Elisabeth Schimana

Elisabeth Schimana (* 1958 in Innsbruck ) is an Austrian composer, performer and radio artist. She deals with space, the body and electronics, cooperates with the ORF Kunstradio and researches in the fields of women, art and technology.

Life

In 1983 Schimana attended singing lessons. In 1988 she graduated from the course for basic harmonic research at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna . Then she studied electroacoustic and experimental music as well as musicology and ethnology at the University of Vienna . Since 2011 she has been studying for a master’s degree in computer music composition at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz .

Stays abroad took her to various musical institutes in York, Keele, London, Moscow, Amsterdam, Oslo and Vilnius.

In 2005 she founded the Institute for Media Archeology (IMA) in Hainburg an der Donau .

Awards, grants, lectures and workshops

1998: Recognition award for music from the state of Lower Austria - regional director for Klangnetze Lower Austria
2000: Research grant from the state of Lower Austria
2001: Scholarship for postgraduate studies at the Theremin Center Moscow
2011: SKE Publicity Prize 2011
2012: State grant for composition from the bm: ukk
2013: Award for media art from the state of Lower Austria
2014: Lecture Performance at the Symposium Grenzgeräusche, Freiburg (DE)
2015: Composition workshops in Mexico City (Escuala Superior de Musica), Oaxaca (San Pablo), St. Luis Potosi (UASLP) - Lecturer: Symposium AllAroundAudio (FH St. Pölten), MAP Symposium (Ludwig Museum, Budapest)
2016: Lectures and composition workshops in Sao Paulo (Studio PANaroma, UNESP), Belo Horizonte (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) - Founding of "Klangraum Fröbelgasse" - Jury member for culture prizes of the State of Lower Austria
2017: Lecturer: “Art and Archive in Dialogue”, KUG Archive, Graz; “Composing with physical models”, IEM, Graz; "IMAfiction", Heroines of Sound Festival, Berlin; IMA Symposium “unfold”, Medienwerkstatt Vienna
2018: Hilde-Zach composition grant from the city of Innsbruck
2019: Austrian Art Prize for Music 2018

Works and projects

Live electronics

2005, 2007, 2008: Temple Music
2006, 2008: on tesar
2009: Stardust
2012: open and closed
2013: skin body
2013, 2014: membrane
2014: Aether waves
2016: In the sun
2017: Overlays
2017: 1001 needle sticks

Sound installation

2011: vibrate space
2015: sky waves

Radio art

1995: Weave
1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001: Touchless
1999: Stories II
2001: patriarchal poetry - dance for daisies
2005: Moscow River
2011: Good News in the Odds Journal
2013: 7 days and 7 nights Odessa
2015: El Radio
2016: Gorges
2018: Zealandia

Art in the social space

2000, 2001: a village does nothing

Interactive media installation

2002, 2006: shadow
2005: AGORA Or an art assembler
2011: model
2012, 2013, 2015: You Never Know
2014: The memory canon

Tape and performance

1989, 1999: Sirens

Live electronics and visuals

1996: touches
2001: sitting in my chair
2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006: the great score
2003: Portrait 01 the futurist
2003: tissue 03
2005: 4: 3
2009, 2012: Dope Beat Rosengarten
2018: Blind Date

Max Brand Synthesizer

2009: Infernal machine
2009: Le midi alla turca

Acoustic instruments

2009: clock frequency
2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2017: Virus_1
2012, 2015, 2017, 2018: Virus_2
2013, 2016, 2017, 2018: Virus_3
2017: Wide Country

Tape

2017: Homage a Max Brand

Intermedial installation

1996: autopsy

Musical theater

2018: Stung and gone

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ elise.at. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .
↑ Awarding of the culture prizes of the State of Lower Austria 1998
^ Hilde Zach Composition Scholarships Website of the City of Innsbruck; last accessed on April 19, 2019
^ Minister of Culture Blümel: Congratulations on the Austrian Art Prize 2018 . OTS notification dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019

personal data
SURNAME	Schimana, Elisabeth
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian composer, performer and radio artist
DATE OF BIRTH	1958
PLACE OF BIRTH	innsbruck

[elise.at-1] elise.at. Retrieved January 15, 2019 .

[2] Awarding of the culture prizes of the State of Lower Austria 1998

[3] Hilde Zach Composition Scholarships Website of the City of Innsbruck; last accessed on April 19, 2019

[4] Minister of Culture Blümel: Congratulations on the Austrian Art Prize 2018 . OTS notification dated February 8, 2019, accessed February 8, 2019