
Mælstrøm
AV Performance
Duration: 30 min.
giovedì, 13 aprile 2023 | 19:30 > 20:002023-04-13T19:30:00.000Z | Stage 1
Tschänz and Geargrind form an experienced A/V duo that has sought to hypnotize their audiences for the past five years. During this eclectic performance they seek to blend together west coast style modular synthesis, rough ambient guitar and visual feedback. They have spent the last 2 years pushing their style from a fully synthetic danceable club show towards an organic, dirty ambient experience that carries with it the dark solemn times of the pandemic and the subsequent personal reorientation in a world where uncertainty is the new normal. Geargrind plays live on stage using a highly customized Guitar and pedal board combo that produces roaring drones as well as transcendental slow melodies. Tschänzs visuals incorporate Geargrind himself as he moves through a glitchy hell of grainy analog and digital feedback during the performance. As the pedals beneath Geargrinds feet spiral off into screeching feedback loops, Tschänzs visual feedback plunges the whole performances into a portal of flashes and ever evolving patterns that the artists movements and sounds generate. “Mælstrøm” seeks to achieve an experience that sucks everything and everyone into a whirling current that makes the outside world fade away.
Author
- [Text available only in English] Tschänz is a computer scientist based in Tübingen, Germany, born in Karlsruhe in 1991. He studied Media Informatics in Tübingen with strong focus on Visual Computing, Computer Vision and Computer Graphics and later on Machine Learning, respectively Neural Networks.
In all his studies, the focus always laid on visually appealing content generation, driven by mathematical concepts, presented in a audio reactive way to create immersive experiences.
Starting as VJ in a club he visually appeased the audience... - [Text available only in English] For several years Geargrind has been improvising electro live on synthesizers and drum computers. Besides analog and digital electronic instruments, no software is used. The sound oscillates between spheric-synthetic ambient sounds and hard acid.
- [Text available only in English] Gearind & Tschänz is an audio-visual duo that created many immersive, danceable live performances. They usually play in clubs and have special focus on showing the audience how music emerges from an idea to a melody to a full-fledged rhythmic experience that carries you away. Throughout the last years their sound and visual aesthetic has grown darker and more spherical.
For several years Geargrind is extemporising electronic music, live and with only little preparation before each...






