VIO: The Living Score Event

VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA : THE LIVING SCORE
iinstant composition conducting by Michael Fischer

Isabell Kargl - voice
Mara Kolibri - voice
Boglárka Bábiczki - voice
Tahereh Nourani - flute
Ilse Riedler - tenor saxophone
Ja Kop Gnigler - tenor saxophone
Uwe Bressnik - pocket trumpet
Simon Frick - violin
Annelie Gahl - viola
Maria Frodl - cello
Clemens Leopold Sainitzer - cello
Markus W. Schneider - guitar
Mic Zacherl - scivolo
Wolfgang Reisinger - drums

A very joyful welcome to Annelie Gahl who will join the VIO for the first time!

Freier Eintritt / free admission

The VIO focuses on conducted instant composition, a specific form of complex improvised music and experimental composition. Within an oscillating process musicians and conductor create ad hoc composition, mediated by a vocabulary of hand-sign conducting. - The VIO is Austria’s first orchestra dedicating itself to this method which has been developed in variety by a few improvising orchestras within the last 15-20 years, mostly referring to Lawrence D. “Butch” Morris’ work on ‘conductions’.
Performing in ever changing line-ups the VIO unifies singers and musicians out of acoustic and electro-acoustic improvised music, contemporary composed music, jazz and eminent new music ensembles and is a permanent and spontaneous welcoming host for international musicians.
Since its beginning the possible processes of merging sound and recitation, their vice versa influence, the metamorphosis of sound- and word-pictures a.o. phenomenons arising, were an additional beam of the VIO’s poetic presence, hence the VIO is collaborating with splendid writers in experimental poetry Petra Ganglbauer, Ilse Suzie Kilic, Margret Kreidl, Pete Waugh, Semier Insayif, Gerhard Rühm a.o.
The VIO works within a wide range of projects a.o. inviting guest conductor Chefa Alonso (Madrid) and collaborating with international improvising orchestras (GGRIL - improvisers orchestra Rimouski, Quebec/CAN, BIO/Budapest), choirs, multi lingual and within interdisciplinary contexts.