20.5.
VOICES III:
2 Films by Miriam Bajtala: The Only Song I Remember In Slovak, 3 Stimmen/3 Voices
Screening
CHRA WONDEREEL
Live performance & album presentation
echoraum Vienna
Miriam Bajtala (Screening)
DREI STIMMEN / THREE VOICES
2011, Video, 12:54 min
The video begins with a text detailing my emigration to Austria: the social and economic conditions, the language learning, and the loss of language. Two performers can be seen reading the text in German (Markus Heinicke) and English (Anna Mendelssohn). The Slovak part is heard as an off–screen voice. Three Voices is not a translation, even though you hear a text in three languages. It also isn’t a dialog, despite two people being visible who are speaking and partially referring to one another. The film depicts a condensed approach to history, language, expression, and what remaining silent can mean. It showcases speaking to acquire language in front of a camera. What is necessary is said: from the starting point in German, speech returns in English, and ultimately Slovak: I take ownership of the language that I have almost lost. Teil von Nichts als Gespenster. Part of Nothing but ghosts.
THE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IN SLOVAK
2017, Video, 5:00 min
The only song I remember in Slovak is a video that gathers three generations of women, each singing a Slovak folk song in their home, and compares spaces, generations, song interpretations, and relationships. The fourfold performance is mounted in such a way that all women (grandma–aunt–mother–daughter), although standing in their rooms, sing a song together, the only one I can still sing in Slovak. Teil von Nichts als Gespenster. Part of Nothing but ghosts.
miriam bajtala
„chra is the kind of person who still carries a cassette recorder everywhere, even in the age of wireless earbuds and streaming. She likes the click of the buttons, the whir of the tape, and the way it captured sounds imperfectly—like life.
One drizzly evening, she found herself standing at the base of the city’s abandoned Ferris wheel. It was a towering relic, its once-bright paint faded and peeling.“
chra, the electronic music artist, is recognized for her compelling use of field recordings and low frequencies. Through integration of these elements, she weaves a distinctive sonic tapestry, offering listeners an immersive experience that transcends traditional electronic music boundaries. releases: editions mego, trost records, comfortzone, tsuki boshi, blackest ever black, jsme amm
CHRA
21.10.
Cordula Daus
Live performance
Nina Bauer
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
cordula daus
nina bauer
25.11.
Ricarda Denzer
Text performance
Hui Ye
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
ricarda denzer
hui ye
preview December/January
KOMPLIZINNEN I
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT (by Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
Screening
GISCHT / EAERES
Live performance
Venue tba
KOMPLIZINNEN II
Screening: re-BIRDING (by Michaela Schwentner)
brrds / The Answer Is No
Live performance
Venue tba
VOICES III:
2 Films by Miriam Bajtala: The Only Song I Remember In Slovak, 3 Stimmen/3 Voices
Screening
CHRA WONDEREEL
Live performance & album presentation
echoraum Vienna
Miriam Bajtala (Screening)
DREI STIMMEN / THREE VOICES
2011, Video, 12:54 min
The video begins with a text detailing my emigration to Austria: the social and economic conditions, the language learning, and the loss of language. Two performers can be seen reading the text in German (Markus Heinicke) and English (Anna Mendelssohn). The Slovak part is heard as an off–screen voice. Three Voices is not a translation, even though you hear a text in three languages. It also isn’t a dialog, despite two people being visible who are speaking and partially referring to one another. The film depicts a condensed approach to history, language, expression, and what remaining silent can mean. It showcases speaking to acquire language in front of a camera. What is necessary is said: from the starting point in German, speech returns in English, and ultimately Slovak: I take ownership of the language that I have almost lost. Teil von Nichts als Gespenster. Part of Nothing but ghosts.
THE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IN SLOVAK
2017, Video, 5:00 min
The only song I remember in Slovak is a video that gathers three generations of women, each singing a Slovak folk song in their home, and compares spaces, generations, song interpretations, and relationships. The fourfold performance is mounted in such a way that all women (grandma–aunt–mother–daughter), although standing in their rooms, sing a song together, the only one I can still sing in Slovak. Teil von Nichts als Gespenster. Part of Nothing but ghosts.
miriam bajtala
„chra is the kind of person who still carries a cassette recorder everywhere, even in the age of wireless earbuds and streaming. She likes the click of the buttons, the whir of the tape, and the way it captured sounds imperfectly—like life.
One drizzly evening, she found herself standing at the base of the city’s abandoned Ferris wheel. It was a towering relic, its once-bright paint faded and peeling.“
chra, the electronic music artist, is recognized for her compelling use of field recordings and low frequencies. Through integration of these elements, she weaves a distinctive sonic tapestry, offering listeners an immersive experience that transcends traditional electronic music boundaries. releases: editions mego, trost records, comfortzone, tsuki boshi, blackest ever black, jsme amm
CHRA
21.10.
Cordula Daus
Live performance
Nina Bauer
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
cordula daus
nina bauer
25.11.
Ricarda Denzer
Text performance
Hui Ye
Live performance
echoraum Vienna
ricarda denzer
hui ye
preview December/January
KOMPLIZINNEN I
Alles hat Grenzen NUR DER MONDFISCH NICHT (by Sylvia Eckermann & Gerald Nestler)
Screening
GISCHT / EAERES
Live performance
Venue tba
KOMPLIZINNEN II
Screening: re-BIRDING (by Michaela Schwentner)
brrds / The Answer Is No
Live performance
Venue tba