Between current and signal – sounds in transition: Three acts are on the program this evening. They engage with the exciting relationship between analog and digital sound generation. Their interplay resembles an echo of the machines, where archaic media, electronic hardware, and experimental soundscapes meet – a tension field that has shaped electronic music since its beginnings.

The Vienna duo Wechselstrom is dedicated to media archaeology and translates information from antiquated media such as magnetic tape or floppy disk into experimental compositions. The composer, performer, and media artist Pamela Z mainly works with voice, live electronics, sampled sounds, and video. Her solo works combine experimental extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, texts, digital processing, and wireless MIDI controllers, with which she can manipulate sounds through physical gestures. Nadia Struiwigh creates in - Birds of Paradise - soundscapes that draw on the influences of jungle, electro, and techno from the 90s through hardware-driven electronic dance and ambient music. Hüma Utku unfolds in – Dracones - a narrative dimension, in which a sonic narrative about motherhood fills the stage with intense, atmospheric sounds through Buchla modular synthesis and field recordings.