concert
OPENING: Ars Electronica Special / Unboxing the festival
As every year, we will open the first evening of the festival with an exciting performance program. The focus will be on the various artistic possibilities offered by the voice, improvisation, and neural networks in humans and machines.
The Big Concert Night 2019
Since 2003, the collaboration with the Bruckner Orchestra has been an integral and unique part of the Ars Electronica Festival. It is a collaboration that makes it possible not only to perform interesting works each year, but also to develop unique artistic projects that bring together a wide variety of orchestral music, electronic music, robots, dancers and digital images.
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS!
Ei Wada (JP) + Linz Orchest-Lab
ELECTRONICOS FANTASTICOS! is a project where retired consumer electronics are resuscitated as instruments, new ways to play music are invented, and all kinds of people are invited to be orchestrated with the artist and musician Ei Wada.
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.
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.
subassemblies
Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP)
Audiovisual concert, 2019 subassemblies is a project that pursues the relationship between natural and human-made structures through a perspective of architectural scale. It consists of several different presentation formats such as concert, installation, prints (sculptures) and screening.
^lgorithmZoo Pt. 5. : KTV Session
Rico Graupner (DE)
^lgorithm Zoo pt. 5 "KtV Sessions Vol II. is a concert series that deals with the sonic fusion of different biological habitats. In this case, a beetle-controlled synthesizer interacts with the sound installation ZoomBx. The movement events of the insects are tracked by a specially developed software (IcCE) that makes it possible to map the acquired data to musical parameters as well as different positions in space.
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STATION ROSE (AT)
#Urbana Natura in_hancing_The_Augmented & vice versa is an augmented audio-visual installation, an “Out of Nature into Urban Augmented Space & Back again” exhibition. The ensemble of nature, urban and augmented spaces shows the already existing deep interweaving of these seemingly independent levels and forms of life.
