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.

A Pixelspaces 2012 session is dedicated to the making of The Cloud in the Web with particular emphasis on the spaxels

The deadline for adding another letter to this huge alphabet isn’t until just about the last minute. You can craft yours at the ABC Workshop, in the comfort of your own home, or at an OTELO open technology lab in Gmunden, Vöcklabruck and Kremstal. Components are available free of charge at all ABC Check-in Stations, where you can also register your finished letter and get it equipped with a radio receiver.

The history of the Klangwolke began on September 18, 1979 with Anton Bruckner’s 8th Symphony resounding through the spacious riverside park adjacent to the Brucknerhaus in downtown Linz. Quite an elaborate production for that day and age featured thousands of balloons and a laser show. Bruckner’s music was heard by a live audience of 100,000; lots more were tuned in to the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s simulcast. Thousands accepted the invitation to place their radio on their windowsill to let the sound cloud waft across the whole region. The evening’s guest of honor came from the USA: a robot named SPA flown in especially for the first Ars Electronica.

Many years and a wide array of sound clouds later, the time has come for Ars Electronica itself to produce the voestalpine Klangwolke. And this is being done by having recourse to the thoroughly modern idea of the very first Klangwolke and transposing it into the era of cloud computing and the 21st century’s social media in which networking and collaboration are the design principles and communication is their foundation.

As a Cloud in the Web, the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke is essentially the work of a collective artistic personality comprised of members of the public who have gotten actively involved both in designing and producing this extravaganza and then actually staging it on Saturday, September 1, when this cloud formation will take shape over Linz’s Donaupark.

Their creative contributions—both visual (a vast alphabet of illuminated letters) and acoustic (individually engineered soundcloudminiatures)—constitute a sound & light show that will be one of the absolute highlights of the evening. Thus, a collective Open Cloud Project consisting of the assembly and interlinkages of the Klangwolke ABC, the recording and presentation of the soundcloudminiatures, and the process of bringing other works of art to fruition has coalesced both temporally and spatially about this Cloud in the Web.

The Mobile Ö1 Atelier being staged by the ORF – Austrian Broadcasting Company’s radio station Ö1 is one of the epicenters of the Open Cloud Project in conjunction with the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke. On Saturday, September 1st, this will be the final destination of the Klangwolke ABC Parade and the site of a dance presentation ranging from hip-hop to traditional Austrian folk dancing. The voestalpine Brass Band will provide musical accompaniment. During the days leading up to the big event, visitors can also create illuminated letters for the Klangwolke ABC and soundcloudminiatures here.

The Mobile Ö1 Atelier is also once again a hotbed of activity in conjunction with the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD festival for young people. The young reporters from the Ö1 Kinderuni will be covering what’s happening ‘round about the Festival Village and feeding fascinating features to the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD VJ.

In addition to the Open Cloud Project and u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD, the Main Square will be a setting for the 2012 Campus Exhibition curated by the Sound Studies master’s program at the UdK–University of the Arts Berlin (DE). The Campus Atelier is a nice spot to meet & greet the artists whose work is featured in the Campus Exhibition and the Campus Lab (located in the u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD Festival Village and a former taxation agency facility).

Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz is a Campus Lab artistic research project in which sound artist/researcher Sam Auinger (AT), British artist Peter Cusack and UdK students are creating an interactive sound map of the Main Square during the festival. You can check it out in the Mobile Ö1 Atelier and online too.

“Transition,” a work by Sound Studies grad Julius Stahl (DE), invites you to go on a very special soundwalk. Each participant wears headphones that pick up all ambient sounds from their surroundings and transmit them via radio to another set of headphones. The result: hearing with someone else’s ears.

The Mobile Ö1 Atelier is also the point of departure of audiowalks with Sam Auinger, Peter Cusack and Georg Spehr (DE). To take part, please preregister in the tent.

Schedule

Mo/Mon 25. 8. – Mi 29. 8.

