Artist | Composer | Curator | Musicologist

Born 1971.

Lives in Berlin, Germany and Vienna, Austria.


Awards / Grants / Residencies

2008 Grant from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, the Arts and Culture
2006 Travel Grant, Austrian Foreign Ministry, Dep. of Culture
2004 Austrian State Scholarship for Composition
2003 Theatre Award “Intercultural Accents 2003”, Arbeiterkammer Wien, Vienna
2003 DAAD Artists in Berlin Program, Berlin
2002 Artist-in-Residence Hotel Pupik, Austria
2002 Annual Grant of SKE-Fonds, Vienna
2001 Karl-Hofer-Prize, University of the Arts, Berlin
2001 The ar+d award (recognition), The Architectural Review, London (together with Yumi Kori)
2000 Grant of the Art Section of the Austrian Federal Chancellery
2000 Artist-in-Residence Werkstadt Graz, Graz
2000 Composition Award of Initiative Minderheiten, Vienna
1999 Max-Brand-Prize, Austria (recognition)
1999 Research Fellowship, University of Vienna

Collaborations

Since 1997 continuous collaboration with Japanese architect/artist Yumi Kori (‘audio-architectural installations’).
Further music collaborations with Tung Chao-Ming, Kai Fagaschinski, Jennifer Walshe, France Jobin (i8u), and Belma Beslic.
Further artistic collaborations with Christian Aichinger, Susana Gaudêncio, Dietmar Lenz, Mandy Morrison,
John Roach, Silwa Sedlak, Akemi Takeya, and Emre Tuncer.

Solo Exhibitions / Intermedia Art Projects (selection)

2009
solo; Allgemeiner Konsumverein, Braunschweig, Germany
2008
RGB; Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
solo; Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Klagenfurt, Austria
Reinstallation; O Lugar, São Paulo
Die Grüne Hölle; Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna
2007
Klangbojen; Festival Donaueschinger Musiktage, Germany
Jukai; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. The David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Providence
solo; Musik aktuell 2007, Gutenbrunn, Austria
solo; Musik aktuell 2007, Tulln, Austria
Reinstallation; Werkzeug H, Vienna
2006
shinkai; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. ISE Foundation, New York City
Reinstallation; Festival Electric Eclectics, Meaford (Canada)
Die Grüne Hölle; Festival Sonambiente, Gallery of the Austrian Embassy, Berlin
Utakata; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Werkraum Warteck, Basel
Airport; Musikinstrumenten-Museum, Berlin
2005
zhu shui; Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna
Infinitation (Seattle); In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle
Hinaus:: In den, Wald.; Diapason Gallery, New York
Defragmentation (Krems); In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Donaufestival, Krems
2004
Night Pulses; O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz
2003
RGBuSW; singuhr - hoergalerie in parochial, Berlin
Klangbojen; Musik aktuell 2003, Hanslteich, Gutenbrunn (Austria)
Klangbojen; Musik aktuell 2003, Donau-Altarm, Tulln (Austria)
2002
Machina temporis; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Franziskaner-Klosterruine, Berlin
2001
RGB; Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna
2000
zhu shui; Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg, Austria
Defragmentation/red; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Kryptonale Festival, Berlin
Defragmentation/white; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Galerie Shigpro, Tokyo
Dissociated Voices; Werkstadt Graz, Graz
1999
Defragmentation/blue; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Studio Five Beekman, New York
House for a blind man; In collaboration with M. Brünner. Univ. of Applied Arts, Vienna
1998
Radio; In collaboration with J. Roach. Studio John Roach, New York City
bestimmung new york; Studio Five Beekman, New York City

