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Peter Jakober

Give me a love song – Artists’ Picks

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What constitutes a good love song? What stories and associations does it conjure? We took Valentine’s Day as an opportunity to ask musicians, composers and songwriters for their recommendations for love songs and why they were chosen. The result is a beautiful … read more »

February 13, 2025
portraits/interviews

Austrian Music Highlights: April 2024

Album cover - Paisajes Interrumpidos

In German, they say “April does what it will”, which seems to be particularly true this year. We’ve hardly had time to take note of the weather, though – we’ve been out in the great wide open, fulfilling our raison d’être of … read more »

April 16, 2024
contemporary music, festivals, global news, jazz/improvisation, news, on tour, pop/rock/electronic

CROSSWAYS: Visualization in contemporary music

Still from Roisz / Kovacic - MOPCUT'S "AQUAMARINE"

The border between sound and image has always been blurred, if not obsolete. In fact, the two fields are, in many ways, inherently enmeshed. The question is just how much one re-veals or exposes it, and from what lens or angle one … read more »

November 24, 2022
news

ASPEKTE SALZBURG 2022 – FESTIVAL FOR MUSIC OF OUR TIME

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The aspekteFESTIVAL is breaking the biennial rhythm – or keeping it – depending on how you see it, through the craziness of the pandemic. The 45th edition of the festival for new music took place, after a one-time postponement from 2020 to … read more »

January 31, 2022
contemporary music, festivals, news

“I THINK IT’S EXTREMELY IMPORTANT NOT TO LOSE SIGHT OF WHAT CULTURE CAN DO AND ART MUST DO” – BERNHARD GÜNTHER (WIEN MODERN)

Bernhard Günther (c) nafezrerhuf

WIEN MODERN, Austria’s largest festival for new music, now in its 34th edition, could be given sub-headers this year like: a major opera premiere at the Odeon, music theatre and dance, performances, multimedia and images, immersive projects, walk-in installations and exhibitions, major … read more »

November 11, 2021
contemporary music, festivals

CROSSWAYS IN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC: CHOREOGRAPHY & DANCE II

Crossways Dance

In the second part of “Crossways in Contemporary Music: Choreography & Dance” we come across compositional works by BERNHARD LANG, ARTURO FUENTES, PETER JAKOBER and JOHANNES MARIA STAUD, while the third part, with compositions by PETER KUTIN, PIA PALME, JORGE SÁNCHEZ-CHIONG, LISSIE RETTENWANDER … read more »

October 19, 2021
contemporary music

Crossways in Contemporary Music – Nature I

A trans- and interdisciplinary research journey – Chapter 1: Nature Nature is present in music in a variety of ways. Composers draw inspiration from it, use sounds of nature in their compositions, or make abstract connections to nature. The sounds of nature … read more »

October 11, 2021
contemporary music, news

“Sound Cloud I” – An interview with Peter Jakober

Peter Jakober (c) Franz Reiterer

The idea for the opening play of the MUSIKTHEATERTAGE WIEN 2019 was born during a meeting for a new musical play. The idea of a kind of sound installation in the WUK, which would take up the theme of civilisation, was given … read more »

August 26, 2019
contemporary music, news, portraits/interviews

Austrian Music Export & Musiktheatertage Wien 2018

Musiktheatertage Wien © Martin Wenk

For the first time, Musiktheatertage Wien and Austrian Music Export are hosting a Producers’ Meeting. Ten productions, which emerged out of a call on proposals, will be presented to an audience of international professionals at Musiktheatertage Wien 2018. What is „music theatre“? What is … read more »

June 15, 2018
contemporary music, festivals, news

Musiktheatertage Wien: Producers´ Meeting

Musiktheatertage Wien, Pressefoto © Martin Wenk

Musiktheatertage Wien and Austrian Music Export invite international producers to a Producers´ Meeting taking place at Werk X on June 16, 2018. Ten productions will be presented in form of brief presentations as part of Musiktheatertage Wien 2018. Austrian Music Export cordially invites … read more »

May 16, 2018
contemporary music, festivals, news
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