Sonoric Reflections – Vienna Improvisers Orchestra
Angewandte
Interdisciplinary Lab
By creating conducted instant compositions, the VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA engages
in a special discourse of non-notated, experimental composition and complex improvised music for large ensembles. Creating
an ad hoc architecture of music with a vocabulary of hand signs, the VIO works close to developments by Bruno Maderna or John
Zorn, particularely within a continuation of Butch Morris’ Conduction, and has a remote relationship to Soundpainting.
Nevertheless VIO developed its own praxis, with following parameters like: no rehearsals, no pre-prepared
or agreed-upon parts, modules, designs; just an introductory explanation of the hand signs and a brief try out; absolute instant
creation even by the conductor; the instant composition conducting is conveyed by quite few hand signs, about 15 only.
A terrain for an unforeseen universe of possible sound-spaces and -images is created, potentiated by the fact, that every
performance provides a new ensemble constellation and involves at least one new musician.
Within ever gender-parity
oriented line-ups, the VIO brings together musicians (from about 30 countries) out of the scenes of acoustic and electro-acoustic
free improvised music, jazz and contemporary composed music and collaborates with authors in experimental literature.
Guest
at the legendary Moers Festival (D) in 2022, the VIO has also performed at Wien Modern, Artacts or art spaces such as Künstlerhaus
Wien/factory, Belvedere21, Vienna Art Week Festival a.o..
Artistic director Michael Fischer works on the language immanence
of sounds and their dramatic evidence on tenor saxophone/feedback-saxophone, on soundscapes, and, as instant composition conductor
for improvisation orchestras and temporary large ensembles for festivals and guest lectures in Europe, Canada, the USA and
Japan. The VIENNA IMPROVISERS ORCHESTRA was founded by Michael Fischer in 2004; it is one of the earliest and continuously
working impovisation orchestras in Europe.
Artistic Direction by Michael Fischer
In the former cashier
hall at Otto Wagner-Postsparkasse a continuous echo of sound waves are given by the special architecture of the arched ceiling.
This creates acoustic reflections in all dimensions. With Sonoric Reflections, AIL invites established concert series and
collectives to explore this space as a body of sound and experience.
