klaus filip
*1963
computer music, programming, soundart, organize


i am musician, soundartist and programer but i live in vienna.
my main concern is with sinewaves, their appearance in time and at the threshold of perception,
as well as their entanglement with acoustic instruments.
as a soundartist i am researching the interplay between sound and light.
my software project ppooll is still in use by improvising musicians all over the world.
i studied electroacoustics and musicology a long time ago, teach at a university in vienna and was co-curating the reheat festival.
i have dedicated 3 years of my live to symposion lindabrunn, developing an art and festival space.

german:
Ich bin Musiker, Klangkünstler und Programmierer aber lebe in Wien.
Mein Interesse gilt vor allem den Sinustönen,
ihrem Auftreten in der Zeit, an der Wahrnehmungsschwelle und ihrer Verstrickung mit anderen Instrumenten.
Als Klangkünstler erforsche ich die Wechselwirkung von Ton und Licht. Meine Software ppooll
wird immer noch von improvisierenden Musikern dieser Welt verwendet.
Vor langer Zeit studierte ich Elektroakustik und Musikwissenschaften,
unterrichte an der Angewandten in Wien und war Ko-Kurator des Festivals Reheat.
ich widmete 3 jahre meines Lebens dem Symposion Lindabrunn, um einen Kunst- und Festival-Ort zu entwickeln.




collaborations with:
christian kobi, hans koch, radu malfatti, agnes hvizdalek, christián alvear, dafne vicente-sandoval, seijiro murayama, leonel kaplan, kai fagaschinski, taku unami, toshimaru nakamura, tim blechmann, ko ichikawa, nikos veliotis, nicolaj kirisits, jean-luc guionnet, katharina klement, seymour wright, werner dafeldecker, dieb13, christof kurzmann, boris hauf, christian fennesz, jason kahn, john butcher, sabine marte, gilles aubry, mattin, red white, cynthia schwertsik, noid, cordula bösze, silvia fässler, oblaat, taku sugimoto, ivan palacky, burkhard stangl, eddie prevost, john tilbury, axel dörner, ursula endlicher, masahiko okura, susanna gartmayer, philipp leitner, thomas strehl, posset, sergio merce and others.

work:
2023
Morphologie of Sounds, w/ nicolaj kirisits and Zeynep Akzös Balzar, Translation between Sound and Morphology using Artificial Intelligence
2022 concerts w/ klingt.collective, jean-luc guionnet, seijiro murayama, gabriela areal, radu malfatti
the bridge – between a ship-container and the camping-forest of the symposion lindabrunn, w/ johanna forster
VSL – dedication of most of my time between 2019 and 2022 for the development of the symposion lindabrunn into an open art(ists) space.
2021 concerts w/ radu malfatti, christian kobi, jonas kocher
kammerwellenmusik - open air 8-channel radio performance, w/ Veronika Mayer, Oliver Stotz, C. Hausch
DAN – DigitalArtNetwork together with nicolaj kirisits, Alessandro D`Alessio and Ulla Rauter
unicodan – unicode data visualization, festival dieAngewandte Vienna
Werkschau Wendelin Munter - curating and hosting the exhibition
2020 concerts w/ jean-luc guionnet, seijiro murayama, radu malfatti, solo
sonic luz – performing an optosonic synthesizer w/ noid, 2017...2020 in austria, korea, czech republic, poland, china, japan, italy, great britain, canada, germany, france
2019 concerts w/ msmutt, mike majkowski, radu malfatti, bertrand denzler, bruno liberda, bernhard gal, juergen berlakovich, klaus filip, veronika mayer, dirar kalash, solo
dust a bit - a rotting chord in collaboration with Thomas Grill, commissioned by rotting sounds vienna
Max Brand Flying Spot Synthesizer performance on the ancient machine, Langenzersdorf Museum, IMA
lunochod 1:2 scaled model of the soviet 1970ies moonwalker, perfoming at the mondfest at Steinergasse 8
2018 concerts w/ agnes hvizdalek, seijiro murayama, christian kobi, mike najkowski, radu malfatti, kai fagaschinski
soundcloud, w/ nicolaj kirisits, symposion "from something to nothing" (curated by Franz Xaver) (AT)
sonic dust soundart nickelsdorf 2018, shutup and listen 2018, new adits festival 2020, w/ kathrin stumreich: Äquidistanz Festival 2019, Steinergasse 2019
2017 concerts w/ agnes hvizdalek, christian kobi, hans koch, dieb13, billy roisz, burkhard stangl, phil minton, noid,susanna gartmayer, dd kern, gloria damijan
fenstersturz, w/ nicolaj kirisits dieAngewandte Vienna
