Alisa Kobzar

Artist’s statement

I’m a composer and a multimedia artist. I create audio-visual structures, whether fixed pieces, live performances, or installations.

I treat sound, moving pictures and the human body as a single versatile meta-instrument. My art is a multilayered complementarity of many components from different media. Creating connections, correspondences, translations and traces of those components across the media fascinates me. Composing is a way of learning for me - I learn my envisioned constructions, treated as artworks, as well as learn myself. Inspired by the sciences and linguistics, I’m constructing my artwork as a living system, folding my emotional attitudes to its subjects inside of living structural connections.

I want the audience to make their discoveries through the experiencing process of my artworks.


Upcoming:

26 July 2024: “As soon as (Paradise)” for norm and bass trombone @ Zeitklang im Museum I in Voralberg Museum role: composer

4.October 2024: Premiere of “Projections” @ Graz musikprotokoll

January 2025 : opera “Bin Yaksan” by Sinan Samanli role: video artist

October 2025 : “bunter Erbsentraum in der Klangschote” by duo rotkaeppchen role: composer, HCI designer, programmer


Ongoing:

“Ghost cities” - Cycle of compositions for piano/e-piano and portable electronics role: composer, programmer

“Projections” for ensemble Zeitfluss and Automatenklavier by W.Ritsch role: composer

New composition for Seven Circles and Helena Sorokina role: composer, programmer, HCI designer

New composition for low recorder and fixed electronics role: composer

Opera “Bin Yaksan” by Sinan Samanli role: video artist

New multimedia composition for Helena Sorokina role: composer, programmer

“bunter Erbsentraum in der Klangschote” - a child-oriented dance performance in an interactive sound installation, which is based on a motion capture system and uses electronic multi-channel music by duo rotkaeppchen role: composer, HCI designer, programmer


Last:

6 June 2024: Premiere of 2 miniatures from the cycle “Ghost cities” for grand-piano, e-piano and electronics during the next_generations festival @ ZKM Karlsruhe role: composer, performer

11 May 2024 : S for 3 female voices by Trio-Generator @ “I hear Voices” in Tanzhalle Wiesenburg - Berlin

April 2024: Premiere of “Timbral approximations” for 3 automatic pianos during the Workshopkonzert: Ensemble Mécanique @ Salzkammergut festival in Bad Ischl role: composer, computer music performer

March 2024 : ROOMS for your ears - article on the Sounding futures role: author

February 2024 : video documentation of the artistic research by Elina Akselrud role: video documentation artist

January 2024 : Premiere of “Echo & N.N.” (For cello, double-bass (as an interactive object), dancer , custom electronic circuitry and electronics) by the LaKT Ensemble (Anna Grenzner -cello, Teresa Doblinger - movement) @ Kultum (Graz) - concert Self and Space role: composer, computer music performer

22 November 2023 : online presentation “Creative implications of the interactive technologies in my praxis” @ TU Berlin role: presenter, composer, multimedia artist, programmer, HCI designer

09 - 15 October 2023 : residency in the Electronic music Studio @ Akademie der Künste Berlin

1 October 2023 : PRISM #11 „SKEW LINES“ concert in Reaktor (Vienna) role: sound director

“Floating pointers (D)” for duo rotkäppchen

July - September 2023 : privates netzwerk installation @ Sonar Park - Präsenz und Verschwinden (St.Pölten) role: composer, sound artist

16 September 2023: finnisage of privates netzwerk installation @ Sonar Park - Präsenz und Verschwinden (St.Pölten) role: composer, sound artist

17-22 September 2023 : Floating pointers (D) (rotkaeppchen) residency @ RITMO role: composer, multimedia artist

20 September 2023 : Presentation “Interaction models underpinning the rotkäppchen process” @ RITMO - Food and Paper

21 September 2023 : Floating pointers (D) (rotkaeppchen) performance @ Ultima festival

6-10 September 2023 : workshops (rotkaeppchen) @ Choreographic Coding Labs in Cologne role: participant - interaction designer, programmer, composer, multimedia artist

August - September 2023 : Leap_OSC bridge for Leap Motion 2 controller and Gemini SDK together with Jan-Bas Bollen role: developer

July 2023 : Impuls academy and festival @ Graz role: sound director, sound director's assistant, electronic music performer

July 2023: film production of the artistic research by Elina Akselrud role: filmmaker

June 2023: S for 3 female voices @ Widerstand der Klänge - Festival für Neue Musik aus der Ukraine Bonn role: composer

May 2023 : PRISM #10 „Anamorphosis“ concert in Reaktor (Vienna) role: sound director, electronic music performer

May 2023 : SONify! festival role: video documentation

February 2023 : as soon as (Paradise) for horn and bass-trombone (2012) @ Provinzlärm Festival (Eckernförde) role: composer

February 2023 : Quadro for ensemble (2015) @ Provinzlärm Festival (Eckernförde) role: composer

February 2023 : Floating pointers (C) (2023) @ Provinzlärm Festival (Eckernförde) role: composer

February 2023 : Workshop @ “Tanz:digital” (Berlin) role: participant

January 2023 : Poster @ Symposium “Co-creation” (St.Pölten) role: author of the poster

2020-2023 : ROOMS project with a video lecture series “Binaural production for sound artists” role: project curator, filmmaker