PHACE | LOOM

PROGRAM

Malika Kishino
Sensitive Chaos for electric guitar, trumpet, trombone, 2 percussionists, piano and cello, 2010  (austrian premiere)

Zara Ali
Isolation Forest  for eleven instruments and electronics, 2023

Emre Sihan Kaleli
Adjacent Rooms, a Part of a Labyrinth for ensemble  (wp of the expanded new version), 2025
comissioned by PHACE and Wien Modern

schtum– Manu Mayr & Robert Pockfuß
loom for e-guitar, e-bass and ensemble, 2024

“The sound of the sea reaches far,” writes Maliko Kishino about her piece Sensible Chaos, finding similarities between water and music in the Buddhist sutra: resonance and diffusion. Like raindrops on the surface of a lake, the composition shows how individual events branch out into incredibly expansive patterns and, through mutual interference, create a delicate and fragile beauty from the chaos. In Adjacent Rooms, a Part of a Labyrinth, the music of Emre Sihan Kaleli often takes abrupt, unexpected detours, but reveals a continuous flow as it travels through very different corridors, one thing leading to the next. The labyrinthine progression offers a clear view of time and infinity. In Isolation Forest, Zara Ali delves into the digital wilderness, discovering algorithmic grace with the help of rigid instructions and the sorting out of anomalies, allowing the AI to reveal its wildest dreams and lyrical fantasies. An organically pulsating web of electroacoustic sounds is revealed in the work loom by the experimental electronic duo schtum. Rhythmic permutations chase each other in circles, building each other up into ever new, intense patterns. And somewhere, restlessness resonates, a fascinating, almost threatening sonic shadow lurking underground.