Solo.SWF & Franziska Baumann

Wed 31 May, 2006, 8pm
Old American Can Factory

SOLO.SWF is an audiovisual live performance featuring computer-controlled “microuniverses” generated by sound and vector graphics. The result is a deconstructed computer universe that expands with improvised time.

Maikko is a musician and audiovisual performer whose practice addresses ideas of minimal approach, improvisation and visual aesthetics in electronic music. He is the co-founder and member of Otolab, an audiovisual collective laboratory in Milan, Italy. Otolab was founded in 2001 and has since been active in Italy and abroad with interactive audiovisual installations, dj/vj shows, live media performances and seminars and panels.

Composer, vocalist and flautist Franziska Baumann has made a name for herself as a performer, improviser and specialist in live electronics, and for her sound installations and theatre music. Baumann uses electronically processed sound to develop a form of acoustic scenery into which she integrates her singing and vocal actions aurally and theatrically. As “artist in residence” at the STEIM “STudio for ElectroInstrumental Music,” Amsterdam, she developed an interactive SensorLab based cyberglove to enable her to control articulations of voice, sounds and space in real time via gesture and movement.