biography

amelie duchow

biography

The german audiovisual artist Amelie Duchow explores in her works the experimental terrain between sound, space, image and form. The translation of her creative concepts are driven by the process of sonic and visual experimentation. Her compositions are characterized by the use of subtle multilayered sounds, accentuated by intensive electronic structures and rythms. Her live performances unfold a very personal vision of Amelie’s investigation on the relationship between electronic sound and visual perception. Her works have been presented internationally at new media festivals throughout Europe. Her debut album TONSTICH has been released in 2014 on Sync. In 2018 Resident Advisor featured her in the documentary “ See what I hear ” by Lucy Werrett. The Design Museum London features the live video of her audio/video project TONSTICH in the group exhibition ELECTRONIC From Kraftwerk to the Chemical Brothers in 2020/21. Currently Amelie is working on her new audio/video project LOGOS MATER which takes its inspiration by her interest in the sonorous character of languages. Motivated by the common interest in electronic music and visual art she starts collaborating with the media artist Marco Monfardini. The duo works under the moniker SCHNITT since 2007 in the transitional area between music, art and technology focusing with their projects on the coherence between audio and video. Custom-made, innovative software and electronic devices allow SCHNITT to develop complex A/V installations and site- specific live performances. In 2010 they found the platform and label for audiovisual artist Sync on which they release their albums SYNCHROPATH and MEMORY CODE. Their projects have been shown in international museums and festivals as Elektra Festival (CA), LEV Festival (ES), Mutek Montreal (CA), e-phil (DE), Act Festival (KR), Sonica Festival (UK). The duo SCHNITT cofounds in 2018 with the creative coder Gianluca Sibaldi EXTRAsync, interdisciplinary platform developing innovative multimedia projects and electronic devices. SCHNITT presents at the LEV Festival 2019 in collaboration with Gianluca Sibaldi the site specific audio/video performance SCANAUDIENCE. The project is based on the realtime scanning of the audience. In WHITE BALANCE, their current a/v performance, the duo creates a relationship between space, image, light and sound by reversing the use and role of audio and video using four photosensitive devices as sound generators. In 2023 SCHNITT and Gianluca Sibaldi present the large scale audio/video installation SCANSCAPE during the exhibition Future Legends at ACT Festival 2023 in Gwangju South Corea. This site-specific project was commissioned to the artist trio by the ACC Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea.

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Amelie Duchow developed her interest in electronic music in the 1990s through close ties with the german underground club scene, eventually shaping her own minimal ambient style under the moniker Fräulein Amelie. After relocating to Italy in 2003, she performed at key venues and festivals including Stazione Leopolda, Festival della Creatività, and MUV Festival, blending glitch, ambient, and experimental sounds into immersive DJ and live sets. In 2007, she co-founded together with Marco Monfardini the project SCHNITT focusing on audiovisual experimentation.

SCHNITT is the collaborative project of German experimental musician Amelie Duchow and Italian media artist Marco Monfardini, active since 2007. Their practice merges sound, image, and technology through custom-built tools and software. Since 2010, SCHNITT has developed a distinctive body of work presented internationally. That year, they founded the platform and label Sync, debuting the audiovisual project SYNCHROPATH, which explores synchronism as a compositional method and was released on DVD and vinyl. Working on the concept of visual memory, the duo created MEMORY CODE, an audiovisual performance that explores visual memory as an internal image recalled and simulated through sound and video. SCHNITT uses abstract signals and real-time processing to evoke mental imagery, acting as a visual scanner of the viewer’s memory. The project has been shown at digital art festivals and museums across Europe and Asia as WESA Festival, e-Phil , Open Source Festival. The album MEMORY CODE was released on Sync in 2017. That same year, SCHNITT co-founded the interdisciplinary platform EXTRAsync with multimedia artist Gianluca Sibaldi, focusing on large-scale, site-specific projects and the development of advanced real-time audiovisual systems. This collaboration gave rise to works such as SCANAUDIENCE, a live performance based on real-time audience scanning, featured at major international festivals including MUTEK Montreal, Philharmonie de Paris (Biennale Némo) and ACT Festival South Korea. In 2023, the trio presented SCANSCAPE, a site-specific audiovisual installation developed in collaboration with Gianluca Sibaldi. Based on an analysis of urban life, SCANSCAPE was exhibited at the Asia Culture Center in Gwangju. With a focus on cities around the world, the work reflects on the relationship between humans and technology, envisioning a “global city” where diverse cultures, identities, and languages coexist and intertwine. Their most recent project, WHITE BALANCE, applies the photographic white balance principles to the dynamic interaction of sound and image with the use of custom made photosensitive devices, the project premiered at LEV Matadero Madrid at has been shown since at digital art festivals as ACT Festival (KR), Tkeshi festival (GE), Live Cinema Festival (IT). SCHNITT continues to explore the evolving dialogue between media, perception, and contemporary culture through a practice rooted in experimentation and technological innovation.