sound installations | intermedia art projects | radio art

Tsumugu
Audioarchitectural installation by Yumi Kori and Bernhard Gal.
FP: Fuji Textile Week, Fujiyoshida, Japan, December 2021 - January 2022

rittlings (à cheval)
Sound intervention in conjunction with the project Kaffeenistik.
FP: Café Ritter, Vienna, November 2020

Die Grüne Hölle
Group exhibition 'AUDIOSPHERE', Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid , October 2020 - January 2021

bestimmung wien
Series of Voice Sculptures | Sound Installation.
FP: shut up and listen!, Transdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art. Z!R Kunst!Raum, Vienna, December 2019

homesweethomes
Sound installation.
Presented at Make | Spazio Espositivo Palazzo Manin, in conjunction with the festival IL SUONO IN MOSTRA, Udine, June 2019

Under the Jazz Nut Tree
Listening Environment | Sound Gardening. Kritzendorf, Austria, October 2016

homesweethomes #3
Sound installation. Third part of the work series homesweethomes.
Private apartment, 1020 Vienna. September 2016.

Das himmlische Kind
Site-specific sound installation. Zurich University of the Arts - Toni Campus (rooftop), February 19th-28th, 2015

Alsógál
Intermedia installation. Featuring site-specific presentations of homesweethomes, zhu shui and álmos madár.
Part of the group exhibition On the Edge of Perceptibility, Kunsthalle Budapest, Oct. 18th - Nov. 23rd, 2014

Revelator | Boxed Secret | Neon Pier
Participation in the sound art project Conversation at 2 West 13th Street, hosted by the research group Sound@Newschool.
Part of the exhibiton 'Earlids', Sheila Johnson Design Center at New School, NYC, January 24th to February 4th, 2014

It's like...
Sound installation.
Part of the group exhibition 'Über das Scheitern', enter: Raum für Kunst, Salzburg, June - August 2013

Silence is quiet. Listening.
Radiophonic composition, in collaboration with the Slovakian author Róbert Gál.
Commissioned by Austrian National Radio - Kunstradio. Broadcast on April 14th, 2013

textur #8
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna, May 2013

homesweethomes #1
Sound installation.
FP: Espace Projet, Montreal, April to May 2013 (part of the exhibition 'Territoires domestiques - Behind the Walls' )

solo (Kosice)
Intermedia Installation.
FP: Festival Sound City Days, Kosice, September 2012
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textur #7
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Institut für neue Medien, Frankfurt, July 2012

textur #6
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna, December 2011

Sterngucker
An audiovisual exploration of the solar system.
Festival Sláturtíð, Reykjavík Art Museum - Hafnarhús, Iceland, October 2011
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vibrate space
Contribution to vibrate space, a six-channel composition for public space.
FP: Festival Coded Cultures, Centralgarden, Vienna., Salzburg, Austria, September - October 2011

Sterngucker
An audiovisual exploration of the solar system.
Media Art Festival Liquid Music, Judenburg, July 2011
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earlift
Quadrophonic sound installation.
FP: KunstQuartier, Salzburg, Austria, May 2011
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Sterngucker
An audiovisual exploration of the solar system.
FP: Planetarium Judenburg, Austria, May 2011
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¡Pasarán!
Quadrophonic sound installation.
FP: Palais Kabelwerk, Vienna, November 2010

stromlinien
Audiovisual installation.
FP: KomponistInnenforum Mittersill, Austria, September 2010

RGB
Intermedia installation, exploring interactions of light, sound and space.
Part of the group exhibition 'Transformers'. das weisse haus, Vienna, March - May 2010
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textur #5
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: SESC Avenida Paulista, Sao Paulo, September 2009
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mil águas
Intermedia installation.
DMAE Art Gallery, Porto Alegre, Brazil, September 17th - October 9th, 2009
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solo (Braunschweig)
Intermedia installation, featuring four sound and light experience stations in public space.
Sound Art Project 'stadtklaenge | klangstaetten', Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig; May 7th - June 28th, 2009

textur #4
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Narodno pozoriste RS, Banja Luka (BiH), April 2009
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textur #3
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Plano B, Rio de Janeiro, January 2009

RGB
Intermedia installation, exploring interactions of light, sound and space.
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, November 2008
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solo
Intermedia installation, featuring four sound and light experience stations in public space.
Lakeside Science & Technology Park Klagenfurt (Austria). Nov 7th, 2008 until February 28th, 2009
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Reinstallation
Quadrophonic sound installation.
O Lugar, São Paulo, August 2008
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Die Gruene Hoelle
Intermedia installation commenting on the mass phenomenon of soccer.
Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna - June 26th, 2008
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Another Sky
Architectural installation by Yumi Kori featuring sound by Bernhard Gal.
Museu de Arte Moderna da Bahia, March 28th - April 20th, 2008

