Almost all of Klaus Filip's art projects have been driven by technological possibilities and the social need to change structures. Among them subVoice (an underground tapemagazine), Sigis Bruder (early electronic songs together with singer Sigi Ecker), Christof Kurzmann's Orchester 33 1/3, Zentrifuge, music for short films, theatre, dance, sound-installations. He is the musical and electro-mechanic father of BigBaby, an outstanding intermedial project around a sculpture build by Red White and brought to life by the movements of Cynthia Schwertsik.
Filip is the inventor and never sleeping developer of the open-source software lloopp (http://lloopp.klingt.org), a musical instrument on the computer to provide open structures for live-improvisation, used by many well-known electronic musicians.
While he used to play on the edge of a computers abilities in the past years, he is now reducing the processes to mere sinus-waves, overlapping with themselves and the ever sounding surroundment of a place; searching for the individual limits of perception, in loudness and movement. Colaborations with Radu Malfatti, Werner Dafeldecker, Dieb13, Christof Kurzmann, Boris Hauf, Christian Fennesz, Jason Kahn, John Butcher, O.blaat, Sabine Marte, Gilles Aubry, Cordula Bösze, Silvia Faessler, Taku Unami, Taku Sugimoto, Toshimaru Nakamura, Arnold "noid" Haberl, Tim Blechmann, Ivan Palacký.
projects:
~ los glissandinos (with kai fagaschinski)
~ lloopp (open source free- & software for musicians)
~ das fax mattinge® (with billy roisz, dieb13, oliver stotz, alex wallner, wolfgang fuchs, gerald rossbacher)
~ tripple duo (advanced internet improvisation concept, so far with oblaat, noid, boris hauf)
~ bigbaby (with red white and cynthia schwertsik)
~ erstes wiener lebensabschnittstrio (with noid & silvia faessler)
~ duo with cordula bösze
~ taus (duo with tim blechmann)
~ ease (duo with arnold haberl)
~ jokebux (collection of my music)
~ der ohrenzeuge (literal and musical marathon-event at kleylehof)
~ kleylehof (atilier & homebase)
~ university teaching position at university for applied arts vienna
~ transit (virtual multimedia sculpture)
~ rahmenbedingung (sonification of riding the bike w/dieb13, noid, kirisits)
~ reheat (multimedia festival 2007, 2008, 2009)
concerts:
vienna, berlin, brussels, zurich, geneva, friebourg, bern, hamburg, bremen, hannover, valencia, madrid,
lisbon, porto, new york, washington, baltimore, philadelphia, chicago, london, newcastle, graz, linz, wels,
nickelsdorf, ljubljana, tarcento, montreal, paris, strassburg, amsterdam, rotterdam, maastricht, den haag, gent,
kopenhagen, tokio, nagoya, kyoto, fukuoka, bratislava, prag, budapest, györ, udine, trieste, warsaw, szczecin, lissabon, barcelos,
hainburg, metz, glasgow, san francisco, santiago de compostela, moscow, nishny novgorod, cheboksary, kazan, yaroslavl
collaborations with:
radu malfatti, werner dafeldecker, dieb13, christof kurzmann, boris hauf, christian fennesz, jason kahn, john butcher, sabine marte,
gilles aubry, noid, mattin, red white, cynthia schwertsik, cordula bösze, silvia fässler, taku unami, oblaat, taku sugimoto,
toshimaru nakamura, tim blechmann, ivan palacky, burkhard stangl, eddie prevost, john tilbury, ko ichikawa, nikos veliotis,
axel dörner, masahiko okura, daniel aschwanden, jean-luc guionnet, philipp leitner u.a.
recordings:
~ sigis bruder "leftovers" (klaus filip / sigi ecker) trost 1994
~ orchester 33 1/3, plag dich nicht 1996
~ "maschine brennt" orchester 33 1/3, charhizma 1999
~ "building excess" (Klaus Filip / Radu Malfatti / Mattin / Dean Roberts) Grob 651, Grob Records, Cologne 2004
~ los glissandinos: stand clear (creative sources, lisboa 06/2005)
~ "aluk" (Klaus Filip / Toshimaru Nakamura): aluk (japanimprov/tokyo/2006)
~ taus "the organ of corti" (klaus filip/Tim Blechmann , lÕinnomable, ljubljana 2007)
contact:
klaus(AT)klingt(DOT)org
