Laudario de Cortona | Tarantelle D´Amore

Beautiful voices

The first festival night is dominated by master voices of beautiful singing, post-Dadaistic sound poetry and virtuoso vocal cord acrobatics. The encounter of voice performers like David Moss, Jaap Blonk and Koichi Makigami with such original musicians like Maja Solveig Ratkje, Ikue Mori and Silvie Courvoisier promises an exceptional happening full of contrast and musical tension. For a starter, Subshrub creates a special “Amuse-Gueule” from delicate voice ingredients.

Fragile songs

Myths and youngsters in the rock and pop sky engross the second night: after the prelude with Nicolas Anatol Baginsky’s robot rock band “The Three Sirens”, celebrated Soap&Skin from Graz presents her young melancholic eerily beautiful songs, followed by the morbid, yet immortal band Pere Ubu around the unbelievable David Thomas who once played himself from Velvet Underground to New Wave and ennobled punk. Don’t miss out on that…

The moving sound

This versatile night makes music move. It starts with the newly created choreography “Red Point” for music, dance, poetry and images by and with Akemi Takeya, the pianist and vocalist Keiko Higuchi and the band Metalycee. Afterwards, Marina Rosenfeld presents the Krems version of “Teenage Lontano”, her celebrated adaptation of Ligeti’s classic “Lontano”, known from “2001”. And finally we will hear the Austrian premiere “Cosmic Pulses” by Karlheinz Stockhausen—his first and last noise music, a powerful whirl of sounds popping through space.

Electro stars

From the depths of electro space the indestructible and legendary comet named Cluster with Moebius and Roedelius appears above Krems, followed at its tail by the bright young star named Felix Kubin, the fighter against gravity. And then, a well-known, still hot glowing meteor named Faust hits the Klangraum—a unique and rare constellation in the sky of E-music.