During the season, Riegler also took on a number of improvised performances in solo mode. Twice shortlisted for the Grant McLennan Memorial Fellowship in 2008 and 2009, Riegler began to perform new material live in concert around the same time. Containing audio recordings from the previous ten years, Riegler released a limited edition of 60 audio cassettes in 2009. Titled Survey #1, the cassette contained demo songs, excerpts from The Shadows: German Expressionism And Beyond instrumental works; as well as other previously unreleased compositions and collaborations.  2009 also saw Riegler exhibit 'Five Frames’, a debut collection of visual art works as part of a group exhibition at Brisbane’s Doggett Street Studios.  2010s  In October 2010, Riegler released a limited edition 7inch vinyl single titled "And The Lovers Make A Scene" / "Andy Looks Up At The Sky", collaborating with three visual artists (Bo Stahlman, Alex Gillies, Stephen Mok) to create three sets of artwork. The entire collection of 7inch vinyl was then released as part of an exhibition at Brisbane's Doggett Street Studios gallery. To mark 10 years since Room40's release of A Picturesque View, Ignored LP in 2001, Riegler returned to perform with I/O3, David Toop and Scanner (Robin Rimbaud) for the Open Frame Festival at London’s Cafe Oto. Riegler spent large parts of 2011 in his native Austria working on recording projects, as well as completing a single channel video piece titled Motion Portrait #1. This work was named winner at MICA TonBild 2011 in Vienna, Austria in November 2011 and two years later was selected for the inaugural Channels Festival and Ikono Festival, where it screened at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in September 2013. At the end of 2011 Riegler returned to perform at London’s Cafe Oto as part of Lawrence English’s Lonely Women’s Club and released of a number of online single channel video vignettes titled ’60 Seconds in Flachau’ and 'Keep that Heart Pumping'. Audio recordings made in Austria during an 80-day spell in an alpine mountain cabin were released titled Survey #2 (One Thousand Dreams I Never Had) on Room40’s new A Guide To Saints imprint in May 2012. An accompanying single channel video piece titled No Colour / No Sound, Part I was subsequently premiered on Australian music website Mess & Noise.