The improv quintet of ANGÉLICA CASTELLÓ, KAI FAGASCHINSKI, BARBARA ROMEN, GUNTER SCHNEIDER and BURKHARD STANGL aka ZIMT has released the new album “Ganz” (“Completely”) on the label BESO DE ANGEL – recorded between two lockdowns and live at KLANGSPUREN SCHWAZ in September … read more »
Angelica Castello
Crossways in Contemporary Music – Nature II
As part of the project “Crossways in Contemporary Music”, Michael Franz Woels went in search of Austrian composers or composers living in Austria who create an individual approach to nature in their music. While Part 1 deals with new music and nature … read more »
“I THINK IT’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT CULTURE CAN DO AND ART MUST DO” – BERNHARD GÜNTHER (WIEN MODERN)
WIEN MODERN, Austria’s largest festival for new music, now in its 34th edition, could be given sub-headers this year like: a major opera premiere at the Odeon, music theatre and dance, performances, multimedia and images, immersive projects, walk-in installations and exhibitions, major … read more »
Austrian Music Highlights #8
Pinch us, is it real? Live music? Live audiences? Together again? Indeed, hopes and reality have converged at last! While temperatures are rising, restrictions are declining. And the effect on music and art? Nothing less than an avalanche of events pouring down … read more »
Angélica Castelló
Her sound work and compositions concentrates on fragility, dreamworld and the subconscious. She performs continuously solo or in cooperations everywhere between Mexico City and Vienna. Castelló has made numerous compositions for ensembles, radio works as well as installations that operate at the … read more »
Interview with Angélica Castelló
In September ANGÉLICA CASTELLÓ will perform at the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN as a composer exploring the theme of the body. Mixing tasks turns out to be a novelty for her. Just like the collaboration with the choreographer ANNA KNAPP and ten dancers. Sylvia … read more »
Portrait: Angelica Castello
There are things that grow ever larger and the eventually break out of their confines and reach a point where a new perspective is necessary. It is exactly at this point that the composer and flutist Angelica Castello has found herself, with … read more »
Portrait: Angelica Castello
There are things that grow ever larger and the eventually break out of their confines and reach a point where a new perspective is necessary. It is exactly at this point that the composer and flutist Angelica Castello has found herself, with … read more »
Electronic Music in Austria
Although sound installations in Austria are rather sparse, the scene rather small, electronic music plays an important role in the 21st Century. And this both in the fields of experimental music and “traditional” electronic or electro-acoustic compositions. Although it took quite some … read more »