Donaupark – THE BIG PICTURE

voestalpine Klangwolke – The Cloud in the Web

Michael Knoll — Fri, 17 Aug 2012 08:23:56 +0000

Ars Electronica
Sa/Sat 1. 9. 20:30
Donaupark

The Cloud in the Web tells the story of our increasingly networked world from the first telephone to Facebook & Co. Hundreds of firefighters, industrial robots, water cannons, oarsmen and illuminated carrier pigeons are only a few of this play’s protagonists. Making their international debut will be a swarm of Klangwolke quadrocopters, four-rotor drone whirlybirds cruising above the audience.

Website voestalpine Klangwolke

Ars Electronica Music Day

Michael Knoll — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:37:04 +0000

Mo/Mon 3. 9. 10:30 – 21:00
Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal, Großer Saal, Donaupark

Schedule
Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal
10:30 – 17:00 Listening Post: Sie wünschen, wir spielen

Klangpark
10:30 – 19:00 River Sounds

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
11:30 – 13:30 Prix Forum Digital Musics & Sound Art Spezial
13:30 – 15:00 Tuning in to Kunstradio – Radiokunst
15:00 – 17:00 Sound Studies UdK Berlin
19:30 – 21:00 Prix Ars Electronica PreisträgerInnen-Konzert
Jo Thomas (UK): Crystal Sounds of a Synchrotron
Anselm Venezian Nehls (DE), Tarik Barri (NL): #tweetscapes – a HEAVYLISTENING experience
Cheng Xu (CN): scape-sequencer

Electronic music has been a part of Ars Electronica since the festival’s very inception. After all, one of the founding fathers was Hubert Bognermayr (AT), visionary synthesizer fan, composer and musician. The Prix Ars Electronica as well has featured computer music right from the start. To this day, Digital Musics & Sound Art is consistently the category with the most submissions.

So what more reason do we need to launch a new Festival showcase dedicated to the genres that are part of media art’s core: sound art, sound sculptures and sound installations as well as radio art. In order to take advantage of their superb acoustics, the concert halls of the Brucknerhaus will become tonal spaces for listening sessions, performances, interventions and talks throughout this day.

The lineup of guests coming to commemorate 25 years of Kunstradio includes artists from different fields: Robert Adrian (AT), Sam Auinger (AT), Heidi Grundmann (AT), Seppo Gründler (AT), Rupert Huber (AT), Josef Klammer (AT), Roberto Paci Dalo (IT), GX Jupitter Larsen (US), Norbert Math (AT), Elisabeth Schimana (AT), Andrea Sodomka (AT), Gerfried Stocker (AT), and Elisabeth Zimmermann (AT).

Representing the UdK–University of the Arts Berlin’s Sound Studies program are Alberto de Campo (AT), Peter Cusack (UK), Robert Henke (DE), Martin Supper (DE), Pheline Binz (DE), Daisuke Ishida (JP), Anselm Nehls (DE), Carl Schilde (DE), Alois Späth (DE), et al.

On this day, the Klangwolke’s spectacular audio infrastructure is being placed at the disposal of sound artists and their fine tonal structures and musical textures. This feast for the ears will consist of acoustic highlights from the 25-year history of Kunstradio.

Winding up the day and the festival will be an evening concert starring the prizewinners in the Digital Musics & Sound Art category.

Big Concertnight

Michael Knoll — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:31:08 +0000

Resonant Bridges
So/Sun 2. 9. 19:30
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
Klangpark
Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal, Mittlerer Saal
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Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
19:30 HEAVYLISTENING (DE): Tiefdruckgebiet

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
20:30 Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT), Martin Achrainer (Bassbariton / AT)
Philip Glass (US): Songs of Milarepa
Celine Desrumaux (FR): Countdown
Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent US/AT)
Johannes Berauer (AT): Echoes of the Miraculous
Dirk Koy (DE): The City

Klangpark
21:25 Klangwolkenminiaturen Live

Brucknerhaus, Großer Saal
22:00 Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT)
Misato Moshizuki (JP): Ima Koko
Daniel Franke, Cedric Kiefer (DE): unnamed soundsculpture
Bruckner Orchester Linz (AT), Dennis Russell Davies (Dirigent / US/AT)
Amr Okba (EG/AT): Etappe
Jean-Thomas Bédard, Alain Clavier (CA): This is a Recorded Message

Brucknerhaus, Mittlerer Saal
23:00 Ö1 Kunstradio

GX Jupitter-Larsen
Klammer & Gründler Duo
Kunstradio All Stars

This is the 10th anniversary of the Big Concert Night. Ars Electronica launched this collaboration with the Brucknerhaus and the Bruckner Orchestra in 2002 to present an invigorating blend of orchestral music, digital sounds, live electronics and visualizations. In the spirit of this year’s festival theme, THE BIG PICTURE, concertgoers will be treated to wide-angle glimpses of a modern world that is globally networked acoustically as well, whereby this broad musical spectrum is impressionistically reflected by the array of performers—up-and-coming virtuosos and old masters alike. The narrative arc extends from the composure of the Buddhist way to the unruly events of Arab Spring.

Fans of auditory creativity can partake of a full-throttle prelude to the evening’s presentations from the Lentos Art Museum’s plaza. In Tiefdruckgebiet (low pressure area) by HEAVYLISTENING (DE), high-performance autos pimped out with mega-bass sound systems are the instruments of a concerto at the low end of the human hearing range.

Works by a Tibetan yogi inspired Philip Glass (US) to compose his Songs of Milarepa. A version for piano and baritone will open the evening’s musical proceedings in the Brucknerhaus. The visualizations are the work of Michael Mayr (AT) and Tom Lorenz (AT).

