Katharina Ernst/Michael Breyer/ATELIER-E

The Malaysian-Austrian artist and composer Katharina Ernst, who began her musical career playing the drums at the age of nine, has developed a unique approach to polymetric, odd rhythm structures at the intersection of music, fine arts, and choreography. At donaufestival, she will present the work Polylog, a complex experimental set-up of sound, imagery, and AI. Her live performance on drums interacts with video works by artist Michael Breyer using a tailor-made real-time system developed by Berlin studio ATELIER-E: an artificial intelligence analyses Ernst’s performance and generates a dynamic interplay with Breyer’s videos.