Alisa Kobzar
Artist’s statement
I’m a composer and a multimedia artist. I create audiovisual 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 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 construct my artwork as a living system, folding my emotional attitudes toward its subjects inside living structural connections.
My artistic research is centered around the collaboration with computer algorithms in the creative process—engaging with them not as neutral tools but as co-agents with their own embedded biases. By critically and productively working with these biases, I explore the ways technology shapes artistic decisions and perception. This dialogue between human intent and computational logic becomes an integral part of my creative exploration.
I want the audience to make their own discoveries through the experiencing process of my artworks.
Upcoming:
May 2025: “Cassandra: Dreamscape” (excerpt) - a soundwalk for voice and electronics (voice - Helena Sorokina ) @ Kultum (Graz) role: composer
May 2025: “Cassandra: Dreamscape” (full) - a soundwalk for voice, electronics and sound installations (voice - Helena Sorokina ) @ Musikinstallationen Nürnberg role: composer, HCI designer, programmer
September 2025: “PRISM” for soprano recorder, contrabass Paetzold, flute, bass flute, harp, harpsichord, and electronics by ensemble airborne extended @ Klangspuren Schwaz role: composer, computer music performer, sound director
September-October 2025: “Cassandra v.3025” - augmented soundwalk for alto, acoustic instruments, interactive installations for Seven Circles and Helena Sorokina @ Skulpturenpark (Graz)
October 2025 : “bunter Erbsentraum in der Klangschote” by duo rotkaeppchen in musikprotokoll Graz role: composer, HCI designer, programmer
November 2025: “Departures” for string orchestra by Wiener Concert-Verein role: composer
2026: New composition for string quartet with electronics Kubus Kollektiv role: composer
2026: New composition for augmented percussion and feedback for Lorenzo Orsenigo role: composer
2026: “Transitoriness of the self” for piano and live electronics - collaborative composition with Diego Pinera Torres @ Sonic Synergies project within Abo MUMUTH series in Graz role: composer, performer
Ongoing:
“Cassandra v.3025” - augmented soundwalk for alto, acoustic instruments, interactive installations for Seven Circles and Helena Sorokina role: composer, programmer, HCI designer
“Departures” for string orchestra by Wiener Concert-Verein role: composer
“Transitoriness of the self” for piano and live electronics - collaborative composition with Diego Pinera Torres @ Sonic Synergies project within Abo MUMUTH series in Graz role: composer, performer
“Ghost cities” - cycle of compositions for piano/e-piano and portable electronics role: composer, programmer
“Cassandra: Dreamscape.” an interactive soundwalk for alto and electronics Helena Sorokina role: composer, programmer
“bunter Erbsentraum in der Klangschote” - a child-oriented dance performance in an interactive sound installation with a motion capture system for electronics by duo rotkaeppchen role: composer, HCI designer, programmer
„A Voice the Wind Won’t Carry“ for soprano and live electronics for Viktoria Vitrenko role: composer
Last:
22.February 2025: “What is left?” for bass flute, clarinet, horn, piano, violin, viola and cello by ensemble Reflexion K @ Provinzlärm Festival 2025 in Eckernförde role: composer
29.January 2025 : opera without words “ALIVE” for instruments , electronics and visuals by Sinan Samanli performed by Schallfeld ensemble @ Theater am Lend (Graz) role: live visual artist
16.January 2025: “Mermaid’s cradle” for basset recorder (Jessica Tognetti) and fixed electronics @ ZHdK Zürich role: composer
13.January 2025: “Architect of lies” for Fagott, Horn, Trompete, Posaune und Tuba by Musikfabrik @ Virtual Brass Academy (Köln) role: composer
January-December 2024: video documentation of the artistic research by Lorenzo Orsenigo role: video documentation artist
4.October 2024: Premiere of “Projections” for ensemble Zeitfluss and Automatenklavier by W.Ritsch@ Graz musikprotokoll role: composer, computer music performer
26 July 2024: “As soon as (Paradise)” for horn and bass trombone @ Zeitklang im Museum I in Voralberg Museum in Bregenz role: composer
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 role: composer
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