BULBUL (AT) // MAJA OSOJNIK + SUSANNA GARTMAYER (AT)

Bulbul
ist eine 1996 gegründete Noise-Rock-Band aus Wien. Sie wurde 1996, ursprünglich als experimentelles Ein-Mann-Projekt, von Manfred Engelmayr in Wels gegründet. Die heute dreiköpfige Band (Raumschiff Engelmayr, Didi Kern, Der Hunt) spielt eine Synthese aus Rock, Dance, Experiment und Elektronik.
BulBul haben ca. 12 Alben und jede Menge 7" veröffentlicht, auf Trost Records, Rock Is Hell Records, Exile on Mainstream Records, Siluh Records etc.
Alle Bandmitglieder sind in zahlreichen anderen Formationen aktiv (Broken Heart Collector, Muscle Tomcat Machine, Fuckhead, Quehenberger/Kern).

Maja Osojnik + Susanna Gartmeyer

As a duo they perform the first time.

Maja Osojnik
as a singer, composer, improvising electroacoustic musician, sound artist, producer, mostly using voice, paetzold bass recorders, own field recordings, DJ-CD, tapes and other lo-fi electronic devices, toys, trash and found objects. Maja made a name for herself in different musical fields, such as early music, contemporary, experimental, jazz, free improvisation, sound art and heavier music. Moving in limbo between analogue and digital art, virtual and real spaces, she tries to expand, deconstruct and reinterpret the tonal spectra of mentioned instruments and to assign them new roles – a process reminiscent of building anagrams. In her Compositions she combines love for simple songs, experimental electro-acoustic, abstract music, early and contemporary classical music as well as elements and forms of noise and rock. The real, the surreal, the fragility, in which both the destructive, abysmal, dark phantasm, but also the beauty, the elegance, the strength are depicting certainty, manifest another engine that defines Maja’s musical creation.

Susanna Gartmeyer
studied painting and printmaking at the academy of fine arts, Vienna and has been working as a bass clarinettist, composer and improviser in various fields of experimental music since the early 2000s.
She is member and founder of numerous ensembles for improvised and organized music. Her particular interest lies in the polyphonic sound possibilities of low clarinets, open forms of composition as well as theory and practice of collaborative work processes.
Since 2015, together with Thomas Berghammer and Didi Kern, she has been organizing the Monday Improvisers Session at Celeste in Vienna – a weekly musicaly multiideomatic platform for improvisers in Vienna and far beyond.