Jung An Tagen & Rainer Kohlberger

After six years of intensive research of polyrhythm and the combination of modern composition techniques and techno, Jung leaves the beats behind and turns fully to the acousmatic, electroacoustic side of his work. In these compositions Jung engages deeper in the relation of digital sound and body, perceptive glitches and as he would call it “dissociative psychedelic music”. This show will follow the release Emergent Properties on the newly founded label ETAT. A net label for new computer music founded by Stefan himself.

Rainer Kohlberger leads us into a dramaturgy of interior and exterior worlds.

The audience finds itself in the presence of an immediate immensity, where boundaries of self and world become blurry. Projection and programmable lights are synchronized, algorithmically triggered and utilized to their maximum capabilities.

Jung and Rainer started to collaborate in 2019. Due to their overlapping fields of research and work methods they decided to intensify their entanglement in 2020.

Jung An Tagen is one of the pseudonyms of the musician and artist Stefan Juster, who lives in Vienna. Early on, he was a part of the post-noise tape scene. As Cruise Family, Stefan Kushima and other pseudonyms, he has published a series of releases on labels like Not Not Fun or 100% Silk. In 2016, under the pseudonym Jung An Tagen, he started to release on Orange Milk Records and later Editions Mego. His LP’s combined influences from early Detroit techno, trance, electroacoustic music à la Parmegiani, and high-end sound. The visual part of his work is aesthetically close to his music. Juster works with digital media and video, where reduced, quasi-geometric forms move over the screen in aleatoric patterns and form a synesthetic connection with the sound.

Rainer Kohlberger is an Austrian born freelance visual artist / film maker living in Berlin. His work is primarily based on algorithmic compositions with reductionistic aesthetics influenced by flatness, drones and interference. Within his works there always lies a layer of noise, that fascinates him as a sense of the infinite, which is both the ultimate abstraction and inveterately fuzzy. In his films, installations and live performances maximum forms of intensities come into play. His work has won several prizes internationally. Hist most recent film, There must be some kind of way out of here, will be screened in the competition section of this year's 25 FPS Festival.