THE LANDSCAPE ORGAN – Salzkammer Hall/Sound 4

Alternative date in case of bad weather: 19.10.2024

The LANDSCHAFTSORGEL is a project for wind musicians in the strength of several bands that make a valley basin resound. Groups of instruments and ensembles take up positions and thus become a polyphonic organ that sends large sound surfaces through the gravel pit.

Powerful melodies spread out just as much as harsh bursting sound bubbles and delicate trill clouds or radiant major chords.The landscape becomes a sound space, the sounds overlap, shift due to the slowness of the sound and return as echoes.

After this 50-minute burst of sound, the musicians make their way to the final assembly point. On the way to the common, final “Einton”, marches from the repertoire are heard, and depending on the location, the overlapping rhythms shift into a wild, archaic mix of marching drums, melodic fragments and pulsating basses. The group you are close to sounds dominant until it has marched past and the sounds of more distant bands penetrate again.

Arriving at the meeting point, all the musicians gradually join in a long, swelling unison that becomes quieter again after a powerful climax and finally ends in silence.

The audience walks around or stands in random places and immerses itself in the dynamic depths of sound and silence.Everyone hears something different.
Details at salzkammerschall.at/landschaftsorgel