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2007
Reinstallation; Festival Musicacoustica, Beijing
Hyohaku-no-Hakobune; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Kobe Bienal, Kobe
shinkai In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Japan Society, New York City
I am sHitting in a room; Festival Interface, Berlin
Hinaus:: In den, Wald.; Galeria Vermelho, São Paulo
RADIO EARS (textur #2); Magyar Muehely Galéria, Budapest
2006
Infinitation (São Paulo); In collaboration with Yumi Kori. SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo
RGB Klangturm; St. Poelten, Austria
RADIO EARS (textur #2); Nitrianska galéria, Nitra, Slovakia
RADIO EARS (textur #2); Domu umení, Opava, Czech Republic
2005
Defragmentation (ISCP); In collaboration with Yumi Kori. ISCP, New York City
2004
soundbagism; Denver International Airport, USA
Oelbilder; Festival Reservoir VIII. Grosser Wasserspeicher, Berlin
Three Whites; Sound Art Exhibition ‘Rock’s Role‘, Art in General, New York
2003
zhu shui; MATA-Festival. Gallery ‘GAle GAtes et al.’ New York
2002
Green Voice / Green Box; In collaboration with Yumi Kori. Old Public Library, Musashino, Tokyo
enelten; Sound Off Festival. Galéria Umenia, Nové Zámky, Slowakia
I am sHitting in a room; Durian-Festival. Konzerthaus, Vienna
Made in Austria; Jewish Museum, Vienna
2001
Hinaus:: In den, Wald.; Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg (Austria)
2000
bestimmung darmstadt; Museum Institut Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt
Vienna traffic; Österreichisches Museum für Volkskunde, Vienna
1999
Dissociated Bodies; In collaboration with G.S. Sedlak. Die Halle, Salzburg
1998
NYC Subway; Jonathan Shorr Gallery, New York City

Permanent Presentations / Collections

solo; Intermedia installation; Private collection; Kritzendorf (Austria)
Hinaus:: In den, Wald.; Quadrophonic sound installation; Schauwerk, Trogen (Switzerland)
Airport; Multi-channel sound installation; Music Instruments Museum, Berlin

Performances

150+ live laptop performances by Gal in: Banja Luka, Belgrade, Beijing, Belo Horizonte, Berlin, Bern, Boston, Buenos Aires, Chicago, Cologne, Concord (NH, USA), Darmstadt, Dortmund, Dubai, Eisenstadt, Florianopolis, Foshan, Frankfurt, Graz, Guangzhou, Hamburg, Hongkong, Istanbul, Karlsruhe, Kyoto, Linz, Lisbon, Ljubljana, London, Los Angeles, Lowell (MA, USA), Madrid, Meaford, Mendoza, Montevideo, Montreal, Muenster, Munich, Nagoya, New York City, Osaka, Ottawa, Philadelphia, Porto Alegre, Princeton, Quebec City, Richmond, Rio de Janeiro, Rochester, Schrattenberg (A), San Diego, San Francisco, San Juan (AR), Sao Paulo, Santiago de Chile, Sarajevo, Seattle, Shanghai, Sofia, St. Poelten, Taipei, Timisoara, Tokyo, Toronto, Troy, Tuzla (BiH), Valparaiso, Vienna, Vina del Mar, Washington (DC), Zagreb.

Festivals

Simultan Festival, Timisoara (RO) 2009
TKT FEST, Tuzla (BiH) 2009
Interpenetrations, Graz 2008
Sonic Circuits, Washington (DC) 2008
FILE | Hypersonica, Sao Paulo 2008
Musica Livre, Florianopolis 2008
Festival with no fancy name', NYC 2007
Shut up and Listen!, Vienna 2007
Festival '2007: City Fables', Taipei 2007
Musicacoustica Beijing 2007
Donaueschinger Musiktage 2007
SonoAustria, Madrid 2007
IGNM Musikfest, Vienna 2007
Interface, Berlin 2007
das kleine field recordings festival, Berlin 2007
Nuova Consonanza Rome 2006
SINAPSIS, Mendoza 2006
Festival internacional de Música electroacústica Ai-maako, Santiago de Chile 2006
Sound Travels, Toronto 2006
Electric Eclectics, Meaford (CA) 2006
Sonambiente, Berlin 2006
Stimme+ (ZKM), Karlsruhe 2006
Shut up and Listen!, Vienna 2006
San Francisco Tape Music Festival, San Francisco 2006
Images and Music, Frankfurt 2005
The New Austrian Sound of Music, Berlin 2005
Counterfit Festival, Rochester (US) 2005
Mutek Montreal 2005
Donaufestival, Krems (Austria) 2005
Jeunesse Festival, Vienna 2004
Sound Field Festival, Chicago 2004
ImPulsTanz 04, Vienna 2004
New York Video Festival, New York 2004
Inventionen, Berlin 2004
MATA Festival, New York 2003
x-tract-Festival, Berlin 2003
Sound Off-Festival, Nove Zamky (Slovakia), 2002
Musashino Pulbic Art Festival, Tokyo 2002
Durian-Festival, Vienna 2002
MaerzMusik Berlin 2002
Wien Modern Vienna 2001
Phonomanie VI, Ulrichsberg (Austria), 2000
Kryptonale VI, Berlin 2000
ICMC 2000, Berlin 2000
V:NM-Festival, Graz 2000
Hoergaenge, Vienna 2000

