born in Vienna in 1981, is a freelance sound artist, software engineer, and electroacoustic composer. He describes himself as a code sculptor.
From 2007 to 2014, he worked as a research associate at the Institute for Creative Media Technologies at FH St. Pölten.
He completed the Certificate Program in Computer Music & Electronic Media at MDW Vienna (2012-2015), some of his mentors are Marko Ciciliani, Katharina Klement, Volkmar Klien and Wolfgang Musil.
He has been affiliated with ÆSR Lab (Applied/Experimental Sound Research Lab), a sound research initiative at the intersection of art and science based at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, MDW Vienna, and the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
Julian Rubisch loves to explore boundaries and interfaces:
- Between sound art and music, using a unique approach of instrument building that floats between gesture and process
- Between order and chaos, and the many undulating shades between them
- Of perception and the different realms and phenomenologies of listening (human/computational etc.)
Working under the moniker programmverdichter he has published music for Electropia, among others.
Press & Presentations
"Das Stück Reflection Axis Disorders hat ein antithetisches Konzept. Übergänge und Kollisionen von Klang zu Geräusch, Chaos zu Ordnung, kristallinen zu amorphen Strukturen und Stille zu Lärm klingen wundersam im Raum."
— Alte Schmiede Wien, Stromschiene 2020
"Elf internationale Positionen verhandeln, wie sich künstliche Intelligenz zu uns Menschen verhält, ob wir die ihr zugrundeliegenden Systeme und Logiken verstehen und wie es etwa um unsere eigene Urheberschaft bestellt ist."
— Francisco Carolinum Linz, Extensions of Self 2023–24
"'Wiener Wasser' versammelt Künstlerinnen und Künstler, die seit Jahren die experimentelle Elektronikszene Wiens prägen und deren Arbeiten das Verhältnis von Technik, Körper und Natur neu erkunden."
— African Paper, November 2025
Selected venues and broadcasts:
- Ars Electronica — Arecibo, Listening Room / Sonic Saturday (2024)
- Francisco Carolinum Linz — The Eternal Now Engine, Extensions of Self (2023–24)
- ORF Ö1 Kunstradio — Synchresis, live broadcast (2016)
- ZKM Karlsruhe — bored'oh, nextgeneration 5.0 (2013)
- Festspielhaus Baden-Baden · Alte Schmiede Wien · Klangturm St. Pölten · International Computer Music Conference (ICMC) · AES Conference
Contact
For bookings, collaborations, and press inquiries: julian [at] julianrubisch.at
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