Station Rose Live
by Elisa Rose and Gary Danner (GER)

Station Rose was founded in Austria, in 1988 by Elisa Rose (visuals) and Gary Danner (sound), after Rose and Danner had graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. On from the beginning their activities spanned from art production, exhibitions, DVD-, CD-, CD ROM- and vinyl productions, to research, lectures and performing. As one of the first digital groups worldwide Station Rose have used the potential of audio visual media and the internet for performing in their work. Performances and lectures in art galleries, universities and museums are equally important as performances at media festivals and in the club scene. Station Rose’s audiovisual compositions consist of visual and acoustic patterns, the outputs of the visual and sound workstation get merged into a whole, LIVE in real-time. The computers are linked via MIDI, thus guaranteeing a synchronized performance. Pictures and sounds triggered by sequencers provide the basic patterns and loops, over which Station Rose improvise during their live set, which „puts Techno in a sliding scale of forms and responses“ (The WIRE 02/05). Elisa Rose combines animations, graphics, videos, stills and text from the Digital Archive of Station Rose live into modular sequences. Station Rose creates a „virtual room inside a room“ through beamers, P.A. and projection screens which embraces the audience, consisting of light and sound.

• – Station Rose website
• – Station Rose Myspace Profile