entfernte erkundungen

“For any person who wishes to transmit sounds over long distances through air, water, ice, metal, rock or any other acoustically conductive medium – using the sounds to reveal the acoustic properties of the spaces they pass through and communicate them to listeners over long distances.” Alvin Lucier – Quasimodo the Great Lover

The human voice has always overcome distances with calls. But these calls not only tell us about the person calling, they also tell us something about the path they have traveled. “through air, water, ice, …” I would like to add that they tell us something about time when they come to us from the past, they tell us something about our relationship to the calling being; are we related, are we strangers? They also tell us about social spaces and the technologies through which they are transmitted.

Manchmal rufen wir auch uns selbst zu, z.B. einsam in den Wald, oder zu einer (Fels-) Wand. Die Veränderung des Zurückkommenden erzählt uns etwas über das Dazwischen, über das uns Umgebende.

It is now possible to calculate millimeter-accurate models of a room using a sound that is recorded in a room via (at least 4) microphones.
The sound itself may not be irrelevant, but it is of secondary importance.

Inspired by the expansive and multi-layered terrain of the Skulturenpark Lindabrunn, I have invited artists to explore it as a sound space. The works examine different types of distance: local / geographical, temporal and those that arise and can be overcome through otherness.

noid, curator

Program:

Sat, 28. Aug

• 14:00 Opening
• „LOVE – 64 calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed“ – noid
• Exhibition – Tour
• kammerwellenmusik – filip / Hausch / Mayer / Stotz
• Talk – Ulrike Truger & Elisabeth Schimana
• ca. 19:00 dinner
• Monolith – Elisabeth Schimana
• Kurzfilmprogramm pt I
  

Sun, 29. Aug

• 14-18h Exhibition

Sat, 4. Sept

• • 14:30 T.E.- “auf Festland” – subsistentiale Erkundungen Falkinger / Senynets

Tractor Noon Walk from train station Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn to the Symposion

• Exhibition – Tour
• Psychophysics Forest – Kathrin Hochschuh / Adam Donovan
• ca 18:30 Dinner
• Interventions
• Kurzfilmprogramm pt II
• DJ saLeh roZati

Sun, 5. Sept

• starting 14:00 Exhibition
• Chambers by Alvin Lucier – gespielt vom Ensemble Sonderfall
• Talk – Adam Donovan & Kathrin Hochschuh
• Talk – Rainer Fritz (Metafunk)
• Erkundungen – Ensemble Sonderfall (Berghammer / Gartmayer / Gnigler / noid / Schellander)
• ca 19:30 dinner
• open end

Installations (exhibition daily):
Annäherungen – Christine Schörkhuber
Factory Study – your instruments – Hui Ye
LOVE – 64 mating calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed, recorded & pitched back to the original bird-speed  – noid
T. E. – mit dem Traktor von Theresiental (Ukraine) nach Oberösterreich– Elisabeth Falkinger
Versuchsanordnung zur Überwindung mittlerer Entfernungen – noid
WURMLOCH entfernte Erkundungen <-> Annäherungen

Please note that a visit to the festival is only possible with 3G proof.
(possibly modified regulations are possible at least for the 2nd weekend).
All visitors must go to the registration desk on arrival,
where a possible food order will also be taken.
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It is possible to stay overnight with your own tent in the designated area,
but only with a current PCR test.
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Public transportation from Vienna by train (to Leobersdorf) and bus 312 to Lindabrunn Angergasse station.
(or the bus drivers are usually happy to stop 500m further directly at the upper parking lot of the symposium on request)
Departure at night: There are local cab companies for the journey from the symposium to the Leobersdorf train station.
With registration and bar there will be the possibility to coordinate shared cabs. Last train: 0:23.
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kammerwellenmusik

4 laptop musicians receive the entire radio frequency range of a receiver not far away in Markt Allhau. signals from all over the world are captured from 0 Khz to 30 Mhz (long wave, medium wave, short wave).

Talk – Ulrike Truger & Elisabeth Schimana

Monolith

A play about stones that were once living creatures, mountains that were once seas. “And it all began millions of years ago, when the ocean, the Tethys, washed sand into the shells of the ammonites, turning them to stone and creating the Alpidic chains.

Short films program

T.E. “auf Festland” – subsistentiale Erkundungen

At the opening of the 2nd festival weekend, Elisabeth Falkinger will accompany visitors from Enzesfeld station to the symposium site with her Ukrainian tractor and singer Olha Senynets.

Psychophysics Forest

Hochschuh and Donovan create sophisticated robotic machines that play with uncanny systems inherent to our perception. Their works and machines evoke an otherness or timelessness that is only present in the here and now.

saLeh roZati – DJ set

“it will be an inner journey through oriental sounds to distant explorations, deeper and deeper quite distant that it is and will be very close” saLeh

Chambers

“Sounds of portable resonance chambers, the sounds of shells or cupped hands, for example, can be carried outside, out onto streets and fields, into parks and university campuses, through buildings and living rooms, until an outer boundary is reached where a player is just within earshot of at least one other player. […]” (from Lucier: “Chambers” – score)

LOVE – 64 calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed

The composition “LOVE” attempts to create a cross-species understanding with the help of deceleration. The nightingale’s song, which is far too fast – and therefore impossible for the human ear to resolve – was stretched to ten times its original length, transcribed and this score interpreted on a cello.

Talk – Hochschuh & Donovan

artist talk

Talk – Digitaltechnik und Anwendungen im Kurzwellenfunk

Rainer Fritz is part of the group Metafunk, which has been operating a transmitter/receiver station on the VSL premises for years.

Erkundungen

With the Ensemble Sonderfall, five contemporary composers will gather at the location for a week to develop their own pieces for the location: situations, interventions, sequences or commentaries, in any case acoustic explorations, which will be presented during the last day of the festival.

INSTALLATIONEN:

factory study (your-instruments) HD video with sound, 13’28”, loop (more…)

T. E. – mit dem Traktor von Theresiental (Ukraine) nach Oberösterreich

When Elisabeth Falkinger traveled to the Theresia Valley in Ukraine in 2013, she fell in love with an old, red tractor. She decided to drive back with it. The travel diary she kept during the three-month trip became her dissertation. Photos show the unlikely couple bathing; the text refers to “T.” and “E.” – instead of “Traktor” and “Elisabeth”.

Annäherungen – eine Intervention in der Wiese

Site-specific installation, oral history, 2020 This interview-based work explores the stories of people who have a passionate connection to the grounds of the Lindabrunn Symposium. Their positions become the starting point for an outdoor installation that takes a subtle and personal approach to this multi-layered place with its different perspectives and levels of meaning.

LOVE – 64 mating calls of a nightingale transcribed for violoncello @ 10% speed, recorded & pitched back to the original bird-speed.

Sound installation based on the composition: “LOVE – 64 Calls of a nightingale transcribed for Violoncello @ 10% speed.” The recording of the performance from May 4, 2014, created as part of the New Music in St. Ruprecht series, will be reset to the original speed and pitch of the original Nachtigall recording.

Versuchsanordnung zur Überwindung mittlerer Entfernungen

Since March 2020, the question of appropriate distance in interpersonal contact has become unexpectedly explosive; until then, the question was more a topic of small talk along the North/South axis and suddenly gained epedemological significance and relevance in the negotiation on the assessment of the risk of infection.

WURMLOCH

The two festivals “Entfernte Erkundungen” in Lindabrunn and the “Annäherungen” festival in the Waldviertel will connect via a live stream at a randomly selected time. Both streams can also be seen and heard simultaneously on the two channels of the streaming platform “echoraeume”.

 echoraeume.klingt.org/