Festival

Piano Preparation

Workshop for composers and instrumentalists with Andreas Orasch

Andreas Orasch is not only a piano maker, but also a piano tuner at KUG and for pianists such as Markus Schirmer. At impuls he will first give an introduction to preparation methods and possibilities on the piano and then answer all your questions. Please bring along your own works, that ask for preparation, or also works by other composers with similar specific needs.

Bernhard Lang Lecture + Discussion

Expect the Unexpected: The Writing-Game

Klaus Lang Lecture + Discussion

presence and illusion

Composers' Talk

Beat Furrer | Francesco Filidei | Mauro Hertig | Katharina Rosenberger

Alexander Kaiser moderation

Beat Furrer Lecture

On Voice

hand werk . meet the ensemble

hand werk invites all participants of the impuls Academy 2023 for a two-hour discussion/meeting, in which main aspects of an ensemble's development are discussed. Topics include profile development, curation and programming, work with mission and vision statements, professionalisation (business) and public appearance.

Mauro Lanza Lecture + Discussion

Old technologies and ghosts

Mauro Lanza will discuss this topic on basis of the cycle "Aether is a haunted place" and "The Lincolnshire Poacher".

Exchange on Specifics of Trumpet and Brass

Workshop for composers with Émilie Fortin

Canadian trumpet player and improvisor Émilie Fortin invites all composition participants, interested in learning more about specificities of trumpet and brass instruments in contemporary music, to meet her at the impuls Academy, where she is present with her partner Gabo Champagne as Duo Schwing.

On Organ

Workshop with Klaus Lang

As composer, concert organist and improvisator on the organ, harmonium and similar key instruments, Klaus Lang will give an insight into the possibilities of sonic and playing techniques and special features of the organ. Also specific questions in relation to composing for organ will be discussed.

After the workshop Klaus Lang invites to a one-hour improvisation organ concert, open also to the public.

Katharina Rosenberger Lecture + Discussion

Why does it matter …?

On E-Zither

Workshop for composers and instrumentalists with Leopold Hurt

Leopold Hurt, composer as well as member of the Decoder Ensemble as conductor and with electric zither, will introduce you to the instrument e-zither in his workshop. He will hereby also give numerous practical tips on setups, notation, traditional and advanced playing techniques.

Clara Iannotta Lecture + Discussion

where the dark earth bends

Drum set in Contemporary Music

Workshop for composers and percussionists with Jonathan Shapiro

In his workshop Jonathan Shapiro, percussionist of the Decoder Ensemble, gives an insight into the history of the drum set and its use in contemporary music. Not only topics such as the exploration of extended playing techniques and sounds or the expansion with additional instruments, objects and electronics will be addressed, but so will the discourse on current directions in contemporary music using the drum set. On top Jonathan Shapiro will present excerpts of pieces on the drum set, and also participants are invited to perform pieces for drum set themselves or to bring along corresponding compositions.

Pierluigi Billone Lecture + Discussion

33 Questions

Franck Bedrossian Lecture + Discussion

Text as an enduring shadow - the becoming of an influence

Johannes Kalitzke Lecture

Story Teller, for cello and orchestra

Francesca Verunelli Lecture + Discussion

Orchestrating is tuning, tuning is orchestrating

François Sarhan Lecture + Discussion

Analogies

Dmitri Kourliandski Lecture + Discussion

music is toxic

Marco Stroppa Lecture + Discussion
Composition and Space: a mutual lively interaction, from chamber electronics to spatialised chamber music across electroacoustic totems (or space in sound vs. sound in space)

With some exceptions, space has often been an ornamental component in the compositional process. In this seminar, I would like to show some musical research around the space, I have been pursuing in my work since its beginning. This concerns both electronic and purely instrumental compositions and aims at showing, that only certain kinds of music can inhabit and enlighten a composed space.

Peter Ablinger Lecture + Discussion

Music and the Anthropocene

Franck Bedrossian | Francesco Filidei Lecture + Discussion

Exchanging Piano Concertos 

Mark Andre Lecture + Discussion

On the vanishing of the innermost, compositional interstices: an approach

Lucia Ronchetti Lecture + Discussion

Treatment of the text in opera, music theatre, choral opera, and dramaturgy 

Video fragments from my recent productions of opera, music theater projects, choral opera, and dramaturgy discuss the complexities of composing for voice in contemporary musical theater. The text is seen as the basis for the dramaturgical project, as sound material, and as the driver of formal development in composition. The voice is considered as a means of interpreting the text and treated with historical and contemporary techniques. It blends operatic emissions, natural vocal sounds, extended vocal techniques, and special effects to emphasize the material aspects present in text fragments. 

Composers' Talk

Maurizio Azzan | Malin Bång | Oren Boneh | Sachie Kobayashi

Johannes Kalitzke moderation

Meet the Composers

Sachie Kobayashi | Malin Bång | Maurizio Azzan | Oren Boneh

Johannes Kalitzke moderation

Presentations and discussion with the composers of the impuls commissions after the premieres of their new works on August 2nd as well as Malin Bång, one of the winners of the impuls Composition Competition back in 2013.

Klangforum Wien . Reading Sessions

Johannes Kalitzke conductor, moderation

Works by Hed Bahack | Carolina Cerezo Dávila | Kevin Kay | Patrycja Kołodziejska | Roman Parkhomenko | Francisco Javier Sánchez Barajas

On top of premiering four new impuls commissions on August 2nd, Klangforum Wien and Johannes Kalitzke offer a full day with readings for young composer participants of the impuls Academy, where, amongst others, questions on formal and esthetic aspects, notation and instrumentation are discussed.

Francesco Filidei Lecture + Discussion

On my first opera Giordano Bruno