Adapted for Lisbon, the work SÄGEZAHN (panorama version 7) brings together three seemingly disparate elements: an acoustic guitar, a mechanical turntable, and a saw blade. These devices are combined into seven individual arrangements to form a fascinating sound installation, charged with contrasts. The result is a minimalist soundscape of polyrhythmic patterns and shifting interferences, where subtle modulations continuously transform the space.
Arranged in a row that invites the audience to walk through them, these sound sculptures create a tension between the brutal and the delicate, between machine and instrument. The mechanical energy of the saw blades is converted into acoustic vibrations on the guitar strings, and visitors are invited to move and listen to the evolving sound, where every micro-variation in rotation generates new textures.
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Andreas Trobollowitsch is an Austrian interdisciplinary composer and sound artist, working across conceptual compositions, performances,
and sound and drawing installations. He uses prepared and self-developed instruments, modified everyday objects, and plants manipulated
by rotating systems or changing states of matter. His practice emphasizes the interplay of intellectual and physical elements, incorporating visual aspects, spatial settings, architecture, and movement, with a focus on timbre, texture, and playfulness.
Trobollowitsch has received several awards, including the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition, and was a SHAPE Artist in 2017.
His commissions include Ensemble PHACE (Vienna), Filmarchiv Austria, Musikprotokoll (Graz), Todays Art (The Hague),
Contemporary Music Ensemble Synaesthesis (Vilnius), Sinfonietta Rīga String Quartet (Rīga), and The Rhythm Method (New York).
His works have been performed and exhibited at venues such as Konzerthaus, Künstlerhaus, and mumok (Vienna); Museu de Arte Moderna
(Rio de Janeiro); Instituto Moreira Salles (São Paulo); The Renaissance Society (Chicago); Ex Teresa Arte Actual (Mexico City);
Musée des beaux-arts and Festival Maintenant (Rennes); Lisboa Soa (Lisbon); and Super Delux (Tokyo), among others.
His recordings have been released on labels including Schraum (Berlin), Monotype Records (Warsaw), and Crónica (Porto),
with LPs on mAtter (Tokyo), Sonoscopia (Porto), and Futura Resistenza (Brussels/Rotterdam). He also released a DVD soundtrack for Filmarchiv Austria.
