29.4.
XX Y X + IMA
IMAfiction portrait #09: Beatriz Ferreyra
Screening
Marta Beauchamp
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
IMAfiction Portrait #09 Beatriz Ferreyra
A portrait by Nathalie Singer & Elisabeth Schimana (2017)
Beatriz Ferreyra (*1937) is an Argentine composer. She uses the technique of changing perspectives for her compositions, which she is familiar with from Pierre Schaeffer's concept of reduced listening: one perceives the sound as such, not as an effect or indication of something else. Composing is a physical process for Ferreyra, she composes very intuitively and has no rules. ‘It either works or it doesn't.’ For a long time, she lacked the strategies to control the compositional process. In the meantime, anything, whether image, sound, colour or form, can be the beginning of her associative composing.
Each of Ferreyra's compositions has its own sounds; she never reuses sounds from one piece for another, but the nature of her sounds is unlimited. She uses the microphone to record animals, people or machines: Her garden and household appliances serve as sound sources for ‘Les Larmes de l'inconnu’: Hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, drills, chainsaws.
The large soundscapes in ‘La rivière de l'oiseaux’ (1998/99) are based on grids generated from short, overlapping tones. The composition deals with discoveries that Ferreyra had recently made in Argentina, the death of her father and a strange, bad dream about Uruguay - this word of the Argentinian Indians for the ‘river of birds’ ultimately led her to the title of this work.
Compositions: Médisances (1968), Canto del Loco (1974), Dans un point infini (2005), L'autre rive (2007), Un fil invisible (2009/10), Les larmes de l'inconnu (2011), the triology ‘La rivière des oiseaux’
imafiction_portrait09
grm works
© Reinhard Mayr
IMAfiction Portrait #09 | Beatriz Ferreyra
shot at Beatriz Ferreyra’s cottage in France
Concept: Nathalie Singer & Elisabeth Schimana
Interview: Nathalie Singer
Camera: Reinhard Mayr
Cut: Reinhard Mayr
Music: Beatriz Ferreyra
Sound editing: Robert Eder
Subtitles translation: Anna Graf (German), Kimi Lum (English)
Graphic design: Andreas Rathmanner, FOX, Nora Bischof
DVD authoring: CSM Production
Photo credits: Archive Beatriz Ferreyra, http://hd-fotografia.blogspot.co.at/2013/10/
(Archivo General de la Nación Colombia, Secretaría de Planeamiento, Buenos Aires)
Format: 16:9
Duration: 31min
Language: French
Subtitles: German, English
Marta Beauchamp (*1990, IT/UK, based in Vienna) is a sound artist, musician and artistic researcher. Marta currently holds a PhD scholarship at the Research Collective graduate programme of Kunstuniversität Linz. In project “Tipping points in transmediation” she employs transmediation as a methodology to work between scientific narratives concerned with biological rhythms and performative and installation sonic spaces. Sound and objects allow her to inflate dense scientific topics to room-scale installations which offer more space and dimensions for comprehension. As an internationally performing musician, Marta performs cello, bass and tubes.
https://martabeauchamp.net
https://bg.klingt.org
https://concatenate.it
20.5.
CHRA
Live performance & album presentation
echoraum Vienna
17.6.
Adina Camhy
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
XX Y X + IMA
IMAfiction portrait #09: Beatriz Ferreyra
Screening
Marta Beauchamp
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
IMAfiction Portrait #09 Beatriz Ferreyra
A portrait by Nathalie Singer & Elisabeth Schimana (2017)
Beatriz Ferreyra (*1937) is an Argentine composer. She uses the technique of changing perspectives for her compositions, which she is familiar with from Pierre Schaeffer's concept of reduced listening: one perceives the sound as such, not as an effect or indication of something else. Composing is a physical process for Ferreyra, she composes very intuitively and has no rules. ‘It either works or it doesn't.’ For a long time, she lacked the strategies to control the compositional process. In the meantime, anything, whether image, sound, colour or form, can be the beginning of her associative composing.
Each of Ferreyra's compositions has its own sounds; she never reuses sounds from one piece for another, but the nature of her sounds is unlimited. She uses the microphone to record animals, people or machines: Her garden and household appliances serve as sound sources for ‘Les Larmes de l'inconnu’: Hedge trimmers, lawnmowers, drills, chainsaws.
The large soundscapes in ‘La rivière de l'oiseaux’ (1998/99) are based on grids generated from short, overlapping tones. The composition deals with discoveries that Ferreyra had recently made in Argentina, the death of her father and a strange, bad dream about Uruguay - this word of the Argentinian Indians for the ‘river of birds’ ultimately led her to the title of this work.
Compositions: Médisances (1968), Canto del Loco (1974), Dans un point infini (2005), L'autre rive (2007), Un fil invisible (2009/10), Les larmes de l'inconnu (2011), the triology ‘La rivière des oiseaux’
imafiction_portrait09
grm works
© Reinhard Mayr
IMAfiction Portrait #09 | Beatriz Ferreyra
shot at Beatriz Ferreyra’s cottage in France
Concept: Nathalie Singer & Elisabeth Schimana
Interview: Nathalie Singer
Camera: Reinhard Mayr
Cut: Reinhard Mayr
Music: Beatriz Ferreyra
Sound editing: Robert Eder
Subtitles translation: Anna Graf (German), Kimi Lum (English)
Graphic design: Andreas Rathmanner, FOX, Nora Bischof
DVD authoring: CSM Production
Photo credits: Archive Beatriz Ferreyra, http://hd-fotografia.blogspot.co.at/2013/10/
(Archivo General de la Nación Colombia, Secretaría de Planeamiento, Buenos Aires)
Format: 16:9
Duration: 31min
Language: French
Subtitles: German, English
Marta Beauchamp (*1990, IT/UK, based in Vienna) is a sound artist, musician and artistic researcher. Marta currently holds a PhD scholarship at the Research Collective graduate programme of Kunstuniversität Linz. In project “Tipping points in transmediation” she employs transmediation as a methodology to work between scientific narratives concerned with biological rhythms and performative and installation sonic spaces. Sound and objects allow her to inflate dense scientific topics to room-scale installations which offer more space and dimensions for comprehension. As an internationally performing musician, Marta performs cello, bass and tubes.
https://martabeauchamp.net
https://bg.klingt.org
https://concatenate.it
20.5.
CHRA
Live performance & album presentation
echoraum Vienna
17.6.
Adina Camhy
Live performance
echoraum Vienna