SWEET
SUSIE
Djane, Electronic composer, and fine artist, Sweet Susie successfully
reveals her ability to experiment in several artistic realms and mediums.
With ease, she manages to adhere to her authentic sound and style while
also exploring new options of innovation. Her longtime career as an
electronic DJ displays her fervor for dub music, a sound she is magnetically
drawn to for its merging of melody and psychedelic, almost deconstructed
sounds. While her love for dub music does influence her work as an electronic
composer, Sweet Susie shows her capacity to consider other styles and
genres of music. In her career as an electronic musician and composer,
Sweet Susie explores many different alternatives, including avant-garde
sound and electronic reworking and modification projects. Finally,
as a fine artist she uses her music from both her careers as a DJ and
as an electronic composer to propel inspiration for her visual projects.
Musical innovator and visual conceptualist, Sweet Susie spreads herself
throughout the artistic domain and serves as an icon of artistic ingenuity
and exploration.
DJ
Her dub based DJ sets offer a journey into sound: from electronic to acoustic and noise, from now to yesterday and the future and comprises music from everywhere in the universe. Sweet Susie loves to make people danceing, kissing, dreaming, listing...
DUB CLUB Since
1995, Sweet Susie, Guemix and Sugar B, have hosted the legendary Dub
Club at the famous Flex, Vienna's
most booming underground venue where numerous national and international
DJ's and musicians (Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corporation,Pan Sonic, Roots Manuva
Mad Professor) have performed over the years. Two Dub Club compilation
albums have been released on Kruder & Dorfmeisters label, G-Stone
Records.
ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN
For the past years, Sweet Susie has been collaborating with Viennese electronic composer, Manni
Montana. Together, they have been working on various music projects and remix productions—, such as "Oxygène" (with Oud samples by Marcel Khalife),
In 2010 Sweet Susie and Manni Montana founded the project "Contact".
The sounds of various musicians, like the well known avantgarde trumpet player, Franz Hautzinger are used for kaleidoscopic sonic universe of contact. Contact sounds like advanced dub, break beat, progressive dancefloor...
Sweet Susie and Manni Montana release on their digital label "Private Pleasure" and „La Place“.
In April 2006 their co-produced album "KV 2006-inspired by Mozart" was released on the Viennese jazz label, "Quinton." This electronic re-working of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was in cooperation with musicians from The Nouvelle Cuisine Big Band, who contributed their improvisations.
Sweet Susie’s interest in all musical genres and her study of fine arts have given her the chance to work with an extensive variety of artists. In 2007 Sweet Susie contributed soundscapes and electronic beats to the album, "Bachmann Jazz" by the jazz trio "Encounters." The album featured Alice Schneider singing jazz interpretations of the lyrics of the famous Austrian writer, Ingeborg Bachmann. Other colloabortations with: Celia Mara, Elisabth Penker, G Rizo, Marianna Tscharkwiani, Gina Mattiello,...
Currently Susie is also involved in the femous orchestra,- a pool of renowend female musicians from austrian and international musicsceneThe orchestra appearanced on diffrent festivals, like Donaufestival.
CULTURAL WORK - CURATOR - PROMOTER Beside Dub Club Susie was and is working
for other Clubs and insitutions as an artistic adviser, curator, booker
like f.e. "Ghetto Club" Istanbul, "Wiener Festwochen",
For "Wiener Festwochen" she curated 2009 "Asian Village": Over 20 artists from Asia and Europe have been invited to perform in a street in the center of Vienna, in the Academy of Fine Arts, and other venues.Read more... In 2010 she founded the platform for famous female culture, called femous. femous features and makes visiable female aritsts with with emphasis on music. Together with renowned festivals, like Ars Electronica, Donaufestival and venues all over Austria, femous offers a selection of outstanding female culture - 100 dates with female artists. www.femous.at
ARTIST
Sweet Susie is also an artist and studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Vienna. She works primarily with the mixing of photography and
sound. Her visual works are profoundly and enormously influenced by
her work as an electronic musician. In her photography she displays
the ecstatic moments that can be found in both nightlife and in nature.
Here photografies and sound works have been displayed in museums and
galleries in Austria like in MAK, Künstlerhauspassage, Momentum
Gallery...
TEACHING Since January 2010, Sweet Susie is runing together with Dj Ipek from Berlin, a one semster long dj- and soundproduction course at Viennese arts- and social center, the Brunnepassage.
The project with the title " Yes!she can DJ" is in cooperation with Wiener Festwochen. The course participants are coming from diffrent nations and is for girls of the age between 16 to 35 . The course imparts technics and theory about djing and soundproduction
and aims that the participants gain experience with the audience. The class has been performed in venues like "Club Ost", "Cafe Leopold" and will perform at the opening of Wiener Festwochen 2010. Susie has given several workshops and courses for djing and soundproduction also at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, WienerJugendzentren, and much more. info: www.streetacademy.at, yes! she can DJ
