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Music Monday

(Deutsch) Am letzten Festivaltag lädt das Ars Electronica Festival 2014 zur sinnlichen wie auch intellektuellen Begegnung mit elektronischer und experimenteller Musik, mit dem Hörraum Stadt und mit der akustischen Ebene verschiedener Audiovisionen im Festivalprogramm ein. Continue reading

Musik Kantine @ Tabakfabrik

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. Continue reading

Braun Tube Jazz Band

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. Continue reading

OHMI

The OHMI projects main goal – fostering development of a one handed musical instrument for physically impaired musicians – has long since gotten underway. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Touching

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. Continue reading

Deep Space LIVE: Story Weaver – The Crane Returns a Favor

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. Continue reading

voestalpine Klangwolke 2014 – The Danube Lives!

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. Continue reading

OK Night

A fitting follow-up to the Electronic Theatre performances is the OK Night lineup. Continue reading