The interdisciplinary Festival for Music and Sound Art shut up and listen! enters its eighth season.
Indebted to a fundamentally transdisciplinary attitude, SUAL 2013 will include instrumental and
electroacoustic music, sound art projects, an architectural object, a sound sculpture, a lecture and a
listening room. In conjunction with this year's festival motto, END LESS NESS, the focus lies on long
enduring musical and artistic endeavors, in an attempt to grasp the, possibly illusionary, idea of an
infinite music. SUAL 2013 comprises sound continua and repetitive or quasi-static structures of the
most diverse makings and provenience, such as drones, clusters, textures, pulsations, silences, ...
Hermann Nitsch arguably (re )presents the exuberant, immoderate, and inexhaustible - he will give
one of his rare organ recitals at the Jesuit Church in Vienna's old center. The ingenious real time
musique concrète composition Mantra by Québecois Jean-François Laporte features an unchanged
recording of a nightly ride with a Zamboni (the machine cleaning the surface of ice hockey rinks).
The musicologist Wolfgang Gratzer reflects upon listening processes and the evolution of infinite
music, while Radu Malfatti merges pure tones with sounds of his trombone, leaving space for
silences, just as for the sounds themselves. Gunter Schneider and Barbara Romen transfer instrument
sounds into a long cardboard tube, and in turn respond to the respective sonic output of these
natural sound filtering devices. One tube can also be experienced as a sound sculpture throughout
the festival.
Following the presentation of the price-winning works of the SUAL AWARD 2013, the violoncellist
Michael Moser recites works by Alvin Lucier and himself which both explore the 'psycho-physicality' of
sound in varying perceptual settings. With ASLSP, pianist Manon Liu Winter presents the very same
composition by John Cage, which in a reworking for organ received world-wide attention, through a
rather 'ambitious' interpretation, attempting to present the work over the course of 639 years.
ORGAN²/ASLSP has been performed in a church in Halberstadt for the past twelve years, and
supposedly will go on for another, quite eternal, 627 years. This project is also the subject of Sabine
Groschups experimental film (JC{639}). By sending us one of her Portable Infinity Devices, the
Japanese architect Yumi Kori captures infinity inside a small acrylic box. With Kyema, the first
chapter of Éliane Radigues opus magnum Trilogie de la Mort, and a subsequent brunch, SUAL 2013
ultimately reaches an ending.
Grenzenlose Höreindrücke wünschen Belma Bešlić-Gál und Bernhard Gál!
Indebted to a fundamentally transdisciplinary attitude, SUAL 2013 will include instrumental and
electroacoustic music, sound art projects, an architectural object, a sound sculpture, a lecture and a
listening room. In conjunction with this year's festival motto, END LESS NESS, the focus lies on long
enduring musical and artistic endeavors, in an attempt to grasp the, possibly illusionary, idea of an
infinite music. SUAL 2013 comprises sound continua and repetitive or quasi-static structures of the
most diverse makings and provenience, such as drones, clusters, textures, pulsations, silences, ...
Hermann Nitsch arguably (re )presents the exuberant, immoderate, and inexhaustible - he will give
one of his rare organ recitals at the Jesuit Church in Vienna's old center. The ingenious real time
musique concrète composition Mantra by Québecois Jean-François Laporte features an unchanged
recording of a nightly ride with a Zamboni (the machine cleaning the surface of ice hockey rinks).
The musicologist Wolfgang Gratzer reflects upon listening processes and the evolution of infinite
music, while Radu Malfatti merges pure tones with sounds of his trombone, leaving space for
silences, just as for the sounds themselves. Gunter Schneider and Barbara Romen transfer instrument
sounds into a long cardboard tube, and in turn respond to the respective sonic output of these
natural sound filtering devices. One tube can also be experienced as a sound sculpture throughout
the festival.
Following the presentation of the price-winning works of the SUAL AWARD 2013, the violoncellist
Michael Moser recites works by Alvin Lucier and himself which both explore the 'psycho-physicality' of
sound in varying perceptual settings. With ASLSP, pianist Manon Liu Winter presents the very same
composition by John Cage, which in a reworking for organ received world-wide attention, through a
rather 'ambitious' interpretation, attempting to present the work over the course of 639 years.
ORGAN²/ASLSP has been performed in a church in Halberstadt for the past twelve years, and
supposedly will go on for another, quite eternal, 627 years. This project is also the subject of Sabine
Groschups experimental film (JC{639}). By sending us one of her Portable Infinity Devices, the
Japanese architect Yumi Kori captures infinity inside a small acrylic box. With Kyema, the first
chapter of Éliane Radigues opus magnum Trilogie de la Mort, and a subsequent brunch, SUAL 2013
ultimately reaches an ending.
Grenzenlose Höreindrücke wünschen Belma Bešlić-Gál und Bernhard Gál!
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