Reinstallation
Quadrophonic sound installation at the Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing.
In conjunction with the Festival Musicacoustica 2007. October 27th, 2007
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Klangbojen (Donaueschingen)
Site-specific intermedia installation at the Festival ‚Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007'.
Donaueschingen, Germany, October 19th-21st, 2007
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Hyohaku-no-Hakobune
Architectural installation by Yumi Kori, sound installation by Bernhard Gal.
Kobe Bienal, Japan, October 6th - November 25th, 2007
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shinkai
Architectural installation by Yumi Kori, sound installation by Bernhard Gal.
Japan Society, New York City, October 5th, 2007 - January 13th, 2008
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I am sHitting in a room
Site-specific sound installation as part of the Festival Interface,
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, Berlin, September 2007.
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Jukai
Architectural installation by Yumi Kori, sound installation by Bernhard Gal.
The David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence (USA), September 7th - October 21st, 2007
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Hinaus:: In den, Wald.
Sound installation based on Adolf Woelfli's life and oeuvre. Presentation as part of the project Schauwerk,
on view at the group exhibition "Blackbox Tonkunst". Theaterhaus Gessnergasse, Zurich, July 2007
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solo
Intermedia installation, featuring four sound and light experience stations in public space.
Gutenbrunn, Austria. June 30th - September 30th, 2007
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solo
Intermedia installation, featuring four sound and light experience stations in public space.
Tulln, Austria. Tulln, June 15th - 29th, 2007
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shinkai
Architectural installation by Yumi Kori, sound installation by Bernhard Gal.
ISE Foundation, New York City. Nov 7th - Dec 30th, 2006
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Infinitation (São Paulo)
Audio-architectural installation in collaboration with Yumi Kori.
SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo, September 28th, 2006 - January 14th, 2007
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Reinstallation
Quadrophonic sound installation at the Roxy Theatre in Owen Sound, Ontario.
In conjunction with the Festival Electric Eclectics. July 14th - August 6th, 2006
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Die Gruene Hoelle
Intermedia installation commenting on the Football World Cup 2006.
Gallery of the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin. June 9th - August 18th, 2006
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Utakata
Audio-architectural installation by Yumi Kori and Bernhard Gal.
Werkraum Warteck, Basel, open studio: May 16th, 2006

Airport
Site-specific sound installation for the Music Instruments Museum, Berlin.
May 10th, 2006 - undetermined
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RGB
New site-specific realization of the intermedia installation RGB, exploring interactions of light, sound and space.
Klangturm St. Poelten, April 26th - November 1st, 2006
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textur #2
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP: Domu umení, Opava (CZ), January 2006 (as part of the art project 'Hermes EAR').
video excerpts

textur #1
An audiovisual exploration. Part of the work series textur, combining phonographies and photographies.
FP of textur #1: Festival 'Music and Images', Frankfurt, December 2005
video (youtube)

Defragmentation (ISCP)
Site-specific installation in collaboration with Yumi Kori, as part of her artist-in-residency at ISCP, New York, May 2005

soundbagism
Sound installation.
Part of the 'Luggage Project', an exhibition of luggage sculptures exhibited at Denver International Airport, July-September 2004
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Night Pulses
Intermedia installation. O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Linz (Austria), June-July 2004
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Klangbojen
Site-specific intermedia installation in conjunction with ‚Musik aktuell 2003'. Tulln, Austria, August 2003
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Klangbojen
Site-specific intermedia installation in conjunction with ‚Musik aktuell 2003'. Gutenbrunn, Austria, July 2003
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intermedia music projects | music theatre

rittlings (à cheval)
2020. Sound intervention in conjunction with the project Kaffeenistik, curated by the institute for transacoustic research (iftaf).
FP: Cafe Ritter, 1160 Vienna, November 5, 2020

Silap Inua
2013. A performative music project for two Audionauts and Piano, 2013, by Bernhard Gal & Belma Beslic-Gal.
FP: Atelierkonzert für Neue Musik, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, February 2013
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Klangschatten II
2013. Music Theatre Project for a young audience, presenting old and new music for traditional Austrian instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting.
Commissioned by Jeunesse Vienna. Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, February 2013

becuadro
2008. 19'. Composition for brass quartet and light projection.
FP: MAK NITE, Museum for Applied Art, Vienna, March 2008
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Klangschatten I
2004/07. 45'. Music Theatre Project for a young audience, presenting tradtional and new music for Chinese instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting.
Tung Chao-Ming (zheng), Wang Ming (pipa), Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Bernhard Gal (live electronics, artistic direction). Produced by Kölner Philharmonie, PhilharmonieVeedel, Cologne, May 2007
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Beer Ceremony
2006. 15-20'. Composition for 12-20 beer bottle performers.
FP: Festival Sinapsis, Mendoza (AR), October 2006

