Location

Das Audiovisuelle Archiv / Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments

Volkmar Klien (AT), Snark.art (US)

Sounds and images; paired and archived. A reading apparatus.

Saxophone and Live Electronics Improvisation Concert

Jérôme Nika (FR), Rémi Fox (FR)

C’est pour ça develops an electronic aesthetic while seeking to preserve the organic character of the summoned “memories” (traditional choirs, spoken voice, saxophone playing modes...).

Anschwellen - Abschwellen

Volkmar Klien (AT)

Fully erect, the clock dominates for a while and then subsides; its feathery crown sinking in front of it.

The tenor duets of Claudio Monteverdi

Ensemble Vivante (AT)

Ensemble Vivante presents the dramatically charged vocal music of a contemporary of Kepler, offering works whose texts reflect their time’s turbulence, innovation and discovery through their depictions of nature and humanity.

Strata #4

Quayola (IT)

Strata #4 is a video installation diptych that reimagines the iconic Rubens’ altarpieces of Palais des Beaux Arts in Lille through computational methods. The Baroque paintings are algorithmically analyzed beneath their figurative appearance, allowing them to be re-discovered under a new authenticity.

Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network

Rachel Smith (UK)

Cat: Collaborating with a Neural Network is a conversation between Rachel Smith (human) and cifar10_cnn.py (artificial neural network). In order to communicate successfully, they must speak the same language. The method of communication is a human/machine compromise; a hand-painted grid of pixels.

Solar Walk

Réka Bucsi (HU)

Solar Walk shows the journey of individuals and their creations on through time and space. Any meaning behind the actions only exists from the viewpoint of the individual but not from the perspective of an entire solar system. Réka Bucsi conveys in her whimsical animation the melancholy acceptance of chaos as something beautiful and cosmic.

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Stefan Tiefengraber (AT)

Unexpected and uncontrollable analogue signals are altered and bent by the artist to create an audio/video noise-scape. Pre-recorded (installation) or live audio signals, audible through speakers, are sent directly to CRT monitors mounted on the speakers, visualizing the signal in flickering and abstract shapes and lines in black and white to create a time-based sculpture.

Tenebrae

Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)

A solo concert for clarinet (and bass clarinet) that works with the very special acoustics and reverbs of Sankt Florian’s Marmorsaal and evokes different musical styles from Gregorian to Monteverdi and Gesualdo da Venosa. Sometimes it makes a timbral memory appear, borrowed from practices and memories of electronic musical culture. Tenebrae (Latin for “darkness”) is a religious service of Western Christianity.

The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay

Ken Furudate (JP), Daisuke Ishida (JP), Kazuhiro Jo (JP), Zuiki Noguchi (JP) / The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA (JP)

The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA has chosen to dedicate their work to the sine wave, said to be the most basic sound and therefore called pure tone, containing neither overtone nor noise but a single frequency. This work is defined by the interplay of visitors: Each spectator is given a small device which can play a sine wave and asked to choose its frequency and position on one of the columns of copper wire in the attic.