SOLO PERFORMANCES

freely improvised music & composition

photo by Werner Puntigam

WERNER PUNTIGAM (A)

trombone & conch shell

soundscapes & visuals

photo by Werner Puntigam

The Austrian freely improvising musician and composer WERNER PUNTIGAM - called "the alchemist of the sounds" in a magazine's review - presents his solo performances on trombone & conch shell straight musically or extended with his own visuals (video & photography), projected as stage background or alternating with his live performing. In any case he's always creating thrilling abstract and complex soundscapes with an extremely wide range of sounds and dynamics by exploring all known and unknown sound options on his horns in a pure acoustic way. An intimate, surprising and extraordinary soulful and sensual experience for the ears of attentive listeners!

As a composer he regurarely delivers outstanding soundtracks for theatre and contemporary dance productions as well as for short movies and other interdisciplinary cooperations, e.g. in Austria (Landestheater Linz, Theater Phönix Linz, Posthof Linz, WUK Wien), Germany (Schauspiel Nürnberg), Italy, Hungaria, Serbia, Mozambique, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and Japan.

In 2024 he's presenting several projects dedicated to the famous Austrian composer Anton Bruckner and his 200th anniversary that gets celebrated nationally and internationally all over this year. His multidisciplinary 'EAR X EYE arts presentation' event includes a live solo performance on trombone & conch shell combined with screenings of contemporary dance videos plus soundtracks based on abstract quotations from Bruckner compositions as well as the photo installation 'inter.views/headlines.ab © pntgm' (all created by Werner Puntigam).