performance
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.
Che si può fare?
Monica Vlad (RO) with guest Johanna Falkinger (AT)
The theme of this performance is based on feelings of melancholy, sadness, fear of loss, meditation and anger and how music can be used to express and release these emotions.
The self-reference, Three AI composed Canons
Ali Nikrang (AT)
A musical dialog between the installation Harmonic Bridge by O+A (Bruce Odland/Sam Auinger) and the 4th movement of Anton Bruckner’s First Symphony
Bruckner meets Highway 2
Sam Auinger (AT)
A musical dialog between the installation Harmonic Bridge by O+A (Bruce Odland/Sam Auinger) and the 4th movement of Anton Bruckner’s First Symphony
384
Valentina Cinquini (IT), Andrea Ummarino (IT), Federico Perinelli (IT), Raphael Schuster (AT), derkleinstePrinz (ES)
384 is a project that combines live music with interactive visual projections. The concept is built upon extemporization, using live improvisation – both musical and graphical. Nobody, not even the artists, can tell what is going to happen. Every performance is unique and unrepeatable. A tribute to being part of a unique, creative artistic experience.
Innen Außen
Wolfgang Dorninger (AT)
Creating a sound space in the interior that overcomes the physics of space is what drives me. To remodel natural sound spaces in the outdoor area, as well. Two completely different sound spaces collide violently in “Inside Outside”. Somewhere the sound space expands, elsewhere the flow is prevented.
Improvisation
Markus Poschner (DE), Rupert Huber (AT), Roberto Paci Dalò (IT)
At this year’s festival Markus Poschner, Rupert Huber and Roberto Paci Dalò, three composers/musicians coming from as distinct areas as classical music or experimental sound art, will improvise together in the Danube park in Linz.
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.
