New composition by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk: a highly dynamic and eclectic ride between directed feature, audio-art and faked diary.
Out of field-recordings made during an artist-residency in Milano and the audio material of his recent installations, Roigk molds spatially complex and overlapping plattforms for tedious noises playing sonic protagonists in an exclusively acoustic audible theatre piece. The hypnotic swarms of organic chants, cascades of rustles, rattles and drones, short cracklings, scratches and moments of exhausting compressions or restfully silence generate a rousing maelstrom of fragmentated narrations with expressive gestures. From density to decay and from intimacy to vast, Roigk creates a dense and highly differentiated composition of intense associations and dramatic film-like atmospheres.
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Stefan Roigk (born 1974) is a sound artist based in Berlin. He studied fine art with a focus on sound art in Hannover under Professor Ulrich Eller. In his work, Roigk pursues the intermedial interweaving of sound collage, installation, musical graphics and text-sound composition. The resulting works approach sound as a field for artistic and aesthetic research, taking it as both their departure point and central medium. Roigk's artistic focus lies on the dynamic staging of context-related fragments of everyday existence, which he imbues, in the sense of visual music, with an extraordinarily developed, visually poetic formal language. In realizing these aims, Roigk uses compositional and deconstructivist techniques of collage and assemblage for the development of stage-like spatial compositions with an implicit underlying narrative sense, in which the diverse media blend together like the instruments of an orchestra. In his work, Roigk reflects on his own living and production conditions, while investigating the political potential of aurality and tracing the subjective construction of reality. Since 2010, he has worked regularly in co-operation with visual artist
Daniela Fromberg on intermedial installations and compositions.
Stefan Roigk has received numerous grants and awards, including a work stipend from Stiftung Kunstfonds, a research grant for fine art from the Berlin Senate, the BS project grant from the state of Lower Saxony as well as a nomination for the German Sound Art Award. His works have been performed internationally in the scope of numerous concerts and festivals, shown in solo and group exhibitions and published in the form of books and recorded media. His releases have appeared on notable outlets, including
Tochnit Aleph,
Edition Telemark, Argobooks, Revolver Publishing, Senufo Editions and Fragment Factory.
In addition to his work as a fine artist and composer, Roigk has curated concerts and performances at ausland, a collectively-run venue in Berlin, has been a member of the artist collective Errant Sound and has been involved in the art festival artspring.
He is involved in initiatives to shape cultural politics such as the bbk berlin and the Coalition of the Independent Arts. Furthermore, he lectures on the role of sound in the fine arts and, in 2009, co-founded, along with Daniela Fromberg, the multi-award-winning participatory cultural education project geräusch[mu'si:k], which is devoted to sound as a form of musical expression.
