In 2003 Austria’s radio station FM4 and the Volksoper Vienna called for an Antonin Dvorak-remix contest in the field of electronic music. For that occasion CNTRCPY[tm] was asked to stage and visualize the final event that presented the nine winners of that contest.
That evening the artists presented ‘Visuals’ outside the usual club-context. In common productions there are normally no connections between visuals and sounds - visuals make it hard to concentrate on the music and hang on the walls like pictures.
Is live-music without visuals still possible?
Organizers of music events support a culture that makes it almost impossible to consume music outside the classical concert situation without an overloading with senseless collected visuals that fulfill the credo, that there must be a moving picture with the sound, but without quality.
The artists didn’t only show the misuse of visuals, but wanted to deal with that topic in an analytic way. Single points of their messages were reduced to their core content and the essence was made the main topic. They weren’t critic just for the means to be critic, but to point out and show alternatives.
People:
Concept, idea & head of production: Gerald C. Stocker
Staging & visualization: CNTRCPY™:
- Rainer Prohaska
- Martin Sägmüller
- Konstantin Demblin
Soundbits: Erdem Tunakan + Stefan Strobl
Jury: Liz King, Sebastian Schlachter, Erdem Tunakan
