On 15 January 2025, the team of the Atlas of Smooth Spaces project presented an insight into three and a half years of artistic research in the disciplines of choral conducting, original sound (film), mathematics, rhythmics and dance at the ABPU’s Forschungsforum. In a lecture performance, the team took the audience on a journey through the laboratories, projects and results of the interdisciplinary artistic research.
In Révélations [Offenbarungen] kreieren Marie-Louise Wundling (Cello), Hanne Pilgrim (Choreografie und Tanz) und Moritz Wesp (Elektronik und Posaune) einen audio-korporalen Raum. Dieser spannt einen Bogen zwischen Ligetis Sonate für Violoncello solo (1948) zu seinen in den Kölner Studios für elektronische Musik entstandenen elektronischen Kompositionen Glissandi (1957) und Artikulation for Tape (1958). Ligetis Werke sind dabei in verschiedene Raumfigurationen eingebettet. Sie erklingen in einer dynamisch-beweglichen Anordnung zwischen der Cellistin, der Tänzerin, die Ligetis Musik mit ihrem Körper interpretiert, den Stimmen beider Protagonistinnen, den Lautsprechern und dem Publikum. Der Raum zwischen den Performenden und den Lautsprechern entsteht aus Gesten des Dialogs. Dialog, in Révélations verstanden als ein „zwischen den Worten sein“, wird von Ligeti auch in der Vortragsbezeichnung des ersten Satzes der Cellosonate angesprochen. Der Tanz / die Bewegung als animierte Plastik spiegelt die Musik im Raum, gibt ihr eine kinetische Energie und eine körperliche Präsenz: Schwünge, Drehungen, Raumwege, Handgesten, Atemmuster, Artikulationen, Reibungen, Konsonanzen, Stille.
Die Lautsprecher als klangerzeugende Körper, von uns Objets Sonors Vivants genannt, nehmen den Raum auf ihre Weise ein. Sie treten in Verbindung mit den Performerinnen, interagieren mit ihren Kinesphären und jenen des Publikums.
Where: Kunstzentrum Wachsfabrik
When: 2024-07-18
In Zusammenarbeit mit dem Resident Music Collective (RCU) und dem Humboldt Forum Berlin erforschen wir in diesem transmedialen Konzertexperiment die Nutzung von Raum, Projektion und interaktiven Installationen, um das Engagement und die Beteiligung des Publikums zu fördern.
Where: Humboldt Forum Berlin
When: 2024-03-28,30,31
Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Rose Breus, Junjian Wang.
An experimental serie for Pianist (Hanne Pilgrim) and self-player Piano (Bösendorfer CEUS) that explores the spaces between the performer, the instrument and everything around them.
Where: Porgy & Bess / Strengen Kammer
When: 2023-11-13
Who: Hanne Pilgrim, Adrián Artacho, Markus Kupferblum, Leonhard Horstmeyer.
Image by: ABPU
Das Forschungsforum der ABPU findet am 07. November 2023 statt, mit einem Gastbeitrag des FWF. Ab 20 Uhr wird das Tanzteam des Atlas of Smooth Spaces den Fortschritt dieses PEEK-Projekts präsentieren. Mehr Infos hier.
Where: ABPU (Linz)
When: 2023-11-07, 17:30h
Who: Rose Breuss, Mariia Shurkhal, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López, Kai Chun Chuang
Tallis in Wonderland ist ein [Un]möglichkeitsraum, den der Chorus Sine Nomine zusammen mit Tänzerinnen, einer PianistinPerformerin, Filmtonangler*innen, einem Live-Elektroniker, einem Lichtkünstler und einem Mathematiker betritt. Im Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste berühren sich im ‘Wunderland’ audio-korporale Räume aus der Renaissance und dem Hier-und-Jetzt. Thomas Tallis’ 40-stimmige Motette “Spem in alium” prägt den Abend mit einem Appell zur Hoffnung. Hier spannt sich ein Raum der Extreme auf, in der die Hoffnung in einer Bewegung zwischen diesen Extremen und einer Elevation aus der Niedrigkeit vermutet wird. Eine solche Bewegung deutet der Tanz als Schwung. Er ist ein aus der Fallenergie entstehendes Raumgebilde. Tallis in Wonderland hinterfragt, wie es in der Gegenwart möglich ist, aus dem Pendeln zwischen Fall und Elevation Hoffnung zu generieren? Und was würde das weiße Kaninchen dazu sagen?
