Rare Nest Gallery is proud to present

Saturday, October 12th 2019

7 PM Reception, 7:30 Performance, 8 PM Discussion

This event is free but reservations are required

The electroacoustic composition Stimmen (German: “voices”) is a celebration of the human voice, of orality as a medium of communication that – precisely by stretching the securities of asserted meaning – reveals truth to those who keep listening in the absence of words. Berlin-based vocalist and performance artist Christine Scherzer has given this piece its voice. Florian Hollerweger, sound artist and Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago, has assembled the resulting recordings into the final composition.

 ABOUT FLORIAN HOLLERWEGER

As an artist and scholar of sound, Florian Hollerweger (b. 1980, Austria) develops artistic strategies for aestheticizing everyday aural experience in the context of electroacoustic music compositions, sound installations, public listening interventions, and computer music performances. He has presented his work across Europe, Great Britain, the U.S., Mexico, New Zealand, and Australia. Florian conducts research on 3D sound spatialization by means of binaural room impulse responses and Higher-Order Ambisonics. Before his current appointment as Assistant Professor in the Department of Audio Arts and Acoustics at Columbia College Chicago, Florian was a Lecturer in Music Technology at MIT (2013-17) and Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2011-12) and worked for the automatic audio postproduction web service Auphonic (2012-13). He holds a Ph.D. from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a Diplomingenieur (M.Sc.) from the Graz University of Technology, Austria.

 ABOUT CHRISTINE SCHERZER

Versatile Berlin-based performing artist Christine Scherzer (b. 1978) studied History of Art in Leipzig and graduated in Jazz Vocals from the University of Performing Arts in Graz, Austria. She has participated in numerous transdisciplinary projects combining music, dance and theater. Scherzer’s collaborations with Austrian and international musicians, artists and theatre groups has incorporated various music styles (jazz, pop, classical, contemporary) and led to appearances at several international festivals across Europe. Christine was a semi-finalist at the “Montreux Jazz Voice Competition” in 2010. Apart from her career in the performing arts, since 2006, she has been devoted to performing as a Red Noses Clown Doctor to cheer up children at hospitals, elderly people and refugees.

The project 'Stimmen' is partially supported by

a Faculty Development Grant from Columbia College Chicago

Herbert Brün Exhibition at Experimental Sound Studio

Friday, Oct 12th, 6 pm – 9 pm. Opening Reception & mini-concert at 7:30

At ESS b 5925 North Ravenswood

Rare Nest is delighted to partner with this vital non-profit organization in presenting Herbert Brün’s ground-breaking computer graphics. Founded in 1986, the Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) is home to a full-service recording, mixing, and mastering studio for hire; Audible Gallery, a public space for exhibitions, meetings, workshops, performances, and artists' projects; and the Creative Audio Archive—an invaluable collection related to avant-garde music of the last five decades. 

Celebrate the life and work of a brilliant composer and artist in his centennial year.
Opening Reception with Special Summer Cocktails:
Saturday, July 21st,  5PM to 9 PM
Reservations Required: keith@rarenestgallery.com or
708-616-8671
Herbert Brün, Berlin, 1918 - Urbana, 2000.  Herbert Brün's computer graphics represent a watershed in early computer art and design.  Widely recognized as a visionary pioneer in electronic composition including music and graphics, as a leader in social thought and computer theory and as a beloved teacher and mentor.  Brün was the first musical director to bring electronic compositions to the stage, in Munich in the early 1950’s.  Rare Nest and the Brün Estate are pleased to present Herbert Brün's graphics to a wide community of collectors, for the first time.