Mar 25, 2025
Public Live Recording – Sonic Arts Ensemble (Ohio, USA) and Atelier Avant Austria
Concert: 16th of April – doors 6 pm and start 7 pm
Location: Amann Studios, Neustiftgasse 68/23B – See map
Sonic Arts Ensemble and Atelier Avant Austria
Beginning as a series of Sonic Networked Art Performances (SNAP), encompassing free improvisation and real-time composition utilizing a mix of traditional and extended playing techniques with real-time computer processing, the ensemble connected continents via high-quality audio networks over the internet, creating rich and compelling soundscapes. Recording this soundscape together in a studio within three days is the ensemble’s goal for this project.
On the final day, an interested audience is invited to attend a live studio concert and experience a unique event.
The Sonic Arts Ensemble is global network of composers and performers who explore the extension of instruments and modes of performance into new, imaginative realms of action and interaction. They have an interest in the relationships between the concrete and the imagined, and the ways that the concrete can inform the imagined.
Performing artists:
Ann Stimson – flute (C and Alto) and extended flutes
Marc Ainger – realtime audio processing
Scott Deal – percussion
Se-Lien Chuang – piano, voice, mouth organ, bass recorder, interactive audiovisuals
Andreas Weixler – realtime audio processing, electric guitars
Ann Stimson
Ann Stimson made her professional debut at the age of eighteen as a member of the Debut Orchestra in Los Angeles, and has gone on to perform with various orchestras and ensembles and as a soloist throughout the US and Europe. Most recently, she has performed concerts for the New York Philharmonic Biennial, the Birmingham Royal Conservatoire (UK), the MTI institute for Sonic Creativity (UK), and National Sawdust (Brooklyn). She has received performance/research grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center for research at the Getty Center, and in Florence and Paris.
Marc Ainger
Marc Ainger is a composer and performer whose performances have included the New York Philharmonic Biennial; the INA/GRM; the Royal Danish Ballet; CBGB; Late Night with David Letterman; the Goethe Institute; the American Film Institute; SIGGRAPH and others. As a student, he was a Boulez Fellow during a residency with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He is currently a professor at the Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design (ACCAD).
Se-Lien Chuang
Se-Lien Chuang is a composer, pianist and media artist, 1965 born in Taiwan, since 1991 residence in Austria.
The artistic and compositional emphases range from contemporary instrumental composition/improvisation, computer music to audiovisual interactivity.
International productions, research stays and lectures as well as numerous representations of compositions in Europe, Asia, North- and South America: ICMC, NYCEMF, NIME, SMC, ISEA, TENOR, Audio Mostly, SICMF Seoul, IAMAS Japan, Ars Electronica Linz, amongst others. Since 1996 jointly with Andreas Weixler running Atelier Avant Austria, with key aspects in development of audiovisual interactive systems and audio/visual realtime/non-realtime processing, computer music and algorithmic composition.
Andreas Weixler
Andreas Weixler is a composer spezialising in computer music and a guitarist in a contemporary style with real-time electronics in Austria, Japan, Australia, France, Croatia, Slovenia, Denmark, Norway, Ohio and recently online. He teaches computer music as an associate university professor and head of the Computer Music Studio at the Anton Bruckner Private University and as a lecturer at Interface Culture in Linz and senior lecturer at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
Scott Deal
Scott Deal engages new pathways of computer interactivity, networked systems, and electroacoustics.
His recordings have been described as “soaring, shimmering explorations of resplendent mood and incredible scale.
“In the network arts, Deal is an award-winning creator, producer, author and performer. Deal and composer Matthew Burtner were awarded the Internet2 IDEA award for their creation of Auksalaq, a telematic opera described as “an important realization of opera for today’s world.”
