Legendary artist born in Vienna in 1930. He began by studying composition and Oriental music, but came to devote most of his energy to literature, esp. concrete poetry. His aim has been nothing less than making language an aesthetic medium on a par with music and visual art. He is a radical experimenter, a restless explorer of traditions and genres, atomizing their elements in order to recompose them with conceptual precision and a multiplicity of compositional techniques. All becoming a very disciplined practice of limitation and constraint.

Ben Vida (us) is a Brooklyn based composer, improviser and artist. He produces compositions that utilize analog and digital synthesizing technologies and focus on aural phenomena and auditory illusions. He has released records with PAN, ALKU, Thrill Jockey, Drag City, Amish, Bottrop-Boy, Hapna and Kranky. As both a solo artist and in collaboration he has presented his work in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, South Korea and Japan.

Slipping Control derives from the text piece Tztztztzt Î Í Í….written last year. It is composed to act as a score, a sound piece and as raw data for electronic control source, Tztztztzt Î Í Í… became the intrinsic element that tied some different pieces of art made by Ben Vida. They range from strange avant-pop quirks such as ‘Part 1’ to pieces reminding of classical Indian vocal and drum music, thru to totally compelling computer abstraction and deviant rhythm trax. 

Florian Cramer (de/nl) is professor and researcher with a personal background in a mix of comparative literature and art history combined with post-punk and post-Fluxus DIY culture, technical-critical obsessions with ‘radical’ media such as the Unix command line and analog filmmaking, and a research interest in both structural poetics and politics of the arts. In the last couple of years, he has moved on from cultural studies of computational poetics [see: Words Made Flesh (2004) and Exe.cut[up]able Statements  (2011)] to practice-oriented research, with a renewed interest in non-institutional arts practices outside old/new media, analog/digital and fine art-vs.-applied art dichotomies. [ see: Anti-Media (a collection of essays and ephemera (2013)]

For BRAUBLFF his reading is entitled Writing is 100 years behind painting. Abstract: In 1959, Brion Gysin claimed that literary writing was fifty years behind painting. In the 1980s, Gerhard Rühm said that he considered all literary writing outside avant-garde poetry “Tagesliteratur” (“garden variety literature”). Not much seems to have changed since then, or even worse, has literature become largely irrelevant as a contemporary art? A critical investigation!

Schizo pene trento personata sympatico. Collector of all thing outsider and true collagist across media which you’d never thought of. Impersonator of imagination.