Relatively Scary
Using her specific techniques of playing the contrabass recorder, Pia Palme reflects the dynamic instability sensed by the person on the carousel. Acceleration overcoming gravity is present in her sounds. Electric Indigo contrasts them with industrial noises to accentuate the rotation. Her uncanny pulse increasingly disintegrates as an incisive reminder of the finite nature of the experience.
Pia Palme
Pia Palme was born in Vienna and is a composer, musician and experimentalist. Her works open up fields between composition and improvisation, between acoustic and electronic music and range in size from solo pieces to operas. She sees her precise and well-conceived compositional concepts as political scores that draw on the conditions of modern times. Since October 2011 Pia Palme has been doing research for her dissertation entitled “Composing the Noise of Mind” to earn her doctorate in composition at the University of Huddersfield. She has received several commissions to write compositions that were performed at the Klangspuren Festival and Wien modern, for instance.
Electric Indigo
Susanne Kirchmayr aka Electric Indigo, born in Vienna, Austria, in 1965, works as musician, composer and DJ. Her name stands for the intelligent interpretation of techno and electronic music. She started her DJ career in 1989 in Vienna and worked at the legendary Hard Wax record store in Berlin from 1993 to 1996. In 1998 she created female:pressure, an international database for female artists in the fields of electronic music. In her compositions, she emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly elaborated sounds and structures. In 2012 she received the Outstanding Artist Award and earned the national grant for composition from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture in 2013.