Electric Indigo

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BIOGRAPHY

Electric Indigo is a renowned DJ, composer, and musician who has performed in 45 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She is known for her intelligent and sophisticated approach to techno and electronic music, offering DJ sets that blend a wide range of styles with a clear vision and deep understanding of both the music and the art of DJing.

As a composer and musician, Electric Indigo creates music for concert halls, clubs, stage plays, and short films. Her work emphasizes spatial placement and precise structures, often incorporating granular synthesis to craft subtly intricate sounds. Her album Ferrum, released in March 2020 on Editions Mego, showcases her distinctive style. In the same year, Electric Indigo was honored with the Kunstpreis Musik 2020 by the Republic of Austria.

Starting her DJ career in Vienna in 1989, Electric Indigo later moved to Berlin (1993-1996), where she worked at the iconic Hard Wax record store. In 1998, she founded female:pressure, an international network supporting female, non-binary, and transgender artists in electronic music. The network was awarded an Honorary Mention at Prix Ars Electronica in 2009.

Electric Indigo’s compositions have premiered at prestigious festivals such as Wien Modern, CTM, and Heroines of Sound. Her debut album 5 1 1 5 9 3 was released in 2018 by Imbalance Computer Music. She has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Artist Award Musik 2012 in electronic and computer music.

Notable works include multichannel compositions like Structuring Contours (premiered at Klangspuren Festival, 2011), Chiffres (premiered at e_may/Wien Modern, 2012), 109.47 Degrees (premiered at Dunkle Zeiten Festival, 2014), MORPHEME (an audiovisual multichannel concert with Thomas Wagensommerer at CTM Festival, 2015), and Hierarchy Glitch (commissioned by Klangforum Wien with Vessela Dantcheva, premiered at Eclat Festival, 2019). Her Ferrum project was also performed in a long version, Ferrum H, at the Electric Spring Festival in Huddersfield, 2019.

Electric Indigo’s work continues to explore and expand the boundaries of electronic music, blending technical mastery with artistic innovation.


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