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“Kutin‘s music makes me think of things… things I often spend a great deal of time burying somewhere within the subconscious. And although I can’t blame the music for digging it up, I can certainly thank it for trying.” – HEADPHONE COMMUTE

“Peter Kutin is a Vienna based composer and producer whose compositions forge connections between electronic music and the fields of investigative journalism, expanded cinema and theatre.” – THE WIRE

Peter Kutin works with sound across genres and at various intersections.
His pieces have been exhibited, commissioned, performed, screened or discussed at notable occasions and venues across the globe. His often site-specific projects combine aspects of installations, (kinetic) sculptures, live- as well as synthesised music and performance art. His interest in moving image expanded beyond music, having also developed and directed a series of experimental short films, multimedia-scenarios and performances. He received several awards, scholarships and residencies;

For the composition Desert Bloom, a cooperation with the german composer Christina Kubisch & Kutin’s long time collaborator Florian Kindlinger, the trio received the prestigious Karl-Szucka award in 2016. In 2019 he received the Prix Ars-Elctronica for his kinetic sound-sculpture Torso#1.
Kutin’s music and art has been described as ’undeniably effective’ (The Wire Magazine), and ’not only good but important’ (A closer listen).

He is a founding member of the label Ventil-Records, the concert series Velak-Gala (platform for experimental music), the RealDeal Festival and the ’sonic-laboratory‘ Westbahnstudios in Vienna.

With ROTOЯ, Peter Kutin (concept, composition, live electronics) collaborates with Patrik Lechner (live-video-projections) and Mathias Lenz (mechatronics) for this furious und hypnotising live-performance.

Following the basic parameters of Kutin’s kinetic object TORSO#1 from 2018, ROTOЯ applies an even more intense acceleration onto these media-branches sound, image, light and object. It reaches stages where the rotating sound-sculpture transcendes into a hologram alike sonic-body, a kinetic-performer that is passing and morphing through unpredictable heterochronic states by establishing a beguiling complex multimedial-polyrhythm.

… the sculpture fans out into geometric forms, bunches into images of a diffused reality. Due to the constant acceleration, it’s no longer possible to perceive the movement in detail, but instead, lines, colors, surfaces, and sounds rush past us.

… In the cyclical movement, image and sound conspire and work towards a dizzying and unreal three-dimensionality, a play of visibility and invisibility, actuality and virtuality, visual abstraction and acoustic affect.

ROTOЯ – SONIC BODY received the international Jury award at the 27th Videomedeja Festival in Novi Sad in 2023 :
‘A rotating sculpture, a hologram and at the same time a sound body which is awakened to an ecstatic life’