Events, Concerts, Performances
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...).
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.
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.
Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation
Tomomi Adachi (JP), Andreas Dzialocha (DE), Marcello Lussana (IT)
Voices from AI in Experimental Improvisation is a project by Tomomi Adachi, Andreas Dzialocha and Marcello Lussana. They built an AI called “tomomibot” which learned Adachi’s voice and improvisation techniques using neural network algorithms. The performance raises questions about the logic and politics of computers in relation to human culture.
ULTRACHUNK (unfortunately canceled)
Jennifer Walshe (IE), Memo Akten (TR)
What are the implications of using your voice to improvise with a neural network? Composer Jennifer Walshe and artist Memo Akten present ULTRACHUNK (2018), a neural network trained on a corpus of Walshe’s solo vocal improvisations. Here, Walshe wrangles with an artificially intelligent duet partner – one that reflects a distorted version of her own improvisatory language and individual voice.
Bruckner Percussion plays Xénakis
Leonhard Schmidinger (AT), Fabian Homar (AT), Vladimir Petrov (BG)
Iannis Xénakis (1922-2001) composed Okho for three djembe players. The premiere took place on October 20, 1989 on the occasion of the Paris Autumn Festival. Our interpretation deviates from the original instrumentation and makes use of an extended percussion setup of the kind Xénakis himself uses in his solo piece Rebond B for percussion.
Organ Music in the Field of Tension Between Inspiration, Compostition and Improvisation
Klaus Sonnleitner (AT)
Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert takes the audience from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to French sound worlds and improvisations in the spirit of Anton Bruckner.
Orogenesis: Spacial Piano Improvisation Inspired by the Formation of Mountains
Rupert Huber (AT)
When two continental plates collide, one becomes subducted beneath the other. Rupert Huber´s piano improvisation represents this process by putting sound to the formation of an imaginary mountain.
SHOJIKI “Play Back” Curing Tapes
Muku Kobayashi (JP), Mitsuru Tokisato (JP)
Rewinding curing tapes with a motor. The performers use a switch to control the rotation direction of the motor and its ON/OFF. Each time the tape is rewound on to the motor axis, it makes peeling sounds and continuant sounds.
The Feline Project
Dagmar Dachauer (AT), Kilian Immervoll (AT)
Online cat content and robopets represent a deeply human yearning. Choreographer Dagmar Dachauer, together with video artist Kilian Immervoll, initiates a humorous and bewildering interaction between the ancient pet, human and robot through a hyper-detailed movement language.
