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Schedule

Lentos, Auditorium
19:30: Winfried Ritsch (AT): Heptaklavier
Peter Ablinger (AT): Portrait meiner Eltern

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Edgar Varèse: Arcana für großes Orchester
Alessandro Bavari (IT): Metachaos
Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Friedrich Cerha: Monumentum für Karl Prantl für großes Orchester

Donaupark
21:15 Edgar Varèse: Diverse elektroakustische Arbeiten

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
21:40: Open Reel Ensemble (JP)
22:40: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Dante Anzolini: Principio Passionis

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal
22:50: Martin Messier (CA), Nicolas Bernier (CA): La chambre des machines

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
23:20: Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dante Anzolini (Dirigent / AR)
Alan Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain op. 132

The ninth edition of the big concert evening will be a return to the origins – those of electronic music – and a look ahead to the new musical spaces being carved out by the pioneers of the present. Heptapiano is an installation and composition by Winfried Ritsch (AT) for seven robotically played pianos centrally controlled via ethernet. Peter Ablinger (AT) will then also make use of two of Ritsch’s self-playing pianos in his very personal work entitled Portrait meiner Eltern. The sound material transferred to the twin concert grands is based on a recording of the voices of Ablinger’s parents as they prayed their daily rosary. Under the direction of Argentine conductor and composer Dante Anzolini – whose tribute to his musical roots entitled Principio Passionis is on the program – the Bruckner Orchestra Linz will play works by such great musical innovators as Edgar Varèse (1883–1965), Friedrich Cerha (born 1926) and Armenian-American composer Alan Hovhaness (1911–2000). Alessandro Bavari (IT), a 2011 Prix Ars Electronica 2011 prizewinner, will present his work Metachaos. For this performance well worth seeing and hearing, Japan’s Open Reel Ensemble has converted an analog recording device into a sound-producing instrument, and plays on (or with) magnetic tape machines salvaged from technological retirement. Nicolas Bernier (CA) and Martin Messier (CA) have created a machine house: La chambre des machines (Prix Ars Electronica 2011, Honorary Mention, Digital Musics & Sound Art). It mechanically-electronically interprets the intonarumoris noise machine thought up by Italian futurist Luigi Russolo. The music performed in this big concert evening will once again be accompanied by extraordinary visualizations: Rainer Kohlberger (AT) will visualize Arcana by Edgar Varèse; Sebastian Neitsch (DE), Refik Anadol (TR), Woeishi Lean (AT) and Efe Mert Kaya (TR) the music of Friedrich Cerha; LIA (AT) optically interprets Dante Anzolini; and Daito Manabe (JP) will collaborate with Motoi Ishibashi (JP) and Satoru Higa (JP) on visualizing Alan Hovhaness’ composition.

The work of Peter Ablinger and Winfried Ritsch is being supported by Klavierhaus Fiedler & Sohn, Am Eisernen Tor 2, 8010 Graz

Ars Electronica Quarter, Maindeck

20:30 – 21.30 Gameboy Music Club (AT)
21:30 – 22:00 Tesla Orchestra (US)
22.00 – 23.00 Michael Mayr (AT) & Kid Soylent (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00 Kollegium Kalksburg (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00 Halftime ft. Tod Ernst (AT) & Special Guests

Gameboy Music Club (AT)

Since 2002 the Gameboy Music Club (GBMC) has been pleasuring itself acoustically on the Game Boy by Nintendo—regardless of which device generation and operating system. The nanoloop and little sound dj music programs turn the tiny console into the most economical and at the same time highest performance electronic sound instrument, a simple, user-friendly way to access the boundless world of contemporary music.

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Michael Mayr (AT) & Kid Soylent (AT)

The Ars Electronica Center’s façade will be graphically graced by visuals created by Michael Mayr (AT). The accompanying sound collage is provided by Kid Soylent (AT) aka Stefan Niederwieser—DJ, author and musical editor-in-chief of The Gap magazine, as well as male midwife of the electronic, urban special ops crew named ETForce aka UTForce, specialists in locating good mixes and tracks online.

Kollegium Kalksburg (AT)

In the classic, alcohol-suffused tradition of music as sung and played by the local populace in Vienna, the three members of Kollegium Kalksburg (their roots in jazz, actually) look death square in the eyes, secure in the knowledge that the music will endure forever. Wienerlieder of the highest order, performed on contra-guitar, comb, saw and harmonica.

