ROTOR #25

HAUSCH X GORDILLO

By establishing a bridge between the audio and visual domains Cora Leli Hausch (sound) and Gabriela Gordillo (light) aim to channel spectres of spaces between and beyond, bringing forth a multi-sensory compound that offers a third spatiality: not quite here, not quite there, but both and neither at the same time, their set is forming a differential that is flickering in and out of existence.
Here, multichannel can be understood as something more than merely spatial audio: multiple channels for the senses form imaginary suggestive spaces that cross sensory borders, revealing liminal layers that are lingering in reach, overlaying each other, but needing interplay and reciprocity („synchresis”, michel chion) to become actualised and experienceable.

Cora Leli Hausch (she/her) is a sound and media artist and graphic designer, head of the label Moozak, and occasionally active in the organizations Echoraeume and XOK. She holds an MA for architecture from the Technical University of Vienna, where she investigated the relation between sound and space from an architectural and artistic perspective. As a coder she also contributes to the open-source music software ppooll. In her sound performances, she primarily explores sound as physically perceived and different states of matter between tension and discharge. She works almost exclusively with synthetic sounds, feedback, and spatial sound techniques. As a curator, she is responsible for the design and execution of well over 100 events and numerous record releases.
hausch.io

Gabriela Gordillo (she/her) is a media artist who works with the topic of time perception. In her work, she builds media interfaces that interweave metaphoric and cognitive experiences. Her artistic practice expands through performance, installation and participatory art, in trans-disciplinary settings with a deep focus on improvisation. Based in Austria since 2015, she holds a Visual Communication BA by Centro de Diseño, Cine y Televisión (MX) and Interface Cultures MA by the University of Art and Design Linz (AT). She has performed and exhibited internationally and collaborated with various artists such as Fernando Vigueras and Yen Tzu Chang. Her work intersects with cultural mediation activities, currently active in the artist collectives bb15 and velak.
gabrielagordillo.net

PATRIZIA RUTHENSTEINER X TOBIAS LEIBETSEDER

Patrizia Ruthensteiner works at the intersection of instrument invention, electroacoustic music, composition and choreography. Her practice explores hybrid and sculptural instruments that structurally interlink movement and sound, investigating alternative relationships between nature, technology and cultural systems. In addition to her solo practice, she has collaborated with artists, ensembles and collectives such as The Black Page Orchestra, Marino Formenti, Liquid Loft / Chris Haring, MONSTERFRAU / Lena Wicke-Aengenheyster, Megaphone Choir / Sylvi Kretzschmar, and others.

She has developed long-term collaborative projects, including Magnetoceptia with Dewi de Vree (NLD). She receive the BMKÖS START Scholarship for Media Art and won the prize competition Manifestation of Profane and Secular Power by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna.

Her projects have been presented internationally at festivals, music venues and galleries including Musikverein Wien (AT), Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (AT), Impulstanz Festival (AT), Wuzhen Festival (CN), Gaudeamus Festival / iii (NLD), Festival Novas Frequências (BRA), Mekudeshet (ISR), Casa da Música (PRT), WORM (NLD), Simultan

Festival (RO), NEXT Festival (SVK), Fonoteca Nacional (MEX), Goldsmiths University (UK), Smallforms (AT), Äquidistanz Festival / MOOZAK (AT), Unsafe+Sounds Festival (AT), Club Radiokoje / czirp czirp (AT), and Klangmanifeste (AT)
patriziaruthensteiner.com

Tobias Leibetseder is a composer, performer, sound artist, and media artist. His work explores the concepts of space and transformation. He studied Jazz/Fusion Guitar at the American Institute of Music, Vienna, Architecture at the Vienna University of Technology, Computer Music and Electronic Media at the Institute of Electroacoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, and Composition as well as Media Composition and Computer Music at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. In addition to receiving numerous composition grants and scholarships, he was awarded the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition in 2023, the SAR 2022 Annual Prize for Best Research Catalogue Exposition, and the Ö1 Radio Play Award for Best Sound Design in 2024.
tobiasleibetseder.at

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