Music – Post City https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en Ars Electronica 2015 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 13:02:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.6 The Big Concert Night https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/bigconcertnight/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 11:10:35 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=2557 The traces that experiencing and thinking about cities have left behind in music is one of the narrative threads in the Big Concert Night. This year´s auditorium is POST CITY´s Train Hall, which comes out of retirement for a one-night stand. The Bruckner Orchester Linz under its conductor of many years Dennis Russell Davies (US) will interpret Music for a Great City by Aaron Copland.

Everyday life in the city of the future that´s become so quiet that the urban soundscape has to be artificially (and artistically) designed is sketched by Wolfgang Dorninger (AT) in POST CITY–An Aural Fiction. On the basis of a concept by Wolfgang C. Kuthan (FR/AT) and with visual support from Herwig Bachmann, (AT) guitarist Karl Ritter (AT) will perform Soundfalls, a high-energy sound painting with guitar feedback.

Once again, the Big Concert Night pays respects to composer Philip Glass in the form of selected piano etudes performed by Maki Namekawa (JP/AT) to a real-time visualization by Cori O´Ian (AT). Also on the lineup are Dennis Russell Davies (US) and the Bruckner Orchester Linz with Ge Xu–Antiphony (Chen Yi) and Symphony in G#-Minor (Elliot Goldenthal), Peter Karrer with Selbsttonfilm, the Diaspora Maschine by Peter Androsch (AT) and Anatol Bogendorfer (AT), and trombonist Bertl Mütter (AT) with an alfresco intervention.

Download the folder of the Big Concert Night as PDF file

]]> Music Monday – Presentations at OK https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/musicmondayok/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:11:47 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=3468 A whole day full of music and sounds! Ars Electronica dedicates the last day of the Festival to sound installations. Lecture-performances offer deeper insights into the works of music and sound art that were presented over the last four days. Media artist/musicologist Werner Jauk (AT) opens the program with an introduction to PostCity sounds and post-sounds. In doing so, he scrutinizes soundscapes not only as natural phenomena but also as intentional compositions of event-spaces and thus considers the configuring relationships among movement, sound and space. Theory makes the transition into practice in the form of an extended sound parcours over the course of which musicians and sound artists present their works and take the time to talk about what’s just been heard.

Presentations at OK

4:30 PM Welcome at OK Center
4:40 PM ::vtol:: oil by Dmitry Morozov (RU)
5 PM Chijikinkutsu by Nelo Akamatsu (JP)
5:20 PM UNDER WAY by Douglas Henderson (US)
5:40 PM Electromechanical Modular by Gijs Gieskes (NL)
6 PM Tipping Point by Kathy Hinde (GB)
6:20 PM Rawr! A Study in Sonic Skulls by Courtney Brown (US) and Sharif Razzaque (US)
6:40 PM Performance and Lecture Soft Revolvers by Myriam Bleau (CA)

Moderation and Parcours Guides: Werner Jauk (AT), Manuela Naveau (AT)

Music Monday program

10 AM-12 noon Lectures and Performances at POST CITY, Train Hall
12:30 noon- 4 PM Presentations Parcours at POST CITY
4:30 PM-7 PM Presentations at OK
8 PM-9 PM Presentation at Hauptplatz
]]> trains in A major/minor city https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/musicmondaymainsquare/ Wed, 19 Aug 2015 08:10:16 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=3476 Beautiful acoustic regards from the POST CITY appear on the main square – in sound loops and ambient sounds by artist Peter Karrer (AT).

]]> Music Monday – Lectures and Performances https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/musicmondaypostlectures/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:30:25 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=3424 A whole day full of music and sounds! Ars Electronica dedicates the last day of the Festival to sound installations. Lecture-performances offer deeper insights into the works of music and sound art that were presented over the last four days. Media artist/musicologist Werner Jauk (AT) opens the program with an introduction to PostCity sounds and post-sounds. In doing so, he scrutinizes soundscapes not only as natural phenomena but also as intentional compositions of event-spaces and thus considers the configuring relationships among movement, sound and space. Theory makes the transition into practice in the form of an extended sound parcours over the course of which musicians and sound artists present their works and take the time to talk about what’s just been heard.

