(IN)Habitants

NN, conductor
Helēna Sorokina, voice

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussion
Francesco Palmieri, e-guitar
Ivana Pristašová Zaugg, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Alexandra Dienz, double bass

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

Alexander Schubert
AUTOFICTION for voice, ensemble, electronics and video, 2026
Commissioned by PHACE, Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, Music Biennale Zagreb, with friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Georgia Koumará
(IN)Habitants for ensemble and electronics, 2026
Commissioned by PHACE & Wien Modern, with friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung.

Alex Mincek
Perpetuum Mobile for ensemble, 2026/27 (wp)
Commissioned by Music Biennale Zagreb

The technologization of everyday life is advancing rapidly, spreading across many spheres—both at the societal and individual levels. Music, too, is undergoing profound shifts and transformations, some of which are already audible: for (IN)habitants, Georgia Koumará creates a transhumanist ecosystem in which musicians, objects, and electronics interact and coexist—an ecosystem whose composition and structure are reshaped for every performance. Taking as its starting point a present in which bodies and thoughts are already shaped by technology and information algorithms, this modular composition explores the deepening entanglements between human and machine, while also examining the social dependencies, inequalities, and power structures that accompany them. In AUTO FICTION, Alexander Schubert combines autobiographical material with AI processes to construct an augmented archive of his own memories—a kind of “collective unconscious” of cultural data—in which the boundaries between documentation and fiction increasingly blur. Alex Mincek has been commissioned by the Music Biennale Zagreb to compose a new work for ensemble.