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)

2003 Pure.Berger, realtime audio/computergrafik improvisation - several performances in scandinavia

2003 various solo concerts in berlin, hamburg, belgrade, vilnius, rennes,...

2003 february: leading workshop for MAX/MSP/JITTER at the State Art Academy in Oslo in february

2003 march: residency in Rennes (France) as part of the festival "Meeting" together with Johnny Dekam.

2003 april: leading workshop for MAX/MSP/JITTER at the Center for Electronic Arts Trondheim
 
2003 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

2003 june: invited by the ecole des beaux arts rennes (france) to produce a DVD in collaboration with Johnny Dekam.

2003 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)

2003 home is where my hard disk is vol.2 - DOC7

2003 pure dekam DVD - DOC5

2003 bodyhammer - solo and collaborative works from 1993-2001 - praxis 26cd

2002 noonbugs  -  MEGO30

2002 just in case you are bored. so are we. - collaboration with martin siewert and dieb13  -  DOC4

2002 home is where my harddisk is vol.1  -  DOC3

2001 LOW  -  STAALPLAAT149

2000 s[e]nd - a collaboration with the french artist ULTRA MILKMAIDS -  VACUUM2 

1999 the.end.of.vinyl  -  MEGO15