Music

Muted Situation #22: Muted Tchaikovsky’s 5th

Samson Young (HK)

This is how Tchaikovsky’s 5th Symphony can sound too: keys click, sheets of music rustle, and bows sweep tonelessly over strings. By “muting” the foregrounded sound event, a surprising amount of previously unnoticed sounds can be heard in this performance. In Muted Situation #22 – presented as a 12-channel audio installation – Samson Young’s idea is to suppress the dominant voices, uncover the unheard, and point out basic principles about hearing and sounding.

Sonic Saturday – “Medium Sonorum”

The Sonic Saturday Medium Sonorum computer music matinée at Anton Bruckner University’s 20.4 channel concert hall, the CMS Sonic Lab, presents recent works by Tobias Leibetseder, Erik Nyström, Astrid Schwarz and Tania Rubio, as well as a rarely performed classic, the 36 enfilades pour Piano et Magnétophone by Luc Ferrari with Kaori Nishii at the piano and Angélica Castelló on the mixing desk.