ROBERTO MATTA / KUNSTFORUM WIEN / 24.02.2024 – 02.06.2024
to see and listen, click here
THE COSMIC STRIPS â SOUNDCOMICS FOR ROBERTO MATTA
By Natascha Gangl & RdecÌa Raketa
Bring your headphones to the exhibition space!
On invitation from the Kunstforum, the writer Natascha Gangl and RdeÄa Raketa, the electronic music duo of the composers Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander, have set a selection of Roberto Matta’s paintings into sound.
Matta referred to his pictures as “Cosmic Strips”, in which he fused opposites, collided macrocosm and microcosm and created futuristic series of images. Natascha Gangl & RdeÄa Raketa now translate selected images further into sound and text, picking up on Matta’s acoustic fantasies and his love for language games, manifestos and surreal poetry.
Natascha Gangl, Maja Osojnik und Matija Schellander have been developing audio pieces, live performances, artworks, exhibitions and discourse formats under the title “Klangcomic /Soundcomic” since 2016. Just as word and image merge in comics, spoken word and sound merge here: sound becomes language, language becomes sound. Contemporary composition meets the literary experiment. Styles are eclectically combined, madrigals meets children’s book meets techno meets anagram meets hip-hop meets essay â ad infinitum â high culture, pop culture, subculture merge into psychedelic journeys in fields of sound.
The three artists explore the possibilities of transforming images into music and visualizing sound in artworks. They have previously created sound comics for works by Unica ZĂŒrn and Anestis Logothetis. In 2018, Maja Osojnik founded the label “MAMKA RECORDS” and has been releasing sound comics on vinyl, art books & prints in small editions.
Natascha Gangl: writer, playwright, director, speaker. gangl.klingt.org
Maja Osojnik: composer, label boss, sound artist, singer, free improvising musician. maja.klingt.org
Matija Schellander: composer, double bass player and electronic musician. matija.klingt.org
MAMKA Records: mamka.klingt.org
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SEPTEMBER 2023
I am really happy to be a part of the upcoming exhibition:
DerBlödeDritteMittwoch #130 collaborates mit Parallel – BLĂD UND UNDISZIPLINIERT
Especially for Parallel 2023 DerBlödeDritteMittwoch conceived the project BLĂD UNDISZIPLINIERT, consisting of live performances and an exhibition. For both, artists* were invited to work across disciplines and in this way create distinctly “undisciplined” works by ignoring or questioning the boundaries between different fields and practices.
On-going Ausstellung 05-10.09.23 und Live-performances 08.09.23 @Prallel 23, Otto-Wagner-Areal, Baumgartner Höhe 1, 1140 Wien
https://bloedermittwoch.klingt.org/
livestream: https://echoraeume.klingt.org/
https://parallelvienna.com
on-going Exhibition daily 05-10.09.2023, 13:00 – 20:00, Pavillon 16, Floor 1, Rooms 114 + 115:
I am sharing the space with amazing co-undisciplined artists and friends Sabine Marte, Karin Fisslthaler, Paul GrĂŒndorfer, Susanna Gartmayer, Thea Soti/Verena DĂŒrr/Christine Schörkhuber, Arnold Haber (/aka Noid), Anat Stainberg, Milan LoviĆĄka, Maja Osojnik, Jörg Piringer, Billy Roisz, Dieter KovacÌicÌ (a.k.a. dieb13), Stefan Voglsinger/Patrizia Ruthensteiner.
Medium: plexiglas, collage, photography, objects and graphic on transparent sheets, drawings, stickers) Size: 63cm x 34cm (4 Templates), 2022 â 23
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AUGUST 2023
THIS IS A VERY SPECIAL NEWSLETTER, I WANT TO HELP A FAMILY WHO LOST EVERYTHING IN THE FLOODS IN SLOVENIA AND NEED YOUR HELP TOO!!
Many of you know, that i come originally from Slovenia. Since 1995 when i started to study music in Vienna, more then 25 Years passed, realising i have been living here longer than i have ever lived in Slovenia. Now i call Vienna my home and myself a true Viennese, maybe without a grumpy attitude, but with good sense for sweet darkness and macabre humour, that legends tend to describe a viennese soul with or its character traits, LOL. I love the city and i think i might grow old here. Nevertheless i have always tried to stay connected with my home country, curious about what the extremely flourishing art and music scene are doing there and every single time excited and happy, when my projects bring me back to Slovenia.
A month ago, storms with massive flooding and landslides affected large parts of Slovenia and southern Austria, causing immense damage to property and people. In Slovenia, it was the worst natural disaster in the history of the independent state. Two thirds of the state are affected by the flood. My first steps were to help financially with donations to different organisations, but then the following story really touched my heart deeply. As a human being and a musician i want to collect the money in order to help both, the firefighter Sandi Zajc, his father-in-law JoĆŸe Rogelj and his son, who had a piano repair workshop.
But let me tell you the story first.
While his house was flooding on friday 4th of august, Sandi Zajc was saving lives. Among them, 22 children from the MengeĆĄ kindergarten. He and his fellow firefighters carried them safely through the raging water and helped them with trauma and fear.
On friday morning the river PĆĄata was rising extremely fast and the Civil Protection Headquarters, in the fire house in MengeĆĄ, was full of calls and interventions. The water also started to flood the fire station, where two firefighters were receiving calls and deploying teams to interventions. They picked up their computers from the ground and continued their work, knee-deep in water, describes SaĆĄo LemiÄ from PGD MengeĆĄ.
“There were a lot of calls, we had to sort them out. Human lives were of course at the forefront and we were going there, one by one we were saving people. Then the call came that children were trapped in a kindergarten,” says firefighter Sandi Zajc. While he was saving lives, wading through the water and carrying toddlers from a flooded kindergarten in his arms with his colleagues, his home was flooded and completely destroyed.
A partition wall fell on the firefighter’s father-in-law, who was at home at the time of the flood and tried to save what he could. His leg got stuck and he saved himself by diving in, pulling his leg out from under the collapsed wall and climbing out of the window as the water rose. Later, he helped clean up and the contaminated water caused his wound to inflame, eventually landing him on the operating table. His and his sonâs piano repair workshop with the tradition of 50 years, was also completely destroyed. They managed to move three pianos from the cellar to the garden shed, but they were also partially flooded. The instruments, tools, machines, materials are all destroyed.
In the midst of all the horror, sadness and destruction, Sandi Zajc and his family are also full of gratitude. To all those who have helped and continue to help them they say: “I would like to thank everyone who is helping in any way, each to the best of their ability. Some of them work, some of them donate, some of them bring sandwiches, we have to take care of the food and drinks, we can’t work without that. Everyone is a piece in the puzzle to make a beautiful picture at the end,” says the fearless firefighter.
My heart grew three times bigger by all the reports how many people came to help not just here, also elsewhere, but with completely ruined existence i can imagine there is so much more work to be done. As a human i wish to help Sandi for him staying at the kindergarten while his house was getting completely destroyed, but as a musician myself i also want to help JoĆŸe and his son in hope, that they can restore the piano workshop and continue to bring sound into peoples ears.
so i would like to invite you to buy my CD BOOK (with download code)
ÄRNE VODE ~ BLACK WATERS ~ SCHWARZE WASSER
I added now also a download code to it, for the people who donât have a cd player anymore.
All the Revenues go to help Sandi Zajc and JoĆŸe Rogelj and his families, to rebuild their home and piano workshop repair studio.
The CD Book costs 30 ⏠inklusive shipping in Europe. If you want to help and purchase an example, please send me an e-mail with your address and i will send you my account infos. When transferring the money, please write reference: BLACK WATERS for HELP in floods Slovenia.
