1 HOODWINK

Winnie Huang & Kevin Fairbairn

hoodwink celebrates the dissolution of bodies, instruments, performance practices, and sounds. In an age of post-instrumentalism and non-cochlear sound art, they imagine and appreciate performances that deconstruct bodies and instruments and intricately reassemble them in startling new forms.

Winnie Huang and Kevin Toksöz Fairbairn are multifaceted performing artists, curious to explore every aspect of regenerative decomposition through technique, instrument, and performance. Although they are specialists in contemporary music performance and experimental notations, they also perform and research many other alternative artistic expressions, ranging from musical-gestural performance to building experimental instruments. In their pursuit of the dissolution of body and instrument in sound and space, they experiment with post-instrumental repertoire, radical instrumental alterations and reconstructions, and musical-theatrical performances. They are equally at home performing traditional concerts and developing transdisciplinary collaborations and installations. Whatever form it may take, the dissipation of prior practices fosters new creatively nourishing endeavors that reimagine bodies, instruments, sounds, and spaces.

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2 CAROLINE PROFANTER

Caroline Profanter, born 1985 in Bozen (I) is a composer and performer. Her work oscillates between acousmatic composition and live-performed electroacoustic music, with a focus on imaginary soundscapes and sonic narratives. She is interested in sounds and noises taken from the context of everyday life, transformed digitally and used as pure material. Therefore she collects field recordings and combines them with instrumental sounds or electronically generated sounds, with analog synthesizers and feedback-systems. She works with multiple speaker settings, using given spaces and surfaces as resonators, and produces work for Acousmonium and live spatialization. She collaborates regularly with artists of other fields, at the crossroad to literature, video and radio art. She studied Computer Music and Electronic Media at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna and holds a Master’s degree in Acousmatic Composition at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons in Belgium.

Lives and works in Brussels and is part of the artistic Team of Q-O2 workspace for experimental music and sound art, Brussels