For this multi-channel composition, field recordings of the ocean spray, captured during a residency in Latvia in the summer of 2021, are utilized as a starting point and inspiration in their various sonic manifestations. Droning surges, bright rushing waves on shallow shores, or the swaying of harbor structures envelop the audience in their urgency, meandering through them, pressing them downward, and lifting them back up. In conjunction with electroacoustic sound elements as a counterpoint, an autofictional depiction of water movements is rendered tangible as a musical composition, constructing an immersive and constantly shifting sonic landscape that consistently embodies and echoes the harshness and relentlessness, the raw essence of nature. The audience finds itself in a flood of undulating sound propagation, always remaining vigilant. The natural and harmonious progression of the water may culminate in a forceful crash.
PlūsmaUrsula Winterauer aka Gischt (AT)
multi-channel composition, 2021
Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt (AT)
Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt (AT) lives and works as an experimental composer, electronic music producer and curator in Vienna. Her eclectic soundscapes deliver differentiated interpretations of the genres industrial, techno and ambient, which are reflected by means of bass guitar, synthesizer and electro-smog clouds. In her work she deals with raw and brutal sounds in digital overdetermination and contrasts these with the clear and human nature of her own voice. She is the bassist of the doom metal band Eaeres and part of the duo The Answer is No with Maja Osojnik. Winterauer works as a sound designer and composer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is co-founder and label boss of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt Festival for sonic exploration & digital art.
