From June 3-6, 2022, the MOERS FESTIVAL takes place for the 51st time! Once again, it has created an avant-garde, powerful and empowering program! Among the artists is the 16-person ensemble, the VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA (VIO), performing on June 5th.
Moers Festival
At a time when the world is upside down and there is fire all over the world, great heaviness weighs on everything. How can we overcome gravity with a light mind? Can we remain upright, sincere in the process?
After 48 analog and two digital festivals, the moers festival is asking itself on the occasion of its 51st festival edition whether there can be true hybridity in the cultural industry. Where can the loose ends of the analog and the digital in each other’s world connect in terms of content and create real added value for people?
From June 3-6, 2022, the moers festival wants to experiment with this, to be avant-garde and a place of liberation – wants to counter the increasingly oppressive passage of time with the power of improvisation, of togetherness, of togetherness.
True Freyheidt!
the VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA
CONCERT TIME & PLACE: Sunday, 5th June, 16:20 – 17:10 at the Festivalhalle
Line-up
- Michael Fischer (instant composition conducting)
- Nika Zach (voice)
- Isabell Kargl (voice)
- Boglárka Bábiczki (voice)
- Tahereh Nourani (flute)
- Sara Zlanabitnig (flute)
- Lisa Hofmaninger (bass clarinet, soprano saxophone)
- Clemens Salesny (bass clarinet, alto saxophone)
- Emily Stewart (violin)
- Florian Sighartner (violin)
- Clementine Gasser (cello)
- Irmi Wolvin (cello)
- Martin Burk (double bass)
- Edward Reardon (synthesizer)
- Bernhard Loibner (modular electronics)
- Valentin Duit (drums)
With its practice of instant composition conducting, the VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA (VIO) plays on a special discourse of experimental composition and complex improvised music for large ensembles: in an absolute ad hoc situation, musicians and instant composition conductors jointly develop momentary compositions that emerge in the oscillation of ensemble improvisation and structure-giving conducting – instant composition conducting that is conveyed with surprisingly few hand signals. – Terrain for an unforeseen universe of the possible, potentiated by the fact that each performance of the VIO consists of ever new ensemble constellations.
With about 350 participants so far, the VIO has been a guest at festivals such as Wien Modern or ArtActs and at central venues of the visual arts. Ensemble leader Michael Fischer works on the language immanence of sounds and their dramatic evidence on tenor saxophone, soundscapes and as instant composition conductor with improvisation orchestras and temporary large ensembles in the context of international festivals and guest lectures. The VIO was founded by him in 2004 as one of the first continuously working improvisation orchestras in Europe.