Billy Roisz needs no introduction. The Vienna native has been making music, performance art, and film for so long that even people with no reason whatsoever to have heard of her have heard of her. And yet, BAJO, her new release on … read more »
Billy Roisz
Austrian Music Highlights #18
There’s a lot to hear this March and April. The releases keep releasing and the good vibes keep flowing – just in time for the festival season about to kick off. Music is to spring like butter is to bread – it’s … read more »
CROSSWAYS: Visualization in contemporary music
The border between sound and image has always been blurred, if not obsolete. In fact, the two fields are, in many ways, inherently enmeshed. The question is just how much one re-veals or exposes it, and from what lens or angle one … read more »
MUSIC UNLIMITED 36 – THE FUTURE STARTS NOW
From November 4th to 6th, the MUSIC UNLIMITED festival presents experimental music of various styles for the 36th time: from contemporary music and jazz, improvisation and sound art, to noise and metal – a feast for open-minded and curious ears! This year’s … read more »
“I THINK IT’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT CULTURE CAN DO AND ART MUST DO” – BERNHARD GÜNTHER (WIEN MODERN)
WIEN MODERN, Austria’s largest festival for new music, now in its 34th edition, could be given sub-headers this year like: a major opera premiere at the Odeon, music theatre and dance, performances, multimedia and images, immersive projects, walk-in installations and exhibitions, major … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights #8
Pinch us, is it real? Live music? Live audiences? Together again? Indeed, hopes and reality have converged at last! While temperatures are rising, restrictions are declining. And the effect on music and art? Nothing less than an avalanche of events pouring down … read more »
Billy Roisz
Lives and works in Vienna, Austria. Since the late 1990s, Billy Roisz has been dealing intensively with video and sound. Her work focuses on the links and gaps between visual and auditive perception. Roisz questions the interaction between sound and image, the … read more »
The Austrian Electronic Music Scene Since 2000
In the years since 2000 Austrian electronic musicians were not as omnipresent as in the previous decade. However there were still a lot of exciting approaches and developments. A brief overview by Sebastian Fasthuber. You could probably write a whole book about … read more »
Broken Heart Collector
Maja Osojnik, Susanna Gartmayer, derhunt, Raumschiff Engelmayr and DDKern – the names of the involved musicians in the project BROKEN.HEART.COLLECTOR already promise a very exciting and unusual listening experience. BROKEN.HEART.COLLECTOR take us on a sound journey free from all stylistic concepts in … read more »
Austrian Music Video at the Berlinale – “Zounk!” by Billy Roisz
It is the prelude to the much-anticipated film festival season when the world reknowned Berlinale opens its doors in Berlin, this year for the 62nd time. Overall, this year’s festival will be showing up to 400 productions, including several Austrian films. The … read more »