ROTOR ist eine Veranstaltungsreihe zu Experiment, Diskurs und Intermedialität ausgehend vom weit gefassten Topos Klang als ephemere, skulpturale Metapher – dessen Repräsentanzen und diskursive Optionen.
ROTOR wird kuratiert von Michael Fischer.
Diese Ausgabe von ROTOR präsentiert:
APPARATUS (Tanja Peinsipp & Ulrich Schleicher) x OSCILLOSCOPE MUSIC (Jerobeam Fenderson & Hansi3D)
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APPARATUS
Klangkunst trifft auf zeitgenössischen Zirkus. Steuert der Apparat uns oder will er einfach nur ein Eis? Wenn Technik immer intelligenter wird, könnte sie irgendwann eigene Gelüste entwickeln?
Die Performance apparatus erforscht die symbiotische und zugleich widersprüchliche Beziehung zwischen dem menschlichen Körper und Technologien. Dabei untersucht sie den Prozess der gegenseitigen Mobilsierung und fragt nach dem lustvollen Moment der Steuerung und dem gesteuert werden. Am Kopf der Performer*innen befindet sich ein neuronales Interface – dieses wandelt Gedankenströme in Sounds um. Die Handgelenke und der Bauch sind mit zwei hoch sensitiven Vektorsensoren ausgestattet. Digitale Technik verarbeitet Bewegungen und steuert die Klänge eines modularen Synthesizers. Analoge Kabel werden zum Aerialprop, eine Akustikgitarre wird zum vielschichtigen Klangkörper. Die Choreografie wird von den klanglichen Texturen, die durch die modulare Synthese erzeugt werden, inspiriert.
Creation and Performance: Tanja Peinsipp & Ulrich Schleicher
Outside Eye: Frederik Marroquín (2025), Verena Schneider (2024)
Outside Ear: Johanna Schlömicher (2024)
Photos: Eyup Kus
apparatus was supported by a residency at brut Wien June 2025. Thanks to TRAP- Circus Center, Arbeitsplatz Wien and Cambium in Fehring.
https://tanjapeinsipp.com/apparatus/
OSCILLOSCOPE MUSIC
Oscilloscope Music ist das audiovisuelle Projekt von Jerobeam Fenderson und Hansi3D, bei dem Bilder mit Sounds gezeichnet werden. Die leuchtend grünen Liniengrafiken eroberten 2016 das Internet, als ihr erstes, selbstbetiteltes Album erschien. Das zweite Album, N-SPHERES, erschien im Jahr 2024 auf Floppy-Disk und hob die synästhetische Komposition und Komplexität auf ein neues Level.
Bei ihren Live-Shows haben sie von analogen Oszilloskopen auf Hochgeschwindigkeits-Laser aufgerüstet und schicken das Publikum auf eine omnisensorische, interdimensionale, geometrische Raumreise.
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APPARATUS
Sound art meets contemporary circus. Does the apparatus control us or does it just want an ice cream? As technology becomes increasingly intelligent, it could develop its own desires at some point?
The performance apparatus explores the symbiotic yet contradictory relationship between the human body and technology. It examines the process of mutual mobilization and questions the pleasurable moment of control and the being controlled. A neuronal interface is located on the head of the performer – this converts streams of thoughts into sound. The wrists and the belly are equipped with two highly sensitive vector sensors. Digital technology processes movements and controls the sounds of a modular synthesizer. Analog cables become aerial prop, an acoustic guitar becomes a multi-layered body of sound. The choreography is inspired by the sonic textures created by the modular synthesis.
Creation and Performance: Tanja Peinsipp & Ulrich Schleicher
Outside Eye: Frederik Marroquín (2025), Verena Schneider (2024)
Outside Ear: Johanna Schlömicher (2024)
Photos: Eyup Kus
apparatus was supported by a residency at brut Wien June 2025. Thanks to TRAP- Circus Center, Arbeitsplatz Wien and Cambium in Fehring.
https://tanjapeinsipp.com/apparatus/
Tanja Peinsipp (*1990 in Hartberg, Austria) lives and works as a transdisciplinary artist in Vienna. She works artistically in the fields of contemporary circus, theater, stage and costume design. She is part of the zirkus collective kaudawelsch and the compagnie lou . As a circus artist she works both Solo and in collaboration with artists from other fields.
She is a multi-disciplinary aerialist, specializing in aerialsilk, Corde lisse and in the Research with other aerial-apparatus. Besides that she is doing partnering and object manipulation. She is a self-taught circus artist and has also trained in the field of contemporary dance in the movement LAB study group, in technics of Pranayama, Hatha Yoga and currently she got really excited in the martial art Kung-Fu. In addition to her artistic work, she is studying for a master’s degree in Theater-Film- and Media Studies with a focus on Circus Studies at the University of Vienna. She interweaves scientific working methods with artistic collaborative processes. Her interest lies in the conception and realization of site-specific circus projects in public spaces and the creation of indoor circus pieces which deal with present sociopolitical topics like ecofeminism. Together with Töchter der Kunst & the Radical Kitsch Ensemble, she works on theater productions in the field of szenographie and costume-design.
In 2024, she received a six-month scholarship for contemporary circus, which is funded by the City of Vienna. In November 2024 she celebrated the premiere of her solo debut “heck a CARe less WORK“ at ON THE EDGE Festival.
Tanja teaches aerial arts at Circus Kaos, Circus Academy Vienna, Aerial Sports Studio and Circusluft Drosendorf. In her classes, she sees the participants as experts of their own bodies and tries to develop and strengthen their knowledge and their specific movement qualities. Focusing on finding intuitive pathways, pushing limits and increasing playful lingering in the air.
https://tanjapeinsipp.com
Ulrich Schleicher works as musician and producer and lives in Vienna.
OSCILLOSCOPE MUSIC
Oscilloscope Music is the audiovisual project by Jerobeam Fenderson and Hansi3D where images are drawn with sound. The glowing green line drawings took the internet by storm in 2016 when their first self-titled album came out. Their second album, N-SPHERES, was released in 2024 on floppy-disk and took things to new spheres in terms of synesthetic composition and complexity.
In their live shows they have upgraded from analog oscilloscopes to high-speed multi-wavelength lasers, sending the audience on an omnisensoric interdimensional geometric space experience.