Radio Portraits

Austrian National Radio (OE1), Austria, February 2009
Rádio Zero, Portugal, February 2009
RTP - Antena 2, Portugal, January 2009
DEGEM WebRadio @ ZKM, Germany, December 2008
Nordwestradio, Germany, December 2008
WZBC, Boston, USA, September 2008
WKCR, New York, USA, September 2008
OIDARADIO, Sao Paulo, May 2008
Radio Nacional de España, Spain, February 2008
Fu-Shin Broadcasting Station, Taipei, November 2007
Rádio MEC FM, Rio de Janeiro, November 2006
WFMU, New York City, September 2006
WZBC, Boston, August 2006
CKUT, Montreal, August 2006
CKLN, Toronto, August 2006
DRS, Switzerland, February 2006
Austrian National Radio (OE1), Austria, January 2006
DRS, Switzerland, December 2005
VPRO, Netherlands, July 2005
RBB, Berlin, Germany, June 2005
KXLU, Los Angeles, USA, May 2005
Austrian National Radio (OE1), Austria, February 2005
DRS, Switzerland, January 2005
KEXP, Seattle, USA, January 2005
Radio Bremen, Germany, December 2004
WNUR, Chicago, USA, October 2004
RBB-Kulturradio, Berlin, July 2004
WFMU, New York, USA, May 2004
WKCR, New York, USA, April 2004
Deutschlandradio, Berlin, July 2004
Sound Rules, SFB, Berlin, Germany April 2002
Austrian National Radio (OE1), Austria, January 2002
Austrian National Radio (OE1), Kunstradio, Austria, October 2000
Austrian National Radio (OE1), Kunstradio, Austria, April 2000
Sound Rules, SFB, Berlin, Germany March 2000

Audio Publications

Main Publications

relive CD. Gromoga Records, Austria 2008
Installations DVD. Gromoga Records, Austria 2007
Installations CD. Gromoga Records, Austria 2005
going round in serpentines CD. Charhizma, Austria 2005 (in collaboration with Kai Fagaschinski)
Installations Book & audio CD. Kehrer Verlag, Germany 2005
Hinaus:: In den, Wald. CD. Klanggalerie, Austria 2004
relisten CD. Intransitive Recordings, USA 2001
Defragmentation/blue CD. Plate Lunch, Germany 2000
bestimmung new york CD. Durian Records, Austria 1999

Compilations and Catalogue CDs

57A Book/CD 'Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media.' Rizzoli, USA, 2007
hechre CD 'henri chopin remixed', Extraplatte, Austria 2006
le gocce dell'uomo del campo triMIX Compilation, Innova Recordings, USA 2006
Jon's a.m. revisited Limited CDR edition, Gallery Lukas Feichtner, Austria 2006
Earshot Collaboration with Bernhard Loibner and Tom Sherman.
Published on B. Loibner's solo CD “_gestalt”. allquiet, Austria 2006
This is for real CD “90 Sekunden Wirklichkeit”, DEGEM / Cybele, Germany 2005
Night Pulses Catalogue & CDR, O.K Center for Contemporary Art, Austria 2004
Hinaus:: In den, Wald. DVD “Text & Language”. Aspect, Magazine of New Media Art, USA 2004
Three Whites CD “Rock’s Role (After Ryoanji)”, Art in General, USA 2004
In fusion CD “Intransitive Twenty-Three”, Intransitive Recordings, USA 2004
c.s.a.g. CD “Danza De La Muerte”, Klanggalerie, Austria 2003
enelten CD “Typewriting Aloud. Typos Allowed”, Slovakia 2002
zhu shui CD “lowercase sound 2002”, Bremsstrahlung, USA 2002
Tong-hua yie-shi CD “because tomorrow comes #4”, Germany 2001
bestimmung darmstadt CDR, Gromoga Records, Austria 2001
sprachklanggesetzt CD “klanggesetz”, Initiative Minderheiten, Austria 2000
Dissociated Voices Catalogue & CDR, Werkstadt Graz, Austria 2000
Art’s Birthday 2000 CD “Beams and Waves”, Sound Off Festival, Slovakia 2000

