A series of concerts over several years along the banks of the river Große Mühl

 

29. August to 2. + 4. September 2011

Station Neufelden / along the banks of the river Große Mühl

 

Conception and Composition: Michael Pisaro
Co-conception and Production: Joachim Eckl

With musicians from the composers group WANDELWEISER

Antoine Beuger, flute / Jürg Frey, clarinet / Marcus Kaiser, violoncello / Radu Malfatti, trombone / André O. Möller, guitar / Kathryn Pisaro, oboe

FLUSSAUFWAERTS is a long-term exploration of the sounding environments along the Grosse Mühl river in Oberösterreich, starting in Neufelden and working our way downstream to where the river joins the Danube. The locations are oriented around accessible spaces along the Grosse Mühl. The yearly movement is downstream, but the movement from location to location in each particular year is upstream. The entire installation will last one week in the Summer each year.

Each year six locations will be selected within walking distance from each other. At every station, we will set up a sheltered listening area with a pair of speakers. Over the course of the week, the areas will be open for any listeners and also for exploration by the invited performers.

Recordings at each location will be made every day. In the late afternoon (from 15:00 to 17:00) a walk upstream following all six stations will be scheduled, with events at each station.(The events last 12 minutes at each station, followed by eight minutes to arrive at the next location.)

The musicians involved are drawn from the Wandelweiser collective. Over time each will be involved as performer and composer.

The artists work with the support of Joachim Eckl (Heim-Art) and the Hotel Mühltalhof.
In the first year there will be compositions from Antoine Beuger and Radu Malfatti in addition to Michael Pisaro.

This project is tightly connected to the sounding environment and thus the collective perception of the people of the region. It is an opportunity to experience discrete, but perceptible change in our environment through the lens of the Grosse Mühl.

Daily walk to the stations of concerts
along the banks of the river Große Mühl at 3 o' clock

Starting daily on the ground of the HEIM.ART®-Station

Locations for year 1:


Station 1: “Home” location never the Lagerhaus.
Station 2: Near Waterfall
Station 3: River’s Edge (1)
Station 4: River’s Edge (2)
Station 5: Staumauer
Station 6: Stauwasser

 

Website to the project here

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