Tangible Music Club #4
Ulla Rauter + Sturmherta

19. März 2025, 19.00 Uhr Stadtwerkstatt Linz

Das Tangible Music Lab lädt zur Performance

STURMHERTA explores synthesizer-based sound design methods, as well as immersive audiovisual performances and installations that push the limits of human perception. Based in Linz, Austria, he studies Postdigital Lutherie at the University of Arts Linz. While most of his works are meant to be experienced live, he also releases music in formats such as tapes and digital EPs. His work is driven by a deep interest in the interplay between the visual and the audible, which serves as a central element in his audiovisual creations.

As part of Tangible Music Club #4, STURMHERTA presents RESi, an exploration of resonance. Digital synthesizers provide the foundation, creating a minimalistic rhythmic pattern using elements with low spectral information. A combination of digital, analog, and physical methods enhances its complexity. The performance focuses on evolving rhythm and texture in relation to space and its oscillations.

Ulla Rauter is a media artist and musician working at the intersection of sound art and visual art. Her work includes self-built instruments, sound performances, and performative sculptures. A key focus of her practice is the development of experimental sound interfaces. Her sensor-based electronic musical instruments are presented internationally in performances and as objects in exhibitions. Two other central themes in her artistic work are silence as a place of longing and the human voice as raw material for visual and acoustic transformations. In 2010, she co-founded the annual sound art festival Klangmanifeste with Christine Schörkhuber.

In All of My Voices, minimal vocal inputs give rise to a gesture-controlled artificial choir that gradually unfolds in space. Two custom-developed sensor-based interfaces turn the disembodied voice into an expansive electronic instrument with a musical life of its own. Ulla Rauter’s movements and touches, through which she conducts and transforms the electronic voice in space, explore layers, overtones, and harmonies as well as its percussive, noise-like potential, allowing her to play the voice like a physical instrument.