christian kuntner -- sonic & visual universe

Working with sound in any artistic field and surroundings is what keeps me fresh and alert! All tecnical and musical aspects of any soundsource and theit treatement leads to new, sometimes unforseen results. All kinds of analog and digital tools at hand, let me manipulate sounds as they where a piece of dough: 3 dimensional sounddesign.

These tecniques combined with my large interest in visual design, creates kind of an architextural art, followed by the presentation of sound and audio installations.


TRONDHEIM - OUAGADOUGOU

2012

An Outdoor sculptural, audioinstallation, SWI


KATAKATAKATAK

2007

Sculptural, audioinstallation at Kulturtage Weicht, GER


AUDIOSPHERE 1 HELIOS

2008

Outdoor Audioinstallation and Live Performance


AUDIOSPHERE 2 QUBUS

Indoor- Audioinstallation and Live Performance on request


AUDIOSPHERE 3 NURU GWAH

2010

Outdoor AUdioinstallation at Herzberg SWI


NOTHING TO DECLARE

2016

Installation at Kunsthaus Aarau

Kano, Gao, Néma, Maiduguri, Taoudenit, Kenema, Dessie, Barentu, Massawa, Agadez, Tamanrasset, Ouargla, Oujda, Bamako, Tanger, Benghazi, Izmir, Istanbul, Kumanovo, Buchs, Subotica, Budapest, Ceuta, Lampedusa, Sicilia, München, Lesbos, Kos, Vienna, Traiskirchen, Bregenz, Ingolstadt, ...


AUDIOSPHERE 4 GOLDENEYE

2013

Floating object, filled with air-helium mixture, Soundwaves transmitted to object by a 18" speaker.
Installation for Kunsttage Winningen, GER

christian kuntner -- Live Performances & Interventions

It's in it performing art or not art being and existing - take care - watch the clock and sit down !

Share the apple

2013

Live 24 h transatlantic video-performance.

Brooklyn, NY


SHARE THE APPLE PROMOTION

2013

New York, 5 th Street,2nd Av. >> Inviting people to share an apple with me


L'ARMOIRE

2007

Part of a performance serie in Biel, Switzerland, called "atteinte à la pudeur" (expecting modesty)


ARMOIRE 2

2007

Reveiling the secret


KIESMACHEN

2010

Performance at Group exhibition "Kollaboration Torfeld Süd"
Material: 1,5 Tons of gravel, 2 wooden boxes with built in speakers


TUNED LIGHTS 1

2011

Interactive Performance. Artist Jusha Mueller (Germany) is painting with wired tools, connected to the soundsystem of Christian Kuntner (Switzerland). This incoming sounds are treated and sampled in different ways, with various tools, and played back. The painting performance is streamed live to video-monitors or beamers. All is happening live.


TUNED LIGHTS 3

2013

Performed in Brooklyn, NY


TUNED LIGHTS 4

2013

Performed in East Village, Manhattan, NY


christian kuntner -- Music

Musician, performer, sounddesigner and multi-artist, working in Switzerland and abroad.
Bachelor of music at Swiss Jazz School in Bern, 1985. He combines his various skills in the filed of audio-installations, as sounddesigner for listening-spots in museums and movies, and as musician and sound-artist for theatre plays. His longterm experience as musician, playing many different styles in more than 30 bands, combined with his interest in common noise and soundscapes, results in the creation of phantastic soundspaces which he mostly presents in visual fancy or distracting environnements.
Christian was 15 years on the road with circus-theatre FEDERLOS, touring almost 2 years in africa (Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Namibia and Zimbabwe).
His tours with Band took place all over Europe, Central Asia, Japan, USA, Canada, Haiti.
He was working as performer with his project Remote Citizen in Switzerland, Germany, Turkey, Armenia, USA, Argentina, France.
During the last 35 years, he currently appears as bassplayer on 45 CDs or Records, distributed by various labels in Switzerland, Italy, US, UK.

Most active Band at the moment: SONAR >>

KISTENMUZIK

2013

Duo project by Christian Kuntner and Astride Schlaefli.

Creation and shaping of variations and fusions of analog music instruments and objects with electronics.

KISTENMUZIK >>