Since 2016, Anton Bruckner University has been hosting the Sonic Saturday as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. This year, we will organize an artists’ meeting during the festival to allow for an informal, hands-on exchange of ideas between artistic researchers working on the projects concerned.
Resonating Hope: Audible Manifestations / Artists’ meeting @ ABPU
Since 2016, Anton Bruckner University has been hosting the Sonic Saturday as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. This year, we will organize an artists’ meeting during the festival to allow for an informal, hands-on exchange of ideas between artistic researchers working on the projects concerned.
Symposium Theme
In keeping with the festival theme of “HOPE – who will turn the tide,” the Ars Electronica digital music focus at Anton Bruckner University embarks on a journey into the realm of sonic exploration and inspiration. While music might be seen as a conduit for emotion rather than truth, its capacity to evoke hope and resilience seems boundless.
The myriad sounds of sonic art reveal a playground of possibility and transformation. As we navigate the intricate interplay of sound and emotion, we contemplate the profound impact of audible manifestations on collective consciousness and experience, where music can catalyze action.
Listening to the full scope of “Resonating Hope: Audible Manifestations,” we address questions about how music resonates in groups, how it offers reasons to be hopeful, and what this hope might be based on. Through the dynamic sonic textures of electroacoustic art, we steer through the subtleties of human emotion and aspiration.
Artists’ meeting overview
SAT 7.9.2024 10:00 – 21:30 | Anton Bruckner Private University
| 10:00 – 13:00 | Tangible Music Lab Brunch (Tabakfabrik) |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Lecture-performance (Studiobühne) |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | Lecture-performance (Studiobühne) |
| 15:40 – 16:10 | Lecture-performance (Sonic Lab) |
| 16:10 – 16:30 | Lecture performance (Studiobühne) |
| 17:00 – 17:50 | Workshop (Sonic Lab) |
| 18:00 – 18:50 | Workshop (Sonic Lab) |
| 15:00 – 20:00 | Listening Room (ProduktionsStudio) |
| 15:00 – 20:00 | Sound Installations (Kleiner Saal & Foyer) |
| 20:00 – 21:30 | MEDIUM SONORUM concert |
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Brunch at the Tangible Music Lab
We will open the doors of our Tangible Music Lab for those attending this year’s Ars Electronica Festival. If you are interested in visiting us, we will prepare some demos, snacks and drinks on Saturday, September 7th from 10 am until 1 pm at the Tangible Music Lab location in the Tobacco Factory Linz.
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Digital Wind Chime Making: Exploring How the Power of One (Performer) Can Be Legion in the World of Rain Gods
Yunyu Ong (AU), Taikoz (Ryuji Hamada) (AU)
Curiosity does not always kill the cat, sometimes it creates a god. Welcome to the world of “When the rain god sings, storm lions are born”. In this piece, Multimedia Composer/Sound Designer/ UTS-Dolby Spatial Audio researcher Yunyu leads you into a supernatural world of cats, thunder and new gods.
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Lighthub
Boris Shershenkov (RU)
The Lighthub project explores the essence of electric lights, which differs fundamentally from natural light sources. The designs of technogenic light streams are based on human visual inertia. They carry a significant amount of information hidden from the eye but located within the temporal limits of our auditory perception.
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LISTENING ROOM
During the symposium, the ABPU’s ProduktionsStudio will become the space for the Listening Room. This studio with its 20.2 speaker array will allow visitors to perceive multichannel music in a relaxed way. Visitors can enter, exit and move freely through the space, gaining access to 29 selected fixed-media pieces from the call for contributions.
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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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Spatial Entanglements – A Relational Musical Instrument
Florian Goeschke (AT)
Spatial Entanglements combines a periphonic loudspeaker dome and several tangible interfaces that invite an audience to interact playfully with immersive audio. The interfaces, sound processing software and speaker system together form a relational musical instrument that invites participants to temporarily form a spatial audio ensemble.
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The Makings of Empire: The Echo Chamber Escape Room
Yunyu Ong (AU)
Participants explore the workings of echo chambers through an apocalyptic drinking song titled Empires. They partake in an immersive experience that delves into the manufacturing of identities and perceptions.
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Zen of Aggression: Composing the Transformational Hybrid
Berk Yagli (CY)
The lecture-performance will focus on musical hybridity and critical methods developed for the hybridization of electroacoustic and metal music (part of the presenter’s PhD research). These methods are formed to build a blueprint for hybrid composers (not only specific to metal and electroacoustic but for other genres as well that combines spectromorphological-focused music with harmony…
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Zur toten Pappel
Sam Erpelding (LU)
Zur toten Pappel is an eco-acoustic artwork about the soundscapes of the Danube floodplains. From spring to winter, it tells of the daily and seasonal patterns of the floodplain forests, wild meadows, and shorelines. Three-dimensional sound reproduction and ecological sound art aim to raise ecological awareness and draw attention to sonic health and anthropogenic impacts…
Anton Bruckner Private University (AT)
The Anton Bruckner Private University is an open and innovative center for the arts, where the performers and teachers of tomorrow receive an individualized education in music, drama and dance. As one of the seven Austrian universities for music and drama, and one of the four universities in Linz, the Bruckner University sees its role both as a training ground for performing, teaching and academic research, and as an important agent in the development and communication of the arts.