Klangschatten I
2004. 45'. Music Theatre Project for Children, presenting tradtional and new music for Chinese instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting.
FP: Tung Chao-Ming (zheng), Wang Ming (pipa), Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Bernhard Gal (live electronics, artistic direction) - Klangtheater ORF, Vienna, November 2004
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belit
2004. 16'. Site-specific composition for chamber ensemble (Fl, Ob, B-Cl, Tba, Vln, Vln, Vc, Db) and sixteen-channel light projection.
FP: Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin - Festival Inventionen - Sophiensäle, Berlin, June 2004
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electroacoustic compositions

Vierband
23'. Electro-acoustic multi-channel composition.
FP: Festival Acousmonium 2023 @ echoraum, Vienna. March 9, 2023

rittlings (à cheval)
5'. Electro-acoustic composition, in conjunction with a sound intervention as part of the project Kaffeenistik, curated by the institute for transacoustic research (iftaf).
FP: Cafe Ritter, 1160 Vienna, November 5, 2020

bestimmung wien
26'. Electro-acoustic composition.
FP: shut up and listen!, Transdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art. Z!R Kunst!Raum, Vienna, December 2019.

homesweethomes #3
23'. Third part of the work series homesweethomes.
FP: Nestroyhof (private apartment), Vienna, September 2016.

homesweethomes #2
17'. Second part of the work series homesweethomes.
FP: Kunsthalle Budapest, October - November 2014 (as part of Alsógál, exhibition On the Edge of Perceptibility)

homesweethomes #1
31'. First part of the work series homesweethomes.
FP: Espace Projet, Montreal, April to May 2013 (in conjunction with the group exhibition 'Behind the Walls')

Lin-jiang Ye-chang
2011. 5'. Soundscape composition.
FP: Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna, December 2011

xuan zhuan
2009. 15'. Electro-acoustic composition.
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
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Reinstallation
2006. 74'. Electro-acoustic composition for the quadrophonic sound installation of the same name.
Premiere at Roxy Theatre in Owen Sound, Ontario, in conjunction with Electric Eclectics, July 2006.
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textur #2
2006. 18'. Electro-acoustic composition for the audio-visual installation / performance of the same name. Premiere at Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, May 2006.

In fusion
2001. 7'. Contribution to the 2CD-Compilation 'Twenty-Three', Intransitive Recordings, USA, released in 2004.
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
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1999

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Defragmentation/blue
1999. 56'. Electro-acoustic composition for the audio-architectural installation of the same name. CD-Version released by Plate Lunch, Germany 2000.
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Silap Inua
2013. 10'. A performative music project for two Audionauts and Piano by Bernhard Gal & Belma Beslic-Gal, 2013.
FP: Atelierkonzert für Neue Musik, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, February 2013
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Klangschatten II
2013. Music Theatre Project for a young audience, presenting old and new music for traditional Austrian instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting.
Commissioned by Jeunesse Vienna. Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, February 2013

becuadro
2008. 19'. Composition for brass quartet and light projection.
FP: Christoph Walder (french horn), Anders Nyqvist (trumpet), Andreas Eberle (trombone), Anton Wagnes (tuba); MAK NITE, Museum for Applied Art, Vienna, March 2008
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Beer Ceremony
2006. 15-20'. Composition for 12-20 beer bottle performers.
FP: Festival Sinapsis, Mendoza (AR), October 2006

behape
2006. 22'. Composition for 2 clarinets and sound projection.
FP: Clarinet duo stump-linshalm, Echoraum, Vienna, March 2006.
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Klangschatten
2004. 45'. Intermedia Music Project for Children, presenting tradtional and new music for Chinese instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting. FP: Tung Chao-Ming (zheng), Wang Ming (pipa), Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Bernhard Gal (live electronics, artistic direction), Klangtheater ORF, Vienna, November 2004
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UTOO
2004. 13'. Composition for chamber ensemble and sound projection.
FP: Ensemble Noamnesia (Fl, B-Cl, Perc, Vla, Vc, Db). Festival Sound Field 2004, Renaissance Society, Chicago, October 2004
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
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belit
2004. 16'. Site-specific composition for chamber ensemble (Fl, Ob, B-Cl, Tba, Vln, Vln, Vc, Db) and sixteen-channel light projection.
FP: Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin; Festival Inventionen, Sophiensäle, Berlin, June 2004
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vür fier
2003. 10'. Composition for trumpet, guitar, gu-zheng and sheng / xun.
FP: Franz Hautzinger (tp), Burkhard Stangl (git), Wu Wei (sheng/xun), Xu Fengxia (guzheng) - Porgy & Bess, Vienna, April 2003
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
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Defragmentation - For Six Instruments
2002. 19'. Composition for chamber ensemble (2 Cl, 2 Perc, 2 Vc). Commissioned by AsianCultureLink, Vienna.
FP: Newton-Ensemble, Christian Utz (conductor) - Porgy & Bess, Vienna, October 2002.
mp3-excerpt

