MOVING SOUNDS festival 2011

“The Moving Sounds Festival means its title to be taken in every possible way. The works performed during this three-day event are meant to be moving, if not always emotionally then viscerally or intellectually.” - Allan Kozinn, The New York Times
MOVING SOUNDS 2011
THURSDAY SEP 15 - SUNDAY SEP 18 | 2011
presented by
THE AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM NEW YORK
in collaboration with
THE ARGENTO NEW MUSIC PROJECT,
MICA MUSIC AUSTRIA, and
THE CZECH CENTER
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PROGRAM FOR THURSDAY SEP 15
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7:30 PM
EVA REITER ELASTIC BAND
Eva Reiter | Yaron Deutsch
VENUE: ACFNY
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program for FRIDAY SEP 16
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6:00 PM
MOVING COMPOSITIONS: CZECHSPLORATIONS I
The Moving Sounds Collaborative
Conductor: Michel Galante
David Fulmer | Eliot Gattegno | Jiří Kadeřábek
Janáček, Kadeřábek, Mahler
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York's Czech Center
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8:00 PM
MOVING COMPOSITIONS: CZECHSPLORATIONS I
Repeat Performance
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York's Czech Center
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program for SATURDAY SEP 17
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10:30 AM
MOVING SOUNDS FESTIVAL 2011 | SYMPOSIUM
David Fulmer | Jiří Kadeřábek | George Lewis |
Thomas Schäfer | Martin Kaltenbrunner | Eva Reiter |
Helge Hinteregger | Andreas Stadler
VENUE: ACFNY
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6:00 PM
CZECHSPLORATIONS II
Argento Chamber Ensemble
Conductor: David Fulmer
Eliot Gattegno | Eva Reiter
Fulmer, Gattegno, Lewis
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York's Czech Center
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8:00 PM
MICHAL RATAJ & MICHAEL SCHUMACHER
Michal Rataj | Michael Schumacher
VENUE: Bohemian National Hall at New York's Czech Center
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program for SUNDAY SEP 18
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5:00 PM
HANDS-ON MUSIC - REACTABLE GOES MOBILE
Reactable performance & presentation
Martin Kaltenbrunner | Peter Kirn
VENUE: ACFNY
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9:00 PM
SHIGETO
Zach Saginaw
VENUE: Glasslands Gallery
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10:00 PM
ELEKTRO GUZZI
Bernhard Hammer | Jakob Schneidewind |
Bernhard Breuer
VENUE: Glasslands Gallery
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Program subject to change. Please check www.acfny.org for up-to-date information on the festival.
Concept: Andreas Stadler
Curators: Michel Galante (Argento) & Helge Hinteregger (mica)
Production: Martina Laab (ACFNY)
ADMISSION
Admission to events at the Austrian Cultural Forum and the Czech Center is free, with a suggested donation of $10. Reservations required.
VENUES
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
New York, NY 10022
www.acfny.org
Czech Center
321 E. 73rd Street,
New York, NY 10021
www.bohemiannationalhall.com
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave
Brooklyn, NY 11211
glasslands.blogspot.com
about the festival
Moving Sounds is an annual international festival of music, visual media and aesthetic dialogue that features emerging and pioneering artists who focus on electronically generated music, and who are at the interface between classically-instrumented and electronic music. The Festival is co-produced by the Austrian Cultural Forum, the Musical Information Center of Austria (MICA), and the Argento New Music Project.
In 2011, the festival will once again feature genre-bending premiere performances, offering up a host of new sound experiences to a New York audience. The Austrian band Elektro Guzzi, who “go about as far as anyone has yet in distancing themselves from machine encroachment in dance music production” (Jordan Rothlein, Little White Earbuds) will bring their unique “quasi-unplugged” approach to techno dance music to New York.
2011 will also see a performance with a Reactable, which is an electronic device that uses concepts of modular synthesis, sampling,advanced digital effects processing, and DJing, and combines them with modern human-computer interaction, multi-touch technology and a tangible interface. The musician controls the system by manipulating tangible objects on a translucent and luminous round table. By turning them and connecting them to each other, performers can combine different elements such as synthesizers, effects, sample loops or control elements in order to create a unique and flexible composition. One of the co-creators of the Reactable, Austrian Martin Kaltenbrunner, will perform with New York-based Reactable player, Peter Kirn.
Also slated to appear in the Moving Sounds 2011 festival is Austrian Viola da Gamba-, recorder player, and composer Eva Reiter; her compositional work of recent years represents another exploration of the fine line between acoustic and electronic music. Reiter’s participation in this year’s festival will also include a performance with the Argento Chamber Ensemble, which is the performance arm of the New York-based Argento New Music Project. The Argento Chamber Ensemble and its director Michel Galante have been a driving force behind Moving Sounds, with a host of groundbreaking performances since its inception.
Another highlight of this year’s festival will be a concert entitled Czechsplorations: Members of the fourbythree ensemble and Argento, who have come together to form The Moving Sounds Collaborative, will perform a special concert featuring two Janáček world premieres, the world premiere of a new work by American composer David Fulmer, and a New York premiere of a new arrangement of the Adagio from Gustav Mahler's unfinished Tenth Symphony.

All events take place at the ACFNY, at the Czech Center's Bohemian National Hall, 321 E. 73rd Street, New York, NY 10021, and at the Glasslands Gallery, 289 Kent Ave Brooklyn, New York 11211.
Moving Sounds is an official project of the European Cultural Institutes in New York.