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SUMMER-CONZERT
// students of the certificate in electroacoustic and experimental music (ELAK)

@Zacherlfabrik
(29.06., from 6 pm)


Compositions for loudspeakers, live acts, fixed media, installations and improvisations, using various techniques, algorithms, innovative instruments and sound objects.


Zacherlfabrik
Nusswaldgasse 14, 1190 Wien

18h // Installations Tour
19h // Concert

IN MEDIAS RES
// study concert media composition: students of Jorge SÁNCHEZ-CHIONG

@Future Art Lab
(22.06., 16-23h30)


The composers perform at the Future Art Lab. There will be concerts in the Klangtheater, installations and live performances with - among others - Tina Frank's MA Visual Communications class from University of Arts Linz. A detailed schedule will follow soon.

works by:
Afamia AL-DAYAA, Dominik FÖRTSCH, Masao ONO, Jumi LEE, Yongjin LEE, Doina-Cezara PROCOPCIUC

study concert: film music
// study concert media composition: students of Walter WERZOWA

@Arthousekino
(22.06., 18h)

(c)JV-midjourney

MUSIK FÜR DIE AUGEN
// study concert media composition: students of Judit VARGA

@Klangtheater
(20.06., 19h30)

works by:
Carmel CURIEL, Tertio DRUML, Oskar GIGELE, Noëmi HAFFNER, David MARESCH, Ti-An SAN, Yeison BUITRAGO VARGAS

with the ARGO KOLLEKTIV

Sound<Space<Wearables
// exhibition

@Vortragssaal
(19.+20.06., 18h30 / 10h)

(c) Efilena Baseta

The exhibition presents the results of the course “Artistic Project K”, a cooperation between the Vienna University of Technology and the mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Multidisciplinary teaching methods, borrowed from artistic research, were brought together in the process of developing and producing playful wearables dedicated to the theme of restoring the connection between the human body and its environment.

Critical Improvisation Studies
// guest lecture Ivar Roban Križić

@Vortragssaal
(10.06., 10h)

The field of critical improvisation studies seeks to examine improvisation's effects, interrogate its discourses, interpret narratives and histories related to it, discover implications of those narratives and histories, and uncover its ideologies. In this lecture, we will take a look at the development of this field through its literary output–from edited volumes and handbooks, through philosophical, cognitive, computer music and gender studies perspectives, all the way to historical curiosities.

BLURRED BOUNDARIES
// study concert electroacoustic composition: students of Karlheinz ESSL

@Klangtheater
(07.06., 18h)

(c)Tom Aitken
works by:
Tom AITKEN, Yilin YANG, Seo Yoon JANG, Yuheng CHEN

study concert: piano
// students of Christos MARANTOS 

@Franz Liszt-Saal
(05.06., 19h)

© Daniel Willinger

study concert: composition
// students of Clara IANNOTTA & Periklis LIAKAKIS

@Fanny-Hensel-Saal
(31.05., 19h30)

(c)JV-midjourney

works by:
Frederik ABEL, Claudia CAÑAMERO BALLESTAR,  Yuheng CHEN, David HECHER, Vlada LYSENKO,  Sophie WALLNER

study concert: composition
// students of Martin LICHTFUSS & Gerald RESCH

@Konzertsaal
(28.05., 19h)

(c)JV-midjourney

works by:
Marisa ALGARI, Eunsoo HUR, Soojin JEON, Hao LIN, Sofiia LOZINA, Micha FAZELI POUR, Michael Johannes RICHTER, Oliver USZYNSKI, Anton VERTIPOLOKH

study concert: composition
// students of Gerald RESCH & Judit VARGA

@Konzertsaal
(24.05., 18h30)

(c)JV-midjourney
works by:
Sohrab BADEEI, Yeison BUITRAGO VARGAS, Tertio DRUML, Hao LIN, Sofiia LOZINA, Georg SCHENK, Juan Manuel URIBE, Oliver USZYNSKI

MODULOMETER 2024
// study concert Electroacoustic Composition Undergraduates

@Echoraum
(24.05., 19h)


Studio Flink presents world premieres from courses with Peter Plessas by:
Frederik ABEL, Kolbein BUKVE, Wang On CHAN, Soleil FRÖHLICH, Wenyinan HE, David HECHER, Eunsoo HUR, Soojin JEON, Ádám KÍRÁLY, Vlada LYSENKO, João PINTO, Michael RICHTER, Paul SCHMIDT, Filip ŠOPAR, Nicolas URBAN, Vasilisa VARFOLOMEEVA, Anton VERTIPOLOKH, Reina YOSHIOKA

HOMMAGE to Friedrich Cerha
// students of Sigrid Trummer

@Zubin-Mehta-Saal
(18.05., 15h)

