The year 2025 marks the 200th birthday of Johann Strauss Jr. – a composer who shaped the history of music with works such as the Danube Waltz and operettas like “Die Fledermaus” (The Bat) and “Eine Nacht in Venedig” (A Night in Venice). On behalf of Johann Strauss Festjahr 2025 Wien, the Ars Electronica Futurelab…
What makes up the gigantic, imposing sound of a Bruckner symphony? Visitors explore the question playfully and interactively with Playing Anton – an innovative application for the Deep Space 8K at the Ars Electronica Center, developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab. Here, the audience takes over the formation of the instrumental groups of the Bruckner…
The immersive sound space Being Anton at the Ars Electronica Center in Linz – developed by the Ars Electronica Futurelab – offers visitors the opportunity to experience the sound world of composer Anton Bruckner in a new way. Based on extensive historical research, visitors are immersed in the soundscape of the Industrial Revolution, which is…
The façade of the Ars Electronica Center, with its 38,500 LEDs, has been shaping the cityscape of Linz since 2009. Just one year later, the “sprucing up” of this landmark turned into something bigger, something innovative: with the façade terminal, the Ars Electronica Futurelab transformed the static museum shell into a designable medium for the…
Glockner.Luft.Raum is an approx. 15-minute data-based generative sequence that makes the complex connections between global climate change and regional weather kitchen in the Austrian Glockner region visible, audible, and tangible.
A captivating virtual experience: the new program Sounding Letters at Deep Space 8K shows how humans and AI create music together with a 3D piano concert.
Ricercar is an interactive AI-based music composition system. The word Ricercar refers to a musical form of the Baroque and Renaissance and means “to search out” in its Italian origin. Composers used this term for pieces in which they experimented with a theme or musical idea and discovered its qualities such as permutation and variation possibilities…
The Bridge is one of the main passageways connecting two building complexes on the SAP Walldorf campus and it is host to the interactive music piece Building Bridges, jointly composed with Vienna-based composer Rupert Huber. Translating the movements of the pedestrians through a compositional algorithm, The Bridge serves as stage and instrument at the same time.