Education

Ph.D-Studies, Dep. of Musicology, University of Vienna, 1998-2000
(Subject: ‘Sound Installation Art’, discontinued)

University of Vienna (Musicology), Mag. phil., 1993-1997
(Title of thesis: ‘The Microstructure of Walking Bass Lines’)

University of Music, Vienna (Sound Engineering), 1990-94

Private studies (music, art, piano, guitar, composition - autodidact) since 1986

Teaching

2006 - 2007 University of the Arts Berlin, Studio for Electroacoustic Music & Sound Art (“Sound Installation Art”)

Curatorial Work

2006- Co-Curator of 'Shut up and Listen!', Interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art, Vienna
2006 Guest curator for 'Framework', Resonance FM, London
2006 'The Itinerant Project' - electro-acoustic music from South America, Radio Ö1, Austria

Further Professional Experience

2005- Artistic Director of the non-profit art organization ‚sp ce’, Austria
1999- Director of ‘Gromoga Records’, Austria

2007 Jury Member, Composition Contest ‘Hoer.Spiel’, St. Poelten, Austria
2006 Jury Member, Composition Contest ‘Franco Evangelisti’, Rome
2004 Jury Member, Composition Contest ‚Point de Repere 2005’, France/Argentine
2003 Panel Member‚ Symposion ‘Sound Studies’, University of the Arts, Berlin

Workshops (selection)

2009 Istanbul: The city and its dreams, Bilgi University, Istanbul
2008 Sound Installation Art, Bilgi University, Istanbul
2006 Proyecto Itinerante, Festival Sinapsis, Mendoza, Argentina
2006 Sound Installation, SESC Pinheiros, São Paulo
2004 Klangwürste, Music Workshop for Children, Jeunesse-Festival, Vienna
2003 Trändi Händi, yo!, Music Workshop for Children, Art Project ‚TASTE 0-20’, Vienna
2002 Music and Language, Studio for Electroacoustic Music, University of the Arts, Berlin
2002 Liquid Music, Music Workshop for Children, ÖKS, Austria

Lectures and Presentations

http://www.bernhardgal.com/lectures.html

Selected Lectures:

Facultatea de Arte, Timisoara, 2009
University of Art, Braunschweig, 2009
Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna, 2009
Red House, Sofia, 2009
Vaska Emanouilova Gallery, Sofia, 2009
Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, 2009
Ibrasotope, São Paulo, 2009
Minueto Centro Musical, Belo Horizonte, 2009
Alpen-Adria-Universität, Klagenfurt (AUT), 2008
George Mason University, VA (USA), 2008
Wesleyan University, CT (USA), 2008
Hampshire College, MA (USA), 2008
UNESP - Instituto de Artes, São Paulo, 2008
UDESC, Florianopolis, 2008
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, 2008
New York University, New York CIty, 2007
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, 2007
National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, 2007
Shanghai Conservatory of Music, 2007
Digital Arts College, Shanghai University, 2007
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, 2007
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing, 2007
UNESP - Dep. de Música, São Paulo, 2007
Santa Marcelina University, São Paulo, 2007
University of the Arts, Berlin, 2007
Conservatorio di Musica "Santa Cecilia", Rom, 2006
Conservatorio de Música de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, 2006
Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Mendoza, 2006
Auditorio "Juan Victoria", San Juan (AR), 2006
Centro Cultural de España, Santiago de Chile, 2006
Escola de Música, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, 2006
Departamento de Música, Universidade de São Paulo, 2006
University of Music, Vienna, 2006
Electronic Studio of the Academy of Music, Basel, 2006
Dep. of Architectural History, Technical University, Vienna, 2004
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 2004
School of Music, Californian Institute of Arts, Los Angeles, 2004
Academy of Music Hanns Eisler, Berlin, 2004
Elektronisches Studio, Technische Universität Berlin, 2003
Gallery ‘Trees are so special’, Tokyo, 2003
Dep. Of Architecture, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan, 2002
Dep. of Music, National University of the Arts, Taipei, 2002
Nagoya City University, 2002
Studio MYU, Tokyo, 2002
Kunstverein Alte Schmiede, Vienna, 2002
Phonomanie-Festival, Ulrichsberg, Austria, 2000
ESCOM Conference, Uppsala University, Sweden, 1997

