Events, Concerts, Performances
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MEDIUM SONORUM CONCERT
Dive deep into freshly made immersive electronic music with the 20.4 system of the Sonic Lab. This is a concert designed to perceive spatial music selected from the call for contributions that relates to Resonating Hope: Audible Manifestations. The program shows a variety of styles of multichannel music from around the world.
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Forceful Catering
Kexin Hao (CN)
Forceful Catering is a choreographic and musical performance emerging out from the East/Southeast Asian tradition of preparing sticky rice cakes (mochi). The utensils used for rice pounding become experimental percussion instruments to produce bass beats to the electronic music. The pounding movements develop along with the increasing viscosity of the rice.
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Fu(n)ga: bio-sonic listening sessions
Tiziano Derme (IT), Nadine Schütz (CH)
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Anthropophagic Myths, Biopiracy and Opera in the Amazon
Klaus Spiess (AT), Emanuel Gollob (AT), George Kounoupias (GB)
The vibrational needs of microbes consume the voice of a tenor, inspired by an anthropophagic myth from the Amazon. The tenor sings inside a large hollow cylinder filled with his microbiota. Vibrations from the singing are transmitted to the microbes and influenced by their needs.
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Acrobotics
Daniel Simu (NL)
The Acrobot is a groundbreaking performance introducing a self-built robotic acrobat. Through an exciting mix of juggling, acrobatics and storytelling it pokes at the questions of our post-digital society.
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Imagine
Hsin-Chien Huang (TW), Ulli Ullmann (AT), Wen-Chieh Chang (TW), Billy Yi-Chun Chang (TW)
In a tribute to John Lennon’s song ‘Imagine’, dancers embody peace amid turmoil, reflecting on the 2023 Russo-Ukrainian War, Israel-Palestine conflict, and Taiwan Strait tensions.
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Echoes of Light
Kepler Observatory Linz (AT)
The astronomers of the Kepler Observatory Linz will accompany you on a journey through the night sky this evening—both with the naked eye and through professional telescopes.
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Die Domfrauen laden ein!
Domfrauen (AT)
Approximately 30 women of various professions, ages, and faiths stand at freely chosen locations throughout St. Mary’s Cathedral. During their performances, they share personal life and faith stories that have a deeper connection to that particular place in the Cathedral.
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Organism: In Turbulence
Navid Navab (IR/CA)
Organism, designed by Navid Navab and Garnet Willis, is an investigative platform for stochastic co-patterning via turbulent processes of formation. In this solo performance centered around a robotically-prepared pipe organ, Navab improvises with Organism to explore ways in which its turbulent thresholds manifest unstable timbres.
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Reassembling Bolts of Care: Another Talk on the Future of Technocare
Julie-Michèle Morin (CA/QC), Letta Shtohryn (UA)
Care is vital for fostering solidarity, yet it also serves as an essential resource for sustaining a capitalist society.
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Wilderness Gardens
Iyo Bisseck (FR)
Wilderness Gardens is an immersive game experience that explores spatial reflection, access and the impact of technology on the control of resources. It critically questions the colonial continuum and the norms of civilization. Players navigate environments and encounter narratives by other artists that offer insights into diasporic experiences and identities. It encourages reflection on mobility,…
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Machines Inside Me
Fabio Machiavelli (IT)
Machines Inside Me is a piece for three self-built electromechanical instruments and two performers. The instruments are equipped with automated mechanical components controlled by an Arduino processor, which has been programmed to allow the instruments to interact and assist the human performers during the performance of the piece. The electromechanical components follow their own ‘score’,…