POWER-SPACE

New Music creates a field of highly diverse forces. Spiral-shaped, it expands our perceptions and perspective. It allows our sense of space to unfold and release hitherto undreamt-of dynamics. It holds a mirror up to the entertainment-circus, seeks out uncharted realms and ventures into forbidding terrain, before floating away as if it had never existed. Can its inherent powers have some kind of an effect before they dissolve? Can they alter things – perhaps even for the better?

With music by Georg Friedrich Haas, Alberto Posadas, Iannis Xenakis, Sarah Nemtsov, Unsuk Chin, Ragnhild Berstad, Clara Iannotta, Dorian Concept, Bernhard Gander et. al.

Detail © Denise Schellmann, Collision VII, 2019
Detail © Denise Schellmann, Collision VII, 2019
Detail © Denise Schellmann, Collision VII, 2019
Detail © Denise Schellmann, Collision VII, 2019

        
30 September 2019
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall Power-Space Spirals
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To listen in a sphere without boundaries, to feel one’s way towards the depths of what was seemingly submerged or to intuit what is inaudible up there in the firmament – to in a space of sounds.

Georg Friedrich Haas — in vain

conductor: Sylvain Cambreling



Before the concert:
In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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25 October 2019
6.30 p.m.
Vienna, Theater an der Wien, Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste, Gartenbaukino, Wiener Konzerthaus Power-Space / Additional Concert* Happiness Machine. 24 Hours of Bliss with the Klangforum Wien UA
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Our current economic system is subject to review and with it the question: how happy are we under its influence?

In a 24 hour performance comprised of music, theatre and dance, animated and documentary films, Klangforum Wien raises the question: How do we want to live?

Theater an der Wien, October 25, 2019, 6.30 pm

Matthias Meinharter — Tiki Tiki Men
Elizabeth Hobbs/Carola Bauckholt — The Flounder
Sven Hartberger
Rebecca Blöcher/Eva Reiter — Lickalike
Gerald Preinfalk
Eni Brandner/Misato Mochizuki — PANTOPOS
Vera Fischer
Joanna Kożuch/Ying Wang — Music Box
Andreea Dosa
Samantha Moore/Malin Bång — Bloomers
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Vera Fischer
Vessela Dantcheva/Electric Indigo — Hierarchy Glitch
Christoph Walder
Ana Nedeljković/Hanna Hartman — The Happiness Machine
Andreas Eberle
Susi Jirkuff/Joanna Bailie — Measuring the Distance
Mikael Rudolfsson
Andrea Schneider/Marianthi Papalexandri-Alexandri — Generator/ Operator
Anders Nyqvist
Michelle Kranot/Iris ter Schiphorst — Suggestion of Least Resistance


Staging: Jacqueline Kornmüller
Dramaturgy: Peter Wolf
Musical direction: Konstantia Gourzi
Musical dramaturgy: Uli Fussenegger, Krassimir Sterev
Sound design: Peter Böhm & Markus Urban
Film projection: Martin Repka

Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien Prospekthof, October 25, 2019, 10.30 pm

Cornelius Cardew — The Great Learning
Chorus sine nomine/Johannes Hiemetsberger

Christian Felber — 2030
Performance: Peter Wolf

Dinner

Atelierhaus der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, October 26, 2019, 00.00 am

ludum stellae
Karlheinz Stockhausen — Zodiac Music Boxes / 12 melodies of the star signs (arranged by Mike Svoboda) for 2 Dancers
Dancers: Manaho Shimokava and Pavel Dudus

Morton Feldman — For Philip Guston
Acousmatic Music
James Tenney — Having Never Written a Note for Percussion

Gartenbaukino, October 26, 2019, 9.00 am (breakfast from 8.00 a.m.)

Ana Nedeljković/Hanna Hartman — The Happiness Machine
Michael Enger — Coffee to go. With the Taste of Eviction

Following a conversation with Melanie Ossberger, FIAN Österreich

Wiener Konzerthaus, Foyer, October 26, 2019, 11 am

Combo II World premiere

Wiener Konzerthaus, Berio-Saal, 26. Oktober 2019

Markus Sepperer — Beriotopia

Chess!

Wiener Konzerthaus, Schubert-Hall, October 26, 2019, 12 am

Diatribe. Part I
Jutta Hieronymus — A Good Life for Everyone
Peter Rosner — The Big Mistake

Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Hall, October 26, 2019, 1.30 am

Georges Aperghis — Situations

Conductor: Emilio Pomàrico

Wiener Konzerthaus, Schubert-Hall, October 26, 2019, 3 pm

Diatribe. Part II
Fred Luks — Of Knowledge and of Mine
Sven Hartberger — Science or Counter-Enlightenment?

Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart-Hall, October 26, 2019, 4.30 pm

Ludwig van Beethoven — Diabelli-Variationen op. 120
Hans Zender — 33 Veränderungen über 33 Veränderungen

Conductor: Emilio Pomàrico
Joonas Ahonen, piano

8 November 2019
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Great Hall Power-Space Yardsticks EA
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From a large store of memories, in cupboards and drawers, all the way to the smallest miniature. The large contained in the small; the small contained in the large. Here, sound releases a new poetics of spatial perception.

Alberto Posadas — Poética del espacio Austrian premiere

Gerald Preinfalk, saxophone
Christoph Walder, horn
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
Mikael Rudolfsson, trombone
conductor: Sylvain Cambreling

In cooperation with Wien Modern.

Before the concert:
In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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12 December 2019
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall Power-Space Primal Forces
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Twenty intervals that bring silence to a red-hot glow. Rugged sounds, coming from a tape, wash around the massive architecture of instrumental sounds, culminating in heavy and abstract sound eruptions.

Iannis Xenakis — Kraanerg

conductor: Bas Wiegers
Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design



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In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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16 January 2020
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall Power-Space Show Booths
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Centrifugal forces hurl the listeners past laboratories of self-destruction, towards the chasms of circus-like hallucinations, staring the hideous countenance of a fatalistic and absurd tragic fate in the face.

Steven Kazuo Takasugi— Sideshow

Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design



Before the concert:
In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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10 February 2020
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall Power-Space Who is in the Room? UA UA
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This deals with presence and absence, and the spaces that are created between the two. Does the piano play itself?

Francesca Verunelli — Woman sitting at the piano I
   — Piano (without the woman) sitting
   — Woman sitting at the piano III world premiere
Sarah Nemtsov — White wide eyes
    — Moos world premiere


Vera Fischer, flute, bass flute
Player Piano
Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design
conductor: Lars Mlekusch


Our special thanks go to Mag.a Sabine Grubmüller und Vladimir Bulzan from Bösendorfer Klavierfabrik as well as to Univ.Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Essl from the Insititute for Composition, Electroacoustics and Sound Engineering of the University of Vienna, Musicology and Performing Arts.
The development of this project would not have been possible to this extent without their vigorous dedication and dynamic support.



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In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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12 March 2020
7.30 p.m.
Vienna, Wiener Konzerthaus, Mozart Hall Power-Space Space Made of Glass — CANCELLED UA
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Crystalline sounds emanate from the prepared piano and luminous glass instruments sparkle in the light.

Mirela Ivicevic — Case White
Unsuk Chin — Doppelkonzert
Clara Iannotta — a stir among the stars, a making way world premiere

Florian Müller, piano
Alex Lipowski, percussion
Peter Böhm & Florian Bogner, sound design
conductor: Emilio Pomàrico

The composer on her work:
Mirela Ivičević — Case White

Before the concert:
In the Ears of the Others or: how musicians listen to this, 6.30 p.m.

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