Billy Roisz is a Vienna-based musician and filmmaker. Self-taught, Billy Roisz sees her creative humus in the extremely open DIY environment of the digital and analog electronic and noise scene in Vienna at the Y2K turn (phonotaktik, rhiz, mego, vidok, klingt.org). Since 1998 she works with the media video and sound. The aesthetics of image and sound glitches, such as feedback and distortion, is one of her central fields of experimentation.
The artistic realization usually takes the form of audio-visual live performances, concerts, cinematic works and spatial installations, often solo, but also in close collaboration with artists from the fields of experimental electronics and noise, composed new and old music, film, theater and performance.
Billy Roisz's works have been presented at numerous renowned international festivals, including LUFF Lausanne, Meakusma Eupen, RISC @ Louvre Paris, Donaufestival Krems, Heart Of Noise Festival Innsbruck, Wien Modern, Musikprotokoll, Konfrontationen Nickelsdorf, unlimited Wels, Sonic Acts Amsterdam, Biennale Sao Paolo, 8 Bridges Festival Cologne, Donaueschingen, Berlinale, IFF Rotterdam, Transmediale, Tate Modern, South London Gallery, Centre Pompidou, MACBA Barcelona, Museo Serralves Porto and many more.
Her music has been released on editionsMego, hathut, for/wind, mikroton. interstellar, and her latest solo 12" vinyl bajo has been released on ventil records. Her video works are distributed by sixpackfilm and lightcone.