I want to make this Action till the End of the year 2023, because i think help is needed longer and i would really like to reach many people. i would be also extremely thankful if you would share my message to other people.
I will transfer the money further to the Organisation named below every last day of the month (30.09., 31.10., 30.11. and 31.12) and will transparently share the sum with you over the social media and in my newsletter. If you of course wish to donate directly, you are more than welcome to do so.
PGD MengeĆĄ
Zavrti 2, 1234 MengeĆĄ
IBAN: SI56 6100 0002 0196 038
Namen (purpose): donacija Sandi Zajc (donation Sandi Zajc)
Koda namena (code of purpose): CHAR
HERE AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BOOK, I RELEASED WITH MUSIC IN 2010 ON VIENNESE SOULFOOD LABEL WITH MY MAJA OSOJNIK BAND AND GUESTS
ÄRNE VODE ~ BLACK WATERS ~ SCHWARZE WASSER
Dear listeners, dear readers!
âThis Vienna is one big fat cremeschnitte,â I thought when I first visited the city as a tourist. To a girl from a small town in Slovenia, everything was so big, so old, so lovely, so truly classy, oh so refined. The mighty architecture, the humongous monuments, the rosy pink CafĂ© Aida…. At every corner, kind and merry âMozartsâ would sell you tickets to classical concerts. Oh, the elegant boutiques and restaurants everywhere you looked, and everywhere else, oh, the manicured parks gracing a city! Meanwhile, behind this amazing set erected for the tourists, waiting in the wings, was an even more interesting city. A pulsating city of contradictions: contradictions political, social, and cultural. A city in which everything works fine and, at the same time, nothing does, really. A city which lovingly looks after its cultural heritage, while at the same time it works at repressing its very own memories. A city of splendour, yes, and of squalor. A city always in motion. People are constantly arriving and departing. Every few years, you pack your bags and, if this time you donât leave the city, you at least move to another neighbourhood, which has its own, entirely new rhythm. It is a city with all manner of cultural and musical ghettos, which here and there, now and again, nevertheless actually touch, embrace, and, yes, even coalesce. All these different ways of enjoying lifeâthese cultures, subcultures, and the sites at which they collideâbecame the inspiration for my work and then this project.
Where trade flourishes and culture blooms, there you always find people of many nationalities contributing to the barter. This marketplace of stuff and art makes life colourful, gives it flair. But where there are so many languages, there you also find prejudice. Weâre supposed to be living in a society opening to the whole world. Yet, instead of enjoying the melodies and rhythms of a foreign language, people fear and reject the exotic. One language is thought of as the beautiful medium of love and the erotic, while the other is just the language of car thieves and cleaning ladies. Well, I go on believing that we can only profit from conversation and wide-eyed curiosity. With the present project, I want to lavish attention on all the unknown and foreign that so immeasurably enriches our Vienna. And so I have dedicated each of these fourteen songs to different people who have inspired me, who have affected my life in Vienna so much. They are people whose life journey delivered them here, for whom Vienna is a new home, which sometimes is cold, distrustful, and unwelcoming, but most of the time is warm, and wonderful, and kind.
ÄRNE VODE is a collection of Slovenian folk songs and songs by various poets, plus songs of my own. The contents are peopleâs stories. Life stories: of chance, fate, happiness, unhappiness, of lucky accidents, of paths that occasionally cross and then even unite; they speak inescapably of death and of love. Here is a dark lake, full of the hidden, lost, or rejected; you fish around in it until you touch some thing; when you bring it to the surface, you hear a new story. The CD not only brings together many composers and musicians, it also moves among musical genres. Thus it encourages the curious listener to here and there hear, to listen in on, something new. For us musicians and composers, what fun it was to flit from one component to the next.
A year ago, I was visiting Eva and Jochen in Studio 3007 and saw the posters they were just then designing for rhiz. They were wonderful! The graphic compositions played with the thought of impermanence, with life and death. How frail and fragile, how at the same time monstrous and mighty the magnified insects were! There, that was the theme for the project I had long been carrying around in my thoughts: a picture of impermanence, of frailty and fragility and, at the same time, of solidity and strength. The love of detail, the poetry of living, of remaining, and the poetry of dying, of death. Out of the coming together of our ideas, that harmony, out of the wonderful evenings of conversation, and after hours and hours of work, what was going to be booklet for a CD became a book. So this book, this CD, is not just my project, but belongs as much to Eva and Jochen and the wonderful musicians and translators, all working together. And it belongs to the people the songs are dedicated to, and those who believed in the project and generously supported itâmy patrons, its godparents. And now it belongs to you…
Take your time.
Maja Osojnik
here i explain super fast what this book is about đ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLAD1WcDKfs
here are few songs to listen:
https://majaosojnik.bandcamp.com/album/rne-vode-black-waters-schwarze-wasser
here you can read about it, need to croll down to number #09
https://maja.klingt.org/releases/
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was willst du sehen? (what do you want to see?) or Wendy Pferd tod mexico â Exhibition in Literaturhaus Wien 01.03.23. â 29.03.23
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FINALMENTE! A 5 YEARS WORK IS DONE AND MANIFESTED ITSELF IN A BOX “WENDY PFERD TOD MEXICO” WITH AN ART COMIC BOOK & CD, THREE SINGLES AND A BAG, GO CHECK IT OUT ON MAMKA
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NEW RECORD OUT ON MAMKA RECORDS / DIE REVANCHE DER SCHLANGENFRAU (the revenge of the snakewoman) a soundcomic for unica zĂŒrn, with natascha gangl & rdeÄa raketa (maja osojnik & matija schellander). it comes in mini limited editions. for that one i tried first time to work with a cyanotype and of course with my beloved technique of lino print. it was a very intense and layering process of composing the artwork and am super happy with what came out:
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ENCORE! Ein Raum fĂŒr Unica ZĂŒrn
13.10.-16.10.2022
in der FĂNFZIGZWANZIG
JAZZ&THECITY Festival Salzburg
in Kooperation mit der FĂŒnfzigzwanzig & Performing Sound
kuratiert von Natascha Gangl & RdeÄa Raketa (Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander)
Was passiert, wenn die Vergangenheit neu beleuchtet wird und plötzlich Stimmen deutlich hörbar sind oder Positionen sichtbar, die lange ein FlĂŒstern am Rande oder ein Bild in der Kiste waren? Wo treffen und trennen sich Wahn und Kunst? Und was heiĂt âWriting Herstoryâ? Drei Tage lang erklĂ€ren die Autorin Natascha Gangl und die Komponist:innen Maja Osojnik und Matija Schellander (aka das Elektroakustik Duo RdeÄa Raketa) einen Raum in der Galerie 5020 zum Resonanzraum fĂŒr die KĂŒnstlerin Unica ZĂŒrn, einer viel zu oft ĂŒbersehenen Ikone des Surrealismus, ĂŒbersetzen ihre Techniken und Motive ins heute und ĂŒbertragen sie in andere Genres. In einer tĂ€glich morphenden Ausstellung mit graphischen Partituren, visueller Poesie, Video-und Sound-Arbeiten öffnen sich Fenster fĂŒr Performances, Konzerte, Lectures, Diskurs und Improvisation. Höchst unterschiedliche KĂŒnstler:innen bearbeiten dieses Spielzimmer, laden ein die Wahrnehmung zu erweitern und die Bedeutungen zu verrĂŒcken.
