17 April 2024
From Resonance to SilenceIn the workshop we will explore, listen and experience the different sonic structures connected to space (closed & public). After a practical exploration of site-specific sound reflections and the resonant frequencies of the lecture room, we will – after an ear cleaning session – focus on listening in public spaces, ending up in a non-echoing chamber.
Karl Salzmann is an artist, curator and researcher using sound within performance, concept and installation art. Sound and/or noise are always present in his work – as a tool to shape spaces and forms; as a language to describe things; as a research object to investigate human perception as well as social and cultural realities. From 2016 – 2019 Karl was part of the artistic direction team of the exhibition and performance space “Zentrale. Space for sound and process art” in Vienna. He has been active internationally as a lecturer and currently teaches at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. In 2017 he received the Erste Bank Art Prize and in 2019 the Austrian State Scholarship for Media Art. Since October 2020 he is part of the team of Support Art and Research at Angewandte and currently is in the process of developing and implementing a Sound Research Lab there. Aside this and since September 2021 he is a PhD candidate in the artistic doctoral program at the ARC (Artistic Research Center) at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna where the turntable is in the focus of his reasearch.