Spaces of Freedom

Oct. 5 2024 // 21:00
ORF Musikprotokoll,
Helmut List Halle, Graz

Lars Mlekusch, conductor

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Thomas Märzendorfer, trombone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Maria Chlebus, percussion
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin
Myriam García Fidalgo, cello
Maximilian Ölz, double bass
Manu Mayr, e-bass
Maria Mogas Gensana, accordion

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

How do AI, robotics, and virtual reality affect the freedoms of contemporary composing? What musical questions arise with a view toward future digital revolutions? PHACE from Vienna brings these topics together in three world premieres.

In Alessandro Baticci’s Luminal Mirage, natural and virtual sounds merge. The instruments imitate the sound of electronics, doubling rhythms and timbres. Endlessly ascending and descending lines wind along, as if in an M. C. Escher staircase.

Grzegorz Pieniek is inspired by futuristic films and current digital developments. Nava Hemyari uses balloons as portable instruments. Annesley Black, who has been teaching composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz since 2023, presents her work scrap at ORF musikprotokoll. She works with the live electronic processing of instrumental sounds; the smallest possible distinguishable audio fragments vie for supremacy over hearing and memory.

PROGRAMM

Grzegorz Pieniek
Cyberbrain for amplified ensemble and electronics, 2024 (wp)

Comissioned by PHACE and Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, with support by SKE Austro Mechana and Stadt Wien Kultur

Nava Hemyari
blowfür Ensemble, 2024 (UA)
Comissioned by PHACE, with support by SKE Austro Mechana

Annesley Black
Scrap for ensemble and live-electronics, 2019

Alessandro Baticci
Luminal Mirage for ensemble und electronics, 2024 (UA)
Comissioned by PHACE and Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll, with support by SKE Austro Mechana and Stadt Wien Kultur