Mit Arbeiten von: Antiehdas, Andrea Bel.Arruti, Katrin Bethge, Toño Camuñas, Martin Egger, Natascha Gangl, Guillermo Giampietro, MoisĂ©s Iglesias KĂŒhn, Clyo Mendoza, Maja Osojnik, Julia Reichert, Billy Roisz, Matija Schellander, Sabine Scholl, Leonie Spitzer, Christoph Szalay
Wir feiern bei dieser Gelegenheit auch unseren neuen Release. “Die Revanche der Schlangenfrau” erscheint zum Festival Beginn in einer ersten Mini Special Edition, 1. Auflage von 6 StĂŒck LP, Artwork (Cyanotopie & Linoldruck): Maja Osojnik
Programm:
DAY ONE / 13.10.2022 / 5020 / Residenzplatz 10., Salzburg
20:30 AUSSTELLUNGSERĂFFNUNG âENCORE! EIN RAUM FĂR UNICA ZĂRNâ
21:00 LIVE âDIE REVANCHE DER SCHLANGENFRAU. EIN KLANGCOMIC FREI NACH UNICA ZĂRNâ
DAY TWO / 14.10.2022 / 5020
17:00 DURATIONAL-LESUNG âDas Spiel von der Einverleibung. Frei nach Unica ZĂŒrnâvon Natascha Gangl in Interaktion & Improvisation mit Musiker:innen des Festivals.
20:00 LIVE âTHE REVENGE OF THE SNAKE WOMAN. A SOUNDCOMIC FOR UNICA ZĂRN” (Multilingual Version) by Natascha Gangl & RdeÄa Raketa with LIVE-Drawings by Katrin Bethge
DAY THREE / 15.10.2022
17:00 SABINE SCHOLL âJemand nĂ€ht. Bist du dasâ / LESUNG & GESPRĂCH
18:00 CHRISTOPH SZALAY âUNICA oder How I wish, I’d know so much more about you (harboring tendencies)â / LECTURE PERFORMANCE
19:00 GUILLERMO GIAMPIETRO & LARA BARACETTI â âFREIHEIT ALS THERAPIEâ / LECTURE & LISTENING SESSION (ca 45 Min)
21:00 âPROGRESSâ â Konzert von RDEÄA RAKETA / mit einer Videoinstallation BILLY ROISZ
art left, unica by natascha gangl
programme notes in detail:
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EXPOSITION #01
an artistic intervention Exposition in resonance with the site of Mahlerâs composing hut in Maiernigg in 2022 by Dorit Margreiter and Maja Osojnik (a room of oneâs own â Curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein and section.a), UA: 02.07.2022, Exposition is on view from July 2 â October 30, 2022
EXPOSITION #01 â soundinstallation for 9 mobile phone speakers
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MAMKA RECORDS HAS A NEW WEBPAGE AND CELEBRATED THE NEW EXHIBITION OVER.WRITE.ME (6.3) IN CANKARJEV DOM, LJUBLJANA, INVITED ARTISTS WHO MANIPULATED THE COVERS OF THE LATEST RDEÄA RAKETA’S ALBUM …AND CANNOT REACH THE SILENCE ARE: BUBA ÄVORIÄ, MARTIN EGGER, KARIN FISSLTHALER, BIRGIT KELLNER, MARTA NAVARIDAS, MAJA OSOJNIK, RUIN, LEONIE SPITZER, ROBIN TOMENS
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RDEÄA RAKETA & PATRICK K.-H. & KLIF AT 63.JAZZ FESTIVAL LJUBLJANA
LOOK AT THIS CRAZY PICS BY NADA ĆœGANK, WE HAD A BLAST, AMAZING SOUND, AMAZING VISUALS, AMAZING LOCATION, AMAZING CREW WHO MADE IT HAPPEN, THANK YOU ALL!!!!
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MAJA’S ULTIMATE SALE JANUARY 2022
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AUGUST 2021
A NEW RECORD IS OUT and we are thrilled by it, you can order it here
RDEÄA RAKETA …AND CANNOT REACH THE SILENCE (MAM04, 2021)
A-Side:
1/ The night is spilling across the room.. (9:51)
2/ ..like gasoline (9:07)
text: Maja Osojnik, music: RdeÄa Raketa (Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander)
B-Side:
Waiting it out (15:32)
music: RdeÄa Raketa (Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander)
RdeÄa Raketa (Red Rocket) is the electronic music duo of Maja Osojnik and Matija Schellander. Their new project âŠand cannot reach the silence deals with the current world of misunderstandings, communicating past each other, willingly and unwillingly overlooking or ignoring each otherâs meanings via various fast-paced forms and platforms of communication; and, with that, the tightening of incompatible parallel ârealities.â It explores forms of violence;
physical and verbal, external and self-inflicted. It explores forms of power; the dangerous thin line between giving
power to and giving power over oneself, and forms of subjugation and addiction on both societal and, more
significantly, on interpersonal levels. â⊠Look at us! Beasts, bottomless pits, never to be full! To be fulfilled. Glued onto each other in sweat, a never-ending pain and evenly spread, at all timesâŠâ In those dark, dystopian lyrics, full of questions, such as âWhat is being said and what stays unspoken? Who does it refer to? Who is protecting whom? For what reasons? Who is being addressed or what needs to be considered?â the wish, the need and the struggle for self-empowerment, honesty, love and reconciliation is exposed or, at the very least, nourished. RdeÄa Raketa combines abstract electronic sounds with heavy beats, inspired by acousmatic and industrial music, as well as hip hop. The artful interweaving of spoken and sung language (based on Osojnikâs texts) coalesces with the collaged sound material. Modular synthesizers and cut-up samples mixed with manipulated CD players and recordings of acoustic instruments and field recordings, along with elaborate sound processing, ultimately creates a wondrously heterogeneous mixture. The LP will be released on the Viennese label Ventil Records in 2021, followed by a special edition on Maja Osojnikâs own label Mamka Records.
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APRIL 2021
FOLLOW ME … / MAJA OSOJNIK & MAMKA REC – a virtual tour into my exhibition in echoraum vienna, 2021
my dearest audience
right now my new exhibition âFOLLOW ME…â is taking place in Echoraum, Vienna, where i am showing you some graphic sound scores, print works, vinyl releases from the last three years on my new label MAMKA records.
Unfortunately we are again and still in an extended lock down and it looks like the galleries will not be able to open till the 2nd of May 2021. That means, my hard work will stay behind closed doors. Unfortunate Situation indeed. What else can i do, then to try to celebrate it online. Here i am, inviting you in my most modest fashion to join me on a little virtual tour, a spontaneously filmed video at the opening eve or to enjoy beautiful photos Werner Korn and Sara Zlanabitnig made of the exhibits and to follow the audio links of all the releases…
mamka on bandcamp
I would be very happy over each and every order. all the revenues will go into production of new art on MAMKA RECORDS. next to come:
- WENDY PFERD TOD MEXICO COMIC BOOK
- SERIES OF SPECIAL EDITIONS on new record from RdeÄa Raketa âŠand can not reach the silence, coming out in may 2021
- PEEL 01, 02, 03 / leporellos for a release of sound comic âDIE REVANCHE DER SCHLANGENFRAU
HERE YOU CAN CONTACT ME PER MAIL
HERE MY CATALOGUE
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me and MAMKA are so happy to present the new release of a third single #SUPERANDOME – SUPER RANDOM ME, each individual record is its own uniquely woven and hand-printed specimen. Music wise is the third single about the ultimate collage. It is about seeing what is said in a new light, deconstructing it, reassembling it and creating cinematic miniatures that stand alone as independent sound art works #cut-and-paste #upcycling-madness-to-the-peak #sound-comic-at-its-finest or to go with marcel proust’s solemn description: “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
An exhibition to enjoy watching from outside at kluckyland, vienna https://www.kluckyland.com/
From 17.12.2020 /19:00 (opening) – 03.01.2021
to listen here
to order here
or write a direct mail
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THE POSTCARDS HAVE ARRIVED, JUHUHUHU! just realised my news wall is a wall of HAAAAAAPPPPPYYYYYYY’S!!!!
