Stift St. Florian
Dear Glenn, – Yamaha AI Project
Pianist: Francesco Tristano (LU), Flutist: Norbert Trawöger (AT), Violinist: Maria Elisabeth Köstler (AT/DE), Researcher: Akira Maezawa (JP; Yamaha Corporation)
Yamaha Corporation, together with the support of the Glenn Gould Foundation and pianists, is pursuing the development of the world’s first AI piano solution capable of analyzing and playing in the style of a human pianist while interacting with human musicians in a music ensemble. Yamaha will demonstrate the AI through a concert performance at the St. Florian monastery on September 7.
The Vienna Acousmonium
Thomas Gorbach (AT)
Acousmatics (acousma in Greek means “aural cognition“) is the cognitive science of listening; a listening to listening. To make this possible, unheard sounds and compositions are projected through an orchestra of loudspeakers: the Acousmonium.
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.
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.
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.
Bach Hauer Scelsi Cage
Weiping Lin (AT/TW)
Weiping Lin (violin) presents four different compositional approaches by composers who, in their individual ways, reflected on questions of musical order and its relation to the wider contexts of human existence.
Heavy Requiem – Buddhist Chant: Shomyo + Electronics
Keiichiro Shibuya (JP), Eizen Fujiwara (JP), Justine Emard (FR)
This will be a unique collaborative performance of integrated electronic and traditional Buddhist music.
Interactions II
Martina Claussen (DE)
Voice and sound recordings, together with sound objects, weave a “sound carpet” which provides the basis for an electroacoustic journey. These textures act as a sort of humus for voices, from which they repeatedly emerge in fragmented form. Associations of the most diverse kinds and unexpected connections are evoked.
Das Audiovisuelle Archiv / Sometimes a Thousand Twangling Instruments
Volkmar Klien (AT), Snark.art (US)
Sounds and images; paired and archived. A reading apparatus.
