Matteo Haitzmann is a musician, performer and composer. He studied jazz violin at Anton Bruckner Private University Linz, performance art at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and graduated from the MA programme Solo/Dance/Authorship at HZT at the UdK Berlin. Haitzmann both works as a solo artist and in ensembles, also creating his own pieces. He has performed at Wiener Musikverein, Centre Pompidou Paris, Konzerthaus Wien, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg and Gessnerallee Zürich, among others.

The human body as metronome, driving the beat, refusing to let up. In Make it Count, the choreography functions as its own soundtrack. Vienna-based violinist and performer Matteo Haitzmann expands traditional notions of musical composition, dedicating an entire piece to an unusual trio of instruments: the modular synthesizer, the extended drums and – the skipping rope. Together with two wonderful musicians (Arthur Fussy on synthesizer and Judith Schwarz on drums), he puts on a special kind of choreographic concert: from the rope, Haitzmann manages to elicit an idiosyncratic, driving sound via microphone-outfitted floors, aerodynamic drag and full physical exertion, a sound which can’t be separated from the dance that is its cause.

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