HOW DO YOU WORK? Conversations, drawings and responses (Vienna) by Adelheid Mers

Preliminarily in 2012, and formally in 2013/14 , I asked experimental musicians and composers in Vienna "How do you work?". Based on those conversations, I created two drawings of what I call each artist's "epistemic engine", or the way I understood them to work. One drawing was a free form exploration, and the other mapped my notes onto the "Fractal 3-line Matrix", a diagrammatic instrument that emerged in my work in 2011, after the informal round of conversations. On sharing the drawings with them, artists were invited to produce a response in a medium of their choice. This project was supported by the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

Katharina Klement

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Born in 1963 in Graz, Austria.

Studies: piano, composition and course in electro-acoustic and experimental music at Vienna Music University.

"Composer-performer" in the field of notated and improvised, instrumental and electronic music. Instrumental and electronic compositions, emphasis on spatial conceptions, crossover projects in music, text, video, performance. Numerous multi-channel compositions in combination with instrument(s) and /or vocals, particular interest lays on the piano and its extended playing techniques, sound installations, founder and member of numerous ensembles for improvised and collective composed music.

Several awards and prizes, like „publicity-Preis“ of SKE/austro mechana 2001, „honorary mention“ at Prix ars electronica Linz 2006, Austrian Kunstpreis category music 2013.

Composition works i.a. for Austrian radio and television, "jeunesse" Austria, numerous small ensembles and soloists, Nobelprize-seminar Vienna, Linz cultural capital 09, dramagraz, Theater Marie Aarau, festival e-may Vienna, musikprotokoll Graz Austria, Klangforum Wien, institute for media-archeology Austria, Wien Modern.

Concerts in Austria and abroad, including Festival Kaleidophon Ulrichsberg, Tage für Neue Musik Zürich, Offenes Kulturhaus Linz, festival Inventionen Berlin, festival Midi-Alternativa Moskau, city of women Ljubljana, gallery O´artoteca Milano, SECCA North Carolina, "roulette" New York, festival unlimited Wels, festival Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Festival Arts Stay Slowenien, Klangspuren Schwaz, musiques & recherches Bruxelles.

Since 2006 lecturer at the course for electronic media and computer music, university for music and performing arts Vienna.

Several CD-publications, founded own CD label KalK  .

Lives in Vienna

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