspheres, hardly perceptible sounds and noises, as well as the topic of listening itself are characteristic for her works. The results are reduced but clearly defined structures, developed by the sound materia itself, following and listening to the characteristics and inherent behaviour of each sound. Various collaborations with musicians, writers, video and visual artists.
Veronika Mayer is lecturer at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM, University of Music and Performing Arts Graz). Her works are presented internationally at festivals and exhibitions of contemporary music and sound art.

www.veronikamayer.com

21:00 | Yara Mekawei

“658” EP project
Listen to the Holy text
This electronic music project is based on the hidden influential figures in Sufi history whose stories are mentioned in heavenly books.I transferred the text to numbers and composed the sound based on it.

Yara Mekawei is a Cairo-based electronic music composer and sound artist. A prolific artist and scholar, Mekawei‘s sonic bricolages draw inspiration from the flow of urban centers and the infrastructure of cities. Interested in the philosophy of architecture, history, and literature. Mekawei used the optical transfer from the musical conversation and transferring the sound waves to visual forms. Her work is based on sound as a tool of vision, the philosophy of composition is shaped by sophisticated practices that convey messages of conceptual dimension to the public. Mekawei using the research literature specializing in the social ideologies in her concepts. She follows her projects through a research point of uniting between work and the other, whose work shows an intangible aspect of her personality.

yaramekawei.wix.com/yaramekawei