Debating the significance of technological presets in relationship to norms, cliches and standards. How authorship and creative responsibility shifts in the age of machines from designers to programmers and potential solutions on what to do next. This thesis shows signs of a development that culminated with todays rise of machine learning systems and a stage […]
7 polyphonic compositions for moulting02.12.2022 -13.02.23ExhibitionLeechquartier, Afro-asiatisches Institut, Graz AT An immersive exhibition, a multi-layered, multi-language offering in the form of a polyphonic spatial-sound composition, an audio-visual collage made from an equally immersive process of questioning and re-framing the ways we are in relation with ourselves; with our ancestors, with the land and with the […]
“Affirmations” ist eine audiovisuelle Performance des Vienna Struggle Drone Choir, Bernhard Hammer und Mandy Mozart. Basierend auf dem Song “Roar Little Kitty” (Hammer/Mozart 2019, Bahía de Cochinos, Kuba) entwickelte der “Vienna Struggle Drone Chor”, bestehend aus Patrizia Ruthensteiner, Christine Gnigler und Alexandra Feusi, drei Kompositionen. Diese arbeiten mit partizipativen Spielanleitungen, in denen polyphone und homophone Drones […]
We talk about the colonial history of sugar. Daily Rhythms Collective is discovering ancestral trails that connect our own heritage to the sugar trade. Weaving our stories into a ritualistic and performative format made available through video. Screenings Dice Festival, 2022, Berlin<rotor> centre for contemporary arts, 2022, Graz With kind supported by:<rotor> centre for contemporary […]
Snaw Crosh by Otto Oscar Hernandez, Mandy Mozart “Music, Movies, Software – High Speed Pizza Delivery” A soundtrack to a novel. Mandy Mozart and Otto Oscar Hernandez find their way in the Metaverse and pre-define their soundtrack for a science fiction that has come to share many parallels to today’s lockdowns. ‘SNAWCRO$H’ is the sound […]
Op. 42 – Love for Women by Mandy Mozart Love for Women is both an ensemble exploration and an intimate song cycle, fuelled by a frustration with the conventions of modern music culture. It’s a response to both club and classical music, born behind a piano, built in clubs, and completed by many hands. The […]
Electronic live band with Otto Oscar Hernandez Ruiz from 2019 – 2021.SYN3A is now based between Berlin and Vienna and is an evolution from the experimental electronic band Cindy Sizer (2006-2016). Logo Design: Anna Niedhart EXODUS by SYN3A
Inter cultural exchange is both great and challenging at the same time. I come back from Graz (Austria) inspired but also exhausted. These lovely beings have mastered their lives through realities I could only grasp. I feel ignorant just being there, yet I tried reacting from my point of view and I realize after so […]
autotom.ia is a formation coined in a deconsecrated convent during extreme heat phases of a Portuguese summer. The four artists: Lukas Rehm (Lybes Dimem), Tilman Porschütz (Mandy Mozart) and Afonso Ferreira & Pedro Menezes (Lynnia), converged in a series of extensive sessions, informed by a mutual search for affective intensity. Electronic Drums, Bass Synths, Visual […]
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