A visualization by Leonard Wegscheider (AT) will accompany some jazzy Echoes of the Miraculous by Johannes Berauer (AT). Written during a period of political upheaval in 2011, the four-part composition is meant to evoke an ingenuous, childlike view of the world and to eschew all logical objections in clinging to hope for better times to come.

In her composition Ima Koko (Japanese: here and now), Misato Mochizuki (JP) proceeds in accordance with the teachings of Buddhism that the cosmos is contained in a mote of dust and eternity in the blink of an eye. The sound made by striking a gong is elongated in the extension of time and space until all the individual parts of this intonation are revealed. Conny Zenk (AT) complements the tonal universe with a visual one.

Amr Okba’s (EG/AT) work Etappe is an effort to come to terms with the Arab Spring. The rhythm of the daily grind is acoustically put to an end by an inner voice that cries out for rebellion against the prevailing despotism. Austrian artist Anna Blume has created a highly appropriate visualization.

Three animated films honored by the Prix Ars Electronica will be the intermezzi punctuating the orchestral pieces. In Countdown, Céline Desrumaux (FR) takes us on a trip through the cosmos to the music of Apparat. The City by Dirk Koy / Equipo was made as a music video for the band Five Year Older. unnamed soundsculpture by Daniel Franke and Cédric Kiefer (both DE) features an impressive symbiosis of dance, computer animation and sounds from Machinefabriek’s piece Kreukeltape.

Marco Palewicz (AT), Chris Bruckmayr (AT), Maximilian Walch (AT) and Michael Kaczorowski (AT) take on the Klangwolkeminiatures, mix them up live and shape soundscapes and tracks. Atmospherical or straight to the beat, the inspiration is following the mood of the moment, rhythms, melodies, voices and more are being combined and torn up. The musical result reflects the background of all the protagonists involved, ranging from Doom Techno through noise right into electropop.

This is a Recorded Message is still a highly relevant statement made in 1973 by filmmaker Jean-Thomas Bédard (CA) and composer Alain Clavier (CA), a critique of the consumption orientation of our times in the form of a huge montage of hundreds of advertising images.

To round things out, Ars Electronica and radio station Ö1 are congregating to celebrate Kunstradio’s 25th anniversary. Some special acts are offering congratulatory greetings. High-decibel radio artist and author GX Jupitter-Larsen is presenting his Loud Luggage/Booming Baggage

Open Cloud: Picknick in der Wolke

Michael Knoll — Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:05:40 +0000

So/Sun 2. 9. 10:00 – 21:00
Donaupark

10:00 – 11:00 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original I: Frühschoppen
11:00 – 11:30 Klangwolkenminiaturen: Jingles & Dance Flashmob
11:30 – 12:00 OÖ Nachrichten Klangwolkenminiaturen Original II: So klingt Oberösterreich
12:30 – 13.30 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original III: Mittagshitze
13:30 – 14:00 Remix 1: Matthias Bergsmann (AT)
14:00 – 15:00 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original IV: Kaffee und Kuchen
15:00 – 15:30 Remix 2: Klangwolkenminiaturenkomposition – Marco Palewicz (AT)
15:30 – 16:30 Klangwolkenminiaturen Original V: Happy Hour
15:30 – 16:00 Missing Character
16:30 – 17:00 Remix 3 – Live: Chris Bruckmayr (AT), Michael Kaczorowski (AT), Marco Palewicz (AT), Maximilian Walch (AT)
17:00 – 18:00 FM4 Wall of Sound
18:00 – 19:00 DJ Kristian Davideck (FM4)
Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Freiraum
19:30 – 20:00: HEAVYLISTENING (DE): Tiefdruckgebiet

The Picnic in the Cloud, Part II of the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke, is set for the day after the big show. Everyone’s invited to bring snacks and a blanket to the Donaupark between the Brucknerhaus and the Lentos Art Museum.

Thousands of people from Linz, from Upper Austria and all over the world have been busy producing soundcloudminiatures—pieces of music, sounds, noise, whatever. The best of these personal puffs of the cloud of sound will resound through the relaxed atmosphere of Linz’s beautiful downtown riverside park via the show’s superb sound system. A big Sound Picnic Blanket will take the place of a stage.

The day’s program also includes a repeat performance of the previous evening’s highlights.

The show begins at 10 AM with soundcloudminiatures arranged in categories—both the originals and a remix by sound artist Matthias Bergsmann (AT), a prizewinner in the Prix Ars Electronica’s u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD category. The climax of the urban game Missing Character will serve as a sort of interlude. Marco Palewicz (AT), Chris Bruckmayr (AT), Maximilian Walch (AT) and Michael Kaczorowski (AT) will then continue with live remixes of the miniatures on into the evening.

At 5 PM, FM4 will take over the controls. A once-in-a-lifetime live-spectacle will not just capture your imagination, it will set your booty in motion as you experience the FM4 Wall of Sound featuring Kristian Davidek and Bauchklang’s Andi Fraenzl. Kristian Davidek has quite the reputation for phenomenally entertaining DJ-sets, not just music-wise either. Now, he will be joined by the Human Beatbox Virtuoso Andi Fraenzl for a live audio experience you are bound to never forget. A very special duo, a decidedly different performance and a singular outing—all to be had at the Donaupark and as a prelude to even more ear-candy in the form of a series of concerts being held afterwards at the Brucknerhaus.

At 7:30, Berlin Duo HEAVYLISTENING and their pimped-out rides will generate a low-pressure area as a lead-in to the Big Evening Concert in the Brucknerhaus.