The work of New York City based sound organizer WvS is comprised of densely abstract sound-layers, noise-oriented organic sonic textures and dark ambient soundscapes.
WvS studied computer music, classical composition and music theory in Europe with Wolfgang Rihm, Mathias Spahlinger and in the US with John Cage. He attended the 'Darmstadt Ferienkurse fuer Neue Musik' and many European Computer Music conferences, lectured at IDEA, was Artist in Residence at Harvestworks/PASS (NYC), exhibited at the Barcelona Museum of Modern Art, and performed in New York City with sound-installations, solo and in collaboration with Richard Garet, Sarah Bernstein, Eric Barry Drasin, Lady Firefly and others at Spectrum, Roulette, Sonic Front, Figment Festival, Governors Island Art Fair, Diapason, SHARE, BPM, Grace Exhibition Space, GrayZone Kingston, Goodbye Blue Monday, 23 Windows, Silent Barn, Flux Factory, Warper Party, the Knitting Factory, MonkeyTown ({R}AKE + FLOW), Generator Sound Gallery amongst other places, and managed Knitting Factory Records for many years.
WvS composes music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, solo instruments and conceptualized and realized computer-controlled interactive electronic music performances. A core member of "Plan 23", a sound collaboration with Dok Gregory, Peter Principle, and Jeremy Slater, he currently presents performances and sound-installations of entirely computer-generated sound structures without the use of electro-acoustic samples or field-recordings.
Further he is also the curator & producer of the monthly audio-visual event series "ab uno pluribus" - from one to many - (facebook.com/abuno.pluribus), which aims to create unheard sound spaces by combining the varying energies of versatile performers of electronic and acoustic instruments in unrehearsed solo and group improvisations.
