Astrid

  Rieder

Current Activities of Trans-Art

do trans-Art_110 - with Astrid Rieder and Sebastian Jolles

do trans-Art_111

Thursday, 11th September, 7:30PM

with Stephan Kowarsch, E-Guitar

in my studio at Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals

Stephan Kowarsch is a guest in the 111th performance of the do trans-Art performance series. The Viennese electric guitarist, electronic musician and art educator is part of the duo Zahnsisters, which released the EP ‘Das Ewige Leben’ in 2022. Last year, he worked on sketchy audio exports of a musical project, which he processes into new constellations characterised by the fragility of the material. He performs live with electric guitar and effects, solo or in collaboration. In the do trans-Art performance between Stephan Kowarsch and Astrid Rieder, sound and drawing meet in a continuous modulation: abstract sound formations meet drawing traces at the moment of their creation. An electronic-analogue dialogue.

 

Admission: free

do trans-Art 2025
with Astrid Rieder

 

In 2016, Astrid Rieder created the monthly performance series do trans-Art in her studio at Künstlerhaus Salzburg, which she has since continued in her studio in Wals, Salzburg: On the second Thursday of every month, Astrid Rieder invites a musician from the field of new music to her studio to enter into an artistic, transdisciplinary dialogue in front of an audience. For 40 minutes, two artists interact between abstract drawing and new music, without a score, without rehearsals and without thematic guidelines. The drawing is neither a performance instruction nor a visualisation of the sounds played. Likewise, the sound is not a musicalisation of the drawing. Rather, the performance is a simultaneous action and reaction, a bi-directional dialogue based on mutual inspiration, in which the arts meet without any hierarchy.

 

Despite many obstacles, the performance series do trans-Art has taken place every second Thursday of the month without interruption since 2016. After each performance, the large-scale drawing, a documentary video and an audio recording remain. After the performance, the audio recording (consisting of the musical part and the sounds created during the drawing process) can be heard on Astrid Rieder's radio programme Atelier für neue Musik / trans-Art on radiofabrik and RadioFro, together with a conversation with her performance partner.

 

Thu 09 January with Susanne Hehenberger, violin

Thu 13 February with Peter WesenAuer, piano

Thu 13 March with Elisabeth Flunger, percussion

Thu 10 April with Karlheinz Essl, electronics

Thu 08 May with Paul Eiser, saxophone

Thu 12 June with Fernando Araujo, piano - did not take place

Thu 10 July with Ana Topalovic, cello

Thu 14 August with Sebastian Jolles, cello

Thu 11 September with Stephan Kowarsch, electric guitar & electronics

Thu 09 October with Ingrid Wegmayr, electric guitar

Thu 13 November with Alba Llorach Roca, piano

Thu 11 December with Herbert Lacina, bass

 

Date: on the 2nd Thursday of every month 

Time: 19:30

Place: trans-Art studio Astrid Rieder, Bundesstraße 37, 5071 Wals, 2nd floor

 

Admission free

PERFORMANCESERIES: "do trans-Art"

EACH 2ND THURsday per month at 7:30pm

at Bundesstraße 37, 5071  Wals

Thursday, 11th September

do trans-Art_111 with Stephan Kowarsch, E-Guitar

 

Thursday, 09th October

do trans-Art_112 with Ingrid Wegmayr, E-Guitar

"trans-Art on the road"

scheduled dates 2025

 

Saturday, 20th September 2025

trans-Art Performance with Annette Giesriegl, vocalist

Atelier 12, Münzgrabenstraße 24, 8010 Graz

 

 

Thursday, 2nd October 2025

trans-Art Performance with Paul Eiser, saxophone

APPENDIX Art Hub des Salzburger Kunstverein, Hellbrunner Straße 3, 5020 Salzburg

PODCAST: "Atelier für neue Musik/trans-Art"

each 1st and 3rd Saturday per calendar month at 11AM

Saturday, 06th September

acoustic Part do trans-Art_110 with Sebastian Jolles, Cello

in my studio in Wals/Salzburg

 

Saturday, 20th September

repetition: acoustic part do trans-Art_108 Unidirectional drawing to piano improvisations by Eva Roscher

in memoriam on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of her death

in the studio of Astrid Rieder in Wals near Salzburg

each 2nd and 4th Tuesday per calendar month at 11pm

Tuesday, 26th August

transfer of the broadcast: repetition of the acoustic part trans-Art performance with Dominik Kreuzer, trumpet

at the Kunst Klub Kräftner in Graz

 

Tuesday, 9th September

transfer of the broadcast: acoustic part do trans-Art_110 with Sebastian Jolles, cello

in my studio in Wals/Salzburg

Here is the link to all the radio shows that have been broadcast so far:

https://cba.fro.at/podcast/atelier-fuer-neue-musik

Here you can find videos of individual trans-Art performances:

https://fs1.tv/sendung/astrid-rieder-trans-art/

SUMMIT of trans-Art 2026

on the topic of ‘Room’

on September 10th and 11th, 2026

SUMMIT 2024