Festival

Composition and Interpretation

18.45-19.45 Open Rehearsal (new work by Marin Escande)

Followed by Q&A session & mica-talk

With composers Omer Barash, Louis Bona, Marin Escande, Hristina Šušak, musicians from Klangforum Wien and conductor Johannes Kalitzke

Doris Weberberger moderation

Composers' Talk

Omer Barash | Louis Bona | Marin Escande | Hristina Šušak

Johannes Kalitzke moderation

A half hour Composers' Talk before the Laureate Concert with Klangforum Wien, premiering four new impuls commissions.

Meet the Composers

Omer Barash | Louis Bona | Marin Escande | Hristina Šušak

Johannes Kalitzke moderation

Presentations and discussion with the composers of the impuls commissions after the premieres of their new works on February 8^th 2027.

Prima Vista . Reading Sessions with Klangforum Wien

Johannes Kalitzke conductor, moderation

On top of premiering 4 new impuls commissions on February 8^th, 2027, Klangforum Wien and its conductor Johannes Kalitzke offer a full day of Reading Sessions for young composer participants of the impuls Academy on February 9^th, 2027, and thus a unique chance for composers to get a quick live impression of their work in an uncomplicated, curiosity-driven Sight Reading Session, where amongst others, questions on formal and aesthetic aspects, notation and instrumentation are discussed.

Piano Preparation

Workshop for composers, pianists and other interested impuls participants with Andreas Orasch

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

Laure M. Hiendl Lecture + Discussion

Score Sampling: Intertextuality, Anti-Gravity, and the Infinite Wrappings of Musical Pasts

How little musical material can sustain an hour of music? Starting from an excerpt of Ralph Vaughan Williams's Fifth Symphony, found on a Spotify playlist titled "relaxing orchestra music," this talk traces my hour-long ensemble piece "Seht meine Wunden …" (2022) and a technique I call score sampling: translating the digital sampler, the paradigmatic instrument of intertextuality, into instrumental writing through self-programmed software. Drawing on Fredric Jameson and Lauren Berlant, I discuss how these textures dissolve phrase and gesture into an "antigravity" of directionless material, and what it means for musicians to inhabit a perception by the machine.

Francesca Verunelli Lecture + Discussion

Sarah Nemtsov Lecture + Discussion

Ulysses Discourse Day . Emerging Artists

Trio Abstrakt . Meet the ensemble

Meeting-Discussion with Trio Abstrakt

Trio Abstrakt invites to 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, professionalization (business) and public appearance.

Ulysses Discourse Day . Emerging Artists

Meet K!ART and MINU-festival director Mikkel Schou 

Meeting-Discussion with K!ART

Mikkel Schou as well as Rob Durnin, member of K!ART and composer, performer, curator in his own name, invite to an approximately 1,5-hour discussion/meeting, that will present the profiles of both the festival and the ensemble in more detail, provide insight from two different perspectives (ensemble and promoter) into topics such as how programming comes about, how to develop a USP, address and target audiences, generate publicity, find financing, etc.

Ulysses Discourse Day . Emerging Artists

Careers in a fluid environment of contemporary music

Workshop-Meeting-Discussion with Uli Fussenegger

Over the past 25 years, the wider field of contemporary music has not only shaken the established artistic profiles of creative artists, it has also left its mark on professional structures. We are confronted with an extremely fluid environment of event organisers, festivals and even traditional institutions, which are increasingly (forced to) question their own relevance and legitimacy in a disruptive social environment.

For us artists, living and working in such a biotope presents a double challenge: How can artistic vision and creative freedom be preserved while at the same time seeking and securing the foundations for a secure existence?

On Cello

Workshop with Eva Böcker

With "On Cello", Eva Böcker invites not only her cello students but also, and above all, composers and other interested participants of the impuls Academy to an approximately 2,5-hour workshop, that offers for example insights into repertoire, notation, technical specifications for the instrument and developments in the context of contemporary music, including extended techniques. If of interest, this can partly also be examplified using scores for solo cello pieces as well as specific questions submitted in advance by the impuls Academy participants.

Pierre Jodlowski Performative Lecture

Opposites forces

The further neoliberal capitalism advances, the more intelligence regresses…

This observation, bitterly confirmed by numerous commentators, sociologists, artists and philosophers, raises a series of major questions about the place of art in our societies. Not in the classical sense of defining art as an independent form of expression, detached from its ties to society, but rather as a practice rooted in the world that seeks to preserve its independence—a fundamental condition for any genuinely profound process of creation.

In his work “New Extractivism”, artist and researcher Vladan Joler proposes a new cartography of civilisation, in which individuals are constrained by new forms of submission, not far from a new form of slavery, through widespread dependence on social networks and their many digital artefacts, including AI, which have become an integral part of our behaviours.

Conceived as a performance and grounded in a deep commitment to exchange, this lecture will explore the challenges of interdisciplinary creative practice in such a context. It ultimately raises a simple question: what is the difference between composing and being a composer? Between the act of composing and the act of being—of being in the world, of taking part in shaping it and engaging with the issues that define it?

Simon Steen-Andersen Lecture + Discussion

Ondřej Adámek Lecture + Discussion

Voice, text, and language as sources of musical material

Stefan Prins Lecture + Discussion

Clara Iannotta Lecture + Discussion

into a world that is pure blue

Lisa Streich Lecture + Discussion

Alberto Posadas Lecture + Discussion

Marco Stroppa Lecture + Discussion

A pat(c)h through my compositional realms, across the society, poetry, politics and expressivity

Beat Furrer Lecture + Discussion

Milica Djordjević  Lecture + Discussion

Jack Sheen Lecture + Discussion

Ceremony Container

In my lecture, I would like to share and talk about my performance-installation works. Ceremony Container, written for Ensemble Mosaik and Silent Green (Berlin) in 2024, with its long-duration and spatial format, hereby offers a starting point for elaborating on composition beyond traditional stage works.

Robin Hoffmann Lecture + Discussion

Offline Composing

Carola Bauckholt Lecture + Discussion

A Keen Ear

Lecture and discussion on works by Carola Bauckholt

On Percussion

Special Program for composers with Christian Dierstein

Aside from his class for percussionists, Christian Dierstein invites composers to an additional Masterclass, that will put a special emphasis on new techniques for percussionists as well as specialities of music-theatrical forms. Specially for composer participants of impuls 2027 he will thematize particular new techniques on percussion-instruments as well as striking applications and tools. A good basis hereby offers the book "The Techniques of Percussion Playing. Mallets, Implements and Applications" by Christian Dierstein, Jens Ruland und Michel Roth, published by Bärenreiter Verlag.

Annesley Black Lecture + Discussion

Believing in the wild

Introductory discussion 

with Beat Furrer and Cordula Bürgi

Andreas Karl moderation