Josef Klammer & Seppo Gründler
at.mur.at

Concert / Premiere

Dates
7.10.2020

Details
7.10., 19:30

Location
Aussichtsplattform Radetzkybrücke
Graz

Series
musikprotokoll 2020

Production specifics
Visual piano: Kurt Laurenz Theinert
Text: Volha Hapeyeva
Speaker/performer: Ninja Reichert
Operator: Nick Acorne
Concept and music: Josef Klammer and Seppo Gründler

A production of Art in Public Space (KIÖR) in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll

The new city balcony on the bank of the Mur near Radetzkybrücke becomes a stage: Josef Klammer and Seppo Gründler conceived a performance with sound, light, and text for this location. The artistic bridging of the Mur is also reflected in the name of the project, at.mur.at. The riverbanks are projection surfaces; various urban spaces are linked with one another visually and acoustically. The libretto comes from Volha Hapeyeva, Graz’s Writer-in-Residence in 2019/20, and is interpreted by actor Ninja Reichert. With his “visual piano,” media artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert adds live abstract light spaces.

Klammer and Gründler have been working with site-specific sounds and electronics in a live context since the 1980s. In their artistic practice, they also exploit hidden sound treasures—be it the vanishing noises of iron mining in the town of Eisenerz or the background noises that arise in analog and digital music production. For at.mur.at, they have ferreted out “hidden sounds.” Latently audible material is used in a productive way.

To the artists, it is also important to bridge the Mur as a sociocultural threshold within the city. at.mur.ataddresses and breaks down boundaries between stage and stands, between right and left, and between east and east. The audience is also called upon and asked to disseminate sound and light over their smartphones with the aid of the “second screen” function. at.mur.at thus becomes a spectacle on the water and in the open air that connects cultural spaces in Graz.

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