Music

The Vienna Acousmonium

Thomas Gorbach (AT)

Acousmatics (acousma in Greek means “aural cognition“) is the cognitive science of listening; a listening to listening. To make this possible, unheard sounds and compositions are projected through an orchestra of loudspeakers: the Acousmonium.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Suites for unaccompanied cello

Yishu Jiang (AT)

The Bach cello suites played in the performance are structured in six movements each: prelude, allemande, courante, sarabande, two minuets or two bourrées, and a final gigue. The Bach cello suites are considered to be among the most profound of all classical music works.

Agora

Christian Fennesz (AT), Lillevan (SE/IE)

Agora is Christian Fennesz’s first solo album since Mahler Remixed [Touch, 2014] and Bécs [Editions Mego, 2014]. At the Festival Fennesz will play his new album Agora alongside visuals by Lillevan.

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.

OrganRecital with Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch (AT)

An organ improvisation in four movements by Hermann Nitsch.

When the world was still new – realtime Dvořák remix

AGF (DE/FI)

AGF converts her poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and digital media and has presented them as live performances and sound installations in museums, auditoria, streets, theatres, concert halls and clubs throughout Europe, North America and Asia at numerous festivals. For the “Episode am Fluss” event of this year's Ars Electronica Festival, AGF will remix a live signal from the Brucknerhaus – where the Bruckner Orchestra will perform Dvořák's “From the New World” Symphony – in real time.

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.