Daily lectures, discussions, presentations ... 

by/with Peter Ablinger, Georges Aperghis, Pierluigi Billone, Chaya Czernowin, Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter, Frank Gratkowski, Georg Friedrich Haas, Peter Plessas, Rebecca Saunders, Manon-Liu Winter a. o.

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Live Electronics

Introduction to the Program "Frequently Unasked Questions"

Composing and Interpreting Live Electronics: Challenges and Strategies revised

with Peter Plessas

First Meeting and Presentation of the improvisation programs 

with Manon-Liu Winter and Frank Gratkowski

HÖREN VERSTEHEN KOMPONIEREN

Listening Comprehending Composing

Lecture by Clemens Gadenstätter

On the track of me learning what „understanding“ could mean in the process of listening (mainly music, but maybe in nuce all kinds of conscious oral perception) the ideas and results of this creative and artistic research are transfered into compositional stragtegies and technics. This way of defining composition also insists on the idea that only the transition and working on the groundings of sound, perception and meanings of what we percieve could lead to a way of listening which seems to me to be the one that should be focused by music: Listening as the consciouness of listening to something, and the listening has an effect on the body and the consciouness itself that changes the way of listening. This paradox-like loop can be transfered into a specific form of experience in and through composition that takes it jumping-off point directly inside the conditions of human listening, percieving and understanding of this perceptions as a state consciousness in transition.

Ernest Rombout: Extended Techniques in Modern Oboe Literature

Lecture + short Workshop

with special recommendation for composers and oboists

Free improvisation - instant composing

Lecture by and discussion with

Manon-Liu Winter and Frank Gratkowski

The Cold War as Ideological Weapon for Anti-Modernists: Historiography and the Musical Avant-Garde

Lecture by Ian Pace

In the last decades a variety of musicologists and historians have drawn upon the paradigm of the cold war to provide a historical explanation for the emergence and growth of the western musical avant-garde. By this paradigm, the Western avant-garde is portrayed in a primarily reactive manner, with musical abstraction and atonality viewed as a direct negation of soviet bloc socialist realism, especially following the Zhdanov decree of 1948. Drawing upon a wide range of archival and other research, Ian Pace challenges many of the foundations and precepts of this argument, and himself argues that this paradigm is little more than a reheated and historically questionable version of antimodernist conservatism.

Composition beyond Music

Presentation of and discussion about this Special Program and its implications

With Peter Ablinger and the participants

For presentations of the final results on February 15th and 19th please click here

Gerald Preinfalk: Presentation of Tubax

tools at work / websites – social platforms

Lecture by Doris Brady and Helge Hinteregger (mica)

for further infos please click here

Continent Modernity – Lust of Discovery

A survey of New Music throughout the world

Lecture by Peter Oswald

New music has entered a phase of radical complexity and incalculability. Styles, as we know them from the times of serialism, minimal music or spectral music, do not exist any longer. Thus a survey, a scenario of uncompromising and free temperaments: From the great composers of Germany, such as Lachenmann, Rihm or Nicolaus A. Huber, Switzerland (Furrer, Jarrell, Kyburz) and other international masters, such as Manoury, Francesconi, Mundry, Sciarrino to componsers like Unsuk Chin and the Spanish scene with personalities such as Sotelo, Sánchez-Verdú, Parra or Lascano ... Not to forget Elena Mendoza, Johannes Maria Staud, Bernhard Gander, Heiner Goebbels, Bernhard Lang, Wolfgang Mitterer, Pierre Jodlowski, Yann Robin ...

Lecture by Chaya Czernowin

Diego Castro performs Clemens Gadenstätter

3 out of "4 Szenen nach Francisco de Goya" for speaking-guitarist

n.1: "Tal para Qual" (2003)

n.2: "hilan delgado" (2005)

n.3: "porque fue sensible" (2005)

Discussion with the composer after the performance

How to get attention?

The presence of contemporary music in the media

Discussion with Reinhard Kager (ARD correspondent), Andreas Kolb (Neue Musikzeitung), Nina Polaschegg (music journalist, musician), Michael Rebhahn (music journalist) a.o.

Eva-Maria Stöckler (Donau-Universität Krems), moderation

Krenek did not only try to give new music an adequate status in professional journals like "Musikzeitschrift 23" or "Im Anbruch", published by Universal Edition, but also started heavy discussions in daily newspapers like Frankfurter and Wiener Zeitung about the qualification of contemporary music.

How can the presence of contemporary music in the media be supported? How can the topics by the editorial staff, who mostly drop brand new music, be justified? Journalists from Austria and abroad, from print media and radio, discuss the reasons, why contemporary music gets so little attention in the media.

impuls in cooperation with Ernst Krenek Forum

I am not a spectral composer

Lecture by Georg Friedrich Haas

Discussion Beat Furrer with Uli Fussenegger

Lecture by Chaya Czernowin

Lecture by Peter Ablinger

Uli Fussenegger + Ernesto Molinari

Work in Progress

Miniatures for Contrabass Clarinet and Double Bass

Reading Session + Discussion with Composers of this program

Eric Skytterholm Egan

Michelle Agnes Magalhaes

Chikako Morishita

Matej Bonin

Lorenzo Troiani

Georgia Koumara

Composers, musicians...: everyone welcome!

Georges Aperghis: Luna Park

Presentation of Luna Park and discussion of Georges Aperghis with Beat Furrer, Eva Furrer and Uli Fussenegger

Introduction and performance of Pierluigi Billone´s

UTU AN.KI LU (1996) for double bass

with Pierluigi Billone and Caleb Salgado, double bass

Meet the Composer Simon Steen-Andersen:

Introduction to "On And Off And To And Fro" (performance 20.2., 19.30) and thoughts on multimedial composition ...