Interpretation and Spatialisation of Acousmatic and Electroacoustic Music
with Thomas Gorbach
This course offers the rare opportunity to interpret and spatialise acousmatic and electroacoustic music on the Vienna Acousmonium, a large-scale loudspeaker orchestra.
The focus is on the fundamentals of sound projection and spatialisation: How can sound gestures, textures, and sonic characters unfold in space? How can movement, depth, foreground and background relationships, rotations, layering, and acoustic illusions be used as musical elements? Participants will learn to perceive spatial listening phenomena consciously and to shape them artistically through the possibilities offered by the mixing console and the loudspeaker orchestra.
The course introduces practical methods for the interpretation of acousmatic music, the spatial articulation of musical forms, and their realization on the Vienna Acousmonium. Participants may work either with their own compositions or with selected works from the acousmatic repertoire.
The course concludes with the public interpretation of a work of the participant’s choice on the Vienna Acousmonium during one of the three festival days.
Theory, Craft and Practice of Acousmatic Composition
with Annette Vande Gorne
How can individual sounds be shaped into musical gestures, tensions, and forms? This course introduces practical tools and compositional strategies of acousmatic composition and supports participants in developing their own artistic voice.
The course focuses on energy models and play sequences, techniques of sound montage and layering, and methods of sound transformation in frequency, spectrum, amplitude, time, and space. These approaches help participants structure sound materials, shape formal relationships, and develop musical ideas with precision and clarity.
The techniques are presented not as rigid rules, but as creative tools for developing an individual compositional practice. Through the interaction of listening, imagination, and technological possibilities, participants explore their own approaches to sound organization and form building.
Participants work on their own compositions and receive individual feedback on compositional, sonic, and formal aspects of their work. Compositions created or further developed during the course may be presented publicly during the festival and performed on the Vienna Acousmonium.
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