AIxMUSIC

AIxMusic Workshops (Friday)

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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Wolfgang Mitterer (AT)

Electronics are operated live and represent a second organ with multiple possibilities when coupled with a keyboard and controllers. This results in a massive expansion of sound in every direction, from Baroque to Bruckner, and beyond.