Artist Mimu Merz is a Vienna based graphic designer, media artist, singer and songwriter. Her works mostly have a visual and auditive component, small video pieces and drawings made by hand, digitally brought into movement. The artist describes her vocals as: „wayward phrasings and introspective lyrics, sometimes mumbled, sometimes pointed out clearly, like a salty finger in the wound of ongoing life. Puns and structures. Patterns and norms. Lofty love and wicked war.“ (quote from http://2009.elevate.at/en/music-arts/artists/artist-details/guests/ritornell/) Live Acts and Projects Mimu has a few different manifestations. „mimu at nite“ - »experimental folk« (www.myspace.com/listentomimu), a solo performance with voice, accordeon and laptop. The accordeon is played minimalistically, either rhythmically or droning - according to the certain song, the voice is layered over that solid ground in a very flexible way. the vocals are very narrative, the stories are clothed in metaphoric constructions of a flowery language. The laptop provides distinct atmospherical components such as field recordings of varying places (such as woods, cities) or incidents (fighting dogs, car accidents), or samples of old movies, that correlate to the context. other baubles of mimu can be found on http://www.myspace.com/mimu.merz. that site contains produced sound material (the other one contains mostly live recordings of concerts), that leads more towards direction „electronica“, several voices,