Sa 10.10.2026
In this programme, PHACE explores how memory, perception, and technology condition one another. Alexander Schubert is one of the defining voices working with artificial intelligence in music. In AUTO FICTION, the German composer links autobiographical material with AI processes that expand the archive of his memories — functioning, in a sense, as a “collective unconscious” of cultural data.
Injuries transform a tree’s wood into prized figured grain. In the work of the same name, Polish composer Rafał Ryterski asks how traumatic experiences inscribe themselves in the body. Ryterski found significant inspiration during an ORF musikprotokoll excursion to the European research centre CERN. Manuela Kerer from South Tyrol draws on historical models of astronomy and, in epicyclic noise, sets tonal movements circling around an imaginary centre. Christoph Renhart unfolds in Échos éloquents a play of reflections and reverberations.
AUTO FICTION is a commission of Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll and PHACE, made possible by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Maserholz is a commission of Radio Österreich 1 in cooperation with ORF musikprotokoll for PHACE. Kindly supported by Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung, ÖGZM, and Polnisches Institut Wien. In cooperation with art@CMS/ORIGIN, CERN, University of Graz (Department of Arts and Musicology and interdisciplinary core research area “Perception: Episteme, Aesthetics, Politics” at the Faculty of Humanities), Florida State University, The University of Alabama, RMIT University, CMS, ALICE, LHCb, ATLAS, HEPHY, IdeaSquare.