e-musik
2001. 6'. Composition for acoustic guitar.
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
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Of Sound and Time
2000. 11'. For traditional Chinese instruments and 3 listeners. Commissioned by the ensemble China Found Music Workshop.
FP: Ensemble China Found Music Workshop, Christian Utz (conductor) - Konzerthaus Vienna, April 2000
Published as part of the CD same difference in October 2010.
mp3-excerpt

collaborative projects | performative and real-time concepts

Kosinüsse
2018-. Duo project with Klaus Filip.
FP: Festival Jahresendzeitschokoladenhohlkörper, F23, Vienna, November 2018

Silap Inua
2013. A performative music project for two Audionauts and Piano, 2013, by Bernhard Gal & Belma Beslic-Gal.
FP: Atelierkonzert für Neue Musik, Salzburger Künstlerhaus, Salzburg, February 2013
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V O I D
2011-. Collaborative concert project, featuring intermedia compositions by Belma Beslic-Gal and Bernhard Gal.
FP: neue-musik st. ruprecht, Vienna, June 2011.

same difference
2010-. Laptop performance by Bernhard Gál, based on sound materials from Gals CD same difference.
FP: Echoraum, Vienna, October 2010. The audio CD same difference was released by Gromoga, Austria in October 2010.

Vortex
2009-. Collaborative concert project, featuring intermedia compositions by Belma Beslic-Gal and Bernhard Gal.
FP: TKT FEST 2009, Tuzla (BiH), April 2009.

relive
2008-. Laptop performance by Bernhard Gál, based on sound materials from recent music and art projects, and related field recordings.
FP: Hypersonica Festival at FILE SP 2008, Sao Paulo, August 2008. The audio CD relive was released by Gromoga, Austria in September 2008.

dub/ber/vie
2006-. Multichannel composition / concert performance in collaboration with Jennifer Walshe.
FP: Festival Stimme+, ZKM, Karlsruhe, May 2006.

Zwischen den Seen
2006-. Collaborative composition by Kai Fagaschinski and Bernhard Gal.
FP: Festival Shut up and Listen!, Vienna, May 2006.

textur
2005-. Series of audio-visual performances / installations combining phonographies and photographies.
FP of textur #1: Festival 'Music and Images', Frankfurt, December 2005.

fagal
2004-. Collaboration with Berlin-based clarinetist-composer Kai Fagaschinski.
Concerts in Germany and Austria. The audio CD 'going round in serpentines' was released by Charhizma, Austria in December 2005.

music projects for a young audience / for young participants

schoolscapes
2013. Workshop with children, focusing on sounds to be discovered within a school building.
BG/BRG Klosterneuburg‎, Austria. December 2013

Boom!
2013. Workshop with children, based on the sonic of resonating tubes and pneumatic sound objects.
Organized by Jeunesse Austria. Landesmusikschule Ried, April 19th, 2013

Klangschatten II
2013. Music Theatre Project for a young audience, presenting old and new music for traditional Austrian instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting.
Commissioned by Jeunesse Austria. Wiener Konzerthaus, Vienna, February 2013
video documentation

The Supergalactics
2012-. A participatory artistic research project of unknowable outcome. Featuring Adrian, Antonio, Balduin, Belma, Bernhard.
FP: Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, Germany, July 2012

Klangschatten I
2004/07. 45'. Music Theatre Project for Children, presenting traditional and new music for Chinese instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting. Produced by Kölner Philharmonie, PhilharmonieVeedel, Cologne, May 2007.
video documentation

Klangschatten I
2004. ca. 45'. Music Theatre Project for Children, presenting traditional and new music for Chinese instruments, live electronics and light projection in a performative setting. FP: Tung Chao-Ming (zheng), Wang Ming (pipa), Wu Wei (sheng, erhu), Bernhard Gal (live electronics), Klangtheater ORF, Vienna, November 2004
video documentation