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.

 

JETZT UND DA
Dialogue

Dialogue-based guided tour with ethnologist Silke Meyer
Experts talking about their perceptions of Innsbruck 03.10.2018 07.00 PM
Discussion
between ethnologist Silke Meyer, author Christoph W. Bauer and architecture expert Arno Ritter.
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Dialogue-based guided tour with ethnologist Silke Meyer
Experts talking about their perceptions of Innsbruck 03.10.2018 07.00 PM
Discussion
between ethnologist Silke Meyer, author Christoph W. Bauer and architecture expert Arno Ritter.

New formats of exchange and reflection

A dialogue will round off the triad of dramatic composition for INN SITU. We will invite people from the spheres of science/research, everyday culture and music to respond to the outsider perspectives presented in the exhibition. The aim of this is to experiment with new ways to exchange viewpoints.

We started with a dialogue-based jam session between three different perspectives on the theme of ‘city’: ethnology, architecture and urban histories. The three speakers Silke Meyer, Christoph W. Bauer and Arno Ritter will each select an image from the exhibition and explain how they perceive the city today. They were musically accompanied by Juliana Haider and Siggi Haider.

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The Experts

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Silke Meyer

University Professor Dr. Silke Meyer has been living in Innsbruck for approximately a decade and teaches at the Institute of History and European Ethnology. Her research focuses primarily on national identity, visual culture and photography. For her post-doctoral research, she was awarded the Regional Capital of Innsbruck Award [Preis der Landeshauptstadt Innsbruck] in 2017. She was also presented the Ars Docendi State Prize for her teachings in 2013.

Florian Schneider

Christoph W. Bauer

Author Christoph W. Bauer has delved deep into the city of Innsbruck in a series of publications, including in the books The Second Outsider [Die zweite Fremde] and In the Alphabet of Houses – a novel about a city [Im Alphabet der Häuser, Roman einer Stadt], both of which were published by Haymon Verlag. He was awarded the Tyrol Regional Prize for Art in 2015.

Arno Ritter

Arno Ritter is the director and programmer for the exhibition space “aut.architektur und tirol” in Innsbruck. He is a recognised expert in urban development issues. During the preliminary stage of the project, he took the exhibition artists on a tour of the city and shed light on its architectural history and future issues.

Musikalische Kommentare und Zusammenfassungen

Siggi Haider (accordion, vocals, percussion)—musical adventurer
The Tyrolean artist has been a firmly established theatre and radio musician in southern regions of the German-speaking world for many years. Various solo activities, including with well-known actors Felix Mitterer and Tobias Moretti, and with the Modern Times Orchestra at the Ruhrtriennale music and arts festival.
Iris Krug

Julia Haider (saxophone and vocals, actress)
writes and plays music for the stage. Various collaborations with her father Siggi Haider, e.g. with Felix Mitterer in Kafka’s “Report to an Academy”.

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