PLASTICPHONIA
A HYMN
against Climate change
PLASTIC trash FROM THE OCEAN
COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
Fotocredit: Nora Forsthuber
Plasticphonia
Live at Ars Electronica Center Linz
Video & Visualization by Christopher Noelle
How to make music
out of plastic waste
COLLECTED PLASTIC TRASH FROM THE OCEAN AND THE DANUBE COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
Video by Shane McMillan
LIVE at Ars Electronica Festival
Future Lab Nightperformances 2022
PLASTIC TRASH FROM THE OCEAN COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
Concerts
13. May 2024 / Stream Club Festival Linz (AT)
18. May 2024 / ADAF Athens Digital Arts Festival Techno(s)cene (GR)
24. May 2024 / Long night of Research, Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
23. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
24. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
25. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
29. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
30. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
31. May 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
1. June 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
2. June 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
20. September 2024 / Anton Between Worlds Kuva Leonding (AT)
24. October 2024 / Bruckner´s Halluzination, Church Urfahr Linz (AT)
24. October 2024 / Drone Project University Klagenfurt (AT)
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10. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
11. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
12. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
13. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
17. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
18. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
19. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
20. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
21. January 2024 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
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8. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
9. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
13. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
14. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
15. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
16. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
17. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
28. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
29. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
30. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
31. December 2023 / Schöne Neue Welt, Theater Phönix Linz (AT)
18. November 2023 / TEDx TALK, JKU Linz (AT)
7. October 2023 / Lange Nacht der Museen, Ars Electronica Center/Deep Space Linz (AT)
23. September 2023 / Spätsommerfest Alturfahr (abgesagt) (AT)
7. Juli 2023 / Herrenstraßenfest Linz (AT)
6. June 2023 / LINZ Fmr (AT)
22.-25. June 2023 / Rumania (RO)
28. June 2023 / Anything About Ordinary, Linz (AT)
28. June 2023 / Festival der Regionen, Church Kefermarkt (AT)
17. 2. 23 / Sofar Sounds Linz (AT)
26. 2. 23 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
25. 2. 23 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
24. 2. 23 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
23. 2. 23 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
10. 3. 23 / When the Moon waxes Red, Valetta Malta (MT)
2. 12. 22 / Westwerk, Hamburg (DE)
19. 11. 22 / Drap Art Festival Barcelona, Spanien (ES)
17. 11. 22 / Kulturhauptstadt Procida, Italien (IT)
11. 11. 22 / Meeting Wittgenstein, Fabrikanten, Hotel Star Inn Linz (AT)
6. 10. 22 / D´Art Formentera, Spanien (ES)
10. 9. 22 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
8. 9. 22 / Ars Electronica Festival Linz (AT)
30. 6. 22 / New Album Releasekonzert & Merch „Lick My Fur“ Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
19. 6. 22 / Die Zukunft ist Passé“, Adriana Torres Topaga, K&K Galerien, Gmunden (AT)
19.5. 22 / Auftritt der Frauen, Nordico Linz (AT)
12. 5. 22 / 22butterfly, Posthof Linz (AT)
6. 5. 22 / Central Garden, H2Org, Wien (AT)
2. 5. 22 / Kunstmuseum Lentos, H2Org, Linz (AT)
15. 3. 22 / Next Comic Festival, DH5 Linz (AT)
5. 3. 22 / OÖ. Kunstverein Linz, Performance Null feat. ToFA (AT)
Plasticphonia Workshops
29. March 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
30. March 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
10. May 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
11. May 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
15. June 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
29. June 2023 / Ars Electronica Center Linz (AT)
3D Visualization
Track: “Feed the Demons with some Hope”
The Musictrack “Feed the Demons” from the Album “Lick My Fur”
is going to be shown every day at Ars Electronica Center in the program of the Deep Space.
April 2023 - April 2024. Tickets available under: Deep Space/Ars Electronica Center
Live at Festival LINZ FMR 2023
Plasticphonia live at LENTOS LINZ,
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (AT) MAY 2022
&
CLeandanube / andreas Fath @Central Garden
Vienna (AT)
PLASTIC TRASH FROM THE OCEAN COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
“The Future is gone” Exhbition Opening
OPPENENING EXHIBITION “DIE ZUKUNFT IST PASSÉ” by ADRIANA TOPAGA TORRES @ KAMMERHOFGALERIE GMUNDEN & CRYSTN HUNT AKRON - LIVE, June 2022, GMUNDEN/AT
PLASTIC TRASH FROM THE OCEAN COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
SOUNDINSTALLATION, EXHIBITION & ARTISTTALK
by CRYSTN HUNT AKRON - Hauptplatz 23, Music-Atelier, June 2022, LINZ /AT
PLASTIC TRASH FROM THE OCEAN COMPOSED INTO MUSIC
PLASTICPHONIA
music from the ocean
With the music art project PLASTICPHONIA we are dedicating ourselves to the internationally relevant topic „global plastic pollution“ and „plastic - throwaway society“.
The artist Crystn Hunt Akron collect together with Greenpeace, environmentalists, and Clean Up the beaches organisations plastic waste, which is washed up on the beaches of the seas and rivers. Crystn Hunt Akron, soundartist and musician use the plastic trash as instruments and composes out of the noises of the material the “plasticphonia”.
40 tons of plastic end up in the sea from the Danube every year.
Around 8 million pieces of plastic enter our oceans every day.
50% plastic is single use - and used for no more than 15 minutes before being thrown away - polluting our planet for the next 500 years! (2021)
Plastic waste
becomes music
By moving the material, sounds which were collected at the Danube, in Mallorca, in South of Italy, in Barcelona and Odessa are generated from plastic parts such as brushes, bags, bin, bottles, tubes, cups, etc. The trash acts as an instrument and this plastic waste is going to be composed into music, an electro-acoustic symphony.
Plasticphonia becomes audible through concerts, interactive room-, sound- and sculpture installations and as a vinyl record.
PLASTICPHONIA
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music from the ocean
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PLASTICPHONIA 〰️ music from the ocean 〰️
BIO
Crystn Hunt Akron is an interdisciplinary artist between art, music, new media, art fashion, dance and performance. She is awarded with the Spanish Culture Prize and International Art Prize in collaboration with Sol Pico - Barcelona.
Graduated at the Anton Bruckner Private University Linz AT (2006) in jazz- and popvocals and music- and media technology. Her first release as a solo musician was the 2010 avant-garde pop album Fat Black Spider under the pseudonym Madame Humtata. She received the renowned Anton Bruckner composition grant for the work with an 80 musician brass orchestra “Banda primitiva de Alcoy” in the theatre Calderón d‘Alcoi in Spain.
After further collaborations in the USA, in Spain, Switzerland, London, Berlin, Canada and Austria, Crystn Hunt Akron was part of the European Capital of Culture City Rijeka 2020 with her electro-acoustic composition Ebriphon - The Ship Symphony. Her recently published work „The World is a Virgina” she performed at the art fair Parallel Vienna (AT) 2021. In June 2022 she released her first Solo Album “Lick My Fur” under the new artist name CRYSTN HUNT AKRON with a 3D visualization at the 8K Deep Space Ars Electronica Center Linz/AT. She is currently working on the composition „Plastic Trash Symphony“ - music made from washed up plastic waste on the beaches of the sea.
Music
for A
better
world
Supported by City Linz Export 2019/Austria, Linz_Sounds 2022, Klimafonds der Stadt Linz 2021, Büro Stefan Kaineder 2021
Photocredit: Patrik Huber, Roland von der Aist, Chris Noell aka TOFA