bonaNza

Vienna, Austria

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About

bonaNza

As Austrian representation was bonaNza in Norway (Stavanger: cultural capital city of Europa 2008) at the Numusic Festival. bonaNza was commissioned to develope programs for culture festivals (Steirischer Herbst / Musikprotokoll / ZeitTon-Live, Osterfestival Hall in Tirol, Jeunesse Austria / Fast Forward. 20:2, Open Music Graz, ORF RadioKulturhaus). bonaNza was invited to play at culture events (Klangturm St.Pölten season-opening 2009, Wien Modern Party), but also in clubs (temp~festival 2009, rhiz, Fluc Wanne). bonaNza’s musicvideos have been screened at the Filmcasino Austria.
When bonaNza is commissioned by art festivals and cultural organisations to create new pieces and remixes of works by composers like Brian Ferneyhough and Steve Reich or by Austrian cultural figures like Arnold Schönberg and Falco, what usually takes place is the opposite of art. Apparently.
Eberhard and JSX, aka Alexander J. Eberhard and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, created bonaNza to introduce different club music influences into their electronic art music. Soon they dissociated themselves from the usual operation methods like abstraction and deconstruction of sources and gestures and the simplicity of art-scene-acceptable fare. They started to perform in clubs and worked on different aesthetics written off as “commercial”, proceeding from where they might have had they not become art students and eventually music academics, adopting a parameter in their work that otherwise tends to be ignored in the art world: the functionality of club music, its dance-ability, its groove.
When samples of John Cage’s Prepared Piano get combined with minimalhouse beats and Arnold Schönberg’s Pierrot is transformed into techno, when Latin American Reggaeton rhythms get painted over with industrial sounds and Dominican merengue overrides Falco’s voice, bonaNza emerges like a duck in water: right at home in both the club and the art space.

Alexander J. Eberhard: e-viola, electronic devices
www.myspace.com/eberhardsound

Jorge Sánchez-Chiong: turntables
http://edition21.at/Sanchez-Chiong.htm

Alexander J. Eberhard y Jorge Sánchez-Chiong crearon bonaNza que que logra confluir las influencias de la música de club en sus composiciones de música electrónica seria. Pronto se distanciaron de los métodos usuales del medio artístico tales como la abstracción y deconstrucción de fuentes y gestos,y comenzaron a tocar en clubs y a trabajar en torno a estéticas consideradas comerciales adoptando un parámetro por lo general menospreciado por la música seria: la funcionalidad de la música de club, su aspecto danzable, su „flow“.
Cuando samples del piano preparado de John Cage son combinados con la sonoridad de la minimalhouse y el Pierrot Lunaire de Arnold Schoenberg es transformado en música techno, cuando los ritmos del reggaeton caribeño son saturados con sonidos industriales y el merengue dominicano atropella a la voz de Falco, entonces bonaNza en su ambiente: en un lugar ubicado exactamente entre el arte y club.
La nueva producción de bonaNza va a ser publicada por ICRecords en Venezuela, Colombia y la Argentina.