Mahtab Miandehi (IR) + Peter Hutter (AT)

Mahtab Miandehi is a violinist, sound artist, and researcher. Her work spans a wide range of
disciplines, including acoustic and electronic music in various media formats, as well as the
creation and performance of contemporary music.
She occasionally takes an improvisation-based approach, focusing on expressing her current
musical conflicts and integrating the potential of her cultural heritage into musical
compositions and performances. Her current research explores sensor-based gestural
interaction in performance and practice, focusing on the intersection of movement, sound, and
technology in live electroacoustic music.

Mahtab Miandehi

Peter Hutter is an audiovisual artist from Graz. He works performatively, installatively and interdisciplinary with time-based and generative media. His audiovisual works are characterized by the use of contrasts: between organic bodies and cool geometry, real image and generative elements, aesthetics and glitch. The artist is interested in the formation and dissolution of structures, the juxtaposition and connection of dualistic content and their interactions.
In 2012, he received the ASIFA Best Austrian Animation Award for the animated film “Tekno Kabaret” and has since worked on various video and animation projects, video installations, interactive AV projects and as a VJ and composer of electronic music. His focus is increasingly on audiovisual live performances. In 2024, he presented the immersive live performance “Symptoms”, describing an abstract life form in search of its structure with its overall visual and sonic-spatial composition.

Peter Hutter

other artists

OBERDECK #22: Mirjam Schrei (AT)

Moments. An undefined unit of time – fleeting and yet sometimes eternal.
In her series of paintings entitled “Atmosphere of the Moment”, Mirjam Schrei explores the connection between photography and painting and examines the process of remembering. The works
are based on photographs from her archive and capture the fleeting character of personal experiences.

Alica Minar (CZE) + Tim Winter (DE)

If we openly share our desires, what will happen? And what will happen if we start to fulfill them, on stage, in the audience? How would their confession change the very moment and the social setting we’re part of NOW, among friends, strangers, comrades?

Julia & Michael Walk (AT) + Gabriel Huth (AT)

This dinner performance explores the tension between rules and improvisation in the cooking process and invites guests to become active participants in the creative transformation of ingredients and recipes. The structure of the evening is not determined in advance , but develops in real time through the dynamics between the chefs, guests, space and ingredients.

Andrea Gava (ITA) + Grazer Impro Klub

The GIK – Grazer Impro Klub sees itself as a platform for the preservation, consolidation and cultivation of the musical practice of improvisation and genre-free musical experimentation.

Jugend am Werk – Work in progress

Schaumbad is actively involved in this process by including artists with disabilities in its programs – with the GIF as the leading series in terms of inclusion.

Susa Kern (AT)

Individual frames are designed and made from used spectacle parts.
The focus is on improvisation and creative design.

George Cremaschi (USA/CZE)

…works with a variety of approaches and strategies in the areas overlapping music, sound art and noise.

B the Beat (AT)

Dance battle with impro flow!
dancers will perform to live improvised music. The focus is on the exchange with the musicians as well as the possibility of a “connection” with each other.
The “audience” and all the people in the room ultimately become active performers and are invited to get involved in this musical journey and create new movements!

Corinna Eikmeier (DE)

What are the interactions between the quality of movement in music-making and the quality of improvisation? Aspects relevant to improvisation from two research projects will be presented.

The Kumberg Gatherers

The core is expressing itself at the moment without structures or concepts. In terms of content, this evening is open and can develop in any direction, depending on which influences are currently present and determine the path…

Maria Gstättner (AT) + Stefan Heckel (AT)

In this lecture performance, Maria Gstättner talks about her experience of how sound becomes a medium in free improvisation – a fleeting mediator between body and space, an impulse for transformation. It is about those moments in which the inexplicable takes shape and condenses into sound, breath and silence.

Jugend am Werk – Results of the week

Schaumbad is actively involved in this process by including artists with disabilities in its programs – with the GIF as the leading series in terms of inclusion.

Anna Sophia Defant (AT) + Petra Fraißl (AT)

Debut Duo

Mina Zakić (RS) + Michele Bernabei (FR) + Zlata (UA)

Debut Trio

mozo mozo (INT)

Noise-Impro-Jazz-Electronics. The Viennese formation mixes volcanic energy with radical playfulness

STIO feat. Yuval Avital (IL)

The Styrian Improvisers Orchestra (STIO) is a dynamic ensemble based in Graz, Austria, dedicated to exploring the boundaries of free and conducted improvisation.

Rixard Tattoo (ESP)

Rixard Tattoo merges tattooing and performance, exploring the concept of the abject and the interplay between attraction and repulsion.