Where: Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildende Künste Wien
When: 2023-10-08, 18:00h
Who: Johannes Hiemetsberger, Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim, Rose Breuss, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Mariia Shurkhal, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales, Žiga Jereb, Eszter Petrány, Boglárka Heim, William Edouard Franck und Chorus Sine Nomine
Image by: ICDS6
Research paper on sketches from our research process investigating spatial qualities in eurhythmics performance as a specific audio-corporeal practice, within the context of the artistic research project ‘Atlas of Smooth Spaces’.
Where: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh USA
When: 2023-08-04, 8:30h
Image by: Adrián Artacho
Mut – jede stimme zählt is a participative choir performance designed to blur the lines between performers and audience. The piece is written for an 8-part choir (regardless of voice pitch), which should be roughly equal in size and distributed in the areas where the audience is located. The ninth voice is intended for the audience itself, who can also participate via their smartphones.
Where: Volkstheater Wien
When: 2023-05-21, 18h
Image by: Johannes Hiemetsberger
In the performance „NOW, as I was about to….“, 4 dancers, 10 singers, 1 choir conductor, 1 pianistperformer, 1 composerlive-electronicist and 1 complexity scientist*performer create moments of the present. The swinging, falling, tilting, catching, circling, searching, flowing in, around, through and in the NOW manifests itself in audio-corporeal spaces – near and far, dense and porous, interrupted and continuous, eternal and fleeting….
Where: Brückenfestival Wienerwald, Eichgraben (Austria)
When: 2023-05-06, 20h
Who: Rose Breuss, Kai Chun Chuang, Damian Cortés ALberti, Johannes Hiemetsberger, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Marcela López Morales, Mariia Shurkhal, Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim and Company Of Music
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In this brief talk we present the results of applying our specific collaboration methodology, one year into the artistic research project ‘Atlas of Smooth Spaces’, whose object of research is the space that is created around performers, shaped through performers and accessed by performers.
Where: SAR Conference 2023. Trondheim, Norway
When: 2023-04-19, 10:00h
Photo by: Raino Rapottnig
TANZ AM FLUSS Aus der Serie Strich/Figuren I-IV der Cie. Of(f) Verticality
Where: Stadtpfarrkirche Urfahr, 4040 Linz (A)
When: 2023-01-24, 19h
Who: Rose Breuss, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim and Students of the ABPU.
Image by: Brick5
Dance Cie. Off Verticality was founded in 2009 and draws on orphaned yet fascinating archival and notational material from past and present dances to inspire its choreographic movement inventions. Research-oriented working methods situate the ensemble beyond conventional production practices. Damián Cortés Alberti, Rose Breuss, Kai Chun Chuang, Boglárka Heim, Žiga Jereb, Julia Mach, Marcela López Morales, Eszter Petrány and Maria Shurkhal present five excerpts from their dance repertoire. The pianist Johannes Marian enriches the programme. The work of the Dance Cie. Off Verticality is supported by, among others, the Province of Upper Austria, the City of Linz and the FWF-PEEK project Atlas of Smooth Spaces.
Where: Brick5 (ehemalige Turnhalle)
When: 2022-11-01, 19:00h
Who: Rose Breuss, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales, Mariia Shurkhal, Kai Chun Chuang
Image by: Leonhard Horstmeyer
Presentation of the ‘Desire Machine’ Lab at the Rosenberg Dance Research Festival.
