13:45 – 16:00
The Between Things No. 4
Vorträge und anschließendes Rundtischgespräch
mit Lucy Railton und Scott Cazan
In Kooperation mit der Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik
Ort: Neuer Saal – GMPU
ETHICODETHICODE
With Lucy Railton and Scott Cazan
Lectures followed by a roundtable
Moderated by Michael Winter
Exploring codes of ethics in creative practice: how do musicians navigate intention, responsibility, and the use of technology through making, listening, collaborating, and taking risks? What does it mean to create with integrity?
Lucy Railton and Scott Cazan share their practices and perspectives, followed by a roundtable on agency and responsibility.
“The Between Things” is an event series by the Department of Sound & Intermedia at Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik.
This event is presented in collaboration with Gustav Mahler Privatuniversität für Musik
Further information: https://notes.gmpu.ac.at/event/the-between-things-no-4/
Everyone is welcome!
For questions: michael.winter@gmpu.ac.at
ab 18:00
Soundinstallation „The Spectral Parrot“
The Spectral Parrot is a self-actuating (feedback) instrument with 8 strings, each of which is controlled by a motorized tuner. The motors are controlled by a deep reinforcement learning algorithm that learns to tune the instrument’s strings to approximate a target audio spectrum.
Adam Pultz Melbye is a double bass player, composer, and improviser working in the field of acoustic and electronic sound. Adam’s work spans live performance, sound installation, sound for dance, theatre, film, multimedia, sculpture, algorithmic design, and instrument building. They have performed and exhibited work in Europe, Australia, the US, and Japan, while appearing on close to 50 albums. Adam often performs with semi-autonomous feedback systems, such as the FAAB (feedback-actuated augmented bass) a feedback double bass created in — collaboration with Halldòr Ùlfarsson. Adam holds a practice-led PhD in music technology from SARC, Queen’s University Belfast.
https://www.adampultz.com/
19:00
SquarEars
Duo
Paul Zlattinger & Sebastian Elias Weiss
Sinking deep into vast waters of thoughts. Losing the seemingly firm footing on the ground of reality beneath one’s feet. Letting go of the two-handed grip on consciousness. Instead of fending off the rain of emotions pelting down on the mind, welcoming it with open hands. These are just a few of the possibilities that Paul Zlattinger and Sebastian Elias Weiss offer their listeners through their sounds. As the collective SquarEars, the two close friends transcend new boundaries, allowing themselves and thereby their audience to experience sounds— — never heard before. Just as spoons provide access to rich soups, the SquarEars use their instruments (violin, guitar) as tools to pass through a portal into mysterious soundscapes.
https://www.facebook.com/SquarEars/
20:00
Berlinde Deman
Solo
Belgian musician Berlinde Deman plays the serpent, a rare 16th-century wind instrument she has spent years mastering, extending its low, melancholy voice through extended techniques, quarter tones, and effects pedals across five deeply personal pieces. The result is an intimate sound world where breath, tone, and distortion intertwine in slow, deliberate passages that unfold like a meditative journey, with Deman’s own voice woven in alongside the ancient instrument she has made unmistakably her own.
https://www.instagram.com/berlindedem/
21:00
Gaudenz Badrutt
Solo
He began as a pianist in the field of contemporary classic music and works since25 years as an electronics musician in the field of improvised electroacoustic music. He is best known in current times as an improvising electronics musician using computers (sampling) and various other electronic apparatus such as usual distortion devices, no-input-mixing or modular-synthesizer. Filigree, minimal noises, drones and dense structures are key characteristics of his music. Central to Badrutt’s activities are collaborations in different projects: the trio Tetrao Tetrix, the Baldrian Quartet, the Šalter Ensemble, Bruit group for–Music Creation, Tepih, duos with Jonas Kocher (accordion), Ilia Belorukov (electronics / saxophone) and ErikM (electronics), as well as strøm with Christian Müller (electronics). In the last few years, solo-performances became important too. He is further occupied in the fields of electronic composition, sound & video installation and videos (like ‚magma‘ and ‚Quiet Novosibirsk‘). More Collaborations with Hans Koch, Francesca Naibo, Andrea Neumann, Phil Durrant, Alfred Zimmerlin, Christof Kurzmann, Kai Fagaschinski, Urs Leimgruber, Daniel Studer, Jacques Demierre, Marjolaine Charbin, Morishige Yasumune, Irena Tomazin, Strotter Inst., Michael Vorfeld, Mark Wastell, Bryan Eubanks, Stephan Thut, Toshimaru Nakamura et al. with concerts at home and abroad, including at the Festivals Cerkno Jazz, (Ne)poslušno Ljubljana, RingRing Belgrad, Jauna Musika Vilnius, Music Unlimited Wels, Le Bruit de la Musique in Saint-Silvain-sous-Toulx, Sanatorium of Sound Sokolowsko/Poland, Sound Reasons in Dehli/Goa/Bangalore India, Musikfestival Bern 2015 and 2023, Irtijal Beirut, Airegin/Improfestival Yokohama, SwissMusicDays Belgrade, Zwei Tage Zeit Zürich, Influx Toulouse, Transmediale Berlin, Rue du Nord Lausanne, Norberg, Taktlos/Tonart Bern. Gaudenz Badrutt lives in Biel (Switzerland).
http://www.gaudenzbadrutt.ch/
22:00
Lucy Railton
Solo (Kooperation GMPU)
Lucy Railton is a British cellist, composer, cross-disciplinary collaborator whose practice reflects an endlessly innovative and restless approach to the cello and artistic self-expression. For the last 2 decades, her work has moved freely between Classical and contemporary music, electronic composition, improvisation and popular music performance. As a collaborator she has contributed to major works with artists including Soundwalk Collective and PattiSmith, Akram Khan, Philippe Parreno, Kali Malone and Stephen O’Malley, Peter Zinovieff, Maryanne Amacher, Laurel Halo, Beatrice Dillon and many others, as well as writing for dance, film and visual art installations. Follows a string of celebrated releases on labels including Modern Love, Editions Mego GRM – Portraits, PAN and ECM her solo album Blue Veil is a deeply intimate, meditative set of compositions for solo cello, released last year on the label Ideologic Organ.
https://lucyrailton.com/