FLOATING SOUND GALLERY

Vienna

Kristina Warren / Veronika Mayer

Circuit Fantôme Season 4 Episode 11
curated by Anton Iakhontov (Patrick K.-H.) and Daniel Teruggi,

Sa, 12 October, 2024
18.00-22.00

Pay as you wish

︎Vronihof
Veronikag. 24
1170 Wien

Programme

(18:00-19:00h and again 21:00-22:00h)
Kristina Warren, REED SPECTRUM: 8-channel installation

The concertina is an acoustic instrument with a rich sonic tradition particularly in various folk musics of Europe and North America. But it is also highly conducive to novel experimentation and exploration, since its upper register yields beautiful glassy sounds and complex difference tones. This immersive, meditative installation features recorded concertina difference tones, which Warren has fragmented and stretched, and processed through an analog system to enrich and extend the harmonic spectrum. By turns sparse and active, spacious and dense, Reed Spectrum blends acoustic and analog sound to highlight the smooth yet complex progression between rhythm and pitch, between time and frequency domains in sound.

(19:00-20:00h)
Kristina Warren, UNCANNY TRANSIT: 8-channel solo performance

This octophonic, hybrid analog-digital solo by Kristina Warren aims to transport listeners to a sur/real place and time. Warren weaves together a variety of semi-recognizable field recordings and synthesized tones using numerous slow-moving oscillators to create ever-shifting sonic patterns. This creates an uncanny soundscape somewhere between reality, imagination, and dream. Balancing the rhythmic and tonal time expressed in the evening’s installation, and the latent time expressed in the evening’s duo performance, Uncanny Transit expresses a form of imagined or desired time, in which memory and expectation are freely in dialogue.

(20:00-21:00h)
Kristina Warren / Veronika Mayer: LATENCY: multichannel electronic performance

There is natural delay in interaction. The coproduction of signal chains in musical performance is based on stimulus and perception, action and reaction. The electronic musicians Kristina Warren and Veronika Mayer consciously perform latency in their duo, in terms of both their sonic dialogue and the unknown and unforeseeable of the result. Latency in a philosophical sense as the hidden possible is also the anticipation of what will possibly happen. Warren and Mayer improvise with the relations of expectations and surprises. The actual exchange of live sound signals forms, opens up and constrains live signal processing, timing and sonic communication and challenges the concept of latency in a metaphorical sense.

Supported by Stadt Wien Kultur + BMKÖS + SKE