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hello world, new hand printed T-shirts and bags – limited edition on mamka records available from now on…
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UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE — I SUCK AT IT, SO VERY MUCH
cause a lot has happened, but let’s pretend, i spilled coffee over my agenda: for the end of the year, finally my new video MI CORAZĂN, that i started working on in the beginning of august this year is finished, juhuhuhu, and i am very happy about it: ENJOY! #nataschagangl #rdeÄaraketa (my duo with #matijaschellander). an animation from handprinted covers, to order one single, contact me or visit mamka
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DEAR COMMUNITY, so happy! finally after working on it for more then 6 months, it is RELEASED!!! the second single “MI CORAZĂN” (MAM02)
200 unique handprinted pieces with magenta vinyl, in team with matija and natascha, here two beauties:
to order a copy please write me or mamka a mail,
you’re welcome to visit mamka records where you can see some versions of covers, but if you just want a digital copy, you can visit mamka on bandcamp LET’S CELEBRATE OFFICIAL RELEASE AT 40. JAZZFESTIVAL SAALFELDEN!
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DEAR COMMUNITY, i am keen to invest more time in my next solo record and coming up productions on my new label MAMKA Records. for that i need money and space in my apartment, which is at the moment not just a living space, but mostly used as a studio, a printing workshop, a warehouse.
my birthday is coming up, on 21th of June, so i decided to make a BIRTHDAY SALE. all my records get a discount plus goodies involved!!!! still with a motto: “BUY MY ART BEFORE I DIE!”
50% of the SALE will go to UTE BOCK Foundation to help refugees in need.
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march 2019: so happy, just built my first bird house and named it “nesting (in) secrets. it’s made out of recycled wood, paper and secret (love) letters. dedicated to B. and exhibited as a part of this wonderful art project for the birds by fantastic, one and only claudia mĂ€rzendorfer.
thank you everybody who trusted me and contributed your love letters.
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ha! learned to screenprint myself with a big help and skills from Tibi (www.siebdruckeria.at), happy, here my first shirts and bags đ
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some pics and nice reviews of my solo set at madeiradig festival 2018, i had a blast!
Notes on island mentality by Mette Slot Johnsen
i have met awesome people, among them elsa and antonio, with whom i had a lot of great fun and good talks. they are editors of a great art magazine in portugal, called umbigo
here some beautiful photos by Thibaut de Lestré
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my first animated video CHICKEN online, enjoy!
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happy i have a new record label, MAMKA RECORDS:
MAMKA RECORDS is a new Viennese label, born out of the longing for a space where each and every production is seen and celebrated as a distinct artwork, and one-of-a-kind in its own right.
MAMKA releases statements. Small, but mighty, the label finds its home in all kinds of formats, apart from preexisting norms and technical standards. MAMKA serves no market. Instead, it serves artists as a platform for their experimental position. At the interface between contemporary experimental music, fine art, literature, handmade electronics and love for detail, MAMKA symbolizes risk, confrontation, benevolent radicalism and the implicitness of the unique. MAMKA is a label for those who revolt, rebel, demand and ask questions.
MAMKA seeks to connect artists and foster work collectives. Here, editions of gems are created that, contrary to contemporary trends, are characterized by loving handcraft and dedication.
MAMKA practices deceleration, while drawing attention to creative processes and the magic of absolute inimitability.
MAMKA doesnât bake cakes (or only rarely). Rather, it whips up musical pralines, by hand, and with much love.
here the first single CHICKEN with Natascha Gangl & RdeÄa Raketa
to order visit MAMKA
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one of the most funniest selfie-band-photoshootings with natascha gangl & rdeÄa raketa, LONG LIVE TRASH
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juhu! so happy:
WENDY PFERD TOD MEXICO – our new soundcomic, radio piece,
won the 1. Prize “das lange brennende Mikro” at 9. Berliner Hörspiel Festival 2018– – – – – – – – – – – – – –
ZSAMM live at Hearme! Festival, Punctum / Prague, AWESOME CONCERT & VIDEO, WATCH HERE!
ZSAMM live at Punctum from Punctum on Vimeo.
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HAAAAPPY & EXCITED TONIGHT Premiere of our new Radio Piece
WENDY PFERD TOD MEXIKO – a soundcomic
14.01.2018, 23:00 Ă1 – KUNSTRADIO, ORF with and from Natascha Gangl, RDEÄA RAKETA aka Maja Osojnik and Matija Schellander
Live Stream & 7-Days-Ă1: http://oe1.orf.at/player
Author Natascha Gangl and my electro-acoustic duo RDEÄA RAKETA (Maja Osojnik und Matija Schellander), we developed together almost one year this Radio Piece WENDY PFERD TOD MEXIKO. Based on the text material of the book debut of the dramatist and theater-maker Natascha Gangl “WENDY DRIVING TO MEXICO”, published in 2015 at RITTER, language becomes sound and sound becomes language. From the fragmentary the density is woven. Out of the fragile the whole. Opposites, contrasts and discords find each other in sound. Out of the alienation grows the reinterpretation. In the lost the beginnings start. Time structures are questioned and assembled through loops, field recordings from Mexico meet Osojnik’s singing. Spoken language turns into melodies, noise turns into bittersweet rancheras.
http://oe1.orf.at/programm/20180114/501001
http://kunstradio.at/2018A/14_01_18.html
http://wendy.klingt.org/
Supported by Ă1 Kunstradio & SKE Fonds
Herzlichen Dank an Elisabeth Zimmermann, Kurt Reissnegger, Alte schmiede, Elevate & Hörgerede, DrammtikerInnen Festival und Alte Gerberei St.johann
artwork by Toño Camuñas
TRAILER FOR UNICA IS ONLINE NOW, ENJOY THIS LITTLE POEM
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IN LOVE WITH THE TEAM AND OUR NEW THEATRE PRODUCTION, join us in kabinetttheater, vienna
happy over the first review in DER STANDARD
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happy, my music, that i composed for a theatre piece MIO, MEIN MIO got nominated in Category “outstanding theatre music” for STELLA 17′
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ZSAMM around the globe
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ZSAMM LEAVING “INCOGNITO” THE FESTIVAL “SWALLOWS” SHOT BY P.B.
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ATTWA & RDECA RAKETA / MICHAELA GRILL @ FIMAV, VICTORIAVILLE, CANADA, AWESOME TIMES
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watch at vimeo:
yes, it’s true, i am in THE WIRE 04/2017
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TRIP 4 / 2017 = vienna – elevate festival graz – superandome (rdeca raketa & natascha gangl) – ZSAMM <c’zem> – awesome – we love OPCION – now! – back to vienna
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thank you ELEVATE GRAZ, it was awesome / rdeca raketa & natascha gangl “superandome” & ZSAMM (photos by clara wildberger)
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third trip this year vienna – berlin – house of glas – vienna
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second trip this year vienna – st.johann in tirol – alte gerberei forever – vienna
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first trip this year vienna – nothing – brno – vienna
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a beautiful portrait of ZSAMM by A.K. (2016)
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HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYBODY! more charts, wow, happy and thankful to being remembered by the end of the year
Top 10 Albums of 2016 by Robert Barry, Electronica, The Wire, UK
Top 3 Albums of 2016 by Andreas Rauschal in Wiener Zeitung, Austria
Top 5 Albums of 2016 by Fritz Ostermayer, Im Sumpf â FM4 Radio, Austria
Top 5 Albums of 2016 by Radio Student, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Top 25 Albums of 2016, Radio AtmĂłsfera, Spain
Top 50 Albums of 2016 by Lukasz Komla, Nowa Muzyka, Polen
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18.12.2016: preparing all my scores and productions for NUK (National and University Library) Ljubljana, Slovenia, they ordered all of my work, WOW! BOMBASTIC!
