Peter Androsch is a sound artist: shaping sound, understanding sound, holding onto sound. Sound is not just sound rather sound waves. His extensive work is shown here within the four categories of composing, playing, phonography and the Hörstadt.
Androsch is a philosopher and a jack of all trades at the same time, a conceptual carnival artist. He knows his way around silence.
Eleonore Büning in the “Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung” 2013
Dagmar Ellen Fischer nominates in “Die Deutsche Bühne” “Golden Coast – A Report for An Academy” by Peter Androsch for the best Opera of the season 2017/18!
Die Deutsche Bühne, issue 8/2018
Peter Androsch received the AUSTRIAN STATE PRIZE FOR MUSIC 2023. Since October 2022, the new play by Peter Androsch and Natalie Pichler has been running: KLIMAZONE https://www.theater-phoenix.at/stueck/klimazone – It is one of Androsch’s most intensive works: a theater of the senses – runs until summer 2024 / DR. DIDI = Band of Peter Androsch, Didi Bruckmayr and Bernd Preinfalk: the new album BLUES. See also Spotify and other platforms / Until 2025/26 the independent art and research project GUSEN CONVOLUTE is running. Here Peter Androsch and his team are researching the genesis of the songs composed in the Gusen concentration camp, primarily by Polish composers.
Composing
Ever since the 1980s composing has played a central part in the creative work of Peter Androsch. Particularly in the area of musical theatre his particular fortitude in artistic creation can be seen, a strength that combines theatre, sound, and space: “Peter Androsch composes in the same way that Man Ray created his first Dada piece”, says Wolfgang Schlag in the Pasticcio in the cultural program of OE1 in 2007.
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Playing
After extensive touring in his younger days (tours through Austria, East- and West Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Belgium, Italy, Portugal, USA, and Africa) actively playing has become an integral part in Peter Androsch’s work once again. Together with his colleagues Didi Bruckmayr and Bernd Preinfalk he regularly plays contemporary chamber music as “Dr. Didi”.
Phonography
Peter Androsch has dubbed his sound-writings Phonographies. They arise through multiple layering, like sound is created by interference of sound waves. The pictures are based on musical and historical handwritings, sketches and photographs.
Hörstadt
The concept for the Hörstadt was developed in 2006 as a central piece in the musical department of the cultural capital of Europe of 2009 in Linz, of which Peter Androsch was the head. It was conceived as a laboratory for acoustics, space, and society, and so the Hörstadt was able to develop new methods such as anthropological acoustics and inclusive acoustics. Its central concern is designing the acoustic surroundings as humanely as possible.