Premiere in English: Wed 4 Sept. 2024, 10 pm New Cathedral Linz
Second event in German: Fri 6 Sept. 2024, 4 pm New Cathedral Linz
A project of OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024 in cooperation with Ars Electronica and with the support of LIT-JKU, Uni Innsbruck, TU Wien, VCQ, SFB-beyondC and the city of Vienna culture.
Anton Bruckner‘s work has written music history and is renowned far beyond the country‘s borders. Austria is also internationally known for its contributions to quantum physics – not least thanks to the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics. In BruQner these two worlds meet: using a musical interpretation of a so-called “Bell Test”, striking passages from Bruckner‘s Perger Präludium are made audible in a new way.
A sensual symbiosis of music, visuals and modern research is created.
BruQner is one of the first attempts in the world to work musically with genuine quantum mechanics. Entangled photon pairs from lasers will take on the role of a conductor and show the disruptive findings of the second quantum revolution in a performance for the first time. BruQner is completely committed to the festival motto “Tradition, Innovation and Avant-Garde” – marvel with us and hear the future potential in Bruckner‘s music!
You can watch a promotion video here:
A project by:
Clemens Wenger (composer, musical direction)
Enar de Dios Rodríguez (artist, visual design)
Martin Ringbauer (Uni Innsbruck)
Johannes Kofler (JKU Linz)
Richard Küng (JKU Linz)
Alexander Ploier (JKU Linz)
Benjamin Orthner (TU Wien)
Philipp Haslinger (TU Wien, project management)
