Astrid
Rieder
Current Activities of Trans-Art
do trans-Art_106
Thursday, 10th April at 7:30PM
with Karlheinz Essl, electronics
in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
In the 106th performance of the do trans-Art performance series, visual artist Astrid Rieder meets composer, electronic musician, media artist and software designer Karlheinz Essl. After many years of experience with digital tools, Karlheinz Essl has been experimenting for some time with a highly sensitive analogue modular synthesizer, which he makes sound solely from the vibrations of the device. The interaction between the act of drawing and the sonic improvisation that unfolds in the performance process becomes visible and audible – a feedback process between drawing and sound.
free admission
do trans-Art 2025
with Astrid Rieder
In 2016, Astrid Rieder created the monthly performance series do trans-Art in her studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg, which she has since continued in her studio in Wals, Salzburg: On the second Thursday of every month, Astrid Rieder invites a musician from the field of new music to her studio to enter into an artistic, transdisciplinary dialogue in front of an audience. For 40 minutes, two artists interact between abstract drawing and new music, without a score, without rehearsals and without thematic guidelines. The drawing is neither a performance instruction nor a visualisation of the sounds played. Likewise, the sound is not a musicalisation of the drawing. Rather, the performance is a simultaneous action and reaction, a bi-directional dialogue based on mutual inspiration, in which the arts meet without any hierarchy.
Despite many obstacles, the performance series do trans-Art has taken place every second Thursday of the month without interruption since 2016. After each performance, the large-scale drawing, a documentary video and an audio recording remain. After the performance, the audio recording (consisting of the musical part and the sounds created during the drawing process) can be heard on Astrid Rieder's radio programme Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on radiofabrik and RadioFro, together with a conversation with her performance partner.
Thu 09 January with Susanne Hehenberger, violin
Thu 13 February with Peter WesenAuer, piano
Thu 13 March with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion
Thu 10 April with Karlheinz Essl, electronics
Thu 08 May with Paul Eiser, saxophone
Thu 12 June with Fernando Araujo, piano
Thu 10 July with Ana Topalovic, cello
Thu 14 August with Sebastian Jolles, cello
Thu 11 September with Stephan Kowarsch, electric guitar & electronics
Thu 09 October with Ingrid Wegmayr, electric guitar
Thu 13 November with Alba Llorach Roca, piano
Thu 11 December with Herbert Lacina, bass
Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month
Time: 19:30
Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor
Admission free
trans-Art, the dialogue between abstract sounds and abstract drawing
artistic vision:
A trans-art performance explores the interplay between new music and abstract drawing. It is a regular exercise of an encounter in which two dialogue partners, coming from two different disciplines and thus also from two different worlds and everyday lives, engage in a dialogue in a shared "strangeness". In a constantly interactive, modulating, flowing process, without a score, without arrangements or rehearsals, a joint visual and auditory composition can be created - the Composition Graphique Musicale. The drawing process, like the musical process, is additive, i.e. what has already been drawn is overdrawn and thus expanded during the trans-art performance. The audience can perceive these processes simultaneously as movement that can sharpen the senses, as the phenomenologist Merleau-Ponty described Paul Klee's act of painting. The final product consists of the large drawing, a sound recording and a recorded video.
PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art"
EACH 2ND THURsday per month at 7:30pm
at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals
Thursday, 13th March
do trans-Art_105 with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion
Thursday, 10th April
do trans-Art_106 with Karlheinz Essl, electronics
"trans-Art on the road"
scheduled dates 2024
Friday, 04th April 2025 at 07:30PM
trans-Art Performance with Herbert Lacina, bass
Kunstraum Ewigkeitsgasse, Thelemangasse 6, 1170 Vienna
Wednesday, 16th April 2025 at 09:30PM
trans-Art Performance with Clemens Salesny, saxophone
N i M and H e a r, Jazzit Music Club, Elisabethstraße 11, 5020 Salzburg
Saturday, 03th May 2025
trans-Art Performance with Erik Spangler, electronics
{Re}HAPPENING 13, Black Mountain College Campus at Lake Eden
PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"
each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM
Saturday, 05th April
acoustic part do trans-Art_105 with Elisabeth Flunger
Saturday, 19th April
rerun: acoustic part trans-Art at Ewigkeitsgasse with Herbert Lacina
each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm
Tuesday, 08th April
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part do trans-Art_105 with Elisabeth Flunger
Tuesday, 22nd April
transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part trans-Art at Ewigkeitsgasse with Herbert Lacina
Here is the link to all the radio shows that have been broadcast so far:
Here you can find videos of individual trans-Art performances:
