Program

11 AM
Werner Jauk (AT) et al.
Keynote / FlashTalks
Akademisches Gymnasium, Gala Room

1 PM
Werner Jauk (AT)
going pop
Akademisches Gymnasium

1:30 PM
Afroditi Psarra (GR)
handcrafted futures
Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building

Fermin Serrano Sanz (ES)
Collective Music Experiment
Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building

Ei Wada (JP)
Braun Tube Jazz Band
Akademisches Gymnasium, New Building

2:15 PM
Young Sun Kim (KR)
planted
Akademisches Gymnasium, Music Room (room 113)

2:30 PM
katrinem (DE/AT)
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Akademisches Gymnasium, room 115

3 PM
Rutger Zuydervelt (NL)
Machinefabriek
Mariendom

Tomáš Dvorák (CZ), Dan Gregor (CZ)
Netykavka / Archifon III
Mariendom

Ei Wada (JP)
Flying Records
Mariendom

4 PM
Maki Namekawa (JP), Chiaki Ishikawa (JP), Emiko Ogawa (JP/AT), Naohiro Hayaishi (JP), Tetsuro Yasunaga (JP), Hideaki Ogawa (JP/AT) 
Deep Space Live: Story Weaver – The Crane Returns a Favor
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

4:30 PM
LABoral (ES)
Live: Spectrum
Main square, Raumschiff

5:15 PM
Moritz Simon Geist (DE)
Sonic Robots
Arkade

7:30 PM
Johannes Kretz (AT), Veronika Simor (HU/AT)
Deep Space Live: Touching
Ars Electronica Center, Deep Space

8:30 PM
Anatol Bogendorfer, Peter Androsch (Hörstadt/AT)
Sonotopia – The Resounding City
Bischhofshof

The Musik Kantine is a temporary record shop in the Tabakfabrik’s club canteen. It’ll be open on Friday and Saturday during the Ars Electronica Festival to host a live performance by Fadi Dorninger and listening sessions with Maximilian Meindl, Jürgen H, Ned Rise and Zanshin. The selection of CDs and vinyl on sale includes strictly limited editions, raw Techno, deep, dark House, futuristic Electro, special Experimental Electronica as well as Hiphop and Rock. Plus, a food & beverage selection will be available at the Musik Kantine Café.

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It all began with a very fruitful mistake: Japanese artist/musician Ei Wada mistakenly connected a sound cable to a video port and thereby transformed sound into an image. Wada proceeded to take advantage of the fortuitous happenstance by recording the image with a camera and playing it back as an audio signal. This is now the technique used by Wada’s Braun Tube Jazz Band, an ensemble made up of old Braun cathode ray tube TV sets that the maestro has connected to video recorders that are, in turn, hooked up to a PC. He strikes up his Jazz Band by slapping the screens of the various TV sets. The astounding result is a powerful archaic-electronic sound reminiscent of a theremin.

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Interested festivalgoers have long been tracking the progress of the OHMI project, which is making another appearance at the Ars Electronica Festival. Its main goal – fostering development of a one handed musical instrument for physically impaired musicians – has long since gotten underway. The competition to develop new musical instruments staged by the OHMI Trust is now in its second year and has already brought forth a whole series of fascinating prototypes.

New Instruments

Guitars, tubas, trumpets, recorders and Midi-controlled hybrid instruments are currently available to music enthusiasts. In conjunction with the Future Innovators Summit, the OHMI Trust will discuss the current state of affairs and present the instruments created to date.

Touching seeks to propagate sound in space and to carry on a dialog – of the two performers with one another as well as with the space and the sound. They animate, spatialize and modify concrete tonal material and interlink it with visuals designed especially for this performance.

Johannes Kretz: Laptop, Sensoren/Sensors, Software
Veronika Simor: Keyboard, Laptop, Controller
In cooperation with MUSIK IM RAUM

Story Weaver is a piano piece coupled with animated images. The pianist is Maki Namekawa, a native of Japan who lives in Linz. It’s based on the Japanese fable “The Crane Returns a Favor.” Deep Space’s technical infrastructure makes this performance a holistic experience.

Piano: Maki Namekawa
Music: Chiaki Ishikawa
Drawings: Emiko Ogawa
Visual Programming: Naohiro Hayaishi
Workshop Programming: Tetsuro Yasunaga
Art Direction: Hideaki Ogawa

Supported by: Arts Council Tokyo

ATTENTION: Seating is limited. Seat reservation tickets will be available at the Ars Electronica Center Infodesk beginning one hour before the performance.

The 2014 Klangwolke [Cloud of Sound] is centered on the Danube, a river through history, a stream of narratives, and a current in which European hopes and feelings flow. 25 years after the fall of the Iron Curtain that had long separated Danube neighbors Austria and Hungary, a poetic spectacle entitled Die Donau lebt! [The Danube Lives!] by Tom Roeder (DE) stages a peaceful riverside celebration.

International Three-Four Time

On the Danube, there appear, one by one, individual ships laden with musicians and groups. The musical formations come from the multifarious regions along the river’s banks. The individual ships are designed, both musically and visually, in such a way that they can later coalesce into a huge whole. For the grand finale, the various ensembles will unite to form a giant orchestra. The individual groups then take up the waltz beat and thereby bring forth an unprecedented listening experience. Immediately after the Klangwolke’s grand finale, Donaulände will become the setting of a major party.

A fitting follow-up to the Electronic Theatre performances is the OK Night lineup. Kicking things off on the OK platz are WANDL (AT) live and DJ Martin Klein (AT).

After 11 PM Zanshin (Affine Records / AT) and Johann Destroy (Radio Diffusion, Compost Records / AT) will perform in Solaris. Markus Reindl (AT) is the curator of this high-variety show. The visual design is the work of Das Gegenlicht (Backlab /AT).