2012 - Fabian Gutscher

Fabian
gutscher
CV & works
Curriculum
Vitae
2015
Studies in transdisciplinarity at University of the Arts Zürich, zhdk
2014
Selected by the jury of the exhibition «Des hommes et la forêt»,
Musée de la porcelain, Château de Nyon
2013
Selected for the exhibition «Weltenbilder», Berne
2012
Education projects at the Creaviva, Zentrum Paul Klee (ZPK), Berne
2011
Nominated for the Roman Clemens Preis, Zürich
2010
Selected by the jury of the exhibition «Kunst am Wasser», Berne
2008
Diplom in music and media art, at the
University of the Arts Berne, hkb
2005/06
Sound regie for theater plays , Stadttheater Bern
Projects
(selection)
Concerts & Performances
2015 «Labor Concerts #2», live performance with «TableauVivant», Hauptsitz, Bern
2014 «Ur-Maneuvre», electronic live performance for the Vernissage of Nino Baumgartner, Luzern
2014 «Inside the Baxter Building», electronic live performance, with Samuel Würgler, Simon Petermann und Christian Schütz,
Jazzwerkstatt Bern 2013 «pulp.noir», media performances, Bern/Luzern/Zürich/Aarau/Basel
2012 «pulp.noir», media performances, Baden/Kassel/St. Gallen/ Winterhur/Montreux
2011 «Pumpen+Stumpen meets les Animals Sages», audio visual performance, Museeumsnacht Progr Sonarraum, Bern
2009 «Pumpen+Stumpen», concert, with Samuel Würgler, for the exhibition «Weltenbilder» former Tiefbauamt, Bern
Interaktive sound installations
2015
2014
2013
2013
2010
2010
2009
1/2
«Pièce de résistance», wood-sound-installation, «how to finish», zhdk, Toni Areal, Zürich
«Pièce de résistance», wood-sound-installation, exhibition «Des hommes et la fôret», Musee de la Porcelain, Nyon
«Klangkörper/ Eiskörper», sound installation for Franticek Klossners Melting Selves, Rolex Learning Center, Lausanne
«Two Objects», sound installation, «Einstein» Coffeebar, Bern
«PfeiftindieLuft», sound installation, selected by the jury of the exhibition «Kunst am Wasser», Bern
«Klang Entdecken», sound installation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Kindermuseum «Creaviva», Bern
«Klangkubus», interaktive lightcube, sound exciter, magnet-, vibration- and lightsensors, computer and lightcube «Eik», Bern
Audio-visual Installations
2014 «Hirntod - Das Gemüsemassaker», splatter-sound-performance, with Silvan Kuhl and Agota Dimen, Theater Neumarkt Zürich
2012 «Reise durch den Wissensraum», audio installation with 6-cannel videoprojection, Regie: Barbara Liebster, Zürich
2012 «Ein-Steiner», audio-visual installation with Silvan Kuhl, Bern
2011 «Building 246 and the ravanges of time», audio-visual installation with Silvan Kuhl, Bülach
2008 «WirWar», interactive live-audio drama (Diplom M&M), Blutturm Bern
Theatermusic & Sounddesign
2015 «Face Me», sound installation and soundconcept, Regie: Caitlin van de Maas, Kammerspiele München
2014 «Departure :: Basel SBB», sound design & sound regie, Regie: Bernhard Mikeska, Theater Kaserne Basel
2013 «Departure :: Zürich HB», sound design & sound regie, Regie: Bernhard Mikeska, Gessnerallee Zürich
2012 «Augen :: Blicke», sound design & sound regie, Regie: Bernhard Mikeska, Stadttheater Bern
2012 «Youtopia», sound design & sound regie, Regie: Katharina Cromme, Zürich
2011 «Credo» theater groupe Plasma, sound design & sound regie, Regie: Lukas Bangerter, Zürich/Basel/Bern/Köln
2010 «Closer», theater music, Regie: Piet Baumgartner, Zürich/Bern/Basel
2009 «Zeit für Wilma», theater music, Regie: Noemi Steffen, Bern/Berlin
2007 «First Life of Peter Paradies», theater music, Regie: Wolfgang Klüppel
2006 «Gott Fritz oder die Schöpfung», theater music for the christmas fairytale, Stadttheater Bern, Regie: Mario Portmann, Endregie: Volker Langeneck
Filmmusic
2011 «Alles eis Ding», sound design, frenetic, Regie: Anita Blumer
2010 «Rund um die Uhr», film music and sound design, Regie: David Fonjallaz
2009 «Held eco Spot», TV-commecial, film music, production: Lomotion AG, Regie: David Fonjallaz
2/2
Tableau
Vivant
A music to movement traslation,
Hauptsitz Berne,
2015
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The «Tableau Vivant» is a Object, that translates music into movement by analyzing amplitude and
frequency. It is a instrument and an installation in one. The interest of the Artist is to find ways of making music visible. Fabian Gutschers latest works explore the topic of sound and movement. The first
Try-Out he did with the electronic Trio «Inside the Baxter Building». Each of the tree musicians had
the possibility to send there improvised music signal seperatly to the «Tableau Vivant» to create instant
movements which were projected to a screen by thee light. A digital choreography of the direct translated music arised.
