Moving Sounds 2011 - Austrian Music Export

August 25, 2011 / contemporary music, pop/rock/electronic

For the third consecutive year, the Austrian Cultural Forum New York has teamed up with mica – music austria, and the Argento New Music Project’s director, Michel Galante, to produce this festival dedicated to music, visual media and aesthetic dialogue that features emerging and pioneering artists who focus on electronically generated music, and those who are at the interface of classically instrumented and electronic music.

In 2011, the festival will once again feature genre-bending premiere performances, offering up a host of new sound experiences to a New York audience. The Austrian band Elektro Guzzi, who “go about as far as anyone has yet in distancing themselves from machine encroachment in dance music production” (Jordan Rothlein, Little White Earbuds) will bring their unique “quasi-unplugged” approach to techno dance music to New York.

2011 will also see a performance with a Reactable, which is an electronic device that uses concepts of modular synthesis, sampling,advanced digital effects processing, and DJing, and combines them with modern human-computer interaction, multi-touch technology and a tangible interface. The musician controls the system by manipulating tangible objects on a translucent and luminous round table. By turning them and connecting them to each other, performers can combine different elements such as synthesizers, effects, sample loops or control elements in order to create a unique and flexible composition. One of the co-creators of the Reactable, Austrian Martin Kaltenbrunner, will perform with two New York-based Reactable players, Peter Kirn and Hans-Christoph Steiner.

Also slated to appear in the Moving Sounds 2011 festival is Austrian violist, recorder player, and composer Eva Reiter; her compositional work of recent years represents another exploration of the fine line between acoustic and electronic music. Reiter’s participation in this year’s festival will also include a performance with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, which is the performance arm of the New York-based Argento New Music Project. The Argento Chamber Ensemble and its director Michel Galante have been a driving force behind Moving Sounds, with a host of groundbreaking performances since its inception.

Another highlight of this year’s festival will be a concert entitled Czechsplorations: Members of the fourbythree ensemble and Argento, who have come together to form The Moving Sounds Collaborative, will perform a special concert featuring two Janáček world premieres, the world premiere of a new work by American composer David Fulmer, and a New York premiere of an Adagio by Gustav Mahler.

Program for Thursday, September 15
7:30 PM
EVA REITER BAND
Eva Reiter | Yaron Deutsch
VENUE: ACFNY

Program for Friday, September 16
6:00 PM
MOVING COMPOSITIONS: CZECHSPLORATIONS I
The Moving Sounds Collaborative
Conductor: Michel Galante
David Fulmer | Eliot Gattegno | Jiří Kadeřábek
Janáček, Kadeřábek, Mahler
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York’s Czech Center

8:00 PM
MOVING COMPOSITIONS: CZECHSPLORATIONS I
Repeat Performance
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York’s Czech Center

6:00 PM
CZECHSPLORATIONS II
Argento Chamber Ensemble
Conductor: David Fulmer
Eliot Gattegno | Eva Reiter
Fulmer, Gattegno, Lewis
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York’s Czech Center

8:00 PM
MICHAL RATAJ & MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
Michal Rataj | Michael Schumacher
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York’s Czech Center

Program for Sunday, September 18
5:00 PM
HANDS-ON MUSIC – REACTABLE GOES MOBILE
Reactable performance & presentation
Martin Kaltenbrunner | Peter Kirn
VENUE: ACFNY

9:00 PM
SHIGETO
Zach Saginaw
VENUE: Glasslands Gallery

10:00 PM
ELEKTRO GUZZI
Bernhard Hammer | Jakob Schneidewind |
Bernhard Breuer
VENUE: Glasslands Gallery

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