Noche de Werner
Freitag, 1. November 2024 · 18:00 Uhr
Seit vielen Jahren veranstaltet der Verein Institut 5haus in Zusammenarbeit mit dem echoraum die „Noche de los Muertos“. Diese Veranstaltung ist von der mexikanischen Tradition inspiriert, unsere verstorbenen Freund:innen einzuladen, um mit uns das Leben, den Tod und den Übergang zwischen beiden zu feiern. Zu unserer „Noche de los Muertos“ gehört natürlich auch ein Altar und die experimentellsten und eklektischsten Musiken und Klänge.
Letztes Jahr nahmen wir traurig Abschied von Werner Korn, dem langjährigen Leiter des echoraum, der im Juli 2023 verstarb. Am 1.November 2023 veranstaltete der echoraum ein Konzert, um ihn und seine bemerkenswerte und wunderschöne Präsenz in dieser Welt zu ehren. Nach diesem bewegenden Konzertmarathon entstand der gemeinsame Wunsch, Werners Andenken jährlich zu zelebrieren. So wird aus der „Noche de los Muertos“-Reihe, die Werner sehr liebte, nun die „Noche de Werner“.
Die Intention der Veranstaltung bleibt weiterhin experimentelle Musik und Klanglandschaften neben einem Altar zu präsentieren. Menschen, die Werner kannten, aber nicht nur, sind da, spielen und hören, in der Hoffnung, dass Werner und andere geschätzte Seelen sich uns im Geiste anschließen, zuhören, flüstern, trinken und teilhaben. (Angélica Castelló)
Samo Kutin & Pascal Battus
Two wheels, one manual, the other electric, raise, carry and transform everything they find on their path. Two potters who make jugs that first contain their own listening. Whirling sounds from accidental mastery aiming at atmospherical architecture or silence.
Samo Kutin is an active multi-instrumentalist, known for his use of unconventional and self- made musical instruments and sound-making objects. One of the traditional instruments in his repertoire is also the Hungarian medieval string instrument hurdy-gurdy, which he can be often seen playing at the events of experimental and improvised music. In the field of free improvisation, he is intensively devoted to finding, discovering, and manipulating the various potentialities of the hurdy-gurdy. The extreme acoustic dimensions, from gentle noise to noisy drones, from soft blows to unbearable whimpers, he reaches through the preparation and amplification of the musical instrument, using both contact microphones and acoustic resonators. He performs as a soloist and in a variety of improvised combinations (among others, a duo with Jean-Luc Guionnet, Lee Paterson, Martin Küchen, etc.) and ethnic ensembles at international festivals and various stages. He also creates music for fairy tales, animations, theater, puppet, and dance performances and runs workshops for children.
Sound artist, improviser, and composer, Pascal Battus have developed a practice that is more concerned with sonic gestures, listening, and the situation which determines them rather than with any particular instrument. Among other sound sources, he uses guitar pick-ups and rotating surfaces. He has played throughout Europe and in the USA, Canada, Asia, the Middle East, and Australia… both solo and more frequently with other musicians. He often works with dancers and with performers from the plastic arts (video, lighting, sculpture…) and was co-inventor of Sonic Massages. In this duo Pascal plays with rotating surface (with various material (stirofoam, cymbals…) that provides him a huge timbral variety which fits well with the orchestral space of the hurdy gurdy of Samo.
Lucie Vítková / Luc Vitk: Moonwalker (2024)
Moonwalker is a new piece for one cyborg performer, moving and sounding, using mirror masks and lights, accompanied by feedback, balloon, voice, and synthesizer. The movement is determined by both the light reflection in the space and by the sound. The piece comes from an environment and reflects the relationships between all included media, participants, and architecture.
Lucie Vítková/Luc Vitk is a composer, improviser and performer (accordion, drums, hichiriki, synthesizer, harmonica, voice and dance) from the Czech Republic, living in New York. Their compositions focus on sonification while in their improvisation practice Luc/ie works with characteristics of discrete spaces through the interaction between sound and movement. In Luc/ie’s recent work, they are interested in the social-political aspects of music in relation to everyday life and in reusing materials to build sonic costumes.
www.vitkovalucie.com
Composers Now presents IMPACT: Lucie Vítková/Luc Vitk (youtube.com)
The Low Frequency Orchestra was formed in Vienna by Angélica Castelló (recorders, devices), Thomas Grill (digital sounds), Maja Osojnik (recorders, voice, electronics) and Matija Schellander (double bass) who form the core of the ensemble. They have been joined by semi-permanent members Mathias Koch (drums) and Herwig Neugebauer (double bass) and have performed with guests including Martin Siewert (e-guitar, electronics), George Cremaschi (double bass), Susanna Gartmayer (bass clarinet), Bernhard Breuer (drums) and Michaela Grill (video). Sound design of all shows is supervised by Alfred Reiter. The ensemble has played many shows of free non-idiomatic improvised music under the title „CUT“ – the only rule being that the music should have the structural quality of compositions with an emphasis on rapidly changing sections. The CD „S“ is a documentation of this concept. It has been recorded in a series of four live-recording sessions at the Echoraum Vienna in 2006 and released by Einklang Records in 2008.
In 2006 the Low Frequency Orchestra also collaborated with the media artist Martin Pichlmair to create an interpretation of artist Robert Lettner’s graphic scores „Das Spiel vom Kommen und Gehen“ („The Coming and Going Show“). The scores consist of carefully arranged colored strips that have emerged as a byproduct of one of Robert Lettners works of art in 1982. The piece has been released by the University of Applied Arts Vienna in a hand numbered limited edition DVD with an extensive booklet and triple-channel video in 2011.
A collaboration with Wolfgang Mitterer playing organ started in 2007 with a live recording at the Radiokulturhaus Vienna. This recording served as a framework for the eponymous main piece of the CD „Mole“ (chmafu nocords, 2010). During several rounds at the recording studio the different parts were examined, distilled, equilibrated and, through overdubbing, enriched with new instrumental sound material. Emulating scalpel and stethoscope, the musical structures were investigated, acoustic layers revealed and new perspectives developed. In this way, bit by bit, a newly shaped sculpture emerged. The main piece is introduced by five electro-acoustic miniatures, designed by five different members of the Low Frequency Orchestra. These are meant to clarify the individual approaches of the instrumentalists and, as an exposition, emphasize significant facets of the various voices weaved into the ensemble sound that follows.
In 2011 the Low Frequency Orchestra was featured on an upcoming CD with compositions by Maja Osojnik, named „Songs from Mortagapenija“. For recordings of this project the ensemble had been joined by Maria Gstättner on bassoon, Michael Bruckner- Weinhuber on guitar and Burkhard Stangl on guitar and vibraphone.
guests: Christian Reiner, Daniel Lercher, Sara Zlanabitnig
eine Koproduktion mit Institut 5haus