Lissie Rettenwander's musical history has been a long journey, including many stops along the way, as well as numerous twists. Born in Kitzbühel, her career began with the traditional folk music of the Alps. As a child and teenager, she sang and played the zither in the well-known Hausmusik band formed by her family. Later, her path led her to Innsbruck, where she began to compose her own songs on the guitar and to contribute to various band, music and art projects. 
As a solo artist, her main focus is on the experiment and total improvisation. Thus, for instance, she likes to blend analogue effects in with the sound of her zither. Between immense clouds of sound and eerily focused calm, Lissie Rettenwander, with her extraordinary voice, leads us into unknown worlds. The freely improvised pseudo lyrics, meanwhile, play with the illusion of song. Yet, nothing is the way it seems. Lissie Rettenwander's music is unpredictable. Just like the basic themes of her work. The emotions are woven into an elaborate musical Gesamtkunstwerk, the interpretation of which leaves us a lot of freedom. 
For 2013, the Heart of Noise Festival has decided to honour this artist and her music with an album specially commissioned for the occasion. It will be exclusively available on vinyl and online as a digital download during the festival, where the artist will also present her album, on Saturday, June 22, at the Stadtsäle. On May 1st, the first single release will be published as a digital download. 

who are they aimed at, the countless, uncountable stitches, sound stitches, who is lissie rettenwander pointing them at by stitching up, by chaining up her sound space, by weaving it together any which way? who or what is meant to be pinned down or finally pushed towards dissolution? in her world of sounds, she creates simultaneousness and multitude at once, her at times almost childlike playfulness tempts us to hear more, to immerse ourselves in this vast space of vocal and instrumental breaths. a gasping for breath in wild gestures, gentle touches, elementary eruptions, hesitant calls, impetuous attacks ‒ the spectrum of sound events is vast, the dramaturgy admits sound images of the highest intensity and colourfulness. the musical experiment as a resounding-moving performance has its roots in mostly improvised procedures. here lissie rettenwander leaves behind the firm ground of the tried and tested, of familiar harmonies and rhythms, while on the other hand finding surprising structures in ostinato elements of recurring models. electronic manipulations and interventions enable additional developments, and seemingly mechanical sounds form a pulsating and complementing contrast to subtle melodic lines. lissie rettenwander's music unites highly disparate elements and thus creates unity in exuberant imagination. this talent for the extreme brings forth new things, is able to intrigue and draw attention. 

Wolfgang Praxmarer, thoughts on the new album by Lissie Rettenwander (coming soon) 



Contact & booking: 
lissie_rettenwander@hotmail.com

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"As I lay down fading night by night, to be reborn in bloom of the nothing that encompasses my being, worlds surrender to me."

…born in Carinthia, raised in Vienna, Max Bogner has always dealt with the in-between and as a result been exposed to a variety of activities, localities and realities. Blending elements of performances (‘Aktion’), sonic architecture and dance, as well as decoding the subliminal power structures within language and the preconscious establishment, his work can most simply be described as eclectic.

"We could have heard if we had whispered in our eyes, that fragile song of our belonging –       ."

…the dialectics which transitorily exist between being and becoming have informed Bogner’s formation through to the present day. There are codes within consented reality – mundane, abstract, simple, complex, inside, outside, popular, obscure – these contracts and agents of seemingly coherent societarian consent are rejected in service of a gravitation towards the beyond. Tracing these thoughts, the exploration of ritual, trance and the investigation of dreams and their un-/conscious manifestations have been key to Bogners fluid processes.

"Everything becomes void in face of wonder and curiosity."

…meanwhile, every state that might express itself, disregarding its position to the composition of the previous self,  within Bogner or their work, is given its room to flourish in favour of the process – as chance becomes fate and belonging fades, we accept plurality.

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