Tangible Music Lab #14: Andreas Trobollowitsch

Composed Sound Systems
Andreas Trobollowitsch works across sound, installation, and performance, employing self-built instruments, modified everyday objects, plants, string instruments, and custom-designed apparatuses. His works are conceptually rigorous and framed within clear compositional structures. They are realized through performers as well as physical and mechanical setups, whose controlled instabilities shape the sonic outcome.
His systems rely on rotation, air pressure, vibration, friction, feedback, and transformations of material states, such as melting ice. Turntables, flutes, string instruments, and everyday objects are altered or purpose-built to create visually and sonically unexpected situations. Installation, performance, physical systems, space, and architecture interact in these works, making sound simultaneously conceived, constructed, and set into motion, with a particular focus on texture and timbre.
Works such as TRUBA, Ventorgano, AÏRES, and Santa Melodica exemplify this approach, ranging from precisely composed, machine-realized situations to systems that autonomously generate or expand musical structures.

Andreas Trobollowitsch is an Austrian multidisciplinary composer and sound artist whose practice explores the relationships between structure, materiality, and time, with a strong emphasis on timbre and spatial perception. He has received the Austrian State Scholarship for Composition and the Vienna City Annual Scholarship for Composition, and in 2017 he was selected as a SHAPE artist. His work has been presented internationally, including at the Konzerthaus Vienna, Musée des beaux-arts Rennes, Serralves Museum Porto, Novas Frequências Rio de Janeiro, and Instituto Moreira Salles São Paulo. He has received commissions from institutions and ensembles such as Ensemble PHACE Vienna, Filmarchiv Austria, Musikprotokoll Graz, TodaysArt The Hague, Synaesthesis Vilnius, Sinfonietta Rīga, and The Rhythm Method New York. His releases appear on Schraum (Berlin), Monotype (Warsaw), Crónica and Sonoscopia (Porto), mAtter and ato.archives (Tokyo), and Futura Resistencia (Brussels/Rotterdam).
https://trobollowitsch.hotglue.me/