Try-out concert «labor #2» at the Hauptsitz, Bern
PiECE DE
RESISTANCE
wood-sound-installation,
Musée de la Porcelain
Nyon, 2014
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Unlike the museum, the forest is not a sacred space but a place of life and movement, Birdsong mingles
with the rustling leaves and the creaking of branches. For children the forest is a giant playground in with
to spend their free days building huts and playing hide-and-seek. Fabian Gutscher still recalls that ludic
dimenschion of the forest. His installation, a fragile DIY mobile, moves when the visitor passes before it,
emitting a curious sound perhaps evocativeof the sudden cracking of a branch. Witout even realising it,
the viewer is entrapped by the artist‘s game and can only gaze in suprise at the affect produced by their
passage.
Groupeexhibition
«Des
hommes et la fôret» Text: Vincent Lieber
Two
Objects
sound installation,
Einstein Coffeebar,
Berne, 2013
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«Two Objects» was a sound installation for a bar in the old city of Berne. In this bar there is a unused
ancient chamber in the old wall once used to dispose sewage. The Installation played with our gender
stereotypes. There were two red buzzers placed on the entrance of the tunnel. When touched the chamber started to sound and light up in red. One of the buzzers let you play a drone-sound and the other
a rhythmic pattern. If you played it well it became a instrument. If someone just hit one of the buzzers a
woman‘s voice told you to stop. But if you were playing gentil with those buzzers the same voice encouraged you to go on playing.
Klangkörper/
Eiskörper
sound performance,
Galerie Béatrice Brunner,
Berne, 2012
Listen to Soundsample
For the the opening of the exhibition «Körper schmelzen Köpfe» (bodies melt heads) of Franticek Klossner, Fabian Gutscher developed a way of making piezo microphones water-resistant to make silent noises
of the melting ice hearable. As Franticek Klossners «Melting Selves» startet to melt, little crackling
noises would appear. Twice a day for one hour Fabian Gutscher used instantly recorded crackling noises
to make a collage-concert.
Collaboration with Franticek Klossner
Inside the baxter
Building
improvised electronic music,
noises und samples
since 2012
Website
The Band «Inside the Baxter Building» plays improvised electronic music. The two jazz musicians
Simon Petermann and Samuel Würgler and the sound artist and musician Fabian Gutscher are constantly
pushing the boundaries of there instruments and there way of creating music. Always in the moment to
make instant compositions, where everything from melodies to noises is preferable. Committing to the
fact: Boundaries between noise and music are conventions. All Boundaries are conventions waiting to be
transcend.
Collaboration with Samuel Würgler & Simon Petermann
Pumpen +
Stumpen
electroacustic
duo-project,
since 2008
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The duo «Pumpen+Stumpen» was a collaboration between Fabian Gutscher and Samuel Würgler.
Improvisation was the base for two different world of sound. The jazz trumpet and the generated sound
from the computer were brought together by finding ways to electrify the trumpet and making the
sounds in the computer playable instantly. Adapted interfaces, as game controllers and analog guitarboard-effects helped achieve that goal. A collaboration with the visual artist Julia Tabakhova and her
Animals Sages let to a performance in the Progr Bern (picture).
Collaboration with Samuel Würgler und Julia Tabakhova (Visuals)
Augen:
:Blicke
headphone-theater,
Stadttheater Bern,
Berne 2012
Listen to Soundsample
«AUGEN::BLICKE» was a theater piece in the City of Berne from the Regisseur Bernhard Mikeska.
The spectator was seated in a shop window of the traditional shopping mall of Berne LOEB a collaboration with the Stadttheater Bern. The audience had headphones and heard the voices of the actor and
noises of the city. Fabian Gutscher developed a sound design that played with prerecorded and live
sounds. It strongened the connection between the urban place, where random things happened and the
play, which was written by Peter Stamm. Realty startet slowly to shift.
Sound design for Regisseur Bernhard Mikeska
Building
246
and the ravages of time
audio-visual installaion
«1200 years Bülach» festivity,
Bülach 2011
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The transdiscipinary works done with the scenographer Silvan Kuhl where driven by the search towards
a new way of creating scenographical design through sound. The work in Bulach gave a critical view an
the way where threatening the old. And how capitalism has it‘s way of directing our cities constructions.
Fabian Gutscher and Silvan Kuhl re-enacted traces they found in a abandoned house in the suburbs of
Zurich. With sound, light, tactile trancducer, interactive installations and small interventions with carton
they where able to guide you through there thoughts. A world of sounds as a critique against our system.
Collaboration with Silvan Kuhl
Pfeift
in die
Luft
sound installation,
«Kunst am Wasser», Casinoplatz,
Berne 2010
Listen to Soudnsample
A small step on the base of the art piece and you started your one twitter.
The bird sounds made you remember the free nature which is in danger of getting lost in the urban
space. What is natural and what is artificial? The passerby was invited to play and participate in this discurse. The piece «PfeiftindieLuft» (twitter in the air) gives back a sound-piece of artificial nature.
Collaboration with Michael von Känel
Pendulum
Variations
sound installation,
University of the arts Berne (hkb),
2007
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This sound installation bases on sound modules used in greeting cards. Fabian Gutscher used a pendulum to hack the modules. Each time the pendulum reached one of the silver contacts, one of the modules played a short part of the world famous tune «happy birthday». So every time the pendulum was
moved a sound collage has been instantly created.