A concert and installation project by Clemens Gadenstätter and Toni Kleinlercher for the festival Hörgänge in the Neuer Saal of the Vienna Concert Hall on 15 March 2001, in cooperation with ORF Kunstradio.
Toni Kleinlercher's installation decodes and recodes the concert, consisting
of three pieces by Clemens Gadenstätter, in which decoding and recoding
(the title of a further project by Toni Kleinlercher) are constantly present,
as the main aesthetical and technical procedures. With the aid of live
recordings of the audience and hall, and the simultaneous projection of
the same onto screens in the middle of the room, events which are normally
perceived as disturbances or even ignored as irrelevant occurrances, become
the central theme. These events become the center of a visual process,
they recode the existing framework of the concert, turning it into a multidimensional
installation. The most important aspect is that of the altered framework.
The audience is observed by cameras and then observes itself. The aspect
of observation causes other priorities in perception to emerge, it facilitates
a completely different experience, something which a concert could also
be. The audience becomes part of the coding process, which is the theme
of the evening.
A further coding aspect deals with the acoustic reactions of the audience,
from applause to conversations during the intervall, to the most inavoidable
disturbing noises, like programmes falling on the floor, the screeching
of chairs etc. These noises are recorded by microphones placed throughout
the room, in order to reproject them, as important acoustic events. In
addition to this, there will also be interventions at the stairway and
in the foyer. Turf will be rolled out at the end of the stairway, fitted
with small microphones, continuing the coding idea visually. The stairway
area is apparently redefined as nature, by artificial use of natural material.
The interior is disguised with the aid of an exterior element and thus,
paradoxically turned inside out. The exaggerated artificiality is, in the
end, the extreme new definition of existence.
music
Clemens Gadenstätter:
ballad 1 for voice and piano, string trio 2 (friction), akkor(d/t)anz for
piano
performers
Anna Maria Pammer (soprano), Florian Ernst Müller (piano), string
trio of the Klangforum Wien
installation
Toni Kleinlercher
