Andreas Trobollowitsch (At)

1 November 2019 City Sonic

Motorblues (Belgian premiere)

Motorblues is a sound installation consisting of an electric guitar, two modified fans, two microphone stands and an amplifier. The guitar is positioned horizontally, a little above the ground while the fan motors are in the opposite direction, on the ground. The two pieces of the microphone stand, slide (swinging) slightly over the strings of the guitar, like a “bottleneck” of blues guitar. So the harmonies change in a very subtle way continually.

Production: Andreas Trobollowitsch with the support of Transcultures.

Biography

Andreas Trobollowitsch (Vienna) is a composer, performer visual and sound artist. He works extensively in the fields of electroacoustic composition and improvisation, and has composed for dance, theatre, film and radio.  Based on rotation, vibration and feedback systems he uses mainly modified everyday objects, prepared fans and string instruments. Recently he has been focusing primarily on conceptual compositions, self- developed musical instruments, sound and drawing installations. Interested in dichotomy of the intellectual and the physical he includes visual aspects, spatiality, movement, and the way that they relate to sound.