No less impressive is cellF, Guy Ben-Ary’s neuronal synthesizer that enables musicians to perform with neurons. From New Zealand we have Singularity, skillfully blending data, dance, music and architecture into a spectacular show for this year’s Ars Electronica Opening. On the main stage an interactive sound performance entitled Breaking the Wall, under the direction of Oliver Hödl and Peter Purgathofer, invites attendees to get actively involved with state-of-the-art technology and some cutting-edge artists. L’Etude, a project by Vibert Thio and Duanger Du, compiles a live set from melodies specially created via app by former victims of the “Formosa Fun Coast – Explosion.” Then, while still reeling from these unconventional sounds, the audience will be transported into unprecedented terpsichorean realms by _nybble_ from Paris and Kyoka from the Raster-Noton label. Finally, patten, a Warp Records live act will conclude the night.

7:30 PM / Mariendom
First performance of the Taiwanese dance performance L’Enfant (Derjk Wu)

7:30 PM / POSTCITY
The sound artists Ei Wada (JP), Megumi Takei (JP), Rinichi Washimi (JP) and Keisuke Tanaka (JP) present the Sempookin Quartette (Electric Fan Quartette), an electronic musical instrument of the Electronicos Fantasticos! project.

8 PM / POSTCITY (Upper Level)
Entropy

8 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
cellF

8:30 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
Breaking the Wall

9 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
Étude

9:35 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
_nybble_

10:20 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
Kyoka (JP)

11:20 PM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
SINØ (PT)

12:05 AM / POSTCITY (Train Hall)
patten, Wrap Records (UK)

POSTCITY Nightline

* Due to illness of the artist Throwing Shade (Ninja Tune, UK) we have slightly modified the timetable. We ask for your understanding!

POSTCITY Salon Stage hosted by Salon 2000

Getting the party started is Kœnig, the drum and vocals soloist who garnered fame in the Austrian neo-Dada project königleopold, with its intoxicating performance just skirting the edge of insanity. Battle-ax, a native of Australia who has made a home for herself in Vienna, opens the Main Stage with a loud, droning sound performance whipped up with viola and electronics. Spectro Duo’s live multimedia performance segues into the world of microsounds. Students in Linz Art University’s Interface Cultures master’s program once again confront various contexts of media art.

Kœnig
Photo: Paul Gärtner

Dorian Concept
Photo: Philippe Levy

Next up is Nabihah Iqbal aka Throwing Shade (Ninja Tune), who will perform her eclectic mixture of contemporary electronic music, pop and Internet aesthetic. Her local Ninja Tune colleague, Dorian Concept, then steps up to do a melodic, beat-heavy set featuring material from his soon-to-be-released album. He will be followed by Darkstar, Englishmen known for their energetic live performances and an inimitable mix of techno sounds, minimalism, grime and left-field pop. Lorenzo Senni, who got his start as a drummer but whose latest album on the Warp label is 100 percent percussion-free, concludes these proceedings on the Main Stage with melodic, driving trance set-pieces.

Lorenzo Senni

Throwing Shade
Photo: Miya Shen

The night owls among us will be happy to learn that, parallel to the Main Stage lineup, the Salon Stage will feature local Linzer live acts working in the experimental electronic music genre beginning at 11 p.m. At 1:30 a.m., legendary Dutch DJ Marcelle / Another Nice Mess serves up one of her fabled obscure-sample-studded sets—just the stuff for people who need to keep on dancing.

Participants can do Q&A with pros and get an up-close-and-personal look at a mobile radio studio

Here, you can be the director, operate the camera, or simply hang around and see how a documentary takes shape. Questions are welcome!

This open and interactive workshop invites creative minds of all ages to enter a collaborative universe of animated light paintings. Send out a message to the world, design characters and sceneries or tell improvised stories! Together we will bring your visions to life directly before the eyes of the festival audience.

On THU September 7, 2017, 6 PM, the developer invite you to their launch event of Tagtool at CENTRAL Linz. Read more here…

According to this year’s focus on A.I. at Ars Electronica Festival, the FM4 Spielekammerl-Show will mostly play sci-fi games from different genres as well as titles from young developers coming out of the Prix Ars Electronica u19 competition. Also, the FM4 team will get their hands on “Minecraft” every day and would like to see people joining in and giving tips and hints. Come to FM4 Spielekammerl and play!

OUCHHH collaboration AudioFil, Kıvanç Tatar and Philippe Pasquier for an audio-visual performance with artificial intelligence. We will turn our real-time onstage performance into a human and machine collaboration by adding MASOM (an Artificial Intelligence system making music) to the new version of iOTA. MASOM is developed by Kıvanç Tatar and Philippe Pasquier. For this piece, MASOM will be trained on the previous compositions of Mehmet Ünal from AudioFIL.

In mathematics iOTA (i) denotes an imaginary unit or number; it can be used for the inclusion map of one space into another. Light is the single element which can be perceived by the eye. iOTA is an LED installation inspired by light physics and research into the origins of geometry. Corresponding to the focus of the observer, the nature of light and its different phenomena can be seen beyond the perceptivity of the human mind, and attempts to translate them into a unified, non-spatial form.

iOTA was presented on the 126 m² LED screen at Zorlu Performing Arts Center. The installation was part of Sonar +D showcase at Sonar Istanbul Festival 2017 and Digi.logue.

Credits

Producer: Ouchhh Studio
New media artists and directors: Ferdi Alıcı, Eylul Duranagac (OUCHHH)
Creative coder and AI artists: Kıvanç Tatar and Philippe Pasquier (MASOM)
Sound design and music: Mehmet Ünal from AudioFIL