residency performance cirkulacija 2 interdisciplinary station, ljubljana, (slo)  
soundart at sanatory of sounds #4 curating w/ noid, sokolowsko, (pol)
2016 concerts w/ dafne vicente-sandoval, radu malfatti, enrique maraver, orchester 33 1/3, agnes hvizdalek, franz hautzinger, christian kobi, tomas korber, hans koch, thomas peter, zsolt sőrés, taku sugimoto, sylvia bruckner, isabelle duthoit, noid,
hotspots - installation featuring refugee camps around europe, soundart nickelsdorf
Infected Structures, w/ nicolaj kirisits, Sokołowsko (POL)
AristInResindence audition records mexico city
home @ montreuil by jean-luc guionnet + eric la casa, w/ claire bergerault, will guthrie, cyprien bussolini, marc baron, elisabeth saint-jalmes, at audible festival Paris
2015 concerts w/ leonel kaplan, noid, matija schellander, felipe araya, reka rehformen, andreas trobollowitsch, radu malfatti, derek shirley, johnny chang, yan jun, yan yulong, anthea caddy, jon hunter, jeremy tatar
friv festival centrum amarant, poznan (pol)
photophon – partly w/ noid , austria, croatia, mexico, peru, argentina, chile, new zealand, australia, japan
werkschau 15jahre kleylehof13 the sadly last event at kleylehof, nickelsdorf (aut)
reheat#9 'Die heimliche Ordnung der Dinge' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2014 concerts w/ matija schellander, kai fagaschinski, pierre borel, hannes lingens, derek shirley, dafne vicente-sandoval, noid, andrey popovskiy, alexei borisov, alexander bruck, emilio gordoa, fil uno, cristian carracedo, leonel kaplan, jorge castro
12sins - composition
faserlace - optical interface performance of additive synthesis
reheat#8 'Sehr' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2013 concerts w/ edén carrasco, dafne vicente-sandoval, sally mcintyre, nick graham, rosalind hall, the decibel ensemble, richard johnson, john porter, rhys butler, seijiro murayama, radu malfatti, nikos veliotis, hankil ryu, mitsuteru takeuchi, moe kamura, klaus filip, ko ishikawa, nikos veliotis, masahiko okura, taku sugimoto, taku unami, wei-ya lin, johannes kretz, paul may, seymour wright, agnes hvizdalek, burkhard stangl, billy roisz
endless summer tour oct13-march14: japan, australia, new zealand, chile, argentina, peru. mexico
simulator - flying in digital art
reheat#7 'Schwebemächtigkeit und Sturzgefährdung' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2012 concerts w/ Franz Hautzinger, Isabelle Duthoit, noid, Wei-Ya Lin, radu malfatti, dafne vicente-sandoval, tim blechmann, henrik nørstebø, angélika castelló, kai fagaschinski
the ways things may go, w/ nicolaj kirisits and Alberto de Campo, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf (AT)
trails of sound (klangpfad) , moë Vienna
cultural morphing, w/ nicolaj kirisits exhibition at moë Vienna
Kunstradio, cultural morphing, Vienna, A
reheat#6 'Besser als wie man denkt' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2011 concerts w/ philip leitner, tim blechmann, noid, matija schellander, toshimaru nakamura, andrea neumann, ivan palacky, yan jun, kathrin stumreich, ye hui, o.blaat, kazu uchihashi, tamara wilhelm, radu malfatti, katharina klement, seymour wright, posset
cultural morphing - vienna-shanghai on surface, University Ulan Ude(RUS), National University of Mongolia, Ulan Bator(MNG), 2Kolegas, Peking(CHN), University of Shanghai(CHN)
36 days of earthquake in japan spacial sonification of the earthquake 2011
photophon video
force quit programmed random computer performance w/ noid at the klingt.org festival
reheat#5 'Siegelbruch führt zu Garantieverlust' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2010 concerts w/ clemens hausch, phillip stearns, benjamin tomasi, adam parkinson, yan jun, noid, seijiro murayama, agnes hvizdalek, veronika mayer, philip leitner, Kazuhisa Uchihashi, Carl Stone, radu malfatti, dieb13, tomas grom, irena tomazin, tim blechmann, katharina klement, jean-luc guionnet, hose, haco, go, taku unami, taku sugimoto, silvia faessler, billy roisz, yan jun, kai fagaschinski, hong chulki
informelles radio, w/ nicolaj kirisits, 6-channel live radio transmission from within a moving viennese tram - oe1 kunstradio and fm4 ORF, free radios
kunstradio: informelles radio
floating point (composition for Grenzwert 2.0 : Farben)
