Volkmar Klien (*1971, Hollabrunn, Austria) composes and improvises music. He makes installations and creates performances alongside work that sits between established descriptors. He also regularly collaborates with other artists. Having grown up in Vienna – fascinated by the city’s glorious musical traditions and rituals – Klien has ever since been invested in extending traditional practices of composing, producing, and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. He is interested in navigating the manifold links between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation, and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning. While he regularly uses novel forms of technology, he sees himself within the age-old and manifold traditions of artists, thinkers, and simple minds trying to make sense of it all. He has a background in musical academia with a focus on digital sound and music. Klien has held positions at institutions such as the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, the Royal College of Art (London), the London College of Communication (London), and the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (Vienna). He is a professor of musical composition at the Anton Bruckner University in Linz.

Zuletzt aktualisiert September 2025