Katharina Ernst
Biography
Katharina Ernst (1987, Vienna) is a freelance artist and composer. The Viennese, who now lives in Berlin, started playing drums at the age of nine and is one of the most renowned drummers in the experimental electronic music world. In her "Extrametric" live performance, she explores polyrhythmic structural shifts between sound experiments and club music. Rhythmic structures are converted into etude forms, and the wavelengths and overtones of different percussion objects are related to one another. With drums, drum synthesizers, metal objects, tam-tams and kalimbas, levels are layered in such a way that they overlap, contrast, run into or against one another. Her live performances generate enthusiasm in a wide variety of scenes and performance settings.