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
One of the few known female Dj's coming out of Vienna’s electronic
music scene, Sweet Susie began touring worldwide in 1994. Her dub based
DJ sets are musical masterpieces that combine the different styles of
electronic music like Breakbeat,
Tech House, Dancehall, Hip Hop, current styles like Dubstep, Grime...
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,
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 4 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), and "I do believe" (with samples from the traditional "We shall overcome"). In 2004 they arranged a song with former Yodel Queen, Ingrid Huberti, called "The New School Yodel."
In 2008 Sweet Susie and Manni Montana founded their digital label "Private Pleasure" and „La Place“ where all this titles are released.
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 she is working on a new future dub album.
MUSIC PROMOTER and CURATOR 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",
"Eutopia" association.
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...
FINE
ARTIST
Sweet Susie is also a fine 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
