heribert friedl is an austrian sound/visual/sensory artist based in vienna. he studied sculpture at the university of applied arts in vienna. working with scents and its non visual phenomenons in combination with sounds. he has had exhibitions, soundperformances and projects in cities of hungary, switzerland, germany, england, italy, the us, cuba, and austria.
sound collaborations with bernhard günter, dale lloyd and john norman (radian).
cd releases on trente oiseaux, and/OAR; mp3 releases on con-v and earlabs.
he performed live at the garage festival in stralsund (germany) and at the ultrahang-festival in budapest (hungary).
he runs the label "nonvisualobjects" in collaboration with raphael moser.
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This is the final work in the series of works-encompassing ataraxia, bradycard, trans~, and back_forward-using the cymbalon as source material. The process of working with this hammered stringed instrument for this series has been a "discussion" between the instrument and myself, an exploration of traditional playing, digital processing, and mixtures of both.
I feel that trac[k]_t should convey the scope of using an instrument without losing both its intrinsic nature of engagement as well as the sound of how it is played. Being a conceptual work, rather than a kind of ³tract,² the process of this recording has become a kind of instruction for myself to understand not only my work with this instrument in of itself but also its communion with digital processes.
The work is to be continuation in sound from my previous works. While not a repetition of ideas and sounds, rather it has become more of a search for the essence of this instrument. The way of working with it to come to a satisfiable conclusion and summation.
This is the second of a proposed trilogy of projects pertaining to film directors - the first one was for Andrei Tarkovsky. This second release turns its focus upon Yasujiro Ozu's use of "pillow shots" (i.e. short poetic pauses that appear between the acting segments of his films. The term "pillow shot" was not coined by Ozu himself, but several years after his passing in the early 1960s by a Japanese journalist who was trying to draw a comparison of the intermediate scenes to "pillow words" found in traditional Japanese poetry. This is a double CD release with both CDs featuring audio plus a cross-platform compatible PDF booklet containing pillow shots (courtesy of Criterion Collection) and liner notes.Each artist who appears on this release was asked to choose one or more "pillow shots" to use as inspiration for their pieces. A link to web pages containing a large assortment of pillow shots" was provided, and accordingly, the pillow shots were reserved on a first come, first served basis. The artists also watched the films from which the pillow shots came from.
The book/2cd "Portraits of Soundartists" featuring work by: Keith Berry, Richard Chartier, Taylor Deupree, Heribert Friedl, Richard Garet, Andy Graydon, Bernhard Günter, John Hudak, I8U, Dean King, Dale Lloyd, Roel Meelkop, Will Montgomery, Tomas Philips, Steve Roden, Jos Smolders, Ralph Steinbrüchel, Nao Sugimoto (aka mondii), Asmus Tietchens, Toshiya Tsunoda, Ubeboet and Michael Vorfeld will be published in spring 2007.
concept (heribert friedl/raphael moser)
for more information visit www.nonvisualobjects.com
