Institute for Transacoustic Research
The Institute for Transacoustic Research ( iftaf for short, English: The Institute for Transacoustic Research), based in Vienna, was founded in 1998 to define and research transacoustics. According to its own definition, it deals with acoustics and their tangential areas; its limits to various other areas (such as language, imagination, movement, space) as well as to barriers (technical, physical, psychological, sociological, aesthetic, etc.) within the acoustics itself. The institute's working methods are heterogeneous.
The research work of the iftaf is not purely scientific, but predominantly of an artistic nature. The works can essentially be assigned to the field of sound art . If possible, the results are published on the two institute's own small labels “iftaf-rec” and “transacoustic research” in the form of CDs.
A special feature of the iftaf is the transdisciplinary approach to cooperation - people from a wide variety of professions and living environments ( philosophy , visual arts , music , poetry , dance , theater , electrical engineering , medicine , physics , psychology , genetic engineering ...) meet here and work together on the Formulation of the transacoustics. Art and music should be pursued with the methods of science and vice versa.
Founding members of the institute are: Nikolaus Gansterer, Matthias Meinharter, Jörg Piringer, Ernst Reitermaier
Projects (incomplete)
- Hearing Cage (2012, Zeit-Ton , moderation Susanna Niedermayr , ORF Live Radio show, Ö1 )
- Asymptotic test arrangements (2007, world premiere, music protocol, Steirischer Herbst , Graz)
- for example / transacoustic research (2005, world premiere at the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) )
- Transakustik AZ, (2004, Festival Wien Modern)
- translectures (2003–2004, Forum Stadtpark , Graz; Festival inpotenza, Vienna; Wiener Konzerthaus ; MuseumsQuartier , Vienna; LuitpoldLounge, Munich; aufHoeren Festival, Vienna)
- outpost (2001–2002 in Vienna, Linz, Hamburg, Feldkirch, Frankfurt, podewil Berlin)
- Foreign decibels (2001, Festival of Regions 2001. Upper Austria)
- MSV 2000 (2000, Festival of the Rivers, Vienna)
- cede gluebing (2000, Vienna and Graz)
- hearings (1998–2004, Vienna)
Festivals and exhibitions
- Trans-lecture, sound performance, Secession , Vienna, Austria (2011)
- Trans-lecture, sound performance at 10 years klingt.org, brut theater, Vienna, Austria (2010)
- Animation Epidemic, Sound performance (together with the Polish sound collective "male instrumenty"), in the Museum of Applied Arts (Vienna) , (2009)
- Contours, Vienna University of Technology , Austria (2009)
- Club transmediale , Bethanien , Berlin, Germany (2009)
- geiger Festival, Gothenburg , Sweden (2008)
- reHeat Festival, Kleylehof, Nickelsdorf , Austria (2008)
- Belluard Festival (in collaboration with Elixir), Friborg, Switzerland (2008)
- MMW - mobile music workshop, University of Applied Arts , Vienna, Austria (2008)
- Transacoustic Research Tour with workshops, lectures and concerts in Innsbruck, Gent, Brussels, Antwerp (2007)
- ARTmART audio night, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2007)
- klingt.org Festival, Fluc, Vienna (2007)
- Lives and works in Vienna II, Kunsthalle Wien (2005)
- zero bending, Galerija P74, Ljubljana (2005)
- moving patterns: electronic music and beyond, austrian cultural forum , New York (2005)
- Update.kunststrukturenutzen & creating, Künstlerhaus Vienna (2005)
- Theorem Collector, MuseumsQuartier , Vienna (2004)
- Wien Modern, Vienna (2004)
- transacoustic research, Forum Stadtpark , Graz (2003)
- Festival of the Regions, Upper Austria (2001)
Publications (incomplete)
So far, 7 CDs have been released on the institute's own label "transacoustic research":
- Hearings (Various Artists)
- Automate ( The Vegetable Orchestra )
- Vokál ( Jörg Piringer )
- Outpost (Institute for Transacoustic Research)
- Rubberglovesbackpipes ( Sergej Mohntau )
- Seeing with ears ( Ulrich Troyer )
- Soundrawing ( elffriede , VA)