from Sri Lanka - ශ​්​‍​ර​ී ල​ං​ක​ා​ව, released September 1, 2022
Heidrun Schramm & Nicolas Wiese

Heidrun Schramm is a noise collector, sound artist and composer. In her work she combines sound art, music and video art. Mixed forms of performance, acousmatic performance and installation are created. She composes conceptual electroacoustic music for multi-channel loudspeaker systems using recordings of acoustic musical instruments and object sounds as well as field recordings. Everyday life, context, poetry, space are important parameters for her work. The starting point can be a single concrete sound or the memory or imagination of a sound event that can be heard in an everyday context. These „found sounds“ are intensively explored according to their tonal characteristics and possibilities. She holds an MA from the UDK, Berlin; where she studied in the Sound Studies Program with Prof. Sabine Breitsameter and Prof. Dr. Martin Supper.

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Nicolas Wiese (born 1976 in Itzehoe, Germany) is an audiovisual artist, designer and composer/performer of electroacoustic music. He has been living and working in Berlin since 2006.

Wiese studied communication design, illustration and communication theory at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (completing his undergraduate degree / diploma in 2005). Apart from that, he attended Sound Studies at the University of Arts Berlin and courses in philosophy and sociology at the University of Hamburg.

Nicolas Wiese creates works in a wide range of formats and media, for various contexts: installation and spatial performance, contemporary electronic composition, relational and improvised music, graphic art, drawing, collage, radio and experimental film. His work testifies to a strong interest in the deconstruction and reconstruction of found images / found sound / quotations from mass media and everyday life – centring on themes of ambiguous perception, contradiction and the suggestive use of images, of mediated communication. Speech, the written word, architecture, complex abstraction and refraction of nostalgia all play important roles in Wiese’s aesthetic output. His stop-motion collage video techniques give rise to pieces rich in detail and layers, which play with opacity and transparency, and often with the perception of time.
In his sound works and electroacoustic compositions, Wiese primarily uses short fragments of acoustic source recordings, which are then collaged, layered and processed to different degrees of recognition. These techniques, following the Musique Concrète tradition, are augmented by the adept use of sample-triggered polyphonic feedback modulation and great attention to crafting a highly spatial listening experience

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