Events, Concerts, Performances

Improvisation

Markus Poschner (DE), Rupert Huber (AT), Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)

At this year’s festival Markus Poschner, Rupert Huber and Roberto Paci Dalò, three composers/musicians coming from as distinct areas as classical music or experimental sound art, will improvise together in the Danube park in Linz.

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.

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.

Agora

Christian Fennesz (AT), Lillevan (SE/IE)

Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since Mahler Remixed [Touch, 2014] and Bécs [Editions Mego, 2014]. At the Festival Fennesz will play his new album Agora alongside visuals by Lillevan.

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.

When the world was still new – realtime Dvořák remix

AGF (DE/FI)

AGF converts her poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and digital media and has presented them as live performances and sound installations in museums, auditoria, streets, theatres, concert halls and clubs throughout Europe, North America and Asia at numerous festivals. For the “Episode am Fluss” event of this year's Ars Electronica Festival, AGF will remix a live signal from the Brucknerhaus – where the Bruckner Orchestra will perform Dvořák's “From the New World” Symphony – in real time.

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.