As our bodies can only inhabit one actual world at a time, we tend to become ignorant to the uncountable, the many possible worlds, the multiple dimensions that surround us - that we are embedded in and that live within each individual, that are created by collectives, communities, societies, species. Speculation, imagination, myth-making, fantasy, memory, dreams, and fiction - the virtual sides of reality - offer ways to alternate and altered states of consciousness and perception. Fiction is just a differently perceived form of reality, and it plays a crucial role in shaping it. To enter passages, portals that lead from one time and place to another, on a private, collective, or even cosmic scope. 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Together we want to speculate on and hope for better futures for all of us. Virtual, imaginary, emerging, and tangible worlds cling and speak to each other, and challenge what we know as our 'only realities'. On the thin membrane that lets us tilt from one sphere to the other, beats are dancing to syncopated rhythms, built from ancestral dreams and the hopes of great-grandchildren. Almost 80 international and local artists and 30 speakers can be experienced in a total of nine days, on seven stages across the city. The festival, which was founded by composer Matthias Kranebitter and has been under the artistic direction of Shilla Strelka sinceis centred around challenging music from a variety of different genres, including experimental electronic and advanced contemporary club sounds, or acoustic, as well as electroacoustic music. It puts sounds to the fore that exist outside the mainstream. 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Both acts are embedding cultural artefacts and traditional styles of their respective regions and beyond in their contemporary club sound. Composition »Utilt Mono« "»Utilt Mono« was composed for the 10th anniversary of the Black Page Orchestra, an ensemble I have a deep connection with and have been member of since day one. The Black Page Orchestra expressed a rich variety of musical aesthetics and styles in its first decades and is committed to keep on with this tradition in the future. My work tries to reflect that committment with a fluid and rather eclectic array of musical ideas. The piece puts together a series of contrasting and constantly moving musical gestures and blends together the acoustical instruments and the electronics in a schizophrenic fashion. All this musical gestures, touching various genres, create a sound haywire - a musical tilt. As a composer, flautist and electroacoustic performer, Alessandro is active internationally in the field of contemporary music and sound art. Alessandro is also serial entrepreneur, inventor and product designer. He developed various electro-acoustical instruments, digital control and mapping systems, sound libraries, as well as sound and ergonomic solutions for acoustic instruments. Alessandro holds lectures and workshops in various universities across the world. He pursued studies in composition, flute, sound engineering Gay Dürr Niger Fuck well as multimedia art in Milan, Vienna and Graz. Alessandro is a Luzern Festival Academy Alumnus, fellow of Akademie Musiktheater heute by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung and Fellow of the Bogliasco Foundation His work has been rewarded with prestigious awards, such as the Staats-Stipendium of the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sportthe Publicity Award of the SKE Cultural Sponsorshipthe Theodor Körner Prize and the ERSTE Bank Composition Award Alessandro is founding member of The Black Page Orchestra, as well as co-founder of the composer-performer duo Nimikry. His recent compositions include commissions for Lucerne Festival, Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Wien, Staatsoper Stuttgart and Ensemble Phace. Composition »Talk in Whispers« An attempt at illustrating, musically, the little fights that occur when a couple is caring for a baby for the first time. The soft arguments that escalate from whispers to little outbursts and then soften back again, juggling moments that feel claustrophobic, euphoric, confused, and calm, almost all at once. Drawing from his classical background and his experience performing in rock and pop bands in Caracas, he perceives music as a unified entity, where boundaries blur and insights gained from one genre inform his approach to seemingly unrelated musical settings. Alfredo is highly sought after as a soloist and chamber musician. He has played concerts with orchestras such as the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Polish Baltic Philharmonic in Gdansk, Poland, and the National Symphony Orchestra of the Dominican Republic, among others. He has also performed at prestigious music festivals in Europe, including Wien Modern, Transart Festival in Bolzano, and the Warsaw Autumn Festival. DJ-set Antonia XM is a DJ, producer, vocalist, theatre music composer and Gay Dürr Niger Fuck curator based in Vienna, Austria.
The people I photograph first. The year marks the th birthday of Pier Paolo Pasolini and the 80th birthday of Derek Jarman, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder died 40 years ago. From Archaeoacoustics to Sonic Cyberfeminisms Lecture In this talk Annie Goh traces the figure of echo as a material-semiotic figuration from archaeoacoustics and sonic knowledge production and explore it within the ongoing Sonic Cyberfeminisms project with Dr Marie Thompson, since Besides that, we were also organizing music jam sessions in the beautiful backyard of the university. We have organized as a network of autonomous actors — and it is due to our anonymity, plurality of tactics and decentralized structure that we have succeeded. They place the dancing body in different architectural and urban contexts in order to visualise the genius loci through it.
