Ursula Winterauer

Ursula Winterauer, also known as Gischt, is an experimental composer and electronic music producer based in Vienna. Her layered sonic landscapes reinterpret industrial, techno and ambient through bass guitar, synthesizers, and dense electronic textures. She explores raw, brutal sounds in digital overdetermination, contrasted with the clarity of the human voice and the warmth of analog instruments. Her recent works often emerge from close collaborations with musicians and performers, using sound material as structural scores. Winterauer works as a sound designer for film and develops compositions for contemporary dance, is co-founder and label boss of Ventil Records, co-organizer and commercial director of the Unsafe+Sounds Festival and curator of New Salt – Festival for sonic exploration & digital art. She plays bass in the doom-metal band Eaeres and forms one half of the noise-duo The Answer is No alongside Maja Osojnik. She has collaborated with artists like Claudia Larcher, Anna Lindenbaum, Elisabeth B. Tambwé, Conny Zenk and Antoinette Zwirchmayr.