Ars Electronica Quarter, Maindeck

20:00 – 21:00: Tesla Orchestra (US)
21:00 – 22:00: Femous Orchestra (AT)
22:00 – 23:00: Madame Humtata (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00: HGich.T (DE)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00: DJ Andaka (AT), Miss Kamala (AT)

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Femous Orchestra (AT)

Electric Indigo, Celia Mara, Stella Chiweshe, Sweet Susie
The ensemble’s encounter with the festival theme entails a musical response to the question of originality with respect to culture and gender. The multicultural members of the femous Orchestra play with the primal sounds of their respective homelands and bodies. This material is then sampled by White European electronic musicians (e.g. Electric Indigo), and thereby conveyed into and transformed by the hegemonic Western cultural system. But this is a two-way street—the beats disassociate themselves and remigrate to their country of origin or back to a totally different instrument. Concept: Silvia Jura, Susi Rogenhofer, Celia MaraMore Info!

Madame Humtata (AT)

Madame Humtata, the alter ego of Chistine Hinterkörner (AT), a media designer and musician trained as a jazz & pop vocalist, stands for eccentric, feminine and exhilarating avant-garde pop. The diva’s live performances are accompanied by three musicians; the further addition of video art, light design, Humtata couture and catwalk makes each one an all-encompassing spectacle for the senses.

HGich.T (DE)

HGich.T serves up music with gnarly roots in a bizarre, hard-trance realm of magic, hits like Hauptschuhle, Tutenchamun and Tripmeister Eder astride the borderline between madness and totally overcoming inhibitions. Those seeking an acoustic definition of artistic freedom will find it here.

Ars Electronica Quarter, Maindeck

21:00 – 22:00 Tesla Orchestra (US)
22:00 – 23:00 Daito Manabe (JP)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00 POP:SCH (AT), C60 (AT), Laming Hips – Shy DJ Team (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00 Cueing (AT), DJ NDL (AT)

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Daito Manabe (JP), Motoi Ishibashi (JP) & Satoru Higa (JP)

Daito Manabe (JP) and his partner Motoi Ishibashi (JP) are prizewinners in the 2011 Prix Ars Electronica’s Interactive Art category. In addition to his media art works (such as particles, a magnificent, walk-through installation currently on display in the Ars Electronica Center), Manabe is also a successful musician and visualizer who has acquired a big reputation on the international electronic music scene. His minimalistic sound pieces are reduced to the essentials, negotiating a difficult split with one foot in Groove and the other in abstraction.

POP:SCH (AT)

POP:SCH fabricates electro-pop that is as hymnal as need be, as baroque as possible and, Drehli Robnik (AT) promises, incessantly striving to achieve maximum sexuality. It takes a sing-along approach to a quadripartite theme: Viennese romances in uniform, love-lazy girlfriends, egoistic hearts and other amorous complications. If Peaches and Kim Wilde would have a love child, its name would be POP:SCH.

C60 (AT)

Despite their successful debut in 2006, this Linz electronic duo seems to have an extraordinary case of stage fright and is rarely seen/heard live. For this performance of material for their work-in-progress follow-up album, they’ve assembled a band of top-name sidemen

Cueing (AT)

Dubstep turntablist Cueing began his career as a hip-hop DJ. Now, he’s also a producer and pursues sating his weakness for low-frequency bassmonster genres like dubstep, grime and filth.

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00: Chris de Luca (DE), Jay Scarlett (DE), Lena (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00: Didi Kern (AT), Richie Herbst (AT) – Sun Ra Tribute

Chris de Luca (DE)

Dba Funkstörung, Chris de Luca and partner Michael Fakesch have released countless albums. Their remixes for Björk, Wu-Tang Clan, Speedy J and Plaid have garnered them international attention. Nowadays, Luca is intensively living out his love for hip-hop with friend Peabird on his first solo album entitled Tödliche Wiz Da Disko. The result: body rock for robots, a one-of-a-kind mix of old school hip-hop and cut-up beats.

Jay Scarlett (DE)

Jay Scarlett stands for a fine selection. With his band Spacek Jay Scarlett has been blending electronic beats and soulful singing for years now. As a DJ, he mixes glitch, dubstep, hip-hop and other select ingredients.

Didi Kern (AT), Richie Herbst (AT) – Sun Ra Tribute

Kern (BulBul, Fuckhead / AT) and Herbst (Regolith, Interstellar Records / AT) have dug deep into their album crate to fish out their old Sun Ra disks. The celebrated jazzman’s oeuvre made him a legend in his own lifetime.

Ars Electronica Quarter, Maindeck

20:30 – 21:00: Tesla Orchestra (US)
21:00 – 22:00: Karl Möstl (AT)
22:00 – 23:00: Pröll (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00: Regolith (AT), Sex on the Beach (AT)

Stadtwerkstatt, Strom

23:00: New City Punk (AT)

Karl Möstl (AT)

Karl Möstl is one of the most successful figures in the Austrian electronic music scene and he’s made quite a name for himself abroad too. Möstl has mastered the art of fusing different electronic styles and creatively transcending boundaries in doing so. His 15-minute performance Origin of Sound on the Maindeck seeks answers to the question of what might have been at the beginning of all human communication: sounds, singing, rhythm, words or music? The charismatic sounds will be combined with corresponding lighting effects on the Ars Electronica Center’s façade.
Möstl will then slip into his DJ persona to present interesting electronic club & dance tracks, which will likewise be synchronized with the AEC’s LED façade.

