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The Light-Art and Video Collective dORNwITTCHEN is principally involved in live-visuals, projection art & technical structure, photography, graphic & design, in Austria as well as in several european countries.

Through hard cuts and colorful images, creativity, art and science are affiliated with each other to reflect its own magical, playful and colorful world in various projects. The used photos and videos are mainly self-re- corded and merged with digitally generated elements in order to present the music through visuals and light in its own constellation.

Analog technology is thereby in constant touch with the digital and successively being developed by the team. Diascopes, LED screens, video projectors, DMX controlled mirror projectors (Dynamic Projection Institue Vienna) and even tube TVs are implemented.

Their creative workshop/office, the TOP18 - is located in the artistic and cultural area ‘Ragnarhof ’, in Vienna.

Pique (Holzhouse)

In these confusing times where musical borders blur increasingly, an artist might gain more clarity by meshing up everything he or she knows and loves. Exactly that is the strategy of Vienna based Singer/Songwriter Pique who, set aside his Rock/Pop and Acoustic projects, found a partner in crime in DJ Mo Fresh, a former rapper and Hip Hop producer. Together they form Holzhouse, a live Organic Electro project that incorporates as many acoustic instruments, environmental and Foley sounds or sounds taken from everyday objects as possible when recording the tracks. During a live performance, DJ Mo Fresh plays the so created samples while Pique plays the main melody and sings the vocals via looping station and Kaos pad, which leads to the possibility RTAD (real time audio deconstruction). The listener is invited to experience the process of restructuring the sound of, say, Pique’s Gibson live, and how it is introduced into the mix of already prepared samples that come from the “real world” as well. This way, the music of Holzhouse differs from normal House music in two ways: first, almost every sound traveled on air, is genuine and organic which makes the music sound more “warm” and “wooden”, much like Vinyl. Second, every performance is unique since it cannot be repeated the same way.

To generate an experience that encompasses more than only one sense, Holzhouse found their visual counterparts in Dornwittchen and 4youreye. Now they are working on a concept to intertwine both aspects - music and visuals - to seamlessly form an integral body. Through sound reactive visuals, the music interacts with the projections in real time, so again every performance is unique and unrepeatable.