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.