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15.12.2016: yeah! the new record LET THEM GROW hasn’t been forgotten and came in the year charts 2016:
1. rockambula, Italy placed the album under the top 10 Altro Mondo of the Year
2. include me out, UK placed the album under the top 20 of the Year
as i work independently and have no big labels, or pr agencies behind me, this makes me really really appreciative. THANK YOU FOR LIKING MY MUSIC.
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13.11.2016: AWESOME NEWS!
27. Festival for German Film Kinofest LĂŒnen awarded us, Matija Schellander and me, for the best Film Music in the Movie Einer Von Uns – One Of Us. Super happy!
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20.10.2016: i am so fucking proud of my sis, tonight premiere of her new piece, Vita Osojnik: OTHER PEOPLEâS CHILDREN (link to the trailer) with music of my new album LET THEM GROW and some new stuff, 20:00, at the Theatre PTL, Ljubljana, Slovenia, i wish so much i could be there, damn itâŠ
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july 2016: love this one, Mental Notes on my new record by Ed Pinsent in the Sound Projector: âPerhaps we need more works like this in the world, as a way of understanding and dealing with these very common human feelings; Maja could take the place of 100 social workers, with her Cosmic Tones for Mental Therapy.â
me, blushingâŠ
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this sommer is full of surprises, i am nominated for a Bremen Jazz Award 2016, happy again! some new reviews arrived also, for example from The Soundprojector / UK, or Kathodik / Italy, you can read excerpts under press. and AnĆŸe Zorman from Radio Ć tudent / Slovenia made a long 2 hours show, where he compares songs from my record with the live concert versions of my bands All.The.Terms.We.Are and ZSAMM
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wow, my record is one of âthe Top 100 Albums of 2016 so farâ by John Doran in the Quietus, UK, happy!
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wow! so happy got a review in WIRE!
“Slovenian born Austrian resident Osojnik sings haunting, deeply affecting torch songs into an electrical storm of her own devising. Pieced together from sounds of radios, tape recorders, CDJs, âinstallation tubesâ and âabandoned pianosâ, Osojnik pushes these artefacts and the places she found them in until they become wild alien creatures seething with desires of their own. Every surface has its own grain, every deep drone fluctuates and breathes. Unidentifiable flying sound objects flicker in and out of view. Above it all, Osojnikâs voice is imbued with lust and longing, or righteously angry, as if on the point of bursting out of the recording to snarl straight in the listenerâs ear. An urgent record, bursting with ideas.” Wire, UK, 07/2016
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ZSAMM at moers 16′ by elisa essex
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ZSAMM @ moers festival 16′ and live streaming on TV thanks to ARTE, how cool is that!!!
here the link on arte to see the whole concert
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oh wow, my new record LET THEM GROW is nominated for “Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik / GrenzgĂ€nge”. happy!
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22.2.16 / LET THEM GROW is hereby officially released and is looking forward to come into your hands, contact me if you want to have it or you can buy it also on bandcamp
all the concert dates, news, reviews, videos here
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amazing news:
EINER VON UNS (one of us), the film, for which matija and me composed music, wins the Max-OphĂŒls-Award 2016 in SaarbrĂŒcken. The award is the most important Award for young talents in Germany, Austria & Switzerland. Congrats Stephan! so happy!!!!!
âHighly cinematographic and lethally tempting.â
El Diario Vasco, Spain
ONE OF US will be screened at the BERLINALE 2016 in the section “Perspektive Deutsches Kino”: February 21st 2016 at 7 pm, CinemaxX3, Potsdamer Platz, 10785 Berlin
german: http://www.einervonuns.at/
http://www.stephanrichter.info
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oh wow, i’ve been waiting for months now to finally scream out the happy news: MY NEW RECORD LP (Rock Is Hell) / CD (Unrecords) LET THEM GROW IS RIGHT NOW IN PRESS PLANT AND IS COMING OUT SOOOON!
YOU CAN ALREADY VISIT ME HERE and of course subscribe my record if you want:
DBL LP – 25 ⏠+ shipping
CD – 15 ⏠+ shipping
just give me a note
maja@klingt.org
LP COVER
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my new 4-chanel installation “the point of no return” for LENTOS MUSEUM / LISTENING POST is finished, so happy. OPENING ON 22.10.2015, 19:00, YOU CAN VISIT THE INSTALLATION TILL 21.2.2016
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Saalfelden Jazz Festival 2015 was awesome. i am so thankful for this opportunity and i loved to work with these amazing musicians and friends: kaja draksler, audrey chen, matija schellander, manu mayr and lukas könig. truely hope to repeat it somewhere! here 2 beautiful pics from premiere by heinz bayer, more here
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PRODULY PRESENT: THE NEW MOVIE DIRECTED BY STEPHAN RICHTER
IS NOMINATED FOR “NEW DIRECTORS AWARD” AT SAN SEBASTIĂN FESTIVAL
EINER VON UNS / ONE OF US (2015) â feature film by stephan richter, production: golden girls, music: matija schellander & maja osojnik
http://www.oneofus-movie.com/
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july 2015 mixing with patrick pulsinger in feedback studio venna
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this is how magic happens: people with heart in the right place, clever and with full of vision and love towards their work, with amazing respect to it and to all the people involved, a big family with great programme – festival of documentary film – make dox in skopje, with so much happiness, emotions, even tears in eyes rdeca raketa left yesterday back to vienna… we are really thankful for this experience, that we could be there and meet all these wonderful people and to perform, thank you MAKE DOX and bka austria, austrian cultural forum and festival, who made it possible for us and to all of you people out there, save the date for 2016, you will not be sorry…
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recording my voice with ollman
in ONE OF MY FAVOURITE PLACES ON THIS EARTH: SCHRATTENBERG / HOTEL PUPIK RESIDENCY
where ollman recorded my voice for my new record “HELLO, I CAN NOT FIND MY HEAD”,
i had so much fun! happy!
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back from the BROKEN.HEART.COLLECTOR TOUR / szeged, budapest, novi sad, belgrade, zagreb / WE HAD FUN !!! thanks to all the organizers and our lovely audience for sharing this beautiful experience
video from the concert in JAZZ KOCSMA SZEGED (HU)
photos from concert in MM CENTRE ZAGREB (CRO) by josip viskovic
LJUBLJANA TRIP WAS GREAT, SUCH A GOOD COMPANY, AMAZING WEATHER, GREAT MUSIC FESTIVAL CONFINE APERTO DUNAJ – LJUBLJANA,
AND BEST FOOD! what more could we wish!
if you speak slovene, there is a nice review posted in my press folder, happy.
and here some beautiful photos by ARNOLD HABERL
https://www.flickr.com/photos/78192628@N08/sets/72157649698684314/
(c) arnold haberl
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(c) rania moslam by brutto in BRUT, VIENNA
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anna friz & maja osojnik, zavod cona in kino siska ljubljana, 8.4.2015
residency at radio cona, ljubljana, working with anna friz, 7.4.2015
photo made by anna friz in iceland 2015
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SPECIAL OFFER APRIL 2015
this product has never been so cheap before, so contact me and grab a piece.
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RDEÄA RAKETA
Wir werden (We will) (godrec11) is the second release of the viennese duo RdeÄa Raketa (Maja Osojnik & Matija Schellander). Following Old Girl, Old Boy, a 40-minute electroacoustic improvisation recorded live in one piece and released as a tape by Mosz Records in 2010, Wir werden consists of two carefully composed pieces each spanning one side of the vinyl album, organically blending various electronic sound sources and field recordings with acoustic instruments like paetzold recorder, double bass and piano.
