Festival

Presentation of results of the Special Program

Expect the Unexpected: The Writing Game

coached by Bernhard Lang

 

with Luis Fernando Amaya Muñoz, Raphaël Belfiore, Carolina Cerezo Dávila, Max Gibson, Danilo Imson, Ron Katzman, Elena Perales Andreu, Inbar Sharet, Siebe Thijs, Elena Weinberg

 

 

Luis Fernando Amaya Imaginary Rooms (2023, world premiere)
Yehu Dar-Sha’ashua & Ron Katzman Panda (2023, world premiere)
Inbar Sharet Consensus (2023, world premiere)
Max Gibson round and around and a round (2023, world premiere)
Danny Imson Mapapalad (2023, world premiere)
Raphaël Belfiore THE NU MUSIC BINGO, IMPULS Edition (2023, world premiere)

Composition series such as DW Differenz/Wiederholung, Monadologie or more current also GAME are one characteristic for Bernhard Lang´s extensive artistic creation, researches and development. Starting with the SCAN-Project back in 2015, Lang together with Klangforum Wien tried to organize large-scale group improvisations based on his own existing compositions by formulating rule-sets for the improvisers. This led to the origin of "series six", the GAME pieces, in 2016: while exploring the meaning of both Game and Play, they consist of musical Game-situations like card-games, and are to be considered as self-oranizing-systems (S.O.S), like most improvisations hereby omitting the conductor. They furthermore consist but of individual parts plus rulesets for playing with these.

 

For the impuls Academy 2023 Bernhard Lang has developed a Special Program for composition Academy participants, to further explore the notions and concepts of gaming within the contexts of both improvisation and composing together. Starting with an initial lecture on gaming, the daily worksessions then explore the notion of gaming, inventing new games, new rules, perhaps formulating a new game-piece in the end, in a small collaborative group structure. A final presentation, be it of a newly developed collective game-piece or a more theoretical discussion on the topic and the process of the working sessions, now stands at the end of this collaboratory.