PHACE⎹ FACES

Michael Wendeberg, conductor

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Reinhold Brunner, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Spiros Laskaridis, trumpet
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Manuel Alcaraz Clemente, percussion
Francesco Palmieri, e-guitar
Ivana Pristašová Zaugg, violin
Petra Ackermann, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass
Alexandra Dienz, double bass
and many more …

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

It is a “story of emotions” that unfolds musically and visually: faces become visual voices that participate in the ensemble and open up their own narrative level. In FACES, Clemens Gadenstätter explores the interactions between the individual and the environment as a socio-musical sculpture in time. Stage, space, and sound intertwine — connected by taut metal wires, functioning simultaneously as instrument and sculptural object — into a mobile space-time sculpture in which perception, space, and time can be experienced anew, and existing orders are liquefied and reconceived, perhaps only for the duration of the performance. In the new work Maserholz, Rafał Ryterski examines the eponymous proliferating phenomenon in wood growth, which simultaneously represents deformation, healing, and homeostasis. Burl wood becomes a metaphor for organic processes in which growth and injury collide, intertwine, and lead to impressively interwoven results. Manuela Kerer‘s epicyclic noise (as a revised version from 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 revolve around an imaginary center, complementing and opposing each other simultaneously, while the center is gradually undermined and ultimately loses its influence entirely.

PROGRAMM

Manuela Kerer
epicyclic noise für Sound-Noise-Acrobats, Streichquintett und Zuspielung, 2018/2026

Rafał Ryterski
Maserholz für verstärktes Ensemble, 2026
Kompositionsauftrag von Radio Österreich 1 in Kooperation mit ORF musikprotokoll für PHACE

P A U S E

Clemens Gadenstätter
FACES für Ensemble, Elektronik, Raum und Fotofilm 2025/26  (UA)
Fotofilm: Otto Saxinger
Kompositionsauftrag von PHACE und Wiener Konzerthaus