The Big Concert Night 2018

The Big Concert Night has become one of the festival’s fixed points and absolute highlights and simultaneously marks the beginning of the international Brucknerfest 2018. The spectacular Train Hall of POSTCITY with its powerful but harmonious acoustics has given the special encounter between symphony orchestra and digital music in recent years an additional and impressive uniqueness that challenges us to create special productions. The evening begins with a premiere, a cooperation of Josef Klammer and Jaap Blonk, which, in tune with the festival theme, creates a juxtaposition and coexistence of real and synthetic voices. Afterwards The Berlioz Project will be performed, the second major cooperation of Ars Electronica and Markus Poschner with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz. The third part will start with the Italian composer and musician Gabriele Marangoni and his acoustically prepared accordion, accompanied by visuals from Maja Smrekar, after which Electric Indigo and Elisabeth Schimana will perform. Both are part of this year’s Featured Artist Program dedicated to Elisabeth Schimana and her IMA (Institute of Media Archaeology). “The Vibrationeers,” a band of five electrically driven and computer-controlled vibratory tampers, will finally stir up the acoustics of the Train Hall and its industrial interior.