Please come along for those interested in the event.
Presentation by the Department of Music Creation with the Bundesministerium Kunst.kultur offenlischer Dienst und Sport and IMA and Wienkultur.
Elisabeth Schimana (born 1958, Austria) — She is known as a composer, musician and radio artist since 1983. She studied Electroacoustic and Experimental Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, Computer Music – Composition at IEM, Graz, and Musicology and Ethnology at the Vienna University of the Arts.
Through her creative practice, she has focused on exploring the context of space/body/electronics for many years. She collaborates with ORF Kunstradio regularly and conducts research in the field of women’s art and technology. Elisabeth Schimana gives lectures and composition workshops internationally.
She is also the founder of the Institute for Media Archaeology — IMA (St. Polten, Austria); the Institute for Media Archaeology IMA works at the border between analog and digital and the interface between research and communication, especially in relation to acoustics, sound machines and digital music.
On her second visit to Indonesia, she returned to respond to her observations on the acoustic space of Goa Tabuhan, Pacitan, East Java. This time she collaborated with Art Music Today and Musisi Yogyakarta to present a site-specific performance work based on electro-acoustic composition and sound-art installation with curator Ignatia Nilu.
This open lecture session became a forum for sharing Elisabeth Schimana’s composition practice in historical relations with the development of electronic music and New-Music in Austria as well as her artistic response in the process of creating the upcoming Goa Tabuhan “Gema Tabuhan”.
