Klangforum Wien creates a suggestive network of sound. The acoustic landscape of a spruce forest and the subterranean communication network of trees inspired Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen to write her piano concerto, in which the interior of the instrument itself is transformed into a forest landscape. Composers Madli Marje Gildemann of Estonia and Karen Power or Ireland also use biological processes as a source of inspiration and have written new works for this concert.

Canada-based composer, artist, curator, and author Sandeep Bhagwati has shaped current postcolonial discourses with his essays. For Klangforum, he has conceived a work that places musicians in a nonhierarchical spatial arrangement. They do not follow a score but instructions received via headphones – a work weaves a finemesh textured entanglement of composition and improvisation.