Strauss is not a Bird?

BLASE
Akiko Ahrendt

In the set with her violin, A.A. will improvisationally search for tones, sounds and textures inspired by the current context of water, Strauss, sculpture and audience, celebrating the connection between learned craftsmanship, social sculpture, closeness to nature and service.

MUSIC IS CASTRATED NOISE XI
Dror Feiler & BPO

Struggle and construction - rather thanhttp://dror the peaceful meditation of the undulating line or structure - form the core of MUSIC IS CASTRATED NOISE XI. The method is a creation of captivating affinity with NOISE/TONE/SOUND. The struggle as a form (both for the performer and the listener) proposes a model that must adapt to myriads of individual variations, even if they are delirious or “unpleasant”.

The battle form is not the usual epic form, it does not tell the adventure of an organic battle, it provides a large tear or gap - it is a torn lyric and can be carried away.

KRAKENWALZER
Enrique Mendoza Mejia

This live electronic performance is not a waltz, but a drowning. His familiar gestures dissolve - slowly sinking into a bed of liquid noise. Echoes of an empire emerge, only to sink again immediately, distorted beyond recognition, hovering between majesty and decay.

Beneath the surface: a Strauss murmur, distorted and spectral, flickering like a fading memory. Drones rise like tidal forces, enveloping the audience with silent violence, gentle pressure and dark mockery.

Multi-channel signals flood into the pond, into loudspeakers, into the open air. In this flooded waltz, everything breathes through tentacles. 

SEABED ABYSSAL
Elvin Brandhi | Kabath Abas

Khabat Elvin combine into an octolimbic sound-textremity that unites arms and feet into a planktonic infinity! 8. currents of cello and voice scour the inner ocean for remnants of MUSIC AWOL, as decentralized and meandering anthro-exists at the edges of eternal bio-domination.

THIS IS NOT PIANO PIECE?
Super Nase & Co

People gather in one place at a certain time to watch the most important news on television. You gather in one place at the same time to experience the perfmance. You meet someone to find out about the other person(s). Nothing more! In the Fluxus performance THIS IS NOT PIANO PIECE?, „nothing more“ becomes the maxim of the evening, in which the piano piece remains unique and unrepeatable.

JUKEBOX

JUKEBOX by God‘s Entertainment will open eyes, mouths and ears and make everyone emotionally satisfied. JUKEBOX is analog, mechanical, speaks, takes 3 EURO, winks and has every song in stock that has somehow been documented in the last official 6000 years of human history. From Katy Perry to Vangelis. Forward into the past. And all in three-four time!!!

OCT.opus 25

The team of artists that go by the name of God’s Entertainment will be depositing a huge octopus replica in the pond near the Karlsplatz to offer us a new interpretation of Strauss’ waltzes.

This artistic ersatz for an octopus, representing an intriguing symbiosis between Strauss and cultural studies expert Donna Haraway, is designed to give us a completely new perspective on the waltz as such, with lively and provocative interpretations opening up unprecedented emotional and intellectual vistas on the music of Johann Strauss. With the help of an array of supporting artists, Strauss himself will conducting OCT.opus 25 and dancing to his own music. On five weekends, the project will be electrifying its audiences with humour, temperament, concerts, performances and dinners.