Sound art in Berlin

Pete Um, master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented, displays a sardonic wit and a healthy misanthropy when crafting micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics.

Um's highly specialized sound work misdirects the audience, infecting the crowd with an aural virus that energizes and entertains, masking the irony and complexity of the work with a cheerful smooth outer shell that makes for truly exquisite sound art.

Pete Um in the CYLAND Audio Archive: http://www.cyland.org/site/english/6695

As a sculptor, performer and sound artist, Jonas Gruska not only solders his own instruments but also writes and preforms unique soundscapes on audio software he himself designs. A graduate of the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, Gruska’s expansive knowledge of synthetic sound and unique artistic perspective lead the listener into a dense yet pleasing thicket of sound.

Born in Czechoslovakia and educated at The Institute of Sonology (Netherlands) and Music Academy (Poland), Gruska works primarily electronic sound as an artist in addition to authoring interactive poems and crafting distinct visual performances, open source computer instruments, artistic software and hardware.

Performed and exhibited his work in Belgium, Czech Republic, Finland, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia; on festivals such as Kraak (Belgium), Audio Art (Poland), Melos-Ethos (Slovakia) or Next (Slovakia). In 2011 he started label LOM focused on East/Central European experimental art and music. http://jonasgru.sk/bio

Alexander Zaitsev, cofounder of the legendary Russian music band Christmas Decorations, is an artist of enormous skill and complex craft, presenting the world premier of new work at Cyberfest 2014. Integrating popular themes and aesthetic exploration, Zaitsev’s new work offers audiences an inverted third-rate serial, a mysterious film noir of short sonic vignettes.

Georgy Bagdasarov is an experienced programmer of human souls.  During his performance, he continuously reboots the listener's consciousness through via his exquisite instrument — a dissected turntable lifting a ghost needle to load the track over and over and over.  Georgy is a pedagogue, his is the tutorial method.

Born into an Armenian family under a hail of rockets taking flight from Kazakhstan, Bagdasarov's works retains influences of structural film, family recipes, and new media. CAA#14 by George Bagdasarov

Boris Hegenbart practices imagery in his sound canvases, offering up unfinished visions to the audience who complete the score through individualized perception of the work.  For Cyberfest 2014, Hegenbart will preform live, offering local audiences the purest experience of he algorithm's instructions.

photo by © ORF_C.Nestroy

Born  in Berlin, Hegenbarthas worked composing sound installations, electroacoustic concerts soundscapes for theatrical performances and experimental radio and video art. A graduate of the Institute of Electroacoustic Music.  As an international performer Hegenbart's work has been exhibited at Transmediale, Berlin 2013; Musikprotokoll, Austria 2012;  and Musashino Art University, Tokyo 2011. www.soundblocks.de