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Expert Tour: Guided tour to and into the Bruckner Organ - intelligence in design and technology, aesthetics and play

Stiftsorganist und – Kantor MMag. Klaus Sonnleitner CanReg (AT)

Hearing the great organ of the basilica has always been a highlight for many visitors to the monastery. Anton Bruckner also received a lot of inspiration for his work here. Take part in the unique guided tour with organist and cantor Klaus Sonnleitner.

OrganRecital with Hermann Nitsch

Hermann Nitsch (AT)

An organ improvisation in four movements by Hermann Nitsch.

GRAND JEU 2

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.

Organ Music in the Field of Tension Between Inspiration, Compostition and Improvisation

Klaus Sonnleitner (AT)

Klaus Sonnleitner’s organ concert takes the audience from Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to French sound worlds and improvisations in the spirit of Anton Bruckner.

Orogenesis: Spacial Piano Improvisation Inspired by the Formation of Mountains

Rupert Huber (AT)

When two continental plates collide, one becomes subducted beneath the other. Rupert Huber´s piano improvisation represents this process by putting sound to the formation of an imaginary mountain.

Fantasie#1

Quadrature (DE) in collaboration with Christian Losert (DE)

Via a radio telescope in front of the venue, the noise of the skies is performed by a self-playing organ. Little by little, neural networks take control over the organ and seek out familiar harmonies in the otherworldly noises. Ideas of melodies evolve as the artificial intelligence begins to fantasize about familiar tunes in these alien sounds.