Take Five for Nine

Sep. 7 2024 // 20:00
Klangspuren Schwaz, Innsbruck, Treibhaus

Lars Mlekusch, conductor
Alexandra Dienz, double bass
Maria Chlebus, percussion

SCHTUM
Manu Mayr, E-Bass
Robert Pockfuß, E-Guitar

PHACE
Doris Nicoletti, flute
Walter Seebacher, clarinet
Michael Krenn, saxophone
Stefan Obmann, trombone
Mathilde Hoursiangou, piano
Maria Chlebus, percussion
Ivana Pristasova Zaugg, violin
Victor Lowrie Tafoya, viola
Roland Schueler, cello
Francesco Palmieri, e-guitar
Alexandra Dienz, double bass

SOUND DESIGN
Alfred Reiter

The Italian composer and curator Clara Iannotta prefers to speak of a “choreography of sound” rather than an orchestration – for her, the moment the sound is created, the gestures of the musicians, their positioning on the stage, the interaction of light and movement are just as important as the sound that one hears: for her, music is above all a physical experience. She wrote her work They left us grief-trees wailing at the wall for clarinet, tenor saxophone, percussion, piano, electric guitar, violin, viola, cello and double bass as a commissioned work by the Ars Nova Ensemble, the Riot Ensemble and Wien Modern. As a duo, Manu Mayr and Robert Pockfuss merge rhythmic, melodic, sound and structural elements of electronic dance music with experimental methods of contemporary music production – their works move in an “electro-acoustic world of feedback loops, sub-bass interference and noise twittering” (reaktor). They have played concerts at Berghain, Reaktor in Vienna, Sonic Protest in Paris, Novas Frequencias in Rio de Janeiro and the Gamma Festival in St. Petersburg, among others. Bernhard Gander moves in a similarly fluid way between the genres of popular and classical music in his works – he combines contemporary new music with rap, electronic dance music, comic aesthetics and heavy metal, among others, with the rhythm always being the center of every sound episode. In the past, his approach earned him a reputation as an “exceptional phenomenon” in the classical music business.