reheat#4 'Heuer Ungeheuer' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2009 concerts /w paul lovens, ivan palacky, kai fagaschinski, jean-luc guionnet, noid, andrea brandao, chris brown, o.blaat, radu malfatti, burkhard stangl
reheat#3 'Empfänger im Roggen' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2008 concerts /w seijiro murayama, simone borghi, albert allgaier, taku unami, radu malfatti, kai fagaschinski, eddie prevost, john tilbury, burkhard stangl, susanna gartmayer, ko ishikawa, axel dörner, masahiko okura, paulo raposo, Annette Krebs, Nikos Veliotis, toshimaru nakamura, goh lee kwang, tim blechmann
klangmaschinen, w/ nicolaj kirisits, additional exposés for Elisabeth Schimanas epic exhibition "Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen", Hainburg (AT)
rahmenbedingung, w/ nicolaj kirisits, noid, silvia faessler, dieb13
sonification of riding the bike
Des kleinen Elektromusikers Gedächtnis (composition and performance for IMA)   
wish i would play in this movie again tanztheaterproduktion mit Daniel Aschwanden & Daniel Zimmermann
reheat#2 '180° im Sommer' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
2007 concerts /w ctrl, kai fagaschinski, eddie prevost, john tilbury, burkhard stangl, jean-philippe gross, borut savski
tripple duo - remote internet improvisation concept, vienna-new york-berlin, w/ noid, oblaat, boris hauf
digital claiming, w/ nicolaj kirisits, plocica croatia, dieAngewandte Vienna
reheat#1 'Utopie und Sommer' interdisziplinary festival at kleylehof
tOr 6m round table for kleylehof
2006 concerts /w tim blechmann, noid, cordula bösze, antonio della marina, john grzinich, toshimaru nakamura, billy roisz, kai fagaschinski, radu malfatti, Ivan Palacky, keiko uenishi, karlheinz essl, bernhard loibner, tiziana bertoncini (violine), angélica castelló, katharina klement, thomas lehn, josef novotny
transit, - virtual multimedia sculpture, w/ nicolaj kirisits, kleylehof, MobileMusicWorkshop dieAngewandte Vienna
2005 concerts /w kai fagaschinski, paul lovens, radu malfatti, cordula boesze, toshimara nakamura, taku sugimoto, taku unami, dieb13, noid
der ohrenzeuge - literal and musical marathon-event at kleylehof
steinhof, w/ nicolaj kirisits and mischa kirisits
2004 concerts /w taku unami, burkhard stangl, noid, kai fagaschinski, cordula boesze, werner raditschnig, silvia faessler, mattin, taku unami, radu malfatti, gerald rossbacher, alexander wallner, boris hauf, o.blaat, taku sugimoto
website konfrontationen04
sinus hoch 8 tonspur
2003 concerts /w mattin, robin hayward, dean roberts, martin gut, radu malfatti
chazz 2 - music & chess
website konfrontationen03
2002 concerts /w hans falb, phillip schmickl, oliver stotz, billy roisz, dieb13
EISZEIT - composition für ton_macht_die_musik basel (CH)
chazz 1 - music & chess
website konfrontationen02
2001
Terminverschiebung - Computerinstallation Klangturm/St. Pölten
tito volimote utisak-otisak varazdin(CRO)
website konfrontationen01
2000
bigbaby w/ red white and cynthia schwertsik, france, switzerland, germany, austria, croatia
open source - räumliche Darstellung der Software lloopp im Rahmen der Ausstellung "sounds&files" im Wiener Künstlerhaus
zuerich schaubuden Rahmenprogramm bei der Skulturenschau Hans Peter Weberhans Zuerich (CH)
closing laptops performance at music unlimited, Wels (A)
1998
Tito Material - Sounddesign für den Film von Elke Groen (Diagonale Graz)
themeAttack "theatraler crossfade" 6 intensive interventions in Wiener Schauspielhaus
1996
orchester 33 1/3 Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, Steirischer Herbst, music unlimited wels, etc.
1995
zentrifuge w/ cynthia schwertsik and michael ferdiny, (Wien, Graz, Copenhagen LABYRINTH Torpedohallen, St.Petersburg)
1994
Obst&Gemüse Festival für elektronische Musik Berlin / Tacheles
sigis bruder - duo with Sigi Ecker
1993
Tanz im Spinnennetz - soundmanipulation and composition for the oratorium of Peter Wagner, w/ Christian Fennesz, Oberwart (A)
1992
drüben wo ihr herkommt - dokumentary movie w/ hannelore tiefenthaler
Gastmahl Tanzhotel w/ Bertl Gstettner, Maische
1991
ascihuh w/ hubert bergmann, katharina klement aschaffenburg (GER)
1988
subVoice – akustische zeitung, tape magazin, w/ christof kurzmann, robert stuc, arpad hagyo, peter rantasa, romana hagyo and others