Sound of Violence

Dr Debra Petrovitch
is an academic and multi-media artist of national and international acclaim. She is also the founder of Subcutaneous Theatre, which explores the immersive possibilities of video, sonics and performance. Her essay Performing the limits of language has been published in Language & Chaos as part of the Mike Parr exhibition Foreign Looking National Art Gallery of Australia.
Debra has numerous awards including the New Media Fellowship Aust. Council for the Arts and the New Media prize at 13th International Electronic Arts Festival Sao Paulo Brazil for her Interactive CDRom Uncle Bill.
Debra’s PhD dissertation Discomfort of the Flesh: Antonin Artaud’s Theatre realised with New Media Technologies charts Artaud from birth to death, examining his ‘struggle’, which ultimately defines his ‘theatre’. The word ‘theatre’ takes on new meaning as its extended definition moves into eruption, embodiment and transformation. The investigation covers many forms including the avant-garde, ritual theatre, fractured audio, film and performance, leading into new media

Marcus Beuter – Sound artist, composer of electro acoustic music, improviser. Journeys through Europe, Iran, Pakistan, Laos, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Gambia, Senegal, USA, Georgia, Armenia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Sri Lanka.
Focusing on field recordings, which are collected on several travels. Furtheron projects focused on interviews on social issues and the reception of differing cultures. Co-founder of
fragment-recordings. Sound installations, electroacoustic compositions, free improvisation. Member of the head of Cooperativa Neue Musik. Several Ensembles and collaboration with musicians and
artists of different genres.

Joseph Nechvatal’s
visual and sound art practice engages in a fragile assimilation of production and resistance. His book Towards an Immersive Intelligence was published in 2009 by Edgewise Press. He has also published three books with Punctum Press: Minóy (ed.) (2014), Destroyer of Naivetés (poetry, 2015) and Styling Sagaciousness: Oh Great No! (poetry, Fall 2022). The second edition of his book Immersion Into Noise was published by Open Humanities Press in 2022. His audio works Selected Sound Works (1981-2021) and The Viral Tempest (2022) were published this year by the experimental music and sound art label Pentiments.

Andre Perim
is a Multimedia Artist, Musician and Composer. Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His work was screened in several festivals around the world and in 2020 received a review in a special edition of ART HABENS Contemporary Art Review Magazine. As a Musician-Composer released three albums- “Dágua” (2014), and “Dágua ao vivo” (2018) and “Side Effects”. The last one is based on the work produced for the internet during a long period inside a hospital due to a cancer disease treatment. In 2020 his composition “COAGULATION” was awarded by the site SoundSilenceThought.

Le Tuan Hung
is a composer, performer and author. He is a multi-instrumentalist with a strong background in Vietnamese traditional music and Western classical music. Since the late 1980s he has been active in creating acoustic and electro-acoustic compositions which transcends the cultural borders between East and West.

HERNANDO URRUTIA
Born 1964 – Multidisciplinary Artist, Researcher, Designer, Curator and Cultural Manager, of Basque roots and Portuguese nationality. PhD. in Digital Media-Art. Collaborating Researcher at CIAC. Visiting Researcher at M-ITI. He has completed 123 post-graduate training courses and 3 artistic residencies. Curator in 31 bartistic projects. He has received Awarded 231 Acknowledgements and 8 prizes. He has been special guest in several Contemporary Art Salon and International Festivals He has been exhibiting professionally since 1986, participating in several projects and more than 400 group exhibitions and 17 solo exhibitions in 37 countries. He is represented in more than 214 important Public Collections and in more than 180 Private Collections. He has been published in more than 140 books, magazines, newspapers and catalogues.

Thomas Pickarski (USA) – Only in America, 2022, 5:47
Statement
I am horrified by the enormity of gun violence and mass shootings throughout America. It is with a sense of urgency that I reflect this painfully disturbing reality through a spoken word
and sound artwork. I aim to help others feel deeply the heartbreaking toll of this crisis.
Description
A spoken word and sound artwork that chronicles each mass shooting in America over the last 50 years (1982-2022). For exhibition purposes, this artwork is updated constantly for maximum impact.

Thomas Pickarski
is a multi-media visual and performance artist. He often integrates storytelling into his work through text and spoken word. He holds a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Performance Art, both from Arizona State University. He currently has 2 photographic solo exhibitions Floating Blue, and Snow, Sand, Ice touring the U.S., and his new short film The Silken City premieres at film festivals in the fall of 2022. He lives in Greenwich Village, New York City.

Johannes Gerard (Netherlands) – ominous , 2022, 3:17
The metaphorical work focus on subjects related to feelings, changes, dreams, goals, staying, connectedness, departure, changes, experiences in the context of a place we call home. Reflecting
personal and cultural experiences shaped by the social and political conditions and the environment. In case if needed I enclosed one supplement/ supporting image “OMINOUS”

Johannes Christopher Gerard
Study at the Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design (now IADT), Dublin, Ireland. He worked in various places around the world, including in Europe, Asia, Australia North and South
Americas and West Africa. Since 2014 his work focus on interdisciplinary and international collaborative projects.

