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Digital Musics & Sound Art Anerkennung - Honorary Mention 2011

⁄S⁄O⁄N⁄I⁄C⁄ ⁄Z⁄O⁄N⁄E⁄S⁄

franz pomassl, Anna Ceeh
_⁄S⁄O⁄N⁄I⁄C⁄ ⁄Z⁄O⁄N⁄E⁄S⁄_ comes exactly 20 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union.

This project takes us on a sound archaeological research journey into the sonic terra incognita of the successor states of the former USSR, with its urban moloch mega-cities and multi-million cities, autonomous and isolated areas on the edge of the world, leads us to the Arctic, the Urals and the Caucasus, Siberia and in the far Far East, dives in with us and co-discovers these living electronic sound cultures, spanning 10 time zones of this huge territory.

_⁄S⁄O⁄N⁄I⁄C⁄ ⁄Z⁄O⁄N⁄E⁄S⁄_ record-box (Laton 070) includes exclusive tracks and full-length albums by various well-known and newly discovered artists, featuring: Alexei Borisov (Moscow / RU), Katya Zavoloka (Kiev / UA), Benzo (Vilnius / LT), Park Modern (Vladivostok / RU), Radius (Kemerovo / RU), F.R.U.I.T.S. (Moscow / RU), ADD (Petrozavodsk / RU), Infra Red Army (Kharkiv / UA), Mombus (Murmansk / RU), KiWa (Tartu / EE), StirliTz (Kaliningrad / RU), Fractal Heads (Novosibirsk / RU), PTU (Kazan, RU), Love-Fine, Kyskas (Murmansk / RU), Test Pressing, The Festival of Non-Existent Bands (Tallinn / EE), LLAC (Yekaterinburg, RU), Nikola (Vladivostok / RU), Belki (Izhevsk, RU) and Dambo (Khabarovsk / RU).

Links: http://www.soniczones.com/
Anna Ceeh (AT) is a Russian-born artist who has been working in the Austrian and international art scenes for nearly ten years, through photography, video, electronic and applied research. The vocabulary of her activities reflects and examines the dimensions of the real and the virtual in the context of the relationship between human being, object and space.

Franz Pomassl (AT) is a sound-installation artist, author, performer and curator of electronic music works. He is the founder of the Sound Department at the Vienna Academy of fine Arts, where he teaches sound. Together with Anna Ceeh he runs the label Laton.