10:00 – 19:00 Ars Electronica und/and voestalpine Klangwolke 2012 Ceck-in und/and Infopoint
10:00 – 19:00 Klangwolken-ABC-Werkstatt

Do/Thu 30. 8.

10:00 – 12:00 u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD-TV
10:00 – 19:00 Ars Electronica und/and voestalpine Klangwolke 2012 Ceck-in und/and Infopoint
10:00 – 21:00 Julius Stahl (DE): Transition
10:00 – 21:00 Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz
17:00 – 18:00 Audiowalk 1
17:00 – 20:00 Campus Atelier

Fr/Fri 31. 8.

10:00 – 12:00 u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD-TV
10:00 – 19:00 Ars Electronica und/and voestalpine Klangwolke 2012 Ceck-in und/and Infopoint
10:00 – 21:00 Julius Stahl (DE): Transition
10:00 – 21:00 00 Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz
15:00 – 17:00 Campus Atelier

Sa/Sat 1. 9.

10:00 – 21:00 Julius Stahl (DE): Transition
10:00 – 24:00 Ars Electronica und/and voestalpine Klangwolke 2012 Ceck-in und/and Infopoint
10:00 – 24:00 00 Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz
11:00 – 12:00 Audiowalk 2
18:00 – 19:00 Klangwolken-ABC-Parade
22:00 – 24:00 Electronic Theater

So/Sun 2.9.

10:00 – 19:00 Ars Electronica Infopoint
10:00 – 21:00 Julius Stahl (DE): Transition
10:00 – 21:00 00 Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz
12:00 – 14:00 Campus Atelier
14:00 – 15:00 Audiowalk 3

Mo/Mon 3. 9.

10:00 – 19:00 Ars Electronica Infopoint
10:00 – 21:00 Julius Stahl (DE): Transition
10:00 – 21:00 Sonic Place Linzer Hauptplatz
12:00 – 14:00 Campus Atelier

Yoshihiro Harano (JP), Koichiro Mikuriya (JP), Tomofumi Okada (JP)

“Amanogawa” will be one of the aesthetic highlights of The Cloud in the Web. In it, 50,000 Inori Boshi®—floating LED balls 8.5 cm in diameter—will be swept downstream by the Danube’s current. Constructed especially for “Amanogawa” and charged by solar energy, the balls emit a light blue glow as soon as they come into contact with water. They stand for the diversity of cultures along the Danube. The multitude of stars in this terrestrial Milky Way symbolically carry the wishes and hopes of the visitors to the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke out into the world, and, conversely, call upon these people to experience the Danube and water in a new way and to bring a new appreciation to the river.

Dem Making-of der Wolke im Netz mit besonderem Augenmerk auf die Spaxels ist ein Teil der Pixelspaces 2012 gewidmet

On Sunday, September 2nd, all submitted soundcloudminiatures will suffuse downtown Linz via the Klangwolke’s 250,000-watt sound system.

All Klangwolke letter designers who just can’t delay gratification any longer can gather on the Ars Electronica Center’s Maindeck on September 1st at 5 PM. Everyone’s invited! With voestalpine’s own marching band leading the way, a parade of people and letters will proceed across the Nibelungen Bridge to the Lentos Art Museum. Then it’s on via Pfarrplatz, Marienstraße and the Passage shopping mall to OK-Platz, where the colorful procession cuts through Ursulinenhof and makes a right onto Landstraße. Around 6 PM, the Klangwolke caravan converges on the Mobile Ö1 Atelier on Linz’s Main Square, where terpsichorean troops ranging from hip-hoppers to folk dancers will display their individualize choreographies in which letters coalesce into words. The best of these performances will be reprised shortly thereafter before a much larger audience. The groups will strut their stuff in the main event—the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke.

Complete information about the 2012 voestalpine Klangwolke will be available during the days leading up to the big event at the ABC Check-in Stations. And that’s not all: Anybody who’d like to participate can buy an illuminated letter, the first one costs 8 €, every next one 5 €.

Right up to the last minute, those who have already completed their letters can register them here and equip them with a radio receiver.