Music

Dialogue III: Anatomies of AI

Vuk Ćosić (SI) & Vladan Joler (RS)

SAT 7.9. | 16:00 – 16:30

Dialogue II: AI & Bio Art

Maja Smrekar (SI) & Aza Raskin (US)

SAT 7.9. | 15:30 – 16:00

Dialogue I: Komposition, Interpretation, Reproduction - 3 shades of creativity

Markus Poschner (DE) & Ali Nikrang (AT)

SAT 7.9. | 15:00 – 15:30

Episode am Fluss

Ars Electronica, the Bruckner Orchestra under Markus Poschner, and the Brucknerhaus cooperate to trace the history of the Klangwolke. After the large visualized cloud of sound on Saturday, a tribute will be paid to the beginnings of this special project on Sunday evening.

Philip Glass: Piano Sonata

Maki Namekawa (JP), Cori O'lan (AT)

With an Austrian premiere, the Ars Electronica Festival bid farewell to POSTCITY on the last day: pianist Maki Namekawa plays Philip Glass' first piano sonata, which he dedicated to her. The piece was commissioned jointly by the Piano-Festival Ruhr, the Philharmonie de Paris and Ars Electronica.

Pianographique – Piano Music meets Digital Images

Maki Namekawa (JP), Dennis Russell Davies (AT/US), Cori Oʼlan (AT)

The festival will conclude this year with another collaboration of the two pianists Maki Namekawa and Dennis Russell Davies with the digital visual artist Cori O'lan. It is part of a multi-year Ars Electronica project dedicated to the visual interpretation of musical expression and perception as well as the direct encounter between analog sound and digital visuals.

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.

Sonar Flux

Kaoru Tashiro (JP), Monocolor (AT)

A Real-Time Generative Installation Piano Performance

MUSIC & VISUALS

A dance performance by a group of snails on the wing of an airplane, an indecisive woman sitting in front of her letter of resignation, a car ride through a dreamy desert landscape, aesthetically staged growth processes of organic forms, or dancing mochis. This program contains music videos and various experimental forms of picture-sound synthesis in different animation techniques.

Eruptions

Suyang Kim (KR), Dieter Stemmer (AT), Marlene Reischl (AT), Christian Philip Berger (AT)

Emotional outbursts and eruptive climaxes dominate this program both musically and visually.