Location

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suites for unaccompanied cello

Yishu Jiang (AT)

The Bach cello suites played in the performance are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées, and a final gigue. The Bach cello suites are considered to be among the most profound of all classical music works.

Found Sound Discovery

Robin Weijers (NL), Manolis Perrakis (EL)

Found Sound Discovery explores movement, time and sound. An installation that involves analogue and digital interactions with the world around us. Through sensors and found objects, mechanical and digital interactions create the possibility of discovered sound.

Species Reclamation Via a Non-linear Genetic Timeline: An Attempted Hymenochirus curtipes Model Induced by Controlled Breeding

Brandon Ballengèe (US)

This project involved the selective breeding of frogs from the Hymenochirus family, located in the Congo. There, biodiversity is threatened by forest clearing and increased demand for wood. Also, political turmoil in Congo has limited biological studies and conservation efforts. In their native habitat, wild Hymenochirus populations may currently be in decline or have become extinct.

AIxMusic Workshops (Friday)

The AIxMusic Festival will start with a series of workshops at POSTCITY.

Perception

Cheska Lotherington (UK)

Perception is an experimental light piece that interacts with audience members. A thin rim around the edge of the room on the floor will project the light strips’ color up onto the walls. Three cameras mounted to the ceiling will feed data to the light strips.

Cumulus – Stratus

Volkmar Klien (AT)

Volkmar Klien lets St. Florian’s bells swing and produce aural shapes in the sky around the abbey with the assistance of AI-based pattern-recognition and interpolation. The shapes emerge and morph to melt back into homogenous sound fields covering everything within earshot. They then subside, to give way to distinct sonic formations from above.

AIxMusic Workshops (Sunday)

In recent years, the academic interest in applying deep learning to creative tasks such as generating text, images or music has drastically increased. These workshops offer everyone the opportunity to try out the AI systems used for making and playing music.

Joep Beving, Arvo Pärt, Bach-Kurtag at St.Florian

Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US)

At this year’s festival the renowned pianist Maki Namekawa will perform several pieces by different composers solo as well as together with her husband Dennis Russell Davies.

OrganRecital with Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch (AT)

An organ improvisation in four movements by Hermann Nitsch.

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer

Maja Smrekar (SI)

Survival Kit for the Anthropocene - Trailer is designed as an apocalypse survival kit. As a hybrid between a beehive and a Slovenian farm chest, it formally connects contemporary art with folklore.