MY VOICE MY VOID
Austrian premiere (opening)
MY VOICE MY VOID
Marino Formenti (IT), Irena Tomažin (SI), Thomas Grill (AT)
MTTW After-Premiere Music Performance
In their first collaboration, Marino Formenti, Irena Tomažin and Thomas Grill conceived an entertaining and abysmal musical performance for the MTTW after-premiere party. Based on the situation and mood of a pop event, they play with the associated clichés. In doing so, they scrutinise and sabotage the idea of the human voice as an intimate and truthful communication, as a very personal, unique "signature".
Voice, player piano and computer are the main elements of this performance on the border between human and technology, intimate communication and disembodiment, presence and emptiness.
"Is she a good guy? Does she have feelings? What is her weakness? What is she afraid of? Is she black or white? Does she need to eat? Who is her ex girlfriend? What is her IQ? Can she defeat Thanos? Who is her lover? Can she feel pain? Is she possible in real life? Does she herself have an AI? What is her technology? Why is she part robot? Is she a virgin?"
tickets & performances
prices: Category 3
Full price € 10 [admission included in the opening ticket, available for purchase separately]
Odeon Theater
Taborstraße 10, 1200 Vienna
Marino Formenti (IT), Irena Tomažin (SI), Thomas Grill (AT)
This research is part of the "Spirits in Complexity" project and was partly funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF funded [10.55776/AR821].
MARINO FORMENTI, recognised worldwide as a pianist and performer, repeatedly puts his virtuosity at the service of risky experiments in which opposites collide and music is heard in places where it is otherwise unfamiliar. His preference for radically new approaches to the relationship between music, audience and performer is reflected in very different projects. For example, he performs concerts for a single person, makes the audience sing and even play the piano, or plays for several weeks without interruption in a publicly accessible space. Formenti has performed as a soloist at the most important festivals in New York, London, Lucerne, Sazburg and Berlin, as well as with leading orchestras and conductors.
THOMAS GRILL is an artistic and scientific researcher working with sound and its context. As a composer and performer, he concentrates on concept-oriented sound art, electro-instrumental improvisation and compositions for loudspeakers.
He researches and teaches at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, where he heads the course for electroacoustic and experimental music (ELAK) and is co-director of the Artistic Research Centre (ARC). He is currently leading the artistic research project "Spirits in Complexity" (2024-2026).
Grill has been honoured with an Honorary Mention from the Prix Ars Electronica, the Theodor Körner Prize, the Award of Excellence from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research and various working grants.
