BERNHARD GáL

'Bernhard Gál' (born 1971) is an Austrian composer and artist.

Contents

Biography

Selected Works

Discography

External links

Biography

Bernhard Gál (a.k.a. Bernhard Gal) creates music for instruments and electro-acoustic compositions, as well as art installations. Many of his intermedia art projects and sound installations present combinations of sound, light, objects, video projections and spatial concepts. He is director of the Austrian art organization "sp ce" and runs the record label Gromoga Records. Gals work has been presented in concerts, installations and exhibitions throughout Europe, Asia and The Americas. He has been invited to music and art festivals including Wien Modern Festival; Jeunesse Festival Vienna; Donaufestival Austria; ICMC Berlin; MaerzMusik Berlin; Inventionen Berlin; Sonambiente Berlin; Festival Stimme+, ZKM, Karlsruhe; MATA Festival New York; New Sound, New York-Festival, NYC; Soundfield Festival Chicago; Mutek Montreal; Musashino Public Art Festival Tokyo. He has collaborated with artists such as Yumi Kori, P. Michael Schultes, G.S. Sedlak, Akemi Takeya, and Emre Tuncer. For his work, Gal has received numerous awards, including the Karl Hofer Prize Berlin, a fellowship from the DAAD Artists in Berlin Programme, and the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition. His music has been made available by record labels such as Durian, Plate Lunch, Intransitive Records, Bremsstrahlung, Klanggalerie, Charhizma, and Gromoga. Currently Gál lives and works in Vienna and Berlin, Germany.

Selected Works

★ "bestimmung New York", 15 electroacoustic compositions based on 15 languages, 1998-99.

★ "Defragmentation/red", audio-architectural installation in collaboration with Yumi Kori, 2000.

★ "Of Sound and Time", composition for traditional Chinese instruments and three listeners, 2000.

★ "Klangbojen", sound installation consisting of floating sound and light objects on a lake, 2003.

★ "Night Pulses", sound installation based on light signals from the skyline of Manhattan, 2004.

★ "belit", composition for chamber ensemble amd light projection, 2004.

★ "behape", composition for 2 clarinets and spund projection, 2006.

★ "Airport", site-specific sound installation for the Music Instruments Museum Berlin, 2006.

★ "Infinitation (São Paulo)", audio-architectural installation in collaboration with Yumi Kori, 2006.

★ "solo", intermedia installation, 2007.

Discography

Main publications

★ ''Installations (dvd version)'' (Gromoga, 2007)

★ ''Installations (cd version)'' (Gromoga, 2005)

★ ''going round in serpentines'' (with K. Fagaschinski, Charhizma, 2005)

★ ''Installations (catalogue book and Audio cd)'' (Kehrer, 2005)

★ ''Hinaus:: In den, Wald.'' (Klanggalerie, 2004)

★ ''relisten'' (Intransitive, 2001)

★ ''Defragmentation/blue'' (Plate Lunch, 2000)

★ ''bestimmung New York'' (Durian, 1999)
Selected Compilations and Catalogue CDs

★ CD 'henri chopin remixed', Extraplatte, Austria 2006)

★ CD 'triMIX', Innova Recordings, USA 2006)

★ CD '90 Sekunden Wirklichkeit', DEGEM / Cybele, Germany 2005)

★ Catalogue & CDR 'Night Pulses', O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Austria 2004)

★ DVD 'Text & Language'. Aspect, Magazine of New Media Art, USA 2004)

★ CD 'Rock’s Role (After Ryoanji)', Art in General, USA 2004)

★ CD 'Intransitive Twenty-Three', Intransitive Recordings, USA 2004)

★ CD 'Danza De La Muerte', Klanggalerie, Austria 2003)

★ CD 'Typewriting Aloud. Typos Allowed', Slovakia 2002)

★ CD 'lowercase sound 2002', Bremsstrahlung, USA 2002)

★ CD 'because tomorrow comes #4', Germany 2001)

★ CD 'klanggesetz', Initiative Minderheiten, Austria 2000)

★ Catalogue & CDR 'Dissociated Voices', Werkstadt Graz, Austria 2000)

★ CD 'Beams and Waves', Sound Off Festival, Slovakia 2000)

External links

★ www.bernhardgal.com - Official website of Bernhard Gál. Calendar of events, biography, extensive list of works, sound excerpts and relevant links.

★ www.klanggalerie.com - Klanggalerie

★ www.charhizma.com - Charhizma

★ www.gromoga.com - Gromoga

★ www.sp-ce.net - sp ce, Austrian art organisation