To hear on Sunday 1 and 8 March 2015, 2pm - 9pm:

MOSCOW

(M)y Swo(O)ning (S)ends out (CO)ld (W)armth

Radioart (2005, German Premiere)
by Elisabeth Schimana 

Loudspeaker installation, curator: Knut Remond

Elisabeth Schimana on 'MOSCOW':

Heartless City,
a Love Story

Two years of living in Moscow and still it seems impossible to find the right words for this city. A city of contrasts, of overlapping and colliding systems. With unrelenting harshness. The droning sound of the subway gives way to winter landscapes of freshly fallen snow and their muted acoustics. Chimes amid the constant din of the city. Birds' twittering at the bird market and in the inner courtyards. Archetypical electronic instruments like the ANS synthesizer, rhythmicon and theremin. And the russian soul.

All sound material recorded by Elisabeth Schimana, 2001 to 2005
Sound engineers: Martin Leitner and Anna Kuncio
Produced by ORF Kunstradio

Relating to the question "sound activism" with which ohrenhoch deals in 2015, Elisabeth Schimana writes:

MOSKWA renounces language and still tells a very intimate love story
MOSKWA renounces any fashionably refined sound processing, the material remains raw and dirty and in this rawness of the sounds is the living thing
MOSKWA wanders acoustically through colliding systems
MOSKWA for some triggers a recognition, a social conjointness with the sounds, and for others an astonishment, a curiosity
Hearing MOSKWA can but doesn't have to be political, since WHEN and for WHOM does a sound get political?
(Translated from German by K. Moos)