| Pomassl | |
| Background: | non_vocal_instrumentalist |
| Instrument: | Homebuilt analog instrumentation |
| Genre: | Avant garde Improvisation Glitch Noise |
| Occupation: | Musician Artist |
| Label: | Laton Club Rus Raster-Noton Mille Plateaux Ash International Sabotage Nexsound |
Pomassl is an electronic sound and recording artist and DJ residing in Vienna, Austria, and is a co-founder of the Austrian Laton experimental techno label.
Pomassl has inspired many other analog and digital electronic artists, including members of Pansonic and Carsten Nicolai,[1] as well as collaborated with a number of important artists across disciplines, including Carl Michael von Hausswolff, J. G. Thirlwell and Kodwo Eshun. In addition to Laton, he has released with seminal electronic labels, such as Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Ash International, Sex Tags Mania, Craft, Sabotage, and Nexsound.
Pomassl improvises using all manner of homebuilt analog electronic equipment, often inserting or connecting patch cables with parts of his body to introduce a deliberate and violent noise character into dancefloor rhythms.[2]
In addition to being notable for absurd, violent, dadaist performances that satirize the artificial interaction between player and electronic instrument, he also creates custom instrumentation to examine the edges of human-perceptible audio[3] and uses these tools to "elaborate and process radical moments", such as aircraft blackbox data collected from crash sites.[4]
Műcsarnok / Kunsthalle Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
Galéria Priestor for Contemporary Arts, Bratislava, Slovakia
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
Muu Galleria, Helsinki, Finland
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Fri-Art - Centre d'Art Contemporain, Fribourg, Switzerland
Manifesta - European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands