Together with the software developers, Ronald Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck, Kurt Laurenz Theinert, using MIDI keyboards, constructed an “instrument of image”, the visual piano that allows him to translate his artistic intentions into a live performance while configuring time and light. The VISUAL PIANO is an instrument that allows him to create in a space of moving images. A collaboration with Richard Spaeth, a sound artist, and other musicians, enriched his work with a new, non-material medium -sound - and the incessant refinement and monitoring of his own artistic position and stance. The visual piano allows the author to project images across the whole room, generating architectural and technical associations. The visual piano is a visual performance that explores modern artistic practices through the abstract, ephemeral medium of light. Together with musicians, Visual Piano turns into a true light and sound performance.

Kurt Laurenz Theinert (1963) is a photographer and light artist. He concentrates his work on visual experiences that do not refer to anything as images. He aims for the abstract reductive aesthetics, which, combined with his desire to dematerialise, ultimately brought him from photography to light.
Thienert will be joined by two Slovene musicians, Neža Naglič and Marko Karlovčec, for his performance of Visual Piano in Ljubljana.
Neža Naglič (keyboards) is a young Slovene improvisational musician. She is interested in exploring the sound capabilities of the piano that exceed its functionality and the tempered tuning. She reaches right into the heart of the instrument, sounding the strings and the body using various objects, including household objects and a janitor's tools.
Marko Karlovčec is a musician playing various instruments, such as the saxophone, a no-input mixer and the guitar. His work has been heavily influenced by researching the legacy of free jazz, noise, modern improvisation, post-black-doom-drone metal and historical avant-garde. Lately, he has been performing mainly as a soloist in ad-hoc improvisational bands, with his latest project being a duo with the percussionist Seijiro Murayama.

The performance will be split into two parts of 20 minutes each. In the break, you can listen to the noisephone of Marko Kovačič, Circulation 2 and take a look around the light ambient on the top floor, courtesy of DK.