Klangspuren - PHACE

The Italian composer and curator Clara Iannotta prefers to speak of a "choreography of sound" rather than an orchestration - for her, the moment of sound creation, the musicians' gestures, their positioning on stage, the interaction of light and movement are just as important as the sound you hear: for her, music is above all a physical experience. She wrote her work They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall for clarinet, tenor saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello and double bass as a commission from the Ars Nova Ensemble, the Riot Ensemble and Wien Modern. As the duo SCHTUM, Manu Mayr and Robert Pockfuss merge rhythmic, melodic, sound and structural elements of electronic dance music with experimental methods of contemporary music production - their works move in an "electro-acoustic world of feedback loops, sub-bass interference and noise chirping" (reaktor). They have played concerts at Berghain, Reaktor in Vienna, Sonic Protest in Paris, Novas Frequencias in Rio de Janeiro and the Gamma Festival in St Petersburg, among others. Bernhard Gander's works are similarly fluid, moving between the genres of popular and classical music - he combines contemporary new music with rap, electronic dance music, comic aesthetics or heavy metal, among other things, whereby the centre of each sonic episode is always rhythm. In the past, his approach has earned him a reputation as an "exceptional phenomenon" in the classical music scene.