Susanne Kirchmayr

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Susanne Kirchmayr aka Electric Indigo, DJ, composer, musician, has performed in 37 countries across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. In 1998 she founded female:pressure - an international network for female artists in the realms of electronic music and club culture.

As a composer and musician Kirchmayr emphasizes the spatial-temporal placement of subtly textured sounds. She received the "outstanding artist award Musik 2012" in the field of electronic music and computer music, and the national grant for composition 2013 from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts, and Culture.

Important works produced in recent years comprise multichannel compositions "Structuring Contours" - premiere at Klangspuren Festival 2011, "RRHONFEER-RRHEFNEOR" for Moozak Festival 2012, and "Chiffres" - premiere at e_may / Wien Modern 2012, as well as her works for the radical opera "ABSTRIAL" together with composer Pia Palme and choreographer/dancer Paola Bianchi, and "something wicked" for hoergeREDE Festival with author Olga Flor 2013.

Electric Indigo is currently working on her first solo album.

Sound, Gender, Technology – "Where to" with Cyberfeminism?

Kunstquartier Studio 1, Sat 01.02.2014, 14:00

Lectures and panel discussion: Sadie Plant, Marie Thompson, Fender Schrade, Susanne Kirchmayr, Moderation: Annie Goh