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MUSIKTHEATER HEUTE
// guest lecture Manos TSANGARIS

@Vortragssaal
(14.11., 12h)

Manos Tsangaris - composer, drummer and installation artist, is one of the most important representatives of new music theater. He has been Professor of Composition at the Carl Maria von Weber University of Music Dresden since 2009 and co-directed the Munich Biennale for New Music Theater with Daniel Ott from 2016-2024. Tsangaris talks about his new works at Wien Modern 2024.

SPIRITS IN COMPLEXITY 

// colloquium with Jan SCHLÜTER, André HOLZAPFEL, Bob STURM

@Seminarraum
(08.11., 9h30)

SPIRITS IN COMPLEXITY
// short presentation of the research project

@Klangtheater
(07.11., 17h30)

The new artistic research project Spirits in Complexity is a cooperation between the mdw and the Johannes Kepler University (JKU) in Linz, the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the University of the Arts in Reykjavík and other artistic and scientific experts. It is funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF through the PEEK and AI Mission Austria programs.

With: Thomas GRILL, Angélica CASTELLÓ, Marco DÖTTLINGER, Patrik LECHNER, Hui YE, Arthur FLEXER

study concert: COMPOSITION
// Students of Dietmar SCHERMANN, Martin LICHTFUSS & Gerald RESCH

@Fanny-Hensel-Saal
(05.11., 19h)

Composition students present their new works. With: Marisa Elisabeth ALGARI, Attilia CERNITORI, Matthias GUNTNER, Xueting JIN, Bálint MATÉ, João PINTO, Anton VERTIPOLOKH, Reina YOSHIOKA

ON CONTEMPORARY COMPOSITION
// Prof. Qin WENCHEN 
Central Conservatory of Music in Peking (CCOM)

@Kl.Hörsaal
(22.10., 18h)

The Influence of Traditional Chinese Music on My Composition: Through the analysis of specific works, the composer explains the influence of traditional Chinese music on his composition as well as his exploration in composition concept, technology and artistic interest in recent years. The lecture will also introduce the development of contemporary music in China.

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

@Arthousekino
(22.06., 18h)

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

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.

study concert: piano
// students of Christos MARANTOS 

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

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

@Konzertsaal
(28.05., 19h)

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)

works by:
Sohrab BADEEI, Yeison BUITRAGO VARGAS, Tertio DRUML, Hao LIN, Sofiia LOZINA, Georg SCHENK, Juan Manuel URIBE, Oliver USZYNSKI

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)

study concert: piano
// Students of Kaori Nishii

@Orchesterstudio
(08.05., 18h)

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.

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.

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.

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)