Series of electronic music concerts Acoustic parallel worlds and how to tackle them artistically – this is the red thread of this year’s electroacoustic series at steirischer herbst/musikprotokoll.Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Michael Esposito’s parallel universe is one of spirits and the deceased. Hausswolff, concept artist and composer from Stockholm and Esposito, ghost hunter, sound artist and researcher from Chicago, weave electronic sounds and “EVP” (Electronic Voice Phenomena) to create dense acoustic collages. For Achim Wollscheid and Bernhard Schreiner, parallelism is an abstraction, an idea that dreams of simultaneous correspondence and division. The two artists, who work in Frankfurt, confront each other blind – visually separated on stage – with tonal variations of different solos, in an attempt to connect them.Jason Lescalleet, an artist devoted to researching and transforming insignificant everyday sounds, concludes the series of concerts. Lescalleet uses simple analog technology such as belt driven machines to transpose supposedly familiar sounds into a different reality, that are however, none the less incredible for the listener. As if with an acoustic magnifying glass, without reference, he designs new worlds of sound.

Tue 04/10, 21.30 Achim Wollscheid (D) & Bernhard Schreiner (D/A)

Tue 11/10, 21.30 Jason Lescalleet (USA)

Tue 27/09, 21.30 Carl Michael von Hausswolff (S) & Michael Esposito (USA)
“The Ghosts of Effingham”: short introduction and presentation on an Edison phonograph.