TAO G. Vrhovec Sambolec - ZVO.ČI.TI (So.und.ing) 2010
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TAO G. Vrhovec Sambolec, (text by: Luka Zagoričnik) A composer of
contemporary music, clarinettist and electronica musician, sound
artist and maker of multimedia environments Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
creates in all of the mentioned areas, while retaining his
individuality and recognisability in each of the fields. This does
not only unveil his acute sonic sensibility and a careful
consideration of its traits but also an ear for a sound environment
through which meanings are disclosed on different levels – social,
artistic, architectural, and political. These elements are
intertwined in a clear and distilled but never rigid concept. Tao
first graduated at the Trondeheim Conservatory of Music in Norway
as an instrumentalist, clarinettist, and then continued his studies
at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, the Netherlands, where he
received another BA from music composition and an MA from
ArtScience programme at the Interfaculty Image and Sound. As a
composer, he has produced a series of works for smaller chamber,
percussion, and other ensembles, which were performed at home and
abroad. In his early period, he collaborated a lot with Marko
Peljhan; later his works were performed in renowned international
contemporary music festivals, such as Contemporanea in Italy,
Gaudeamus Music Week, the Netherlands, and Forum Nueur Music in
Germany. Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is active also in the field of
free improvised music. In 2003, Vrhovec and the contrabassist Tomaž
Grom established the duo Tilt, although a project with this name
had been detected already in 1999 with the album ‘The Double’ in
collaboration with the poet Primož Čučnik. Even prior to this, the
project was called Muskafiber and featured the composer and
accordionist Drago Ivanuša. The music of this period relied heavily
on structural elements through the form of poem, poetry, singing,
and speech, and often drifted into spontaneous, improvised
soundscapes. Today, Tilt touches upon contemporary sonority in a
digital milieu, drawing its expressivity from a liminal space
between acoustic and electronically processed sounds. This space
in-between is also the locus of spontaneous communication. But even
though it is grounded in free improvisation, the improvising
nevertheless suggests a composing sensibility that addresses
through a wide spectrum of sounds, timbres, and real-time digitally
processed sounds. Tilt released an album under the Slovene
L’innomable label and received many good reviews in the national
and international press, among other also in the British music
monthly The Wire. The duo was successfully performing in different
European capitals, as well as collaborated with numerous
internationally acclaimed musicians. In the field of mixed media
art practices, Tao gained further recognition with, for example, a
series of installations, space interventions titled ‘Virtual Hole’
and ‘Virtual Mirror’. Recently, he is enjoying a growing
international reputation also in the field of sound art, especially
through his collaborations with the American musician and
theoretician Brandon LaBell, author of ‘Background Noise –
Perspectives on Sound Art’, one of the more influential discussions
of sound art. Their last collaboration was the book and a CD
‘Manual for the Construction of a Sound as a Device to Elaborate
Social Connection’ for the project ‘Virtual Mirror – Sound’. In
this context, Tao this year received a ‘Hybrid Arts Honourable
Mention’ at Ars Electronica in Linz for the work ‘Virtual Mirror –
Rain’. A fusion of music, improvisation, and his interactive
installation research can be seen in his work ‘Inside Out’, which
he co-created with the acclaimed Austrian composer and trombonist
Radu Malfatti. Tao has presented his works in Mexico, the
Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Spain, Turkey, and elsewhere.
Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec is not only one of the most visible
contemporary Slovene artists but – with his cycle of lectures,
sound events, and concerts Bitshift t
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