Maserholz

Michael Wendeberg, conductor
Helēna Sorokina, voice

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

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

In Maserholz, Rafał Ryterski explores the eponymous proliferating phenomenon in wood growth, which simultaneously represents deformation, healing, and homeostasis. Maserholz becomes a metaphor for organic processes in which growth and injury collide, intertwine, and lead to impressively interwoven results. Manuela Kerer‘s epicyclic noise (revised version 2018/26) takes up the epicycle theory, which, despite some inconsistencies, served for a very long time as an explanatory model for the movement of celestial bodies. Sound sources, sound-noise acrobats, and a string quintet orbit an imaginary center, complementing and opposing each other simultaneously, while the center is gradually undermined and ultimately loses its influence entirely. In AUTO FICTION, Alexander Schubert blurs the boundary between documentary and fiction, wandering through an altered archive of his most formative, intense, and outstanding memories. In Christoph Renhart‘s Échos éloquents, a dialogue unfolds between what is said and what is said back, woven through the silent backdrop of time. The work explores what speaks from the echo, what it does not say, what it swallows, what it stretches out, what fades away.

Programm

Manuela Kerer
epicyclic noise for Sound-Noise-Acrobats, string quartett and tape, 2026
(wp of the revised version, 2018/2026)

Christoph Renhart
Echos Eloquents for ensemble, 2016

Alexander Schubert
AUTO FICTION for ensemble and electronics, 2026 wp
Comissioned by  PHACE, Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll and Music Biennale Zagreb, with support of the   

Rafał Ryterski
Maserholz for amplified ensemble, 2026 wp
Commissioned by Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll for PHACE, with support of the , and friendly support of Polnisches Institut Wien