Lights, camera, action. Welcome to the Tangible Music Lab. My name is Enrique Tomas. I'm a teacher at the Kunstuniversität Linz in the Tangible Music Lab that we have in the Tabak Fabrik. So, well, basically, this is a format that we propose for bringing international artists who are visiting us to play at Stadtwerkstatt. We thought that well, there is so much interest in artists passing by Linz and sometimes we don't have the opportunity to see them on stage. So we thought together with Stadtwerkstatt and also we got the support from Linsounds to present this new format in this venue. So the idea is that we are interested actually in their instruments. So it's not only about the artist, their music, what they propose, but actually also in their instruments because this is what we do in the in our department we build instruments we design systems for electronic music for post digital music actually So we have been actually doing two concerts before, in the months before, and it was always the idea of presenting something very different at each of the concerts. So we had, for example, Boris Shechenkov playing a kind of light sculpture that he was controlling with his fingers. We had a millennials that was giving a very incredible, amazing performance on stage with multi-channel audio, 12 channels here in Stadbergstad. At the beginning, we also enjoyed the music of Laura Adel and Moises Orta, Exorcismos, doing experimental AI music. I'm a-skating, scratching, having tonight is a very special concert as well. It's Kevin Blackstone who is going to play an instrument who actually makes him feel pain. So while he's playing, he's getting electroshocks. And he's trying to see the relationship between the artist who makes art and also the pain that you will basically feel while making all these presses. My name is Kevin Blackstone. Tonight I will be performing an improvised electronic music set that will incorporate a vest that is going to learn from my performance both the movements of my arms as well as the acoustic properties of what I'm performing and punish me if I am behaving too predictably via electric shocks. This one, I mean, it's not quite an instrument so much as an interface for musical performance, but it sort of came out of thoughts of hostile architecture and how people need to move around these things that are designed to prevent them from doing the thing that they want to do. So things interfering with sitting comfortably on a bench or homeless people being able to sleep in public spaces, they have to find ways around this. And this is sort of both drawing light on those issues while trying to gamify it as a means to force an improvisation upon myself. Lama Piano playing Hello, I'm Martí Ruiz from Barcelona. I teach at the University of Barcelona, the Faculty of Fine Arts, and I'm the head of the Sound Art Laboratory, where I teach and do research about sound sculpture and sound art so I combine my practices as an artist also as a researcher and teacher to keep sharing the things I like and things I love. So I learned from the Bossier brothers who were pioneers on sound sculpture. So when I build something, I always try to, on one side, push the sound design in terms of making it interesting and understanding more complex notions. But at the same time, to make it appealing to as many people as possible. So even if you don't feel you have any music skills it will be accessible it will be appealing and available so one of the tools on sculptures is with friction with water so it's very easy to use and the other one is percussion so you don't really need to have a big background to get engaged so that's that's the main point that it can be interesting for like let's say like professional musicians or people who are very interested in music and people who maybe are not yet that interested in playing music themselves We have to confirm the next dates and artists, but we actually try to bring to Stedbergstad not the typical frontal electronic music show. We think that there is a lot of possible formats for presenting electronic music. And, well, it's actually very easy with the proposals that the artists are bringing so sometimes they just you know they just have better ideas than than ours so yeah we expect the the unexpected so to say for example we think that we are gonna do concerts not only here in the main hall but also in other places like the workshop or maybe outside in the main square or I don't know let's see what happens or maybe yeah some experiments will come out of them Thank you for watching!