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ephemeropteræ 2013/10 – Blixa Bargeld

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Augarten

– Solo Vocal Performance

A live program without accompaniment and with a minimum of technical equipment – singer, writer, and performance artist Blixa Bargeld creates almost impossible acoustic cosmoses, utilizing scientific snippets, poetic ideas or intellectual philosophical games.

In his Solo Vocal Performance Blixa Bargeld explores the limits of terms such as speech, sound and music. The audience witnesses a metamorphosis of Blixa’s distinctive voice, which forms acoustic architectures, sonorous spheres, and cacophonous monsters out of sentences, words, and syllables. Susurration and screams, whispers, and indescribable sounds are compacted to a composition creating an orchestra of live-recorded fragments, which are repeated, manipulated and rhythmized, subsisting entirely on a multiplication of Blixa’s voice. The equipment is reduced to a bare minimum: the artist performs alone on stage, with only four foot pedals and a microphone. There are no pre-produced recordings, no callable samples, everything develops in the moment. Over the course of the evening Blixa’s voice thus creates almost impossible acoustic cosmoses, utilizing scientific snippets, poetic ideas or intellectual philosophical games, presented by Blixa in his classy and ironic style.

Blixa performs Solo Vocal Performance without accompaniment, relying solely on his voice when combining words, sentences, chants and sounds to loops in a creative research, thus generating a fascinating artistic synthesis.

Blixa Bargeld, born 1959 in Berlin (West) is an autodidact, singer, writer, musician and performance artist for EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN, NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS amongst others. He is also involved in solo projects and cooperations worldwide in almost all fields of art. He lives in San Francisco, Beijing, and Berlin.

date

September 6, 2013 from 7 pm

location

Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary
TBA21–Augarten, Scherzergasse 1A, 1020 Vienna, Austria

supported by

Wiener Städtische Versicherungsverein

Curated by

Daniela Zyman and Boris Ondreička

Free admission 