Opened and closed by spoken word lyrics, Wir werden deals with the past repeating, movements and their absence in front of systems appearing to be crumbling, relationships between people and their inner fears.
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WHAT A BEAUTIFUL EVENING IN HUNDSTURM VIENNA / 20.3.2015 / FROM SERIES: LOST & FOUND, PORTRAIT: MATIJA SCHELLANDER, ALONE TOGETHER:
CONCERT, PERFORMANCE, SOUND INSTALLATIONS WITH MATIJA SCHELLANDER, KATHARINA ERNST and me
I REALLY ENJOYED IT, BEAUTIFUL PHOTOS BY SABINE PICHLER
to see more photos klick here
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PREMIERE FROM ESCAPES BY BRASS ORCHESTRA ST.JOHANN, 7.3.2015, AT MUKU ARTACTS FESTIVAL:
to enjoy more photos klick here
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rehearsing with st.johann brassorchestra
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the premiere of my piece ESCAPES played by Musikkapelle St.Johann coming up, real soon, sa 7.3.2015, 16:00 Parish Church St.Johann, MUKU ARTACTS festival, ST.JOHANN IN TIROL, AUSTRIA, so much looking forward to it, here one of the first rehearsals with the band
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me solo at mainfeste in echoraum, vienna december 2014 photos by ulla rauter
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just finished a new composition “ESCAPES” for Brass Orchestra “Blaskapelle St.Johann” commissioned by Festival MUKU ARTACTS, first premiere on 7th of March 2015, in ST.JOHANN in Tirol, looking so much forward to hearing it…
one page of the score here:
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just finished a new piece KONS.5. for STUDIO DAN,
looking so much forward to hear this great ensemble playing it…
one page of it here
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A beautiful review of the festival Elevate by Tristan Bath for The Quietus:
of my band broken.heart.collector and of my great friends bands like elektro guzzi, the striggles, mimu…
HAPPY!
READ HERE:
http://thequietus.com/articles/16612-things-learned-at-elevate-review-festival-report
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broken.heart.collector at ELEVATE festival 2014, photos by Lupi Spuma
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preparing for the gig in servant jazz quarters, london,
13.10.2014, photo by robert rotifer
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beautiful DIRT NONET in Café OTO, London, GB / OH WOW WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!
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OCTOBER NEWSLETTER
dear friends,
here i come with my october newsletter. itâs going to be a hell of a crazy month, not much walking in the parks what i love to do in my romantic imagination in warm beautiful autumn afternoons, therefore so many beautiful encounters with great performers and musicians and nice and funny people around me.
i hope youâre all doing fine and hope to see you around somewhere soon.
if not have it good, have it nice going for you!
starting with a little festival
LJUBLJANA LJUBLJENA (beloved) that rdeÄa raketa organises in ECHORAUM, VIENNA.
with big thanks to the supporters SKICA (slowenisches kulturinformationszentrum), BKA, SKE-FONDS and Echoraum itself.
Slovenian and Austrian experimental Impro-scene will meet for 2 days and will exchange musical ideas.
3. & 4.10. 2014 / A /
ECHORAUM VIENNA, AUSTRIA
starting time 3.10. 20:00 / 4.10. 19:00
Andrej Fon, bagpipes, Klarinette, Saxophon | âšTomaz Grom, Kontrabass, electronicsâš I Samo Kutin, hurdy gurdyâš | Ana Kravanja, Violineâš | Irena Tomazin, Stimmeâš I Luka Zagoricnik, lecture I Katharina Klement, Klavier | âšnoid, Violoncelloâš | Mona Matbou Riahi, Klarinette I Maja Osojnik, Paetzold-Bassblockflöte, electronicsâš | Billy Roisz, electronics I Matija Schellander, Kontrabass, modular synthesizerâš | Martin Siewert, Gitarre I âšTamara Wilhelm, electronics
www.echoraum.at
Sechshauser StraĂe 66
A-1150 Wien
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Juhu London here i come
11. 10. 2014, 20:00 / UK /
CAFĂ OTO LONDON
Dirt Nonet are an international project-based group of artists working together to create live musical-visual performances:
Anat BenÂDavid (United Kingdom/Israel) I Lina LapelytÄ (Lithuania/United Kingdom) I Yiorgis Sakellariou (United Kingdom/Greece) I Arvydas Kazlauskas (Lithuania/Latvia) I AuksÄ PetrulienÄ (Lithuania) I Fero Kiraly (Slovakia) I Ivan Ć iller (Slovakia) I Katharina Ernst (Austria) I Maja Osojnik (Austria/Slovenia)
Supported by Sound and Music, Druskininkai Artist’s Residence and The Ministry of Culture of The Republic of Lithuania
CAFĂ OTO
18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL London, United Kingdom
www.cafeoto.co.uk
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13.10. 2014, 19:30 / UK /
SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS, LONDON
Maja Osojnik SOLO âRECYCLING FEARâ /
Found Drowned (James OâSullivan, Peter Marsh, Paul May) & Julie Kjaer
SERVANT JAZZ QUARTERS
10a Bradbury Street, N16 8JN London, United Kingdom
www.servantjazzquarters.com
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GOING ON TOUR â MONOGRAMISTA T.D.â
WITH THE CLUSTER ENSEMBLE & DANIEL HEVIER / SK /
Ivan Ć iller (piano) I Fero KirĂĄly (synth, objects) I Maja Osojnik (electronics) I Petra FornayovĂĄ (dance) I Daniel Hevier (recitator, performance)
19.10.2014 â 23.10.2014
21.10.2014 / SK / Nove Zamky
22.10.2014 / SK / Topolcany
23.10.2014 / SK / Bratislava
http://www.cluster-ensemble.com/
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i just love this festival ELEVATE GRAZ / A /
24.10.2014 / ROCK IS HELL NIGHT – UHRTURMKASEMATTE
line up in spontaneous order : )
Broken.Heart.Collector (A) IÂ [[[Altar:Thron]]] (A) I Fuckhead (A) IÂ DJ Scotch Egg (JP) I Lichens (US) I Shit & Shine (US)
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and finally gala gala gala VELAK GALA / A /
28.10.2014
BRUT KONZERTHAUS
a.o. also my beloved LOW FREQUENCY ORCHESTRA
angĂ©lica castellĂČ (mex/a) paetzold bass & electronic devices I maja osojnik (slo/a) paetzold bass & electronic devices I thomas grill (a) electronics I matija schellander (a) doublebass
www.lfo.at
http://velak.klingt.org
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SO HAPPY SO HAPPY SO HAPPY
COMPOSITION PRIZE FROM CITY OF VIENNA
HELPS ME SO MUCH TO CONTINUE WORKING ON MY MUSIC
THANK YOU VIENNA
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broken.heart.collector at rock is hell 2014
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COMING UP SOON
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me by anne wellmer at hotel PUPIK 2014
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MAJA’S SUMMER SALE 2014
SUMMERSALE 2014
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CONCERTS IN AUGUST 2014
16.08.2014 / A / Schrattenberg / Hotel Pupik Festival / a.o. RdeÄa Raketa
22.08.2014 / A / Gallneukirchen / Klangfestival #7 / a.o. RdeÄa Raketa
23.08.2014 / A / Kleylehof / Reheat Festival / Josef Novotny/Heimo Wallner: below low
24.08.2014 / A / Schwarzau im Schwarztal / Die MĂŒhle / Festival / a.o. Maja Osojnik Solo:
“”cut it out, she said, this is serious – impromptu maps on boredom” – this concert was unfortunately cancelled
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JULY IN RADIO
Barbara Belic made a portrait of my music, i am so curious, you too?
