AT.MUR.AT
Wednesday October 7th at 7:30 pm
Radetzky Bridge observation deck, Graz
Booking and details at: www.musikprotokoll.orf.at
visual piano: Kurt Laurenz Theinert
Text: Volha Hapeyeva
Speaker/performer: Ninja Reichert
Operator: Nick Acorne
Concept and music: Josef Klammer and Seppo Gründler
The new city balcony on the bank of the Mur near Radetzkybrücke becomes a stage: Josef Klammer and Seppo Gründler conceived a performance with sound, light, and text for this location. The artistic bridging of the Mur is also reflected in the name of the project, at.mur.at. The riverbanks are projection surfaces; various urban spaces are linked with one another visually and acoustically. The libretto comes from Volha Hapeyeva, Graz’s Writer in Residence in 2019/2020, and is interpreted by actor Ninja Reichert. With his “visual piano”, media artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert adds live abstract light spaces.
Klammer and Gründler have been working with site-specific sounds and electronics in a live context since the 1980s. In their artistic practice, they also discover hidden sound treasures – be it the vanishing noises of iron mining in the town of Eisenerz or the background noises that arise in analogue and digital music production. For at.mur.at, they have also ferreted out “hidden sounds”. Latently audible material is used in a productive way.
To the artists, it is also important to bridge the Mur as a sociocultural threshold within the city. at.mur.at addresses and breaks down boundaries between stage and stands, between right and left, and between east and west. The audience is also called upon and asked to disseminate sound and light with the aid of the “second screen” function of their smartphones. at.mur.at thus becomes a spectacle on the water and in the open air that connects cultural spaces in Graz.
A production of art in the public space of Styria in cooperation with the ORF musikprotokoll.
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3 MAL 3
Friday October 16 to Sunday October 18
From 7 p.m. to 9.30 p.m. (tour of three museums)
Heidenheim Art Museum, Marienstraße 4, 89518 Heidenheim
As part of the museum tour
Booking and details at: www.veranstaltungen.heidenheim.de
Kurt Laurenz Theinert, visual piano
Günther Reger, saxophone and wind synthesizer
The light artist Kurt Laurenz Theinert, together with Günther Reger on the saxophone and wind synthesizer, fills the room with light and sound. Kurt Laurenz Theinert is a live light and media artist. He creates media light spaces - live, abstract and space-filling with 360 ° panorama projections. With the worldwide unique instrument ‚visual piano‘ he fills rooms and walls with lines, structures and colors in real time. His light concerts are shown worldwide - from Sao Paulo, London, Sydney, Berlin to New York to Singapore.
Günther Reger is a painter and musician. He conducts interdisciplinary research on color, light and sound and their interrelationships in a border-crossing sense. Reger is able to subtly combine different musical with other artistic forms or to set them in contrast to one another. Reger has played on international stages around the world. His saxophones, his wind synthesizer with controlled synth modules form the basis of a space-creating music that goes into contemplation.
www.theinert-lichtkunst.de
www.guenther-reger.de
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ERSCHEINUNG
Thursday October 22nd to Sunday October 25th
Always from 6 p.m. to 9.30 p.m.
Light installation by Kurt Laurenz Theinert with sounds by Timber Hanreich as part of the Reelkirchen light art walk
Light art from the moated castle to the church. Thirteen artists show their works, which can be discovered in the form of a walk in the moated castle, in the village and in the church. Participating artists: Davy & Kristin McGuire, Nikola Dicke, Katharina Veldhues and Gottfried Schumacher, Laurenz Theinert, Simona Koch, Yvonne Goulbier, Tintin Patrone, Cornelia Rößler, Jan Philip Scheibe, Birgitta Weimer, Claudia Robles-Angel, Oliver Schirmer, Dani Bekirsch
Foodtruck: Dr. Vegetary
The project is funded by the Ministry of Culture and Science within the framework of regional cultural policy and by the Künstlerdorf Schöppingen Foundation.
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MODERN ART ILLUMINATES OLD STONES
"... The lights go out, followed by a murmur through the crowd. Thomas Maos joins in with meditative sounds on his bright red electric guitar. As if in a trance, he rocks in the weak spotlight. Kurt Laurenz Theinert, with his back to the Audience, playing on the remains of the historic city wall with colored light, seeming psychedelic and confusing at the same time, which in turn is reflected in dark sounds that are flooded by flashes of light.
The following interaction between the two exceptional artists is unparalleled: Through a virtuoso interplay of guitar and light piano, supported by loops and self-made amplifiers, the viewer is kidnapped on a light-inspired sound journey that carries every mood: to oppressive end-time sounds Black and white light threads follow, which are replaced by melodious, azure-blue guitar riffs. The audience applauds enthusiastically to rhythmic club beats. Dancing circles are broken by shimmering straight lines, light networks spread out and dissolve into barcode-like structures. The illuminations appear like imaginary brushstrokes on the almost 500 year old Kirchheim city wall, which on this evening becomes a contemporary work of art made of colors, light and sound. ... " Anja Schulenburg, Teckbote
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ALLES NUR FASSADE
In darkness, light transforms the world. What seems firmly built suddenly starts moving, changes and gets a new life. Reality becomes an illusion. Poetry hugs the old walls like a delicate skin. Oversized hands working on the facade cut holes in which new worlds appear. Colors appear and fade again. The supposedly familiar is transformed like a ghost and abducted into a new reality.
Many thanks to everyone who made this event possible as well as Thomas Maos and Fried Dähn for the music.
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