Free admission!
As every year, the Ars Electronica Opening will bring compelling and thought-provoking acts to the stages of POSTCITY. The night begins with the contorting and undulating πTon installation by Cod.Act. With his project Silent Italian artist Gabriele Marangoni will send visitors on a journey to the limits of perception. Chris Ziegler’s presentation Corpus focuses on the limits of visual perception. Interférences by Alexis Langevin- Tétrault, however, explores how gestural interaction can be converted into music with a unique device on the main stage. In the next performance – Field by Martin Messier – residual electric signals, imperceptible to eyes and ears, are picked up by electromagnetic transducer microphones and become the material of the work. Right after this, Marco Donnarumma and Margherita Pevere will show Azathot, a performance with an artificially intelligent prosthesis. Continuing the night are Chicks on Speed’s Alexandra Murray-Leslie, Anna Lebovic, Melissa E. Logan and Sam Ferguson feat. visualizations by Tina Frank, live composing on self-made electroacoustic objects. Kutin/Kohlberger’s audiovisual interplay of the ancient, resonating sound of a prepared hurdy-gurdy with sonified results of 21st-century machine learning algorithms together with Dino Spiluttini’s drones and ambient soundscapes send the visitors off to another musical dimension. The program will be rounded off by Welia who will play one of her fantastic DJ-sets in the courtyard.
| 8 PM – 8:20 PM | Silent, Gabriele Marangoni (IT)
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| 8:30 PM – 9 PM | Corpus, Chris Ziegler (DE)
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| 9:10 PM – 9:30 PM | Interferences, Alexis Langevin-Tétrault (CA)
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| 9:45 PM – 10:15 PM | Field, Martin Messier (CA)
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| 10:20 PM – 10:40 PM | Azathot, Marco Donnarumma & Margherita Pevere (DE)
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| 10:50 PM – 11:20 PM | Chicks On Speed (AU/ES/DE/US) + Tina Frank (AT)
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| 11:30 PM – 00:15 midnight | K&K Kutin / Kohlberger (AT)
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| 00:20 midnight – 1 AM | Dino Spiluttini (AT)
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Azathot (from the 7 Configurations)
Marco Donnarumma (DE/IT), Margherita Pevere (DE)
Violently entangled within the performance space are three elements: an artificially intelligent prosthesis, out-of-body organic wombs and a human body.
Chicks on Speed
Alexandra Murray-Leslie (AU/ES), Melissa E. Logan (DE/US)
Chicks on Speed began to make self-made post-digital musical instruments out of necessity in 2003.
CORPUS (2011/2017)
Chris Ziegler (DE)
CORPUS is a solo performance that uses digital, visual, sensory and material interactions to create a body of images and sounds.
FIELD
Martin Messier (CA)
With FIELD, Messier gives material form to this otherwise inaudible, invisible flow.
Interférences (String Network)
Alexis Langevin-Tétrault (CA)
Interférence (String Network) is a 20-minute audiovisual performance that explores the possibilities of embodying an electroacoustic work in real time through gestural interaction with a unique device.
πTon
Cod.Act (CH)
A long rubber tube, closed in a loop, is animated by contortions and undulations like an invertebrate body.
Silent
Gabriele Marangoni (IT)
Secret Theater Ensemble and Tempo Reale work together for a project where sound is conceived as a vibration to be experienced.
