The Big Concert Night

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Silke Grabinger (AT)

This 15-minute performance follows on from last year's cooperation with Johannes Braumann and the Ars Electronica Futurelab. It is based on Gertrud Bodenwieser's play “Dämon Maschine” (1923), in which five dancers turned into one machine. Now, five machines play one dancer. Whereas in the original performance each person controlled a part of a machine, an industrial Kuka robot now controls a body part. Choreographer and dancer Silke Grabinger goes into a dance with this marionette.

Mahler Remixed

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

Austrian guitarist, composer, and electronic musician Christian Fennesz is recognized as a key figure in electronic music. The basis for his new performance is Mahler Remixed, which was recorded live at Radiokulturhaus, Vienna by Christoph Amann, in May 2011.The recording is mostly based on samples taken from Gustav Mahler’s symphonies.

Alive painting for Bruckner Orchestra

Akiko Nakayama (JP)

Alive painting is a live performance with a dynamic, changing picture. We can see the beauty of blending paints and feel the philosophical meanings of colors, shapes and movement. The entire body feels the joy and dynamics of music created by the Bruckner Orchestra, and the audio-visual element brings everyone together in wonder.

OPENING: Ars Electronica Special / Unboxing the festival

As every year, we will open the first evening of the festival with an exciting performance program. The focus will be on the various artistic possibilities offered by the voice, improvisation, and neural networks in humans and machines.

The Big Concert Night 2019

Since 2003, the collaboration with the Bruckner Orchestra has been an integral and unique part of the Ars Electronica Festival. It is a collaboration that makes it possible not only to perform interesting works each year, but also to develop unique artistic projects that bring together a wide variety of orchestral music, electronic music, robots, dancers and digital images.