Roswitha von den Driesch and Jens-Uwe Dyffort focus their attention on sensitizing themselves for specific places, their histories, architecture, and acoustics, as well as their social and urban integration and function. The specific imprints these locations radiate also determine the coordinates in their search for an artistic and acoustic system. Dyffort and Driesch are detailed observers. They embark on a search for traces, researching local conditions and incidents. The concept behind their work results from and with the place itself. Their works, mainly sound installations, are inconspicuous at first. Eventually, though, they disclose themselves in that the location itself steps forward and idiosyncratically articulates itself in a new way. Attentions are caught, and threads spun, creating an artificial reference frame that focuses perceptions but does not channel them, allowing the possibilities presented by all associations and rooms for manoeuvre to remain open. Resulting is only a web that seems to interweave the hearer and viewer with the location in question.
Jens-Uwe Dyffort and Roswitha von den Driesch live and work in Berlin. Jens-Uwe Dyffort studied composition at the University of Art Berlin with Franz Martin Olbrisch and Prof. Walter Zimmermann, Diploma and Master of composition. Roswitha von den Driesch studied architecture, Fine Art at the University of Art Berlin-Weißensee. She also attended the seminars at Electroacoustic Studio of the Technical University of Berlin with Robin Minard. Since 1996 she has collaborated with Jens-Uwe Dyffort. They received various awards and grants, for example the Deutscher Klangkunstpreis 2006.
Their sound installations could be heard in London, Plymouth, North Adams, Marseille, Maastricht, Metz, Rom und Berlin, for example 2009 Donaueschinger Musiktage – Festival zeitgenössischer Tonkunst, 2008 Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nürnberg and Hessischer Rundfunk, Frankfurt am Main, 2006 Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl and 2001/02 singuhr-hoergalerie in parochial and Massachussets Museum of Contemporary Art.
Music Pieces and Compositions were premiered by WDR Studio Akustische Kunst and Hessischer Rundfunk hr2-kultur.
Text: »Das akustische Palimpsest«; von Björn Gottstein, »Klangkunst a german sound«, Webseite Deutscher Musikrat / The Acoustical Palimpsest
»Erfahrungsräume«, Melanie Uerlings about Roswitha von den Driesch & Jens-Uwe Dyffort, Positionen, Experiment, 70, Beiträge zur Neuen Musik. / text