At ORF musikprotokoll 2023, Nick Acorne amazed audiences with his literally acrobatic piano playing. Imagine a three-storey scaffold on which - like in an oversized box - nine pianos stand, three on each level, plus a performer hanging in a safety harness, who flits from piano to piano, turning left and right, sometimes pulling himself up, then abseiling down again, taking the idea of musical performance ad absurdum.
This year, Nick Acorne joined forces with Svitlana Zhitnia and JacqNoise for "Pleasurable Sensory Overload". Acorne and Zhitnia together form the audiovisual duo Zhizhi Nini, which works with self-built sensor-based instruments. As part of a Shape+ artist residency, they met Shape+ artist JacqNoise, who plays hardware synthesisers with chaos algorithms. Together, the three artists created a performance and an installation in the days leading up to our festival.
Shape+ is the platform for exciting new projects in the field of music and audiovisual art, which was co-founded by ORF musikprotokoll in 2014. Shape+ is funded by the "Creative Europe" programme of the European Union and Pro Helvetia.
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