so join and listen “das rote mikro: musikerportrait 2014” on
radio helsinki
on 21.07. 20:00 bis 21:00 & 26.7. 11:00 – 12:00
the portrait was adopted by german Free Radio and will be streamed
on 06.08.2014, 13:00 – 14:00 in broadcast from Holger Elias named Kultur und Gesellschaft, Radio Wanderbuehne, Germany
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ALMRAUSCHEN 2014
LUKAS KRANZELBINDER, KLEMENS LENDL, MARTIN EBERLE, ME and enthusiastic audience in turracher höhe, austria, it was amazingly beautiful… my alpine boots decided to surrender after 15 years and completely dissolved in front of my eyes…first aid was given
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my window view and one of the working stations in DAR Artist in Residency / Druskininkai / Lithuania / a happy time indeed
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i am sad to announce, that the broken.heart.collector tour is cancelled due to the flood catastrophe situation in belgrade and other regions in croatia, bosnia & herzegowina and serbia. we will make this tour next year and hope to see you around…meantime we wish that the situation doesn’t get worse and hope that the countries get enough support to pull through.
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SO HAPPY SO HAPPY SO HAPPY
GOT SKE annual award (2014)
HELPS ME SO MUCH TO CONTINUE WORKING ON MY MUSIC
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CONCERTS IN MAY 2014
thu 08.05.2014 / Croatia / Zagreb / Showroom of contemporary Sound / MM Centar / 21:00
low frequency orchestra @ izlog suvremenog zvuka
low frequency orchestra
maja osojnik â paetzold bass, electronic devices
angĂ©lica castellĂł â paetzold bass, electronic devices
matija schellander â double bass
thomas grill â digital sounds
izlog-suvremenog-zvuka.sczg.hr
fr 16.05.2014 / Austria / Vienna / Classical Next Festival / PORGY & BESS / 22:00
PLENUM & KATHARINA ERNST playing Broken:Concert
Angélica Castelló, Gobi Drab, Katrin Hauk, Thomas List,
Steffi Neuhuber, Maja Osojnik, Reni Weichselbaum – Paetzold Bassrecorders
Katharina Ernst – drums
plenum.klingt.org
www.katharinaernst.com
www.classicalnext.com
thu 22.05.2014 / Hungary / Szeged / Jazz Kocsma / 20:00 cancelled
Maja Osojnik – vocals, paetzoldbass, elec.
Susanna Gartmayer – bass clarinet, contra alto clarinet
raumschiff engelmayr – vocals, guitar
derhunt – vocals, bass
ddkern – drums
brokenheartcollector.klingt.org
jazzkocsma.blog.hu
fr 23.05.2014 / Serbia / Belgrade / Ringring Festival / KC REX / 20:00 cancelled
Broken.Heart.Collector sharing the Stage with William BasinskI (USA) and MIR (CH)
brokenheartcollector.klingt.org
ringring.rs
sa 24.5.2014 / Slovenia / Maribor / Gustaf Hall – Pekarna Maribor cancelled
the eveing will still be happening, instead of broken.heart.collector there will be the one and only WAIKIKI STAR DESTROYER from graz performing…
Broken.Heart.Collector sharing the Stage with Gonebald (NL) and MIR (CH)
www.gustaf.si
mo 26.5.2014 / Lithuania / Druskininkai / DAR Artist’s in Residency Programme
www.lks.lt
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beautiful photos by sascha osaka / plenum by festival imago dei, minoriten church krems
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beautiful photos by rania moslam, zoom festival jazzwerkstatt wien 2014
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CONCERTS IN APRIL
02.04.2014 / A / Vienna / Porgy&Bess / Strenge Kammer / 19:00 /
Matija Schellander, Mona Matbou-Riahi, Maja Osojnik, Burkhard Stangl
“For a few minutes the struggle was intensely critical; for a while they still slacked out the tightened line in one direction, and still plied their oars in another, the contending strain threatened to take them under. But it was only a few feet advance they sought to gain. And they stuck to it till they did gain it.” (Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
05.04.2014 / A / Vienna / WUK / Jazzwerkstatt Festival / 20:00 / a.o. maja osojnik band
! Festival with a lot of wonderful acts starts on 1st of April, check their web for the programme !
19.04.2014 / A / Krems, Minoritenchurch / IMAGO DEI FESTIVAL / PLENUM
PLENUM will perform some great works from renaissance and new compositions from Pauline Oliveros, Burkhard Stangl and Gunther Schneider
23.04.2014 / A / Vienna / Brut KĂŒnstlerhaus / Brutto / 21:00 / Maja Osojnik & Patrick Pulsinger sharing the evening, yeah!yeah!yeah!
27.04.2014 / A / Linz / Filmfestival Crossing Europe / Ursulinensaal im OĂ Kulturquartier / 13:00 / RdeÄa Raketa & Filmarchiv / Traversing the Balkans – RdeÄa Raketa will play music to the historical roadmovie Traversing the Balkans, conglomeration of short movies between 1909 – 1922 on the way from Vienna to Istanbul, arranged by Karl Wratschko from Viennese Film Archive
interview with rdeca raketa and karl wratschko in augustin magazine
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IMAGO DEI FESTIVALÂ coming soon, PLENUM will perform early music and new compositions from Pauline Oliveros, Burkhard Stangl and Gunther Schneider
Der Standard, 20.3.2014
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(c) tomaz grom, confine aperto at mota-point ljubljana, slovenia, 24.3.2014
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(c) klaus filip rdeÄa raketa at 3.blöder mittwoch in rhiz, vienna, 19.3.2014
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CONCERTS IN MARCH:
01.03.2014 / A / Vienna / ECHORAUM / 20:00 / Anna Friz (CA) & Maja Osojnik, to hear the latest sound teaser, go to “unreleased sounds – art’s birthday”
12.03.2014 / A / Vienna / Konservatorium PrivatuniversitÀt / Workshop
19.03.2014 / A / Vienna / RHIZ / 3.blöder Mittwoch / 20:30 / a.o. RdeÄa Raketa
21.03.2014 / A / Graz / Kunsthaus Graz / Diagonale / Thomas Pluch Drehbuchpreis / Preisverleihung / 11:00 / solo
24.03.2014 / SI / Ljubljana /Â Gosposvetska12 / MoTa Point / Zavod Sploh & Kud MoTa / Concert series Confine aperto / 20:00 / Bonnie Jones & Maja Osojnik (concert supported by austrian cultural forum ljubljana
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NICE REVIEW FRESHLY “PRINTED” IN THEPOSTROCK
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Michael Freerix, http://www.thepostrock.de/
BROKEN.HEART.COLLECTOR
Posted in Release on March 9th, 2014 by M F
Bassklarinette in einer Rockband, das hört man nicht alle Tage, und dazu noch in einer Rockband aus Wien! Broken.Heart.Collector heiĂen sie, und sie verbinden Rock mit Jazz, ohne deshalb ĂŒbertrieben fingerfertigen Fusion-Rock zu machen. Ganz im Gegenteil, ihre morbid wirkende, monothematische Rockmusik widmet sich eher einer Entdeckung der Langsamkeit und kann einen Hang zum Pop haben, ist aber vom GrundgefĂŒhl her eher Noise und Jazz, der immer wieder von flĂ€chigen Improvisationen unterbrochen wird. ErgĂ€nzend muss noch hinzugefĂŒhrt werden, dass die australische VideokĂŒnstlerin Billy Roisz, die mit ihren abstrakt-graphischen, doch sehr unruhigen Farbfilmen eher zum minimalen Techno hin tendiert, ein StĂŒck von Broken.Heart.Collector als Filmmusik fĂŒr einen ihrer Filme benutzt hat. Diese Wahl scheint wirklich ungewöhnlich, doch ist umso treffender, wenn man das DebĂŒt von Broken.Heart.Collector als ganzes durchhört. Die Wiener vermengen einerseits epische Melodiebögen mit nervösem, rhythmischen Gepoltere, andererseits auch Bass-getriebene geradlinige Songs mit Pop-Appeal, die in flĂ€chige, nach innen treibende, schwebende Klangimprovisationen abbrechen. So passt ihr Sound ganz gut zur Bilderwelt von Billy Roisz, deren Arbeiten sehr hĂ€ufig auf Grund von improvisatorischen Strategien entstehen.
