The current audio work of New York City based sound organizer WvS is comprised of highly abstract and dense sound-layers, noise-oriented organic sonic textures, as well as pitch and modulation glissando driven soundscapes. WvS studied computer music, classical composition and music theory in Europe with Wolfgang Rihm and in the US with John Cage. He attended the ‘Darmstadt Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik’ and many European Computer Music conferences, lectured at IDEA, performed twice at the Belluard Festival (Fribourg, CH), exhibited at the Museum for Modern Art Barcelona (Spain), was Artist in Residence at Harvestworks/PASS (NYC) and performs somewhat frequently in New York City mostly in collaboration with A/V artists Richard Garet, Jeremy Slater, Lady Firefly and others at venues like Roulette, Diapason, SHARE, the Knitting Factory, MonkeyTown ({R}AKE + FLOW), Generator Sound Gallery amongst other places, and managed Knitting Factory Records for many years. Having previously composed music for orchestras, chamber ensembles & solo instruments and conceptualized/realized computer controlled interactive performances, WvS currently focuses on entirely computer-generated sound structures without the use of electro-acoustical samples or ‘field-recordings’.