(c) Manu Theobald

with Amelie SPÄTH, Vlada LYSENKO, Florian SIX,  Claudius MERZ, Nicolaus WEIDINGER, Miguel SEGURA-SOGORB, Gernot LERCHBACHER, Adrian FRITSCHE, Wang On CHAN, Marisa ALGARI, Livia SCHIMAK, Tom NIEHAUS, Vasilisa VARFOLOMEEVA, Sofiia LOZINA, David HECHER

ELAK - Open House
// Certificate Program in Electroacoustic and Experimental Music

@Future Art Lab
(13.-17.05)

P R O G R A M M E

study concert: composition
// students of Periklis Liakakis, Dietmar Schermann & Wolfgang Suppan

@Joseph-Haydn-Saal
(15.05., 18h30)

with compositions by:
Kolbein Eide BUKVE, Wang On CHANG, Wenyinan HE, João PINTO, Tanaphan POLROB, Paul Conrad SCHMIDT, Filip ŠOPAR, Nicolas URBAN, Jialu YANG, Reina YOSHIOKA 

study concert: composition
// students of Michael Jarrell & Olga Neuwirth

@Joseph-Haydn-Saal
(14.05., 18h)

with compositions by:
Sang Hyun HONG, Ingi KIM, Andrej HARMAN, Seo Yoon JANG, Marius MALANETCHI, Stefan GRIMUS, Aquiles LÁZARO

study concert: piano
// Students of Kaori Nishii

@Orchesterstudio
(08.05., 18h)

Welcome to the Jungle
// Gastvortrag Dustin Zorn

@Vortragssaal
(30.04., 10h)

This lecture discusses L-systems as generative algorithms for composition.

JELENA POPRZAN
// guest lecture 

@Vortragssaal
(17.04., 13)


Jelena Poprzan will talk about their artistic practice, techniques and goals as artist. As part of the seminar "Jazz Theory/Arrangement" by Samu Gryllus.

BALLADE(N) F//R EINE*N BULLDØZER.4
// Inaugural lecture Frauke Jürgensen

@Klangtheater
(19.04., 15h)

Topic:
Geoff Palmers 'News from the Kepler Space Telescope': Musikalischer Satz einer modernen metaphysischen Dichterin

ROTAPHONIE / FLAECHENFINDER
// Boris Hegenbart

@Vortragssaal
(16.04., 12h15)

Boris Hegenbart will talk about the development process of his works ROTAPHONIE and FLAECHENFINDER and explain various aspects of compositional design and material creation. There will be various cross-references to the development of his live instrumentarium, which has evolved over the years with each performance, as well as to the relationship between contemporary music and DUB.

BALLADE(N) F//R EINE*N BULLDØZER.3
// roundtable with Ursula Strubinsky

@Klangtheater
(16.04., 11h)

Participants:
Clara Iannotta, Frauke Jürgensen, Martin Lichtfuss, Gerald Resch, Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, Iris ter Schiphorst, Walter Werzowa

Moderation: 
Ursula Strubinsky

Between counterpoint and AI

The joy of creating music and the desire to turn one's inner imagination into a confident-sounding reality motivates people to study composition. But what skills must a student be given in order to develop as an independent artistic personality? Is it really necessary to be able to write fugues like Bach or analyse Beethoven's piano sonatas? Do you necessarily have to master an instrument or be able to read music? Is all this still relevant today? And what role do media and technology, and AI in particular, play in the study of composition? What relevance does experimentation have in principle in the current music scene? And does the future of music perhaps lie in the applied field? These and other questions will be addressed in this roundtable discussion.

Der Klang der Algorithmen?
// Adrian Kleinlosen

@Vortragssaal
(16.04., 10h)

Does music composed with the help of algorithms sound different from other music? Is there even, irrespective of all stylistic idiosyncrasies, a specific sonority of algorithmically generated music? And if so, what are the melodic, harmonic, rhythmic, morphological and compositional peculiarities of algorithmic music?

Adrian Kleinlosen is a composer and musicologist living in Hamburg. He studied jazz trombone in Graz, composition in Lucerne, Leipzig and Santa Cruz (USA) and received his doctorate in 2021 with a musicological thesis on "Morphology in Music". His compositional work centres on structural issues and working with algorithms. Kleinlosen composes instrumental music, vocal music, electro-acoustic music and computer music.

