Closing: Ballet Mécanique

Introduction and closing concert with Winfried Ritsch

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Description

The Salzkammergut was a melting pot of the avant-garde in the 19th and 20th centuries. The performance and exhibition of the "Ballet Mécanique" tie in with this tradition and at the same time offer a Salzkammergut version of the visionary masterpiece of classical modernism.

Introduction and closing concert with Winfried Ritsch

“Kanon für Automatenklavier”
by Peter Lackner, 10 min (will be played during the entrance)
Introduction to ensemble mècanique
“Canon for ensemble Mècanique”
by Winfried Ritsch live, 25 min

— Intermission —

“Ex Tempore I”, Antuum, 2024 (world premiere)
Work for ensemble mècanique and controller, 10 min
“when physics starts to resist I”, 2024 (world premiere)
by Winfried Ritsch, 20 min
Work for ensemble mècanique and pendulum,

The concert will be recorded.
— Open End —

In 2019, visual artist Peter Kogler and curator Katrin Bucher-Trantow initiated a reinterpretation of the legendary Ballet Mécanique by American composer George Antheil for Kogler’s exhibition “Connected” at Kunsthaus Graz. The Graz composer Winfried Ritsch subsequently realised this music machine.

More about the project at salzkammergut-2024.at

Programlines

Macht und Tradition, Kultur im Fluss