Franziska Baumann
Franziska Baumann is a vocalist, composer and sound artist and is experienced in a diversity of improvised and composed music.
As a vocalist she explores the human voice as a multi-faceted instrument expanding traditional boundaries. She has developed an extensive vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques such as multiphonics and glottal clicks and a variety of unique microtonal, timbre-modifying and percussive vocal techniques that have become her “signature sounds”.
As a composer her repertoire is diverse and includes commissions for electroacoustic and improvised projects to experimental radioworks, large-scale site-specific sound environments and installations, all of which are characterized by a very personal language.
As “artist in residence” in the STEIM “Studio for ElectroInstrumental Music”, Amsterdam, she developed an interactive SensorLab based Sensorglove. Mainly in solo performances she uses the Sensorglove. This interactive SensorLab-based cyberglove (her own development while staying at the STEIM Studio for ElectroInstrumental Music in Amsterdam) gives her total control over her articulations and the acoustics via gestures and movement.
Concert tours have taken her to the Netherlands, Germany, France, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Italy, Spain, South Korea, USA and Canada.
She is a professor for improvisation and composition at the university of the arts in Berne, Switzerland and she is also part of a national research program “body (without) sound”, a program which focuses on the relation between gesture, movement and sound.
Franziska Baumann is the recipient of numerous grants and scholarships.