SOLO

“She doesn’t want to set herself any musical boundaries, and thus to her it’s about “not only playing the cello, but making music”. For this Ruf let’s herself be inspired by diverse sounds and the aesthetics of words, and integrates the cello into this cosmos.“ (Marlene Schnedl, Ö1)

Photo by Saleh Rozati

“The instruments, whether acoustic or electric, merge with the effects to form a homogeneous whole. From concept to implementation, an unusual and completely independent work by an exciting artist who stands out and who has clearly found her voice.“ (Yvonne-Stefanie Moriel, music austria)

264 HOURS OF SLEEP

The Art-Pop duo "264 HOURS OF SLEEP," consisting of cellist and composer Christina Ruf and guitarist, composer, and singer Markus W. Schneider. Their songs explore the space where art pop shades into experimental music. 

Photo by Deniz Örs

Their idiosyncratic soundscapes and detailed soundwork find a home in elaborately arranged, avant-garde-tinged pop songs that still maintain their lightness.


IMA NUORI

Christina Ruf and Petra Steinkogler are Ima Nuori, based in Vienna, founded at the Danish seaside. Two close friends, cellist, multi-instrumentalist and composer – singer, vocal artist and songwriter. 

Photo by Saleh Rozati

They create experimental pop music through combining outstanding vocals with heavily layered song structures.  With All I Want Is Out, Ima Nuori present a deeply impressive album and reveal their musicality in this continuously powerful and delicate work.

Bernhard Wöstheinrich & Christina Ruf

When ancient astronomers viewed the sky, they saw the Sun, Moon, and stars moving overhead in a regular fashion. The ancients worked from a geocentric perspective for the simple reason that the Earth was where they stood and observed the sky, and it is the sky which appears to move while the ground seems steadfast underfoot.

Out of their both very lavish musical universes, they cautiously approached each other, concluding in a massive and powerful dialogue. In their respective ways of creating music, both are circling around their own center, but the gravitational forces between them left them orbiting around a common centerpoint in the space between their worlds. Ptolemaic Model.