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Bernhard Loibner
is a composer, musician and media artist from Vienna, Austria.
His musical compositions are characterized by the use of live electronics and computers as unique instruments based on software he writes himself although in his recent work he increasingly uses (computer edited) acoustic instruments.
The sounds he creates oscillate between complex, 2-dimensional and harsh structures with a pulsating moment as well as continuously reconfigured rhythmical elements beyond metrical beats. A carefully composed balance between movement and quietness is typical for his musical aesthetics.
He performs live on a regular basis and he realized compositions for contemporary theatre and dance as well as video, film and radio and he extended his work into the audio-visual domain by creating sound/video compositions.
Ongoing collaborations include the sound/video/voice duo “Nerve Theory” with US video artist Tom Sherman as well as live concerts with musicians such as Clementine Gasser, Karlheinz Essl, o.blaat, Peter Szely, Joao Castro Pinto a.o. Commissioned work includes compositions for films by Austrian director Mara Mattuschka, the performance extravaganza of the French collective SUPERAMAS and the Austrian National Public radio and recently for the young swiss choreographer Janyce Michellod.
He received several project and travel grants and in 2009 he was chosen for the composition grant of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Culture.
His work has been released on CD and DVD and has been presented in numerous live concerts, performances and screenings all over the world.
Releases
unidentified musical subject, CD/Vinyl, moozak, 2010
A Completely Random Order Never Yields Meaning, Net Release, AudioTong, 2007
Nerve Theory - There is no privacy at the speed of light, CD-R, Voicespondence, 2007
_gestalt, CD, allquiet 2005
Fragmented Memory, DVD, allquiet 2004
Trans/Mute, CD, allquiet 2002
Selected Concerts & Performances
Postgarage, Graz, 2010
Boundary Signal, Fluc_Wanne, 2009
K08 - MMK, Museum for Contemporary Art, Klagenfurt, 2008
Sammlung Essl, Museum for Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, 2008
Nerve Theory - H5N1, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA, 2007
JLS - Jurisic/Loibner/Szely, Rhiz, Vienna, 2007
Moving Closer Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2007
ICEBOX, Cape Town, South Africa, 2007
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2006
Tonspur, Museumsquartier, Vienna, Austria, 2006
Duetz #2 (audio-visual concert with Michaela Grill), Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg, 2006
Laptop-Quartet, with o.blaat, Karlheinz Essl, Klaus Filip, Konzerthaus, Vienna, 2006
Unsound Festival, Krakow, Poland, 2005
HERTZ_extend #1, (duet with Joao Castro Pinto), Barcelos, Portugal, 2005
Nerve Theory - Remote Possibilities, Konzerthaus, Vienna, 2005
Arsonica04 Festival, Seville, Spain, 2004
AlpenDuetz (with Michaela Grill), Concertgebouw Brugge, Belgium, 2004
Share (featured live set), New York, USA, 2004
Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA, 2004
Haus der Musik, Vienna, 2003
Ferens Art Gallery/Time Based Arts, Hull, UK, 2002
Nerve Theory - The Disconnection Machine, Elektra Festival, Montreal, Canada, 2001
Shades of Catatonia (instrumental version), Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Germany, 2000
Selected Screenings
Boundary Signal/Grenzsignal, Open Space - zkp, Vienna, 2009
File Hipersonica, Sao Paolo, Brazil, 2008
K08 - MMK, Werner Berg Museum, Bleiburg, Austria, 2008
Videoformes Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, France, 2007
Videomedeja Festival, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2006
Wormhole Saloon V, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK, 2006
Athens Video Art Festival, Athens, Greece, 2006
Prix de la Creation Video 2006, Videoformes Festival, Clermond-Ferrand, France, 2006
VAD International Video and Digital Arts Festival, Girona, Spain, 2006
Electrofringe Festival 2005, Newcastle, Australia, 2005
Festival Sonoimagenes 2005, Buenos Aires, Argentinia, 2005
2. Media Arts Festival, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia, 2005
Sonic Arts Network Expo 966, University of Hull, Hull, UK, 2005
MAF05 Thailand 3rd New Media Arts Festival, Bangkok, Thailand, 2005
Syracuse University, Syracuse, USA, 2004
Spark Contemporary Art Space, Syracuse, USA, 2003
Cybersonica 2003, Institute For Contemporary Arts, London, 2003