O. Hochherz is a sound artist, researcher, and IT-worker mostly performing with self build electronic instruments and computer programs. Their work is shaped by their interest is in the conjunction of the instability, self-generation, and associative capacity of artificially produced sound -- sound made with self-made electronic instruments and computer-synthesizers. Their work can take the shape of installation-performances, sound-installations, electro-acoustic compositions, works for CD, solo performances and collaborations with different musicians.
„I didn't try to make an electronic device, which is controllable in the same way as a classical acoustic instrument, instead I work with the abstraction of the electronics. In my playing I do not control a technical apparatus, but create an associative field. The sounds have their own live. The playing tries to keep them alive.“
They presented their electronic compositions at different Festivals and installations could be realized in Germany, Taiwan and China. They toured for performances throughout Central Europe and East Asia. They received education at Folkwang Hochschule Essen in electronic composition, Humbold University Berlin in philosophy and computer science and at Bauhaus University Weimar in sound-art/media-art. They hold a BFA and MFA in Mediengestaltung (Media-Art) and a wrote a PhD on experimental music. Their research interest lies in the impact of technologies on artistic practices.