16 Oct 2025 @ ARTist’s

Moving Score – A Ride Becomes Music - 田んぼの少女 meets Improvisation

Moving Score – A Ride Becomes Music – 田んぼの少女 meets Improvisation

A bicycle ride. For one hour.
Along fields, railway lines, and edges.
The camera follows – and the microphone hears everything.
No commentary, no music. Just motion, landscape, wind.

The video works are by the girl from the rice fields (田んぼの少女) – a poetic pseudonym under which she documents everyday rides through rural peripheries (YouTube: Boredom is a Privilege).

These recordings serve as a moving score for the evening:
an improvised response to what is seen and heard – an interplay of image, sound, and present attention.

The evening brings together Alyona Pynzenyk and Petra Sottová – both part of a multi-day mountain improvisation project last summer – with two musicians from Graz, forming a new constellation for this unique context.

The original project, initiated by Alyona, explored improvisation not only as musical practice but as shared time, space, and process.

Who exactly meets whom, and what will happen between sound and image, remains open.
Improvisation means working with what is there – in the moment, in the space, in uncertainty.

What unfolds on this evening cannot be fully announced.
Only this: it will not be a concert in the classical sense.
But rather an encounter with an image – and what it provokes.
Perhaps music. Perhaps something in between.

Alyona Pynzenyk – Violine
Petra Slottová – Querflöte
Ana Ostojic – Klavier
Harald Hofmeister – Gitarre

Alyona Pynzenyk is a Ukrainian violinist based in Vienna, specialising in free improvisation, contemporary music, and performance. She views collaboration and artistic interaction as sources of inspiration, discovery, self-reflection, mutual growth – and joy.
She performs actively as a soloist and collaborates with renowned national and international contemporary music ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, NeuRaum, and Schallfeld.
In her own projects – mainly focused on free improvisation and contemporary sound practices – she constantly explores new approaches to improvisation and sonic aesthetics.
Among these are:
• the collective series Impro Gang
• Duo VV with Stefan Voglsinger (electronics)
• a duo with Philipp Kienberger (bass)
• and the trio Pynzenyk/Duit/Rosilio (violin/drums/bass), among others
She is also a founding member of Coincidence, a collaborative ensemble dedicated to contemporary and performative music.
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Petra Slottová studied flute at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, as well as Performance Practice in Contemporary Music with Klangforum Wien at the same institution.
She has performed with a wide range of ensembles and orchestras, including the Hofkapelle Graz, Styrian Improvisers Orchestra, Vienna Soundpainting Collective, and Klangforum Wien.
As a theatre musician, she has worked at venues such as the Schauspielhaus Graz, Theater Next Liberty, the Munich Kammerspiele, and the Vienna Konzerthaus.
She also creates performances for young audiences, appearing in productions such as “Cinello mit der roten Nase – Lang Gnal” (Jeunesse) and “Geld spielt keine Rolle” with Kompanie Freispiel.
In her artistic work, she is particularly drawn to the intersection of music, theatre, and movement.

Harald Hofmeister is a guitarist based in Graz, Austria, musically socialised somewhere between The Beatles and Sonic Youth. His work focuses on the wide territory between post-rock and free improvisation, often exploring sounds on modified and prepared electric guitars.
Together with his partner Yvonne, he performs as the improvisation duo “setyh” and is a regular guest at Improconand The Rezidentess by Non-Aligned.
He is also active in:
• the trio RHY (with Richie Herbst and Yvonne Hofmeister)
• the quartet Pas deux quatre (with Jean-Christophe Mastnak, Flavia Maria Cerrato, and Yvonne Hofmeister)
• the GIS Orchestra
• and in collaborations with artists including Vid and Jošt Drašler, Adrijana Čede, Ivan Mršić, Michael Masen, Andreas Weixler, Se-Lien Chuang, Volkmar Mueller, Reuben Derrick, Seijiro Murayama, Klaus Wohlgemuth, and others.
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This event was supported—in addition to the sponsors listed in the footer—by the GFOEM (Gesellschaft zur Förderung österreichischer Musik) /
Many thanks also to the City of Graz – Kulturamt, whose generous support made the piano rental possible. Without it, this would have been a much quieter evening.
Thank you!