Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität, Alice-Harnoncourt-Platz 1, 4040 Linz, Österreich
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In Kooperation mit der Ars Electronica
Since 2016, Anton Bruckner University has hosted “Sonic Saturday” as part of the Ars Electronica Festival. This year, the event expands into a two-day meeting featuring spatial sound concerts, live performances, and sound installations. The gathering invites informal, in-person exchange through listening, experimentation, and shared affect, bringing together artists and researchers in electroacoustic music, sonic art, and spatial audio practices.
Theme
Following Ars Electronica’s 2025 theme “Panic Yes/No,” we listen through the crisis—not to calm it, nor to amplify it, but to sense how sound both conceals and reveals.
In the face of ecological, political, and social collapse, sound may act as a carrier of panic, a tool for pacification, or an agent of refusal. Is spatial audio the new velvet curtain offering comfort while the walls crack? Or can it carve out spaces for dissonance, for listening against the grain?
Audible Denial, Sonic Unheard explores these tensions. As artists and listeners, we inhabit paradoxes: we perform while the ship sinks, compose while structures fail, and tune our ears to what remains unheard. In this context, does the digital music environment become a sanctuary, a spectacle, an aesthetic pleasure, or an acoustic blindfold?
Through the textures of electroacoustic music and spatial sound, we invite reflection on the forms of listening that may be complicit with denial, the sounds that are erased, filtered, or conveniently forgotten, and the subtle shifts in perception that occur when we start listening to what was previously suppressed. Sonic art traces the contours of panic, not to explain it but to stay close to its pulse.
Programm
FR 05.09.2025
15:00 – 20:00 Uhr | Listening Room | ProduktionsStudio
15:00 – 20:00 Uhr | Sound Installation Autonomics ter (2025), Kinda Hassan (LB) | Kleiner Saal
15:00 – 20:00 Uhr | Interactive Environment Interworld, Laura Adel (PL) ＆ Enrique M
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