Live at MQ, Vienna, Austria, 2006
2 screenshots of modules of my sound processing and recording software "_unfinished"
listen
an excerpt of a concert at Concertgebouw in Brugge, Belgium in 2004
Concerts + Performances
Live in Barcelos, Portugal 2005, duet with Joao Castro Pinto
Over the past few years Bernhard Loibner has performed numerous live concerts throughout the world. He performed in places such as Chelsea Art Museum (New York), MQ (Vienna), Unsound Festival, (Krakow), Konzerthaus (Vienna), Icebox (Cape Town), HERTZ_extend #1 (Barcelos), Arsonica Festival (Seville), Ars Electronica (Linz).
For his concerts he uses (apart from various electronic gear) a laptop computer running a sound processing software called "_unfinished" he developed himself using the Max/Msp/Jitter programming environment. It enables him to do real time sound processing of computer generated sounds but also to process live input sources such as his bass guitar.
Besides his solo gigs he also performed together with other musicians e.g. in a laptop quartet with Keiko Uenishi aka o.blaat, Karlheinz Essl and Klaus Filip or with the portuguese musician Joao Castro Pinto.
Another ongoing live-collaboration is an audio-visual duet with austrian video artist Michaela Grill under name of "Duetz" Live electronic music in combination with live-video is the field this duo is operating in, with performances at Concertgebouw Brugge (Belgium) or at the Sammlung Essl Museum near Vienna.
Last but not least the long term collaboration with US video artist and writer Tom Sherman under the name of Nerve Theory has created several unique sound/video/voice performances. Their latest performance was called "H5N1" and was staged at Palace Theatre in Hamilton, NY in 2007. Other Nerve Theory performances took place in Austria and Canada in places such as Wiener Konzerthaus and at the Elektra Festival in Montreal.
Selected Concerts & Performances
Boundary Signal, Fluc_Wanne, Vienna, 2009
MMK, Museum for Contemporary Art, Klgenfurt, Austria, 2008
Sammlung Essl, Museum for Contemporary Art, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Moving Closer Festival, Warsaw, Poland, 2007
ICEBOX, Cape Town, South Africa, 2007
Videomedeja, Novi Sad, Serbia, 2006
Tonspur, Museumsquartier, Vienna, 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