Ensemble Zeitfluss & Automatenklavierspieler
Elisabeth Harnik / Alisa Kobzar / Dimitri Papageorgiou / Orestis Toufektsis / Winfried Ritsch
Concert
Photo: Ensemble Zeitfluss
The Automatenklavierspieler—a robotic piano player designed by Winfried Ritsch—is a controllable electromechanical device mounted on a piano. It gives composers the freedom to realize the previously unplayable with eighty-eight lightning-fast mechanical fingers. The Graz-based Ensemble Zeitfluss plays alongside this music machine for the first time. Four pieces have been commissioned, and a fifth is contributed by Ritsch, who also presents an open workshop on music machines and machine music.
For Orestis Toufektsis, composing always involves making choices. The result of this artistic freedom—a thoroughly political act for him—can be sensually perceived in his piece. Ukrainian composer Alisa Kobzar uses transcription and analysis algorithms as well as “their limits and distortions.” In Elisabeth Harnik’s composition, the ensemble musicians and the machinist move between the poles of interpretation and spontaneity. This is accompanied by a new composition by Dimitri Papageorgiou.
The compositions by Elisabeth Harnik, Alisa Kobzar, Dimitri Papageorgiou, and Orestis Toufektsis were commissioned by Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll.
In cooperation with the IEM – Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics, KUG – University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and ÖGZM – Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik
4.10., 19:00
Helmut List Halle
Waagner-Biro-Straße 98a
8020 Graz ♿
Day pass 4.10., 18/14 euros
World premieres
Conductor: Edo Micic
Technical management: Winfried Ritsch
The compositions by Elisabeth Harnik, Alisa Kobzar, Dimitri Papageorgiou, and Orestis Toufektsis were commissioned by Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll.
In cooperation with the IEM – Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics, KUG – University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, and ÖGZM – Österreichische Gesellschaft für zeitgenössische Musik
