Ute Wassermann is one of the most outstanding contemporary vocal phenomena. She combines composition, improvisation and performance art to create her own form of Gesamtkunst, in which environmentally relevant themes play an essential role. For many years she has toured the world as an improviser and performer of contemporary music. In the last decade she has been increasingly realising audiovisual voice performances / installations and compositions for soloists and ensembles. She has received commissions by Ryogoku Art Festival Japan, WDR, University of Amsterdam, Poetica Sonora Mexico City, Casa de Lago UNAM Mexico City, Transart Festival Bolzano, maulwerker, Distractfold Ensemble, Ruhrtriennale, and MaerzMusik.

Ute has premiered pieces, most of them written especially for her voice by Richard Barrett, Henning Christiansen, Chaya Czernowin, Hespos, Matthias Kaul, Karen Power, Alejandro Romero Anaya, Raed Yassin, Sam Salem, Salvadore Sciarrino, John Cage, Luciano Berio, Simon Steen-Andersen, and Cathy van Eck among others.

Expanding the voice

Ute Wassermann presents her diverse artistic practice in the context of experimental music, which combines improvisation, composition and performance art. She shows examples of how ensemble compositions emerge from solo works or how compositions are created from improvisation and sound experimentation.

At the core of her research is an ongoing and uncompromised exploration of her voice. Ute Wassermann´s singing transcends the human voice resulting in multidimensional sculptural sounds oscillating between electronic, animalistic, inorganic and human qualities. Furthermore she extends and alienates the voice including the use of bird whistles, resonators, field recordings, every day objects,  various microphones and multi-channel-spatialisation. With her performances she creates imaginary acoustic habitats in which her chameleon-like voice collaborates with the voices of other-than-humans sounding from objects and matter.

Website: https://utewassermann.com/