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Austrian artist, composer and musicologist Bernhard Gál is equally at home within the domains of contemporary music, installation art and media art. Since 1998, he has presented over 100 sound installations and intermedia art projects throughout the world, combining sound, light, objects, as well as architectural concepts and video projections into multidimensional and prevalently site-specific art works. He composes for acoustic instruments and electroacoustic music. As an electroacoustic musician, Gál has performed extensively on five continents, and worked with numerous musicians of the electronic and improvised music scenes. Another aspect of his work is interdisciplinary collaborations, e.g. with the choreographers/dancers Christian Aichinger and Akemi Takeya, the writer Róbert Gál, the visual artists Susana Gaudêncio, Mandy Morrison, John Roach and Silwa Sedlak, the architects Yumi Kori and P. Michael Schultes, the directors Ludwig Wüst and Dietmar Lenz, the film makers Emre Tuncer and Hervé Nisic, the sound engineers/technicians Günther Bernhart, Götz Dihlmann and Martin Murauer, as well as collaborative projects with fellow musicians such as Belma Bešlić-Gál, Kai Fagaschinski, Klaus Filip, Chao-Ming Tung, and Jennifer Walshe. Born in Vienna, Austria in 1971, Gál began to nurture his interest in music and (sound) art around 1985. After studies at Vienna’s University of Music (Sound Engineering) and the University of Vienna (Musicology), and a year-long residency in New York City in 1997–98, he has focused on his compositional and artistic activities. Since 2006, Gál also serves as the artistic director of shut up and listen! - Transdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art in Vienna. From 2006-07 he taught sound art at the University of Arts in Berlin. From 2010-13 Gál held a research position at the Paris Lodron University Salzburg, in conjunction with the interdisciplinary doctoral college ‘Art and the Public’. In 2021, he completed a PhD at the University Mozarteum Salzburg, with a transdiciplinary thesis about sound installation art. Since autumn 2020 Gál holds a teaching position at the Certificate Program in Electroacoustic and Experimental Music (ELAK) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His research activities include scientific publications, conference presentations, lectures and workshops, particularly concerning sound art and contemporary music. As head of the three-year FWF-PEEK project AUDIO GHOSTS, Gál is currently engaged in the artistic exploration of auditory illusions in sound art. Gál's work has been presented in concerts, exhibitions, public space installations, and radio portraits internationally, and performed by ensembles such as Alter Ego (Rome), CFMW (Taipei), the Kammerensemble Neue Musik (Berlin), the Ensemble Noamnesia (Chicago), the OENM-Ensemble (Salzburg), and Phace (Vienna). He has been invited to international music and art festivals including Wien Modern, Vienna; MaerzMusik, Berlin; Sonambiente, Berlin; Donaueschinger Musiktage; Nuova Consonanza, Rome; MATA, New York; Soundfield, Chicago; Mutek, Montreal; Musicacoustica, Beijing; FILE, São Paulo, and frequently gives lectures and workshops. For his music and art projects Gál has received several awards, including the Karl Hofer Prize Berlin 2001, an annual composer fellowship from the DAAD Artists in Berlin Programme 2003, the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition 2004 and 2016, and the Outstanding Artist Award for Music of the City of Vienna 2010. His work has been made available on various audio publications and documented with catalogue books and DVDs. In 2022 his dissertation HÖRORTE | KLANGRÄUME. Eine transdisziplinäre Topografie installativer Klangkunst was published by Wolke Verlag (sinefonia DIGITAL #3, wolke, Hofheim, Germany). |
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Awards | Annual Grants | Fellowships 2023 Three-year research grant, Programme for Arts-based Research (PEEK) of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) 2016 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition 2013 Official representative of Austria at the World New Music Days 2013 (selected work: flut, together with B. Beslic-Gal) 2010 Outstanding Artist Award for Music (Förderungspreis Musik), City of Vienna 2010 Acquisition Award, State Art Collection of Austria 2005 NASOM Award, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Dep. of Culture 2004 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition 2003 Theatre Award 'Intercultural Accents 2003', Vienna 2003 DAAD Artists in Berlin Program (Composer-in-Residence), Berlin 2002 Annual Grant, SKE / austromechana, Vienna 2001 Karl-Hofer-Prize, University of the Arts, Berlin 2001 The ar+d award for emerging architecture (recognition), London (together with Y. Kori) 2000 Composition Award, Initiative Minderheiten, Vienna 1999 Max-Brand-Prize, Austria (recognition) |
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| top | Collections textur #5; Video art / Audiovisual installation; Artothek (Art Collection of the Republic of Austria) Hinaus:: In den, Wald.; Quadrophonic sound installation; Schauwerk, Trogen (Switzerland) Airport; Multi-channel sound installation; Music Instruments Museum, Berlin bestimmung darmstadt / Disscociated Voices; Collection of Werkstadt Graz, Graz Performances http://www.bernhardgal.com/gal_live.html 300+ live (laptop) performances a.o. in: Banja Luka, Belgrade, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bern, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Cologne, Concord (NH, USA), Darmstadt, Dieburg, Dortmund, Dubai, Eisenstadt, Florianopolis, Foshan, Frankfurt, Graz, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hammamet (TN), Hongkong, Innsbruck, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, Kyoto, Leipzig, Linz, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Lowell (MA, USA), Madrid, Meaford, Mendoza, Montevideo, Montreal, Muenster, Munich, Nagoya, New York City, Osaka, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Porto Alegre, Prague, Princeton, Pula, Quebec City, Reykjavík, Richmond, Rio de Janeiro, Rochester, Salzburg, San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan (AR), São Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Sarajevo, Schrattenberg, Seattle, Shanghai, Sofia, St. Poelten, Taipei, Timisoara, Tokyo, Toronto, Troy, Tuzla (BiH), Valletta, Valparaiso, Vienna, Vina del Mar, Washington (DC), Weimar, Zagreb. |
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