BALLADE(N) F//R EINE*N BULLDØZER.1 
// inaugural concert Jorge Sánchez-Chiong & Walter Werzowa

@Klangtheater
(12.04., 19h30)

The institute's new professors present themselves: 

Platypus Ensemble
Jaime Wolfson / direction

Iris ter Schiphorst
// Ballade für einen Bulldozer

Judit Varga
// Variazioni con Tema
(I. Beethoven is fading away)
// Showreel: Strafe
(Montage of different movie scenes)

Walter Werzowa
// Beethoven X, II (Video)

Jorge Sánchez-Chiong & TE-R
// HYPERHYPERDUST

Study concert: PIANO
// Students of Kaori Nishii

@Orchesterstudio
(21.03., 19h)

The students of Kaori Nishii present new pieces for piano.

With: João Pinto, Aquiles Lázaro, Sophie Wallner, Eunsoo Hur, Soojin Jeon, Oliver Uszynski, Tanaphan Polrob, Hao Lin

DeltaScore
// Wolfgang Suppan

@Vortragssaal
(19.03., 10h)

"The topic of the lecture is on the one hand [...] "DeltaScore", a computer programme developed by me for computer-aided composition (CAC), [...] on the other hand I would like to discuss the question to what extent software tools (also e.g. notation programmes) influence our artistic work in principle on the basis of application examples." // Wolfgang Suppan

Wolfgang Suppan studied with Dieter Kaufmann and Michael Jarrell at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and attended further courses in Berlin, Salzburg and Paris. His works have been performed at major festivals such as the Salzburg Festival, Wien Modern, musikprotokoll Graz, the Donaueschingen Music Festival, the Zagreb Music Biennale and by performers such as the Hagen Quartet, Klangforum Wien, Ensemble SurPlus Freiburg, Ensemble l'Itinéraire Paris and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. In addition to his intensive involvement with electronic music, he is also interested in interdisciplinary projects with film, dance and literature.

LISTENING SESSION
// students of Mario Lackner & Mischa Janisch

@Klangtheater
(14.03., 18h30)

A cooperation of Studio Drums & Percussion & Tonmeisters.

The Artistic Dialogue with AI
// Catherine Spet

@Vortragssaal
(12.03., 10h)

The lecture will discuss the topics of using or subverting AI algorithms as a fruitful dialogue partner, while still questioning the risks of such technologies , by showing some recent artistic pro jects and introducing s o me helpful tools and resources. How can AI work as an interdisciplinary tool for combining digital art and sound art?

Catherine Spet is an interdisciplinary artist who lives and works in Vienna. After completing her bachelor's degree in Media Technology with the focus on audiovisual media, she studied Digital Design in the master class Experimental Media at the University of Applied Sciences St. Pölten. She is currently studying Experimental Game Cultures at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Philosophy at the University of Vienna.

OPEN HOUSE DAY
// entire Institute 1

@Future Art Lab
(01.03.2024, 9-18h)

The Institute 1 for Composition Studies, Sound and Music Production invites applicants, students and everyone interested to take a look at the rooms, the work and everyday study life. The programme includes overview lectures, room and studio tours, talks with students and lecturers.

Find the programme here.

study conzert: PIANO
// students of Sigrid Trummer

@Zubin-Mehta-Saal
(27.01., 15h)

Works by:
Mozart, Liszt, Debussy, Schönberg, Beethoven, Ligeti, Brahms and Rachmaninoff.

Performers:
Amelie Späth, Florian Six, Nicolaus Weidinger, Miguel Segura-Sogorb, David Hecher, Shinyeong Lee, Maximilian Fugger, Wang On Chan, Vlada Lysenko, Tom Niehaus, Sofiia Lozina and Vasilisa Varfolomeeva.

study concert: composition
// students of all classes

@Joseph-Haydn-Saal
(17.01., 18h30)

Works by Frederik Abel, Tom Aitken, See Yoon Yang, Ádám Kírály, Aquiles Lazaro, Hsuan-Hsuan Lee, Hao Lin, Doina Cezara Procopciuc, Miguel Segura and Reina Yoshioka.

KEEP IT GOING!
// Michael Tiefenbacher

@Vortragssaal
(17.01., 13h-14h30)


Guest lecture by composer and jazz pianist Michael Tiefenbacher on creative music, composition, improvisation and the perception of the limits of silence in a musical and social context.
As part of the seminar "Jazz Theory and Arrangement" with Samu Gryllus.

BALLADE(N) F//R EINE*N BULLDØZER.2
// inaugural concert Clara Iannotta, Olga Neuwirth & Gerald Resch

@Joseph-Haydn-Saal
(15.04., 19h30)

The institute's new professors present themselves: 

Platypus Ensemble
Jaime Wolfson / piano, typwriter and direction

Gerald Resch
// con moto

Martin Lichtfuss
// K*tzbühel - eine patriotische Huldigung

Olga Neuwirth
// Magic-Fluidity

Clara Iannotta
// echo from afar (II)