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No, you’ll be wrong at Linz Danube Park this Saturday if you want to experience Linz’s sound cloud, and you’ll be waiting in vain for the mandatory fireworks. Instead, the Corona version of the sound event under the title “Sounding Linz” can be heard, felt and experienced in every corner of the city, from sunrise to sunset. Starting at 8 p.m., the noise and signals swell for an hour in an urban cacophony, accompanied by the sound of countless radios that the Linzians are supposed to put on the window with the programs of ORF Radio Upper Austria and Radio FRO. This “radio act” is reminiscent of the first Linz Klangwolke in 1979, when Bruckner’s 8th Symphony boomed from the windows.
The quartet of sound artists Peter Androsch, Wolfgang “Fadi” Dorninger, Gitti Vasicek and Sam Auinger invented this “Linz composition”. A broom ballet that strictly follows the score will appear in many parts of the city starting at 10 am. Around 150 wind players will be heard from the tallest buildings. The “Klangwolkenhörner” project signals the connection between the Danube city and the oceans with the roar of ship horns.
Rides and resounding waves
Because the mathematician and physicist Christian Doppler (1803-1853) attended the “German normal school” in Linz for three years, the “Doppler effect” arises, which bears his name (temporal expansion or compression when the distance between the transmitter and receiver for the duration of the signal) to the symphony of fire and police vehicles. There are also sirens, church bells, fountain noises, installed sound flags, and seven guided sound walks from 6:04 am to 11 pm, all of which track the sound of the city. If you feel like taking part in the meandering sound, you can join the “bell wave” where cyclists cycle through the city from 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM (registrations at: [email protected]).
Where do you hear most of this sound cloud spread across the city? Androsch: “When you go for a walk, you take in all the influences.”
If you want to escape from this cleverly furnished noisy room, three “jewels of sound” are recommended (starting at 8pm): Auinger’s three-part performance piece for two voices, four small drums and a rowing organ has place at the Mariendom. In the Ursuline Church you can hear works by the Linz composer Romanus Weichlein (1652-1706). And in the Schlossberg rose garden, Christopher Hütmannsberger, Elena Wolff and Henrik Szanto offer Spoken Word, Rap and Poetry Slam (count cards are issued for all sonic jewels).
The city’s largest orchestra, the Linzer Gugl Stadium, will be interpreted by Dorninger as a “sound arena” with fan chants and football-related acoustics for LASK, MSV Mainz and FC St. Pauli football games. “This is the first time we have brought the sound cloud to the heart of the city,” says Brucknerhaus boss Dietmar Kerschbaum. The production originally planned along the Danube by director Robert Dornhelm, which was canceled due to Corona, would have cost 800,000 euros, the performance everywhere, which has now moved to the city, is budgeted at 500,000 euros. In parallel to “Sounding Linz”, the Linz Art University is investigating the acoustic ecology of the city. 30 professors, students and graduates have been collecting sounds from the state capital since the end of April, thus creating the prerequisites for an artistic and scientific examination of the subject. The Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Stuttgart have already expressed their interest in working together.
Info: www.klangwolke.at
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Peter Grubmüller