Stéphane Borrel
lives and works in Lyon, France. He writes for different ensembles and diverse electronics, ranging from chamber music to the symphony orchestra, from mixed music to sound
installations. He has worked with ensembles such as the Instant Donné ensemble, the Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain, Orchestre National de Lyon, Ictus ensemble, Cairn ensemble, Divertimento
ensemble, Vortex ensemble and so on. He was the prize-winner of the Phonurgia Nova scholarship in n2009, and Hervé Dugardin Prize of the SACEM in 2013. Since 2003, he has taught composition and
electronic music composition at Conservatoire de Lyon (CRR), France.

Marisa Tornello (USA) – Burst, 2020, 6:43
“burst” is a retrospective into the opposing emotions of Americans during the pandemic. Originally created in October 2020, the meaning of burst has unfortunately only grown with relevance. The piece evolves from acoustic voices and instruments into white noise, an expression of loudness in a confusing time. Singular anguish transforms into overwhelming confusion. burst explores the chaos of solitude in times of crisis as well as the universal experience of a blurred reality. The violence of misinformation and lack of global unity during the pandemic is translated into this soundscape of isolated sounds creating a singular chaos.

Gianluca Licciardi
is an Italian sound artist. He has recently shared some music on several streaming platforms with two projects: “SCHLOCK!” (genre: exploitronica) and “Sputerò sulle vostre tombe” (genre: lo-fi Italian pop)

David Jason Snow
The compositions of David Jason Snow have been performed in concert by the Ensemble Intercontemporain at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Banda Municipal de Bilbao at the Euskalduna Palace in Bilbao, The New Juilliard Ensemble at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and many other artists and ensembles internationally. His fixed media audio and visual works have been performed at the Musinfo Journées Art & Science Festival in Bourges, the Festival Exhibitronic in Strasbourg, the Festival Internacional de Video Arte y Música Visual in Mexico City, the Sound Thought Festival in Glasgow, and Echofluxx in Prague.

Wittwulf Y Malik
1967-72 music studies in Hamburg and Detmold. Since 1976 free-lance work as composer, composer, performer, visual artist, performance artist and with experimental multimedia projects. Grants in Germany, Italy and Sweden. Teaching-work at a lot of universities and music academies. Exhibitions at a lot of galleries and museums. Concerts/Performances in nearly all European countries and Canada and the US.

Dawn Davi
is a composer, visual artist, and researcher based in Toronto. Her music has been featured in Huffington Post Quebec, City of Toronto’s 311 winter 2017 playlist, respectable “I Care if You Listen” blog, 514blog, as well as on multiple public and syndicated radio stations in the US and Canada, including CBC Radio One’s Homerun, CKUT, and KPFA-FM’s “Discreet Music”. She has previously performed in Toronto and Montreal as part of different events. She has won and been nominated for multiple awards for her music and music videos.

Samantha Tiussi
sees spatial shapes when she hears sounds. Through glass installations she creates an immersive experience. The glass originated during her childhood, her father used to work with glass and her memories remain alive.
Her interest in music started with the age of 5, when she started to play piano. Her work developed merging music and visual art, till the point that the complete fusion of the disciplines became inevitable. Her work transits between multidisciplinary installations, sound art and paintings, creating a sensory field in which we are led to experience, through our senses, the present moment.

Athanasia Tsatsou (Greece) – Afraid of Screaming? , 2021, 9:42
A child’s crying becomes the main corpus of this composition, among other sounds that can be heard in the city: cars, machines, even the air itself. This composition attempts to reach a deeper world, that can be found in everyone’s mind. Our dreams and fantasies or, maybe, our deepest traumas. Emotions like fear and terror, shame and guilt, emotions that are very common to everyone, but very difficult to understand their truly origin of their existence. One thing is a fact: One has been violated, at least, once.

Athanasia Tsatsou
studied Theory and History of Art (bachelor’s degree, 2010 – 2014) and Sculpture (integrated Master’s degree, 2015 – 2020) both at the Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. She has translated in greek the Barnett Newman essay “The Sublime is Now” at the greek academic magazine History of Art, issue 4, in June 2015. She has a special interest on sound art, by creating bizarre atmospheres: random urban recordings transformed into music via computer editing.
She has participated in various group exhibitions and performances in Greece (such as at the Italian Embassy of Athens, Numismatic Museum of Athens, Queer Archive Festival, Performance Rooms, etc). Abroad she participated in the experimental sound project “All the things left unsaid / session one” curated by Debbie Y.J Lin, at Solo Sound Space, Los Angeles.

Daniele Virgilio
Architect, urban planner, PhD in Urban Planning. His main research field and publications focus on the relationship between marginal places, suburban and rural territories, and their inhabitants. He is currently working on a research about the relationship between sound and place.

Cezary Ostrowski
Polish media artist