Where: ABPU
When: 2022-10-27, 12:00h
Image by: Rose Breuss, Damián Cortes Alberti
The festival, which is being held for the first time at the Anton Bruckner Private University, focuses on dancers from an international dance community and their current artistic research projects. Classical discourse and performance formats are expanded by lecture performances and studios that reveal and discuss the theoretical foundations of dance practices. Contemporary dance proves to be a multiply networked, “nomadic” milieu that is paradigmatic for contemporary artistic creation in its historically founded but underestimated internationality.
Where: Volkstheater Wien
When: 2022-10-25, 14h
Who: Marcela López Morales, Mariia Shurkhal, Adrián Artacho, Rose Breuss, Damián Cortés Alberti, Kai Chun Chuang, Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim and Adrián Artacho
Image by: HAMU
DANCE RESEARCH AND ITS INSTITUTIONAL BACKGROUND IN SOCIAL AND CULTURE CONTEXT
“Notational Studies – Danced movements beyond the optico-practical space” by Rose Breuss
Where: Academy of Performing Arts in Prague
When: 2022-10-07, 9:00h
Collage from video Stills from Markus Kupferblum
The composition “Six memos for a pianist and a self-playing piano” emerged from a peer-to-peer interaction between Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim with the self-playing piano “CEUS” by Bösendorfer as case study on the null space of Eurhythmics. Markus Kupferblum developed a cinematic concept for the six co-created compositions by Adrián Artacho and Hanne Pilgrim.
Where: University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
When: 2022-10-01, 20h
Image by: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
We gave insights into our case study on notation through description in the frame of the Symposia”rhythmik:connect“:
Where: University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
When: 2022-10-01, 14:30h
Who: Leonhard Horstmeyer, Hanne Pilgrim
and “we listen.we move. we connect” at Royal College of Music in Stockholm:
Where: Royal College of Music, Stockholm
When: 2023-06-04, 14:30h
Who: Hanne Pilgrim
Image by: DVORANA VŠMU – Academy of Performing Arts
International conference: Dance and Theory – Challenges and Tendencies in Teaching Theory in Dance Education.
Dancing Spatial Constructs and Notations by Univ. Prof. Rose Breuss (Austria).
Where: DVORANA VŠMU – Academy of Performing Arts (Bratislava)
When: 2022-09-29, 10:00h
Who: Rose Breuss, Damián Cortés Alberti, Marcela López Morales
Image by: Mariia Shurkhal/Adrián Artacho
Desire Machine – An artistic exploration of the performative space during Schmiede Hallein 2022
Where: Schmiede Hallein (Hallein, Austria)
When: 2023-09-15, 19h
MOCO is an interdisciplinary conference that explores the use of computational technology to support and understand human movement practice (e.g. computational analysis) as well as movement as a means of interacting with computers (e.g. movement interfaces). This requires a wide range of computational tasks including modeling, representation, segmentation, recognition, classification, or generation of movement information but also an interdisciplinary understanding of movement that ranges from biomechanics to embodied cognition and the phenomenology of bodily experience.
The 8th International Conference on Movement and Computing Conference took place 22-24 June 2022 in Chicago, Illinois (USA). Adrián Artacho and Leonhard Horstmeyer presented the SmoothOperator: A Device for characterizing Smoothness in Body Movement.
Image by: Hanne Pilgrim
The great motets as a spiritual map: Chorus sine nomine and Simon Oberleitner wander through Bruckner’s choral music in space and time.
Where: Wien, Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien (ehem. Semperdepot)
When: 2022-05-22, 19:30h
Who: Johannes Hiemetsberger, Sara Glanzer, Hanne Pilgrim, William Edourard Frank
Photo by: Constantin Georgescu
Performance of the company Cie. Verticality at the Minoritenkirche in Wels, together with the Altenberg Trio.
Where: Minoritenkirche, Minoritenplatz 3, Wels. Stadtpfarre Urfahr, Linz
When: 2021-11-11, 19:30h
Photo by: Ars Electronica
Performance together with the choir Company Of Music at the Ars Electronica 2021.
Where: Ars Electronica, Linz
When: 2021-10-11
Who: Adrián Artacho, Hanne Pilgrim, Johannes Hiemetsberger and Company Of Music