Robert Schwarz
Robert Schwarz incorporates a background including computer music, sound studies and architecture into his installations, live performances and recorded music. With over 20 years of working in the field of sound, the Vienna-based sound artist approaches acoustic phenomena with an ear attuned to the inner systems of his subject, uncovering details normally hidden from perception. Crafting abstract structures through the interplay of field recordings and sound synthesis, his compositions suggest profound, dissociative states of listening and encourage a critical examination of our established listening practices.
Robert Schwarz has released albums for Superpang, Gruenrekorder, ETAT and ALTER.
He has presented works at institutions and festivals such as MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Kunsthalle Wien, Tokyo Arts and Space, CTM Berlin, Skaņu Mežs Riga, Musikprotokoll Graz and Inner Spaces Milan, and he is co-founder and curator of the ‘PARKEN’ festival for adventurous music in Vienna.
EDUCATION
2010, MA
Berlin University of the Arts
Berlin, Germany
2006, MSc
Vienna University of Technology
Vienna, Austria
JURY
Kirsty Bell
Bettina Götz
Hou Hanru
Markus Schinwald
Christoph Thun-Hohenstein
