The Vienna Soundpainting Collective (VSC) is an ensemble founded in 2023 that uses a sign language for live composition to explore different connections and overlaps between music and movement.

Soundpainting enables composing in real time. Through a series of hand signals and gestures, the ensemble receives playing instructions from the respective sound painter. The person soundpainting is in constant interaction with the ensemble and can give very specific instructions or leave a great deal of freedom. Depending on the ensemble and the sound painter, the sound painting performances can therefore sound like a fully composed piece or like a guided improvisation. All performers act and react to the signs of the sound painters and create sound and movement moments with the compositions in real time.

Musically, the VSC moves between jazz, humor and everyday sounds, and dancers move between contemporary techniques, performative elements and everyday movements.

Soundpainting thrives on dealing with the unexpected; supposed mistakes are welcomed according to the Wrong and Strong principle and immediately incorporated into the compositions.

And soundpainting is often simply very funny and thus loosens up the approach to the field of experimental and improvised music, which is otherwise often seen as very serious or academic. The Vienna Soundpainting Collective also takes the funny very seriously.

The ensemble was founded by Bianca Bauer, Marlene Aigner, Tobias Pöcksteiner and Milly Groz and now has 20 members. The ensemble is organized as a collective that can perform in various formations at almost any place and at almost any time.