MQ Artist-in-Residence Ronya Othmann
Kurdish at a time when the Kurdish language was banned in Turkey. In order to devote herself fully to music, she left her husband and child and worked first as a seamstress and later as a postal clerk in Izmir
paraflows – Platform for Digital Art and Culture
1988, I’ve been active in various cultural institutions and projects, especially in the fields of music, film, theatre, visual arts and media art. Many of my projects take place in the context of the i [...] addresses the question of composing in a digital world and who continue to explore this question in their music, compositions and works. Read more Feature monochrom: art, DIY enthusiasts and extravagant theoreticians
Q21 Backstage: Hermes Baby
regular basis, but they also experiment with new narrative styles using literature, art, performance, music, film, photography and all other cultural and representative techniques. Together with artists and
Overground Resistance: Aka Niviâna in conversation with Oliver Ressler
Greenland it is the artists who communicate this. A big part of our culture is music and when there is a gathering, they play music or sing. We had a revolution around 40 years ago, where we were trying to [...] Denmark and there was just a huge reaction and it was something everybody knew about. The power of music was central. Also, to give some context: Greenland is the biggest island on earth and it is a huge
frei_raum Q21 exhibition space: "No Dancing Allowed"
Spaces" the two performers Julius Pristauz and Hannah Sussitz meet in the exhibition space and dance to music that remains inaudible to the audience. In reference to the piece "Untitled" (Go-Go Dancing Platform)
“We must not separate ethics and aesthetics.“
through material forms: through bakeries and cheese making and flour mills and farming and culture and music and new forms of assembly and relationships with nature. The proposition and protest entangled. And
Q21 Artist-in-Residence Martin Toldy in conversation with Mária Janušová
from the formal limitations of individual types of visual, acting-performing, conceptual, literary, musical, and multimedia art, and from their mutual anchoring in the theatrical apparatus. I understand theatre
Of Humor, Rhythm, and Hidden Worlds – A Conversation with Heta Jäälinoja
cinema. When I was younger, I relied heavily on music as a tool for delivering emotions in my films. Recently I’ve become more critical of the use of music. Heta Jäälinoja, Penelope, 2016 Your graduation [...] by Igor Kovalyov’s thoughts on rhythm. And the carpet beating scene was inspired by Bonnie Tyler’s music video “Total Eclipse of the Heart. The title Penelope naturally brings to mind the mythological figure
A Conversation with Hisko Hulsing
spent the whole night talking about Brazilian music. So a Dutch guy, an Austrian guy are sitting in a Chinese restaurant in Xiamen to discuss Brazilian music. That's kind of weird and interesting. Yeah, [...] paintings. What I like about animation is that you can combine so many art forms. You're dealing with music, with sound... I make all my background paintings with oil paint on canvas. I'm drawing, I'm thinking [...] completely different? It's completely different. I started this film eight years ago. It was inspired by music by Dmitry Shostakovich and by what was happening in Ukraine. And in Russia. Russia had overtaken the
Q21 Artist-in-Residence Mitch Altman in conversation with Helena Valasaki.
work on the ArduTouch? MA: I’ve been making music synthesizers since I was a young teenager. I was always fascinated with that and I would make sound and music. I played piano since I was a little kid and [...] interest in that kept increasing. My masters thesis was also a digital music synthesizer. About five years ago I made the first ArduTouch music synthesizer kit. It’s very inexpensive and there is a video of me [...] lounges and cocktails. I figured; I should build a robot that plays bad lounge music songs. And it determines which lounge music song to play by using a webcam and computer vision software. The software is