Broken.Heart.Collector haben weder Angst vor Melodien, noch vor Nicht-Melodien. Sie sind eine Band, die ZwischenrĂ€ume erforscht und vielschichtige BrĂŒcken zwischen Rock, Jazz und freier Improvisation baut. Vom Temperament her ist dieses Quintett eher kratzig, weiĂ allerdings, genaue Akzente zu setzen und Stolperfallen zu umgehen. Da bleiben kaum WĂŒnsche offen. Well done!
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(c) lisa eidenhammer by salonklimbim 2014, secession
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(c) joseph schimmer at art’s birthday 2014, ORF
(c) klaus pichler at art’s birthday 2014, ORF
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happy, a nice comment in “derstandard” over my concert at klimbim in viennese secession last thursday, 23.1.2014:
“Zu den Highlights in dem ĂŒberbordenden, mehr als sechsstĂŒndigen Programm zĂ€hlte etwa ein Noisemusik-Konzert aus elektronischen Sound-AbfĂ€llen von Maja Osojnik.”
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CONCERTS IN JANUARY:
13.01.2014 / A / Vienna / Porgy & Bess / 19:00 / FRZT spielt meine Kompostion The Radiance of Exhaustion (2012)
17.01.2014 / A / Vienna / ORF KUNSTRADIO, studio / Art’s Birthday / among others i will perform with anna friz over old good unreliable internet between 23:40 – 00:00
Rokko’s Adventures quote: Wir lieben die Kunst â auch wenn die meiste Kunst zum Vergessen ist. FĂŒr den Rest sind wir zustĂ€ndig. Kommt vorbei in die heiligen Hallen!
23.01.2014 / A / Vienna / Secession / Salon Klimbim / 18:30 – 02:00 Utopian Pulse – Flares in the Darkroom / 2 performances of me:
SONG IN THE DARK: A sequence by Ines Doujak and John Barker, with help from Matthew Hayland. 2 giants from the Rabelaisian world appear in the Salon Klimbim backing a masterless voice with a song of grievous, unforgiving joy. Vitali Lesan is the mask builder and performing. Composition & Music & Performance: Maja Osojnik
ADJUSTING THE BLEACH FOR AN UTOPIAN RICH: maja osojnik solo on electronic devices, cassette-recorders, paetzold bassrecorder using “mistaken sounds” / sounds that happened in different private recordings, that were ment to fulfill an intended goal, but came out as the result of digital mistakes, unwillingly distorted, overdriven, phase shifted, useless. those unforeseen sounds, the “rejects” now make the perfect reality.
31.01.2014 / A / Vienna / Dunkelkammer / Turn the corner / Im Nu + MAW + Wu
ATEM(LOS) Maja Osojnik
âUnd jetzt sitzen wir da und haben uns nichts zu erzĂ€hlen, auĂer vielleicht ein paar verwirrende Wahrheiten. Dein fragendes Gesicht und meine roten Wangen, gepeitscht von eigenem Fremdscham. Ich rede mit Dir, Welt. Wie willst Du mich haben?â
Urbane Sturmfront â das Kaninchen ist in der Mikrowelle (Patrick Wurzwallner)
Hektik. Ăberinformation. Unterforderung. Zyklus. Spaltgips. Stahlbeton. Lebendbefall. Zynismus. Selbstschutz. PrivatsphĂ€re. Trolling. Smog. Satelliten. BallungsrĂ€ume. Ressourcen. Orangenhaut. Hegemonie. Respiration. Masse. Sucht. ĂberfluĂ. Langeweile. HyperaktivitĂ€t. Grobschnitt. Hauptschiff. Scheuklappen. VollverdrĂ€ngung. Blog. Angelologie. Dogma. Palmfett. Merchandise. Verfall. Spirale. Agoraphobie. Raumschiff. Mandelbrot. Auslese. Hierarchie. Airbag. Urlaub. Konspiration. Apnoe. PassivitĂ€t. Tendenz. Dekoration. Adel. Phlegma. Stuntman. ErnĂŒchterung. Autobahn. Ladehemmung. Retortenbaby. Perspektive. Vorfreude. Eine Eloge an die menschliche Selbstwahrnehmung, aus Perspektive der wohlwollenden GleichgĂŒltigkeit des Kosmos.
kein Speicherplatz mehr.
âWarum trĂ€gst du eigentlich eine Maske?â
âDamit man mich erkennt!â
Eine Chance-Operation fĂŒr Schlagzeug, Stimme und âObjectsâ wie aus einem Moebius-Comic.
MAW: aus dem Schlund in den Rachen
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MAJA’S LITTLE ONLINE MUSICMARKET 2013! REDUCED PRICES!!!
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LIVE Recording of the Premiere of my new Composition Wende (2013) which took place on 09.11.2013 Echoraum, Vienna is online. you can listen to it on my web under “unreleased sounds” or visit SNIM
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STELLA 13 – WINNING AWARD FOR THE OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION, happy!
This Production was also nominated for YAMA Award.
DAS KIND DER SEEHUNDFRAU / makemake produktionen & DSCHUNGEL WIEN & Wien Modern / Wien / 8+ /Â makemakeproduktionen.wordpress.com/
Der Jurypreis in der Kategorie âHerausragende Produktion fĂŒr Kinderâ geht an eine Theaterarbeit, die ihre Zuschauer in eine eigene, magische Welt einlĂ€dt. Eine Welt, in der die ausgewĂ€hlten Theatermittel gleichberechtigt ineinanderspielen und so zusammen einen Kosmos voller Wunder und Ăberraschungen erschaffen. Ein starkes Ensemble von MusikerInnen und SchauspielerInnen erzĂ€hlt eine Geschichte voll intensiver GefĂŒhle: Lust, Liebe, Verzweiflung und Verlust. Das Publikum wird reichlich belohnt, wenn es sich auf diese aussergewöhnliche kĂŒnstlerische Form einlĂ€sst, in der auch das Chaos seinen Platz hat.
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premiere and interview: SNIM plays (DIE) WENDE, 9.11.2013 at ECHORAUM, VIENNA
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that gobi’s cat sure is in contact with my new composition “wende”, possible reasons:
1. there’s a picture of a mouse on the first page of the score
2. the cat started reading the score and was so fucking “Cat-boring” that she felt asleep đ
my composition âwendeâ for snim is finished â denoised ratchets are finished
save the date for Premiere: 9.11.2013, Echoraum Vienna
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this summer, children visiting a wonderful musikwoche edelhof, organized by freie musikschule wien were working on my composition “doorways4”. i am so happy, so many beautiful new versions of the piece by young composers. HAPPY!
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photo of rdeÄa raketa in ĆĄkolska, prague, september 2013, loved that tour
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photo from popfest, with maja osojnik band, july 2013, made by beautiful rania moslam
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video from popfest, with maja osojnik band, july 2013, made by Carlo Wolf