Pröll (AT)

Seit 2004 tut sich sich der Linzer Pröll (AT), Mitbegründer und Promotor des Kulturverreins Artifex, in der musikalischen Grauzone zwischen bassigem Techno und dreckigen Beats um. Das Resultat ist eine akustische Mischung, die auch Zutaten aus der experimentellen Soundküche verträgt, ohne an Tanzbarkeit zu verlieren.

Regolith (AT)

A duo consisting of Richie Herbst (Interstellar Rec., Dilemma Records / AT) and Christian Zollner (MenKillingMen / AT). Following a phase characterized by harsh noise, they’re now into improvised soundscapes, some created on homemade equipment and turntables, all situated at the interface of deep drones and unsettlingly beautiful harmonies.

Sex on the Beach (AT)

From the boondocks outside of Vienna, this instrumental ensemble has gone about satisfying its passion for psychedelic hard rock of the 1970s.

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

20:00 Open Reel Ensemble

Cafe Strom

21:30 GelbGut

Stadtwerkstatt, Saal

23:00 mirage00 – Kouji Ohno (JP), Tesuya Yamamoto (JP), Nobu Miake (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP)
24:00 Cherry Sunkist (AT)
01:00 Regolith

GelbGut (AT)

The loveable, offbeat Viennese electronic performer aren’t out to make the dolls dance; they want you to get your calves and thighs in gear! The energy supply necessary for their set is provided by pedaling audience members atop bicycle generators.

Tesla Orchestra (USA)

The American ensemble takes the stage with a high-energy show in which the million-volt high tension of two Tesla coils is transferred into audio frequencies.

Open Reel Ensemble (JP)

For this performance well worth seeing and hearing, Japan’s Open Reel Ensemble has converted an analog recording device into a sound-producing instrument, and plays on (or with) magnetic tape machines salvaged from technological retirement.
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mirage00 – Tesuya Yamamoto (JP), Nobu Miake (JP), Toshikazu Toyama (JP)

Die Erfinder des mirage00 präsentieren in einem Showcase ihr intuitiv zu spielendes Musikinstrument, das seine Sounds auch gleich in einem 360°-Panoptikum. visualisieren kann.

Cherry Sunkist (AT)

“I’m not here to entertain you” is how one of her pieces goes, and Cherry Sunkist aka Karin Fisslthaler certainly lives up to this cheeky statement. Her performance is characterized by raw tones and samples, interference and cool synthesizer sounds, set in the experimental no-man’s land at the intersection of new wave melancholy, songwriting and electric storm, borne by a multifaceted voice between charm and understatement.

Posthof

20:00 The Wave Pictures (UK)

Posthof

20:00 The Wave Pictures (UK)

MAINDECK

20:00-21:00 human power station ft. GelbGut
21:00-23:00 KIBU: Chromosonia : bring your own mp3, and be the dj/vj tonight

STWST SAAL

23:00 Seeking the traces with Gigi Gratt

The Wave Pictures (UK)

The group Rolling Stone calls “the most British and, at present, best of all British bands” brings its latest album to Linz.

Kitchen Budapest (HU)

Kitchen Budapest´s „Chromosonia“ provides three means for everyone with a portable music player to visualize ther music they are currently listenenig to on the AEC facade featuring three levels of mapping: perceptual, informational and social. Bring along your mp3 and be the VJ!

Gigi Gratt (AT) – An evening featured by

The final evening of this year’s festival features Gigi Gratt (Tumido, Ni, Drumski, Gigis Gogos, Braaz / AT). True to the theme of Ars Electonica 2011, the musician/composer from Ottensheim looks into how it all begins. This musical search for origins will be done collaboratively with local musicians from Upper Austria.

Jana Winderen (NO), honored with the Golden Nica for Energy Field, obtains her sound material in the wild. She recorded all of it in the depths of the Barents Sea and amidst the fjords and glacial landscapes of northern Norway and Russia.

Philip Jeck (UK), recipient of an Award of Distinction for Suite: Live in Liverpool, amazes those who behold his sophisticated utilization of old record albums and turntables.

bee by Apostolos Loufopoulos (GR) was likewise singled out for recognition with an Award of Distinction. It transports listeners into the acoustic microcosms of insects.

Mucilaginous Omniverse by Dmitry Gelfand (RU) and Evelina Domnitch (BY) works acoustically with a standing wave that forms out of oil droplets above a water surface being radiated with sound.

Filming is prohibited.

http://www.janawinderen.com
http://www.philipjeck.com
http://soundcloud.com/apostolosloufopoulos/bee
http://www.essim.gr/en/members/Apostolos_LOUFOPOULOS.htm