Lectures und Performances at POST CITY, Train Hall

10 AM Performance Sense of Place by Enrique Tomas (ES)
10:20 AM Welcome and introduction
10:30 AM Performance self-luminous by Yen Tzu Chang (TW)
10:50 AM Lecture Post-City-Sounds & Post-Sounds by Werner Jauk (AT)
11:10 AM Q & A
11:30 AM Performance Zirka zweiundzwanzig Geräusche-die-man-macht-bevor-man-anfängt-zu-dichten by Bertl Mütter (AT)
11:50 AM Lecture and Performance Post City – An aural fiction by Wolfgang Dorninger (AT)

Music Monday program

10 AM-12 noon Lectures and Performances at POST CITY, Train Hall
12:30 noon- 4 PM Presentations Parcours at POST CITY
4:30 PM-7 PM Presentations at OK
8 PM-9 PM Presentation at Hauptplatz
]]> Music Monday – Presentations Parcours at POST CITY https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/musicmondaypostparcours/ Tue, 18 Aug 2015 08:20:45 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=3454 A whole day full of music and sounds! Ars Electronica dedicates the last day of the Festival to sound installations. Lecture-performances offer deeper insights into the works of music and sound art that were presented over the last four days. Media artist/musicologist Werner Jauk (AT) opens the program with an introduction to PostCity sounds and post-sounds. In doing so, he scrutinizes soundscapes not only as natural phenomena but also as intentional compositions of event-spaces and thus considers the configuring relationships among movement, sound and space. Theory makes the transition into practice in the form of an extended sound parcours over the course of which musicians and sound artists present their works and take the time to talk about what’s just been heard.

Presentations Parcours at POST CITY

12:30 noon Diaspora Maschine by Peter Androsch (AT) and Anatol Bogendorfer (AT)
12:50 noon Monoid aka My new speaker by Robert Pravda (SK)
1:10 PM iHome / personal home by Werner Jauk (AT)
1:30 PM Perpetuum Choir by Chris Ludwig (DE) and Hans-Christian Merten (AT)
2 PM Virtual Visuals by Sound City Lab (u19 – CREATE YOUR WORLD)
2:20 PM Pii by Nestor Lizalde (ES)
2:40 PM bell by Soichiro Mihara (JP)
3 PM Netz by Jens Vetter (DE)
3:20 PM LARD by Oliver Lehner (AT)

Moderation and Parcours Guides: Werner Jauk (AT), Manuela Naveau (AT)

Music Monday program

10 AM-12 noon Lectures and Performances at POST CITY, Train Hall
12:30 noon- 4 PM Presentations Parcours at POST CITY
4:30 PM-7 PM Presentations at OK
8 PM-9 PM Presentation at Hauptplatz
]]> Listening Post https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/listening-post/ Wed, 12 Aug 2015 10:18:11 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=3339 Ars Electronica and the LENTOS Art Museum have been jointly presenting contemporary media art for years now. The 2015 show is Listening Post by musicians/sound artists Robert Lippok (DE) and Wolfgang Fuchs (AT). Their works on display in LENTOS’ reading room (Lippok) and main staircase (Fuchs) deal with auditory perception. The experiential horizon extends from the cityscape into the museum.

Sonospheric Experience

The point of departure of Robert Lippok’s composition was The River Flows and All Is Well by his band To Rococo Rot. Pina Bausch used this piece for her dance production Vollmond. Inspired by this work, Lippok conceived 10 sound miniatures for the LENTOS. Wolfgang Fuchs engenders a novel sonospheric experience. Methods used to listen to music in isolation or in private—wearing headphones, for instance—are thwarted by turning the volume way up.

]]> Pianographique – a performance of selected piano etudes from Philip Glass https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/en/pianographique/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 14:58:41 +0000 https://ars.electronica.art/postcity/?p=4246 performed by Maki Namekawa, real-time visualization by Cori O’lan

The 20 piano etudes were begun in the mid 90s and new music was added to this collection until 2013. Philip Glass writes about them: ”Their purpose was two-fold. First, to provide new music for my solo piano concerts. And second, for me to expand mv piano technique with music that would enhance and challenge my playing. Hence, the name Etudes, or “studies.” The result is a body of work that has a broad range of dynamic and tempo. The second set of 10 Etudes (now referred to as Book 2) has turned out quite differently. Just as Etudes 1-10 (Book 1) took up the technical matters of piano playing, Book 2 is an extension of a musical journey undertaken in the last 10 years. The subsequent Etudes have been about the language of music itself—developing new strategies regarding rhythmic and harmonic movement. The last Etude (No. 20) was composed just after Godfrey Reggio’s latest film, Visitors, and follows closely its music.“

Maki Namekawa’s recent engagements include the Royal Concertgebouw Orkest Amsterdam, Munich Philharmonic, Munich Chamber Orchestra with the Ligeti Piano Concerto, Dresden Philharmonie, the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, and Bruckner Orchester Linz. Namekawa performed Hovhaness’s Lousadzak with Seattle Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies. In 2013 Namekawa performed the world premiere of the Complete Etudes for Piano by Philip Glass at the Perth International Arts Festi- val with Philip Glass. Together with Dennis Russell Davies, she has been collaborating with the Ars Electronica Festi- val for many years to realize a series of live performances for piano with real-time computer-generated visuals.

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