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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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

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.