The naked human body – lost to the world, but manifesting itself through the voice, in song and in the utterance of words: In search of the primordial logos, Francesca Verunelli questions the naked voice, la nuda voce. Klangforum Wien, too, represents a body: James Dillon examines this highly virtuoso and equally fragile “ensemble body” in all its ritual dynamics. Martin Smolka abandons all traces of corporeality, instead creating an image of angels in feathery-winged vehicles. It’s all about the primeval foundation of sound.

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Nackte Stimme

Wiener Konzerthaus

For Lisa Streich, the sky above us represents a constant in relation to the brittle realities of life. With Himmel, she paints a plethora of tonal colours with spectral chords, which allow the fluctuation between rupture and continuity to become palpable. In Andělské schody (Angel Steps), Martin Smolka's childhood memories of a path through the landscape popularly known as "angel steps" are echoed in his precise art of orchestration as a microtonal journey with a plurality of compositional ideas.

Beijing Modern Music Festival

CCOM Opera & Concert Hall, Beijing

The Symposion project takes up the theme of intoxication culture, going back to antiquity. The ancient social practice (cf. Plato’s Symposion) inspired an evening with music of our time, perceived in the slowly changing conditions of collective, relaxed inebriation...

Agrigento 2025 – La Cultura Dell’ Ascolto – Symposion

Teatro dell'Efebo, Agrigento

Multi-faceted works by Carola Bauckholt, Francesco Filidei and Martin Smolka form the programme of this concert evening in Graz. Together with ensemble members of Klangforum Wien, students of the master's programme “Performance Practice in Contemporary Music” (PPCM) at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz demonstrate their skills and perform Bauckholt's Pacific Time, Filidei's Ballata No. 7 and Smolka's ANDĚLSKÉ SCHODY - Angel Steps. At the helm of the concert is Claire Levacher.

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Oct 22, 2025

Nackte Stimme · Klangforum Wien

May 16, 2025

Beijing Modern Music Festival · Klangforum Wien

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