Publications (selection)

Architektur und Musik
In: „Architektur transdisziplinär“; Institut für Architekturgeschichte, Vienna 2008

Zur Verfransung der Künste: Adorno, Star Wars, Club Transmediale
In: „Neue Zeitschrift für Musik“, 04/2005, S. 25, Germany, July 2005

Installations
18 Werkdarstellungen zu intermedialen Installationen 1999-2004
In: „Bernhard Gál: Installations“, 80 S., Ingrid Beirer (Hsgb.), Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, 2005

belit – Komposition für Kammerensemble und Lichtprojektion
Werkeinführung
In: Festival-Katalog „Inventionen 2004“, Ingrid Beirer (Hsgb.), DAAD Berlin, 2004

Sonic Awareness
In: Symposium “Sound and Sensation”, Universität der Künste, Berlin 2004

Klang-Architektur-Raum-Zeit
In: „Positionen. Beiträge zur Neuen Musik.“, Heft 54, Germany, 2003

Konzert - Klangkunst - Computer
Buch-Rezension: “Konzert - Klangkunst - Computer”, Veröffentlichungen des Institutes für Neue Musik und Musikerziehung Darmstadt, Band 42, Schott, Mainz 2002. In: Österreichische Musikzeitschrift, January 2003

curiosity – detail – equipment – heritage – teenage heroes – political engagement – cross fertilization – humor
In: Carola Magazine 2002, Francesco Tenaglia (Hg.), Italy, 2002

Musik und Sprache
Unveröffentl. Manuskript, Workshop am Studio für Elektroakustik, Universität der Künste, Berlin 2002

Klanginstallation – Eine Bestandsaufnahme
Unveröffentl. Manuskript, Vortrag im Rahmen des Phonomanie-Festivals 2000, Ulrichsberg, Austria 2000

Analyzing Jazz Rhythms: The Microstructure Of Walking Bass Lines
ESCOM Conference, University of Uppsala, Schweden, 1997

Analyse der Mikrostruktur von Walking Bass Lines
Musicological thesis, 160 p., Institut für Musikwissenschaft, University of Vienna, 1997

Bibliography (articles only)

Tobias Fischer
Interview with Bernhard Gal
In: "Tokafi, Germany, July 2007

Christoph Metzger
Klangbojen
In: "Sonoric Perspectives. Ostseebiennale der Klangkunst", 68 S., Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken 2006

Georg Weckwerth
Bernhard Gál (Compilation Soundkunst Österreich)
In: "spike art quarterly", 68 S., Vienna, Autumn 2006

Etero Genio
Portrait Bernhard Gál
In: "Sands-Zine", Italy, April 2006

Martin Supper
Bernhard Gál - bestimmung new york
In: „heim@t: Karl-Hofer-Preis 2001 - interdisziplinärer Kunstpreis 2001“. 22. S., Susanne S. Reich (Red.), Universität der Künste, Berlin, January 2006

Barbara Barthelmes
KLANG, LICHT UND FARBE. Zur Morphographie von Raum im Werk Bernhard Gáls.
In: „Bernhard Gál: Installations“, 80 S., Ingrid Beirer (Hg.), Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, June 2005

Stefan Fricke
Ortsbestimmungen. Stefan Fricke im Gespräch mit Bernhard Gál
In: „Bernhard Gál: Installations“, 80 S., Ingrid Beirer (Hg.), Kehrer Verlag Heidelberg, June 2005

Klemens Lendl
Auf Horchposten
hi!tech Magazin, 4/04, Österreich, December 2004

Roland Schöny
Night Pulses (Werkeinführung)
In: Catalogue „Night Pulses“, O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, September 2004

Will Montgomery
Lost in translation
The Wire, UK March 2004

Heidi Grundmann
Dissociated Voices (Werkeinführung)
In: Catalogue „Dissociated Voices“, Werkstadt Graz, Graz, 2000

Xenia Hu
Of Sound and Time (Werkeinführung)
In: Festival-Catalogue „Hörgänge“, Vienna, February 2000


(last update of c.v.: May 2009)