It’s a new year, and with it comes plenty of new Austrian music highlights to spotlight! Building off of 2022, a year packed with musical accomplishments and developments (see our 2022 Retrospect), the bar’s been properly raised for 2023. But with all … read more »
“Whodentity” is an artificial word with which musikprotokoll 2022 wants to shed light on currently pressing questions about identities. The festival will once again take place in Graz, from the 6th – 9th October, 2022. For more information about this year’s theme … read more »
Following Part 1 and Part 2, the third and final segment of the CROSSWAYS IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: CHOREOGRAPHY & DANCE series sets out on the trail of new and upcoming works that unite new music and choreography & dance. JUDITH / CUT_FADE … read more »
To dance without music? That sounds unimaginable to most people at first, and one would like to conclude that dance and music are inseparable. But the performing arts are vain and both dance and music are independent art forms with a long … read more »
A trans- and interdisciplinary research journey – Chapter 1: Nature Nature is present in music in a variety of ways. Composers draw inspiration from it, use sounds of nature in their compositions, or make abstract connections to nature. The sounds of nature … read more »
In February 2019 the composer PIA PALME and the musicologist CHRISTINA LESSIAK came together to meet the founder and director of the festival WAVES VIENNA, THOMAS HEHER for a chat. The conversation took place in a café in Vienna Margareten, close to … read more »
Pia Palme is a composer, musician, festival founder and interdisciplinary project designer. She once casted a 100 person choir for the premiere of an experimental composition. Since 2007 she has been doing internationally pioneering work with a completely newly developed sub-bass. In … read more »