COMPOSING FUTURES
Ensemble SOIL: SONGS FROM THE UNDERGROUND

Program

• Ensemble SOIL: Songs from the Underground. Lecture-Performance und Hörstation (2025) - 70'

Cast

• Ensemble SOIL
• Flora Geißelbrecht: Viola
• Anna Koch: Klarinetten
• Bernhard Hadriga: E-Gitarre, Electronics
• David Six: Klavier, Keyboards, Percussion
• Simon Zöchbauer: Trompete

Driven