2022-11-20 –, KiB Auditorium
Strip & Embellish is a young experimental live sound project founded in 2022 by Graz-based computer music duo Daniele Pozzi and Hanns Holger Rutz. Both have developed specific, individual digital instruments based on the SuperCollider sound synthesis language which are strongly linked together by plugging each other’s sound signal into many nodes and entry points of the opposite system, creating essentially a complex non-linear feedback process. The project name derives from the fact that, on the one hand, Daniele’s continuous effort is to strip down a complex feedback driven system as much as possible while maximising its expressive richness. On the other hand, Hanns Holger creates a signal graph during the first part of the concert that is then repeated in the second part as an “empty structure” which is now newly navigated and embellished by the altered live input signals. This is mirrored by Daniele’s approach of finding “snapshot points” in the structure that may be recalled during the performance.
Daniele Pozzi
Daniele Pozzi is an electronic musician and artist living in Graz, AT. Among his works are live performances and improvisations, sound installations and electroacoustic music, often involving the design of original computer programs and interfaces addressing compositional or performative issues. His recent practice investigates the relation of process and form in feedback system composition, and the becoming of sound and algorithmic processes. His work appeared in international venues, exhibitions, conferences and festivals, among others: ICMC 2019 (New York City), BEAST FEaST (Birmingham, UK), New York Electroacustic Music Festival 2017, BEK (Bergen, NO), ZKM (Karlsruhe, DE), Audio Mostly (London, UK), XIX CIM (Rome, IT), deSingel (Antwerp, BE), KM28 (Berlin, DE). Daniele holds a BA in Electroacoustic Music Composition from the Conservatory of Padua, Italy, and a MA in Computer Music from the Institue of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree at the same university.
Hanns Holger Rutz
Hanns Holger Rutz is an artist and researcher in the field of sound and digital art, based in Graz, AT. Central to his work, comprised mainly of sound and intermedia installation, electronic music and improvisation, are the materiality of writing processes and the trajectories of aesthetic objects as they move and change across boundaries of individual works and artists. Since 2013, he worked as Pre- and Postdoc Researcher at the Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) of the University of Music and Performing Art Graz (KUG), most recently leading the FWF-funded project “Algorithms that Matter”. In 2021, he joined the KUG’s Doctoral School for Artistic Research as Senior Scientist. Starting in autumn 2022, he heads the FWF-funded artistic research project “Simultaneous Arrivals“ (with Nayarí Castillo and Franziska Hederer) on novel forms of collaborative artistic processes.
Daniele and Hanns Holger have worked together in the past years on various projects, including “Algorithms that Matter” (2017–2021) and “Algorithmic Segments” (2020).