"Going to extremes, to the limits. Or operating from behind the limits." - Composers and musicians form 20 nations presented their works and concerts in Graz in october 2010.

When the attitude of the socially virtuoso trickster manifests itself as art, for pleasure or out of necessity, it may be a radically sustained self-experiment (Marino Formenti), an artistic questioning of cultural boundaries as seen from Banja Luka (Sebastian Meissner & Serhat Karakayali), compositional virtuosity at the limits of what can be done with instruments (Arditti Quartet, Klangforum Wien and the RSO Vienna), ostensibly anti-virtuosity combined with the expectation of virtuoso perceptive capacity on the part of the recipient (Klaus Lang), or the intersection of abstraction and rock-the-house (Radian). musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst 2010 operated on and behind the borders of musical virtuosity.

Find here sounds, pictures, program notes and/or videos from the musikprotokoll 2010.