Susanna Ridler

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Susanna Ridler (2011)

Susanna Ridler (born 1968 in Waldhausen im Strudengau ) is an Austrian vocalist and composer at the interface between jazz, electronics, improvised music, new music and literature.

Life

The Austrian composer, vocalist, performer and sound artist first studied acting and worked for a number of years in the theater (including at the Aktionstheater Ensemble ) before studying music and singing in Maastricht, Amsterdam & Los Angeles (Outstanding Student Award 1998, Musicians Institute , Hollywood ).

In 1998 Ridler founded the acapella trio "treasure" in Los Angeles, with which she realized her first compositions (2nd place in the Californian acapella competition "Harmony Sweepstakes"). After her return to Vienna in 2001, Ridler began to integrate the computer as an instrument into her musical work. She composed music for theater and radio plays (including for Ö1 , “Staatstheater Mainz”), produced a remix for Universal Music in 2003 for Gershwin's “ Summertime ” and in 2004 started her electronic jazz pop project [koe: r].

In 2008 Ridler released the first sound carrier [koe: r] on her own label "Electroland Records Vienna", with Peter Herbert (double bass), Wolfgang Puschnig (saxophone / flute), Thomas Gansch (trumpet), Rainer Deixler (drums), Helmut Jasbar (Electric guitar). Your CD version of Jobim's " Corcovado " was re-released on the stereo deluxe compilation "Brazilution-Winter Edition".

In 2009 Ridler produced a remix EP with mixes by I-Wolf , Lowa (featuring Uwe Walkner), Brenda & Conny Dix.

In 2010 she cooperated as a singer and co-writer for the song "kiss her in the stomach" with Kava & Christopher Chaplin (album "Seven Echoes", Fabrique Records ).

In 2012 the second [koe: r] album "Susystems" followed with Peter Herbert (b), Florian Kmet (egit), Alexander Lackner (b), Gerald Preinfalk (bcl), Wolfgang Puschnig (sax). With this she achieved a modern art music that was highly praised by the media - Rolling Stone magazine says: "Susystems leads straight into the realm of strokes of genius". Austria concert tour a. a. to: “Grazjazznacht” in Graz, “Jazz & the City” in Salzburg, “Women in Jazz” in the Brucknerhaus Linz and “Jazz Art” in the Glass Hall (Wiener Musikverein).

In spring 2012, Ridler received a composition commission from the Outreach Festival on the subject of “Financial Crisis”, where the 30-minute work “no fear with angst” was premiered.

2014/15/16: In her commissioned work for the Carinthian Summer under the title "Geometry of the soul or I no longer see the lake", Ridler sets excerpts from Gert Jonke's works (including parts of the "Geometric Heimatromans") to music . The project was premiered in a trio with bassist Peter Herbert and saxophonist Wolfgang Puschnig . The Gert Jonke Society then commissioned Ridler to provide music for the unveiling of the new gravestone at Gert Jonkes' grave of honor, as well as the awarding of the Gert Jonke Prize in the Klagenfurt City Theater in March 2015 - here with the premiere of the commissioned composition of the Jonke poem " here the map ”.

In 2015 Ridler started a mini-concert series called POCKET SESSION. A 30-minute solo or duo session, as a musical workshop in public space, where excerpts from current compositions are tried out and donations are collected for charitable purposes. The venue in 2015 was the upcycling design store "risen". The POCKET SESSION No. 4 took place for the first time in August 2016 in the Vienna Votive Church .

style

As a singer, composer and arranger, Susanna Ridler strives for a reconciliation between acoustic and electronic worlds: “This fusion should produce a coherent, special sound. I try to make every note consciously, which leads to a complex composing and arranging process. "

The band project [koe: r] is the result of a long search with the intention of combining tradition and modernity and thereby finding an individual approach to style. Ridler's concept of combining electronics, jazz, pop, rock and funk is implemented here. Live material recorded in the studio meets the possibilities offered by the computer - with all the methods such as sampling, alienation, time stretching, pitch bending, etc. You can also find songs like Summertime, Fever, Comes Love, Angels Eyes, You go to my Head and Corcovado undogmatically raised to a surprisingly new musical level - especially since the old songs on the one hand wear unusual style clothes and on the other hand experience an interpretation that borders on a new composition. "I try to bundle different stylistic and methodical traditions in which artificial sounds and the aura of improvising individualists are superimposed," says the musician.

Meanwhile Ridler writes works for classical chamber ensembles and tries to merge composition and improvisation in a meaningful way.

Discography

  • 2012: [koe: r] "Susystems" - Electroland Records Vienna, ELRV001
  • 2011: Single "Winter", Electroland Records Vienna, ELR001
  • 2010: "Seven Echoes" by Kava & Christopher Chaplin, Fabrique Records (guest on track 6)
  • 2009: Stereo Deluxe "Winter Edition" contains [koe: r] s version of Jobim's "Corcovado"
  • 2009: [koe: r] “Remix EP” - Electroland Records / Geco Tonwaren; with mixes by Iwolf, Lowa (feat. Uwe Walkner), Brenda, Conny Dix & Susanna Ridler
  • 2008: [koe: r] - Electroland Records / Geco Tonwaren
  • 2003: "Summertime, this is now", Remix Compilation, Universal Music Austria, (Ridler alias tristan)

Commissioned composition / cooperations / theater music / POCKET SESSION

  • 2016: Chamber music piece written for the ensemble XX Jahrhundert under the direction of the conductor Peter Burwik // with texts by Gert Jonke // “Chlorophyll sound powder dust or: the exploration of botanical clay tissue” // World premiere December 7, 2016
  • since 2015 - POCKET SESSION : a 30-45 minute solo or duo session, as a musical workshop in public space
  • 2015: Commissioned composition for the Gert-Jonke-Gesellschaft for the awarding of the Gert-Jonke-Prize 2015 in the Stadttheater Klagenfurt / world premiere "Because the memory of you ..."
  • 2014: Musical accompaniment at the honorary grave of Gert Jonkes - at the unveiling of the new grave sculpture by the visual artist Wolfgang Walkensteiner
  • 2014: Commissioned work for the Carinthian Summer / Under the title "Geometry of the soul or I no longer see the lake", Ridler sets excerpts from Gert Jonke's works (including parts of the "Geometric Heimatromans") to music
  • 2013: Participation as vocalist & electronics technician at Karl Ritter & Wolfgang C. Kuthan's “ Sound Ritual ”, a large-scale art event , energetic tone painting from layered guitar feedback, a variety of acoustic instruments and human voices.
  • 2012: Commissioned composition from the "Outreach Festival" on the topic of "Financial Crisis", where the 30-minute work "no fear with angst" was premiered (funded by the BMUK)
  • 2010: Song co-author & vocals for track 6 on the CD “Seven Echoes” from “Kava & Christopher Chaplin” / Fabrique Records
  • 2009: Theater music for Ewald Plametshofer's “Sauschneid” Directed by Dieter Boyer , Theater am Lend, Graz
  • 2008: Theater music for “Torquato Tasso”, director: Dieter Boyer, Staatstheater Mainz
  • 2008: Music & Concert for the "Multimedia - State Prize Award", Konzerthaus Vienna
  • 2008: Music & performance for the "5th anniversary of Gabarage", Künstlerhaus / brut, Vienna
  • 2007: Composition and sound installation for Jürgen Schiefer's exhibition in K / haus, Vienna
  • 2006: Concert and musical framework for the opening of the exhibition "Verrückte Liebe" at the Kunstforum Bank Austria, Vienna
  • 2005: ORF, radio play music “Neuland”, text: Andraes Renoldner, director: Katharina Weiss
  • 2003: Theater music for “The Crime of the 21st Century”, directed by Dieter Boyer, Theater mbh, Kabelwerk, Vienna
  • 2002: Theater music for "Vagina Monologe": Director: Brigitta Soraperra, Remise Bludenz
  • 2001: Singing and language in Bachmann, "Life during Wartime", music: Peter Herbert, director: Claudia Oberleitner
  • 2001: “West's and Zobenriggs Doubts”, music: Michael Mautner , MUMOK, ORF recording

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personal data
SURNAME Ridler, Susanna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian vocalist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Waldhausen im Strudengau