In their project The Answer is No, Maja Osojnik and Ursula Winterauer use the same sound sources – voice, electric bass, and sampler. This deliberate choice creates a live situation in which an exciting mirroring takes place on both visual and sonic levels. Their goal is to explore, expand, and deconstruct the sonic possibilities of their instruments, entering into an intense dialogue in the process. In this collaboration, the musicians and composers Maja Osojnik and Ursula Winterauer move skilfully along the boundaries between analogue and digital sounds, as well as between virtual and real spaces.
The Answer is No - Maja Osojnik (SI/AT) & Ursula Winterauer (AT)
Maja Osojnik is a singer, composer, improvising electroacoustic musician, sound artist, and producer. She primarily uses voice, Paetzold bass recorders, field recordings, DJ-CDs, tapes, and other lo-fi electronic devices, toys, trash, and found objects. Osojnik has made a name for herself across various musical fields, including early music, contemporary, experimental, electronic, jazz, free improvisation, sound art, and heavier genres. Navigating the limbo between analogue and digital art, virtual and real spaces, she seeks to expand, deconstruct, and reinterpret the tonal spectra of mentioned instruments — assigning them new roles in a process reminiscent of building anagrams. She composes for dance, theater, film, radio plays, sound installations, and various ensembles. In addition to teaching composition and free improvisation, she runs the label Mamka Records, dedicated to releasing high-quality, self-produced sound recordings in small, handmade/printed editions. Her art, solo performances and projects — including Rdeča Raketa, ZSAMM, Broken.Heart.Collector, All.The.Terms.We.Are, Maja Osojnik Band, Subshrubs, Low Frequency Orchestra, among others — have been presented at numerous international festivals.
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Ursula Winterauer aka Gischt (AT) is a composer and electronic music producer based in Vienna. Her artistic practice generates raw sounds that oscillate between brutality and atmospheric diffusion. Her eclectic soundscapes deliver nuanced interpretations of genres like industrial, techno, and ambient, expressed through bass guitar, synthesizers, and clouds of electro-smog. Her works have been performed at various Austrian festivals such as donaufestival, musikprotokoll, unsafe+sounds, as well as in cities like Zurich, Berlin, Priština, Riga, and New York. Winterauer has collaborated with artists from various fields, including Annja Krautgasser, Claudia Larcher, Elisabeth B. Tambwé, Conny Zenk, and Antoinette Zwirchmayr.
Winterauer also engages in curatorial work, runs the Ventil Records label and develops compositions for film and contemporary dance.
gischt.xyz
