Hi Rosa, How are you doing these days? Are you traveling a lot because of the concerts, or is it a more relaxed time for you?
I am on hold at the moment. Sudden circumstances have put another perspective on my life yet again, similar to the time I wrote Interior, my last Album, which I am also performing at the moment. I am just very grateful I have the chance to play at very graceful places with it. The songs are very insightful, and the right context is of greater importance than before.
You already have a soundtrack for this autumn, can you share it with us?
I am completely absorbed by my new Album, which I am writing at the moment. Other than that, I am also enjoying the new singles by The Cure and a release by Danish musician Lisa Bregneager.
Do you still have time to make sculptures and videos?
For the album Interior, I created this whole world of symbols, one for each track. They are part of the group exhibition „love letters“ curated by Monika Georgieva from November 3rd until January 26th at Kunstverein Eisenstadt. The eight pictures are once again a mirror to the soul of my tracks. I created them starting with one dot, the pixel-like sequins. It is a very meditative process that I always find myself in after playing shows, withdrawing to my countryside studio, and following this repetitive movement for hours.
Do you have any special connection to Volkstheater? How do you feel about performing there?
I am coming with great respect, and it is yet another great venue to go back home to because I used to live in Vienna for five years. A lot of my friends will be there, and it is a festive occasion, the perfect ending for this year. My last show with this Album, supposedly.
Will we hear some of your older songs on the 30th of November?
Yes, I am bringing some of them, which are connected to the idea of expression from the album Interior.
Are there any specific visual or musical elements you’re planning for your co?
Musical elements come from the instrumentation of the Album, which includes flute and trumpet. Visually, I am bringing something to, of course. Something I have done at recent shows is to include some of my new poems. It gives me a bit more excitement and life into a work that has been repeatedly played.
How do you interpret the phrase „… melancholy as a positive force“?
Because it means that you can draw from positive memory. Melancholy is a return with a very limited duration; one shouldn’t dwell too long and come back to the present. I think a positive perspective is also that if you turn inward and reflect on your past, there is much to learn about your present.
Rosa Anschütz – www.instagram.com/rosaanschuetz, www.rosaanschuetz.com
Rosa Anschütz, born in 1997, is a German artist, songwriter, composer, and vocalist based in Berlin. Anschütz investigates and utilises various fields of Transmedia Arts with a focus on sound, object, and scenery including photography and film, creating a collage within and beyond her music. As a performer, she embeds her reverberated voice – oscillating between singing and spoken words – in delicately-constructed sound structures that she creates with guitar, bass, drum machine, and modular system. Her voice floats softly through ethereal and hypnotic sound spheres without losing its depth. Her music is about the desire to drift; to surrender to the moment and about the movement of life. Performing and recording since 2016, milestones in her career as a recording artist so far: Rigid (LP, 2019), Votive (LP, 2020), Goldener Strom (LP, 2022), and Interior (Album, 2024) She has a diploma in Transmedia Arts of the University of Applied Arts Vienna (2021).
DESERTSHORE, a two-day festival curated by Christian Morin, enters its third and final round, aptly dedicated to an essential element of Nico’s work—melancholy. The festival will take place on the evenings of November 30th and December 1st at Volkstheater in Vienna.
Saturday, November 30th, 2024. Line-Up #1
ARAB STRAP
ROSA ANSCHÜTZ
THE KVB
DAS KINN VÍZ
Sunday, December 1st, 2024. Line-Up #2
THE NOTWIST
JOANNA GEMMA
AUGURI INSECT
ARK
More information: www.volkstheater.at/produktion/2446539/desertshore-iii
