Besides daily Concerts and various other presentations (please check these festival offers day per day - dates to be found above) impuls also holds a daily program with

LECTURES, WORKSHOPS + DISCUSSIONS

Access for external listeners for most of these offers possible, but advance reservation necessary (unless marked as free admission)!

Please contact office(at)impuls(dot)cc.

In English unless indicated differently.

Updates to follow on a permanent basis ...

As first preview have a look below:

Piano Preparation Workshop for composers and instrumentalists
Workshop with Andreas Orasch

Andreas Orasch, piano maker and piano tuner not only at KUG, but also for pianists such as Markus Schirmer, will first give an intro to preparation methods and possibilities on the piano and then answer all your questions. Please bring along your own works that ask for preparation or also works by other composers with similar needs.

Open to impuls participants only. Please sign up in advance at the impuls office, office(at)impuls(dot)cc

Free improvisation - instant composing

Lecture by and discussion with Manon-Liu Winter and Frank Gratkowski

Meet the Composers

Adam McCartney | Carolyn Chen | Michalis Paraskakis | Diana Soh | Lorenzo Troiani

Enno Poppe moderation

Presentations and discussions with the composers of the impuls commissions after their premieres at the Opening Concert on February 10th.

free admission

Jour fix

Meeting for composers + instrumentalists

accompanied by Jorge Sánchez-Chiong

for impuls participants only

Enno Poppe Lecture

Title to be announced still

How to compose for Koto?

Demonstration of the instrument by Miyama McQueen-Tokita

for impuls participants only

Jour fix

Meeting for composers + instrumentalists

accompanied by Dmitri Kourliandski

for impuls participants only

Brass Themes

Lecture with Benny Sluchin and Bill Forman

Identity and Self-Branding. Self-presentation for artists

Workshop with Helge Hinteregger and Philip Röggla

Being an artist means not just selling the art but the artist behind it. Even avoiding the "show" can  evoke images beyond the purely musical. Stereotypes can interfere with the arts message. However by challenging the audiences expectations in a musical and a social way the arts message can be brought to a new level. This is not only a challenging task for the professional musician but for the private person behind the artist as well.

free admission | in English

impuls in cooperation with mica - music austria

Boon and Bane of Music Publishers

Discussion with Sarah Laila Standke (Universal Edition) | Pierluigi Billone (Composer) | Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka (Schallfeld Ensemble)

Antje Müller moderation

In 1962 Ernst Krenek wrote in his article „Verlegen, verlegt verlogen“ (a play on words with „verlegen“ - to publish and „verlogen“ - lying) about „a composer's experiences with his publishers“. Krenek’s own experiences were numerous, and his oeuvre is still scattered around about 20 different publishers in different countries. What are the composers’ expectations? And what are the publishers’ obligations and possibilities? Does a composer actually need a publisher? Publishers, composers and presenters will discuss these questions, which seem to be more up-to-date than ever.

free admission | in English

impuls in cooperation with the Ernst Krenek Forum Institute

Dmitri Kourliandski Lecture

Institute of perception

Jour fix

Meeting for composers + instrumentalists

accompanied by Mark Andre

for impuls participants only

Symposium Film + Music

10.00 Julia Heimerdinger on New Music in Film

11.00 Holly Rogers on Music/Sound in Experimental Film and other Medias

12.00 Peter Tscherkassky on his films

15.00 Dirk Schaefer on Sounddesign and his Soundtracks to Tscherkassky´s films

16.00 Johannes Kalitzke on his compositions to Silent Films

17.00 Jorge Sánchez-Chiong on Sound and Composition in Film/Video/Visuals Arts

Discussion with Wolfgang Mitterer | Holly Rogers | Jorge Sánchez-Chiong | Dirk Schaefer | Peter Tscherkassky

Julia Heimerdinger moderation

This symposium is the starting point of an extensive EU-project, which was initiated by impuls within the frame of the Ulysses-Network. The young, but already internationally succeeding composers Mirela Ivičević and Julien Malaussena (impuls), Javier Elipe Gimeno and Ariadna Alsina (IRCAM), Boris Bezemer and Mikołaj Laskowski (Gaudeamus) as well as Clara Iannotta and Simon Løffler (IMD) are commissioned by impuls and its partners to develop new compositions to the experimental films of the Austrian filmmaker Peter Tscherkassky – in specific for his internationally praised CinemaScope Trilogy, for which he also received multiple awards – within the next one to two years. impuls 2017 provides the starting point for the project, and interconnects the composers not only with the filmmaker, but also members of Ensemble Nikel as future interpreters as well as coaches such as Wolfgang Mitterer and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong to accompany the process of creation. And of course impuls is looking forward to the project's realization in Graz in 2019.

free admission | in English

Advance reservation for external listeners necessary nevertheless!

Please contact office(at)impuls(dot)cc.

Co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

On Double Bass

Workshop with Uli Fussenegger

This workshop will give valuable insight information on writing for double bass alongside demonstrations.

Pierluigi Billone Lecture/Demonstration

Solo instruments in my work – the Sgorgo triptych for e-guitar

Yaron Deutsch e-guitar

Collaboratory

Presentation of and discussion about this Special Program and its implications

with Stefan Prins and Collaboratory Participants

Mark Andre Lecture
Compositional approaches to vanishing interstices as a transcendental experience

Rebecca Saunders Lecture

Fury

Benny Sluchin Lecture

Iannis Xenakis: Linaia agon

free admission

New playing techniques on the organ

Lecture and Demonstration by Klaus Lang

for impuls participants only

Jour fix

Meeting for composers + instrumentalists

accompanied by Jorge Sánchez-Chiong

for impuls participants only

Agostino Di Scipio Lecture

Composing the performance ecosystem

Workshoppresentation Clex Contrabass Clarinet

with Ernesto Molinari

Stefan Prins Lecture

On Hybrid Bodies in Hybrid Spaces