Winfried Ritsch (born 1964 in Tyrol) is Associate Professor of Computer Music at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics (IEM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz and runs the “Klangatelier Algorythmics”. He studied electrical engineering and sound engineering at the Graz University of Technology and the former University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. In addition to his compositions and large media art installations, he has developed innovative artistic concepts, initiated media art laboratories and realised art and music theatre productions. He has been honoured with art prizes for his work as a composer, including the 1994 City of Graz Promotion Prize for Composition, the Max Brandt Prize for Composition in 1997 and the Andrzej Dobrowolski Composition Prize of the Province of Styria in 2020.
SOUND TRACES OF THE AVANT-GARDE
The Salzkammergut was a melting pot of the avant-garde in the 19th and 20th centuries. The performance and exhibition of the “Ballet Mécanique” tie in with this tradition and at the same time offer a Salzkammergut version of the visionary masterpiece of classical modernism.
