The Austrian artist, composer and musicologist Bernhard Gál has become internationally known as one of the most prolific sound artists of a younger generation. Gal establishes new perceptual spaces. During the past ten years Gál has created around 50 sound installations and media art projects, combining sound, light, objects, spatial concepts and video projections into intense and often site-specific interdisciplinary art works. He also composes music for acoustic instruments and electro-acoustic music. As a (laptop) musician he has been performing live in around 150 concerts on four continents. Gal runs the record label Gromoga Records and is director of the Austrian art organization ‘sp ce’. Together with Ernst Reitermaier, he curates the Viennese Festival ‘Shut up and Listen!’. When not abroad, Gal divides his time between Vienna and Berlin where he also taught sound art at the University of Arts in 2006-07.
Links:
Bernhard Gal
Gromoga
Records
sp ce - platform for music,
art and intermedia
Main publications:
Installations (dvd version)
Gromoga Records, Austria 2007
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