PURE (Peter Votava),
-works and lives in Vienna/Austria.
Working mostly in the field of abstract listening music and sound for performances since the second half of the nineties with a background in djing and producing various styles of electronic music since 1991.
Activities/Projects (selection)
- Pure.Berger, realtime audio/computergrafik improvisation - several performances in scandinavia
- various solo concerts in berlin, hamburg, belgrade, vilnius, rennes,...
- february: leading workshop for MAX/MSP/JITTER at the State Art Academy in Oslo in february
- march: residency in Rennes (France) as part of the festival "Meeting" together with Johnny Dekam.
- april: leading workshop for MAX/MSP/JITTER at the Center for Electronic Arts Trondheim
- may: participating in the project h.a.u.e.r. - realtime generation of twelve tone music based on the works of Josef Matthias Hauer manipulated by a dancer. in cooperation with Robert M. Weiss and Doris Reisinger
- june: invited by the ecole des beaux arts rennes (france) to produce a DVD in collaboration with Johnny Dekam.
- november: participating in the project "Biomorph" - an art-lounge situation
2002/2001 participating in the interactive project A SOPHISTICATED SOIREE. http://www.sophisticatedsoiree.com/
He is teaching MAX/MSP/JITTER, a programming environment for audio/visual works, at the University of Applied Arts in vienna since 2001.
Releases (selection)
- home is where my hard disk is vol.2 - DOC7
- pure dekam DVD - DOC5
- bodyhammer - solo and collaborative works from 1993-2001 - praxis 26cd
- noonbugs - MEGO30
- just in case you are bored. so are we. - collaboration with martin siewert and dieb13 - DOC4
- home is where my harddisk is vol.1 - DOC3
- LOW - STAALPLAAT149
- s[e]?nd - a collaboration with the french artist ULTRA MILKMAIDS - VACUUM2
- the.end.of.vinyl - MEGO15