PHACE |
merry-go-round

merry-go-round
PHACE series 2025/26 at Wiener Konzerthaus

Let’s go to the next round. The carousel of sounds whirls again, spinning the ears, spinning the mind. Sound organisms move and develop according to their own dynamics, like a broad stream caught in eddies and vortexes, yet still flowing. Intelligent automatons diligently shovel, in rhythm with the server’s pulse, until all anomalies are sorted out.

Funky music in the centrifuge! Categorized, hunted, out of balance. Only to shatter the syntax; only to piece together new meaning from the rubble. Power lies in repetition; loops and samples duplicate reality. “Play it all back!” is the mantra, fragmented and combined, composed into a new whole.

In the end and in the beginning, the annual cycle closes. At the turning point, everything hangs in the balance, neither up nor down, even the intervals appear unfamiliar. In the clearing of isolation, shrouded in darkness, the sounds emerge with unexpected clarity. Get in, get on, never get off again – the next ride is in reverse.