RENATO DIZ ✕ PETER TRAUNMUELLER is a live, site-responsive practice in spontaneous composition — a multi-sensorial experience conceived for exhibitions, installations, screenings, and arts events, in which the works on view — or on screen — become a core catalyst. Renato Diz (keys) and Peter Traunmueller (drums) compose in real time, in direct dialogue with the venue that hosts them. With no prepared setlist, each performance is an inevitable biome born from the architecture of the room(s), its curatorial or cinematic logic, and the near-telepathic chemistry the duo has perfected over nearly a decade of shared practice. Conceived in intimate collaboration with each setting, every presentation refuses the safety nets that mediate so much contemporary performing arts.
PERFORMANCE EXCERPTS
Performance formats developed in conversation with curators and programmers:
Discrete responses to individual works selected with curators — well-suited to temporary exhibitions, retrospectives, permanent collections, biennials, film screenings and festivals
Single continuous performance within one venue, conceived in response to a specific exhibition, screening, or work
Roaming, processional performance moving through multiple rooms, audience traveling alongside
Sets typically run 45–75 minutes.
MULTIDISCIPLINARY RELEASE
DESCRIPTIONS OF USELESS SUBTITLES AND MEANINGFUL SUBLIMATIONS is a multi-dimensional living ecosystem with 13 interdependent organisms: a musical soundscape, a poem, and a visual artwork, fused into a self-contained world of endless interpretation. The project crystallizes the telepathic bond between Renato Diz and Peter Traunmueller, recorded live on keyboard and drums alone — no retakes, no overdubs, no post-production. José Diogo Neves oversaw the recording, mixing, and mastering of every session. His mixes unearthed unexpected poetic and cinematic depth, to which Renato and Peter answered with automatic-writing poems, edited together over pandemic-era videoconferences. The sound and word mixture conjured new visual worlds, drawing in Pedro Marnoto, who sketched amid the music and poetry before joining Renato to shape dynamic black-and-white compositions. Six years in the making, this ecosystem balances spontaneity and meticulousness, culminating in a synesthetic bubble of life where the question mark stands as a reminder of impermanence, plurality, and constant mutation.
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