10 | ACFNY | 12 | CONCERT | RUPERT HUBER | WHAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED ?
The Austrian Cultural Forum is pleased to present this concert by Austrian composer Rupert Huber, as part of its special 10-year anniversary series of programs. Huber, who is probably best-known for his work with Richard Dorfmeister, of Kruder & Dorfmeister fame, on their duo-project Tosca, will be performing a new composition on the ACFNY’s state-of-the-art baby grand piano linked with live electronics and a sonic projection.
Huber’s new piece What could have happened? 10 scenes for piano, live electronics and sonic projection takes a hypothetical look at situations that could have occurred during the last ten years of the building’s existence, and directly references the architecture of the Austrian Cultural Forum. He took the architectural plan and spacial relations as a point of departure from which he then developed the structure of the composition, finally creating the score for a sonic projection. What could have happened? is an amalgamation of instrumental music, audio drama, and sound art.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
For the past 11 years, Rupert Huber (photo by Fritz Fitzke) has been working on a series of piano solos and piano pieces combined with live electronics. Since 1993, the electronic projection of vocal sounds and music has been the focal point of his sound installations and radio work. The Vienna-based composer studied at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna and at the University of Vienna. He plays the piano, synthesizer, guitar, bass and saxophone. He integrates space and the electronic and/or psychological projection of musical or tonal content into his compositions: a three- dimensional score. Compositions of this format have been commissioned by, among others, Wiener Festwochen (Private Exile, 2004), Centre Pompidou (Sonic Process, 2002) and Ars Electronica (Radiotopia, 2002). Rupert Huber has not only implemented his ideas artistically; he has also applied them to music composed for film (Food Design, 2008; Berggasse 19, 2006); TV (C.S.I. Miami, Sex and the City) and radio (signations for the ORF -Austrian Broadcasting Company.) Huber’s dimensional music approach can also be heard in his sound design for museums (Museum of Art History, Vienna), in interactive sound design for CD ROMs / DVDs / websites (The Freud Society), and in sound design for advertising campaigns.
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This event has been produced in close collaboration with the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture.
ABOUT THE SERIES
The year 2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the Austrian Cultural Forum’s landmark midtown building, which was designed by the late Raimund Abraham, as what Herbert Muschamp of the New York Times called a “lucidly rational modern glass tower” that provides a “gateway into the tradition of modernity associated with Vienna at the turn of the last century.” A host of different events and series throughout the year will commemorate these past ten years on many different levels.
Ten concerts featuring newly commissioned works and dedications by contemporary composers form the musical focal point of these special anniversary programs. While most of the featured composers are Austrian, the performers are renowned Austrian and American contemporary ensembles, such as Klangforum, Talea Ensemble, ICE Ensemble, and the JACK Quartet.
The ten concerts, which will take place throughout the year, reflect the gateway to modernity associated with Austria in the ten years following this most recent turn of the century. Another highlight of the anniversary concert series, which is co-presented & supported by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture features six young Austrian electronic artists and composers – such as Dorian Concept, Rupert Huber, Bernhard Fleischmann & Wolfgang Mitterer – all of whom will be featured at the ACFNY as well as in NYC clubs throughout the year.
VENUE
ACFNY