ABOVE THE RIVER AND UNDER THE SKY
Music

ABOVE THE RIVER AND UNDER THE SKY
Maciej Markowicz
The concert. Wednesday, 15 April, 7 p.m. BTV Stadtforum
Free admission, registration mandatory.

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ABOVE THE RIVER AND UNDER THE SKY
Maciej Markowicz
The concert. Wednesday, 15 April, 7 p.m. BTV Stadtforum
Free admission, registration mandatory.

Register here

Trio Peter Madsen (Piano), Adrian Mears (Posaune / Didgeridoo), Claudio Spieler (Percussion)

As always at INN SITU, the concert format is a specially developed response to the exhibition: The focus this time has been conceived by the pianist Peter Madsen, who lived and worked in Vorarlberg for many years.

Peter Madsen

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Now living in Toronto, the pianist is one of the most influential musicians in Vorarlberg. He taught at the Jazzseminar Dornbirn for twenty years. His most famous student to date is David Helbock. In Vorarlberg he founded the Collective of Improvising Artists (CIA) and developed numerous series such as his live silent movie soundtracks. Peter has toured and continues to tour the world with such performers as Stan Getz, Mario Pavone, or Kiyoto Fujiwara, to name a few. He has released more than 140 albums to date and composed over 500 pieces.

For this project, the New York-born musician developed a special format: He projects selected images from the exhibition into the concert hall. Each of the three musicians plays a solo to two images, while the other two musicians respond with improvisations. The two main elements in Maciej Markowicz’s work provide the framework for the musical interpretation: the bridge as the vantage point and the continuous flow of the water.

Adrian Mears

He was named best Australian Trombonist and his band Best Australian Jazz Group. He composes for various jazz ensembles, chamber orchestras, choirs, a classical brass ensemble as well as for documentary films. Adrian has worked with such legends as McCoy Tyner, Klaus Doldinger, Kenny Wheeler, Carla Bley, or Steve Swallow. From 2000 to 2009, he was a member of the Vienna Art Orchestra. In addition to his concert performances with the Adrian Mears Electric Trio, he is also a professor at the Jazzcampus Basel.

Claudio Spieler

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He studied classical percussion in Austria, continuing his training in Hakim Ludin’s master class from 2004 to 2012. Today Claudio’s diverse musical style ranges from South Indian music and flamenco to Afro-Cuban music, jazz, pop, and Islandic folk music. In concerts and on concert tours with his current formations, including the Austrian Syndicate, Tevana, and the Groovetrotters, he graces international stages at the Reykjavik Jazz Festival, Flamenco Biënnale Nederland, Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival, or at the Wiener Konzerthaus, among others.

 

EVERYTHING BEGINS TO FLOAT
Dialogue

Kunstgrafik einer Spinne in schwarz/weißer Farbe

Jam session for a paleobotanist, environmental ombudsman, philosopher, saxophone, and double bass EVERYTHING BEGINS TO FLOAT.

Each speaker selects a work from the exhibition and discusses it before and with the audience. An open dialogue between various perspectives, with music and inspired by Tamas Dezső’s work. #

Evelyn Kustatscher

She is a paleobotanist who is in charge of the science collection of the Tyrolean State Museums. Her research delves deep into geological history, where she studies plant fossils and the dynamics of prehistoric ecosystems, especially in connection with volcanic eruptions, climate change, and mass extinction. Her focus in all these cases is not merely on past worlds, but also on current questions about the future of our planet.  

Johannes Kostenzer

Johannes Kostenzer

©Johannes Kostenzer

He has been the Tyrolean environmental ombudsman since 2008. He represents public interests in the protection of nature and the environment. A trained biologist, he worked in France and later as an expert consultant for the State of Tyrol. In 2002 he founded the «innsbruck nature film festival» that addresses topics at the interface between nature and art. 

Andreas Oberprantacher

Andreas Oberprantacher

©Andreas Oberprantacher

He is a professor of practical philosophy as well as the head of the Unit for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Innsbruck. His research focuses on human-nature relations and he spends time pondering our «messy world», which he describes as being characterized by diverse forms of violence, but also by resistance and solidarity.  

Florian Bramböck

Florian Bramböck

©Bernhard Hosteck

He stands out as one of the top musicians in his country. The Austrian saxophonist and composer has taught at the Bruckner University in Linz, the Tyrolean State Conservatory, and the Mozarteum University in Salzburg. He was and is a member of numerous jazz ensembles, Vienna Art Orchestra, Saxofour, and Gansch & Roses to name just a few. 

Walter Rumer

He developed one of the first INN SITU concerts in 2019, in which he responded to the exhibition «ANCESTORS. New Portraits» by the Israeli artist-photographer Orly Zailer. The Tyrolean double bassist maneuvers skillfully between centuries-old, so-called early music and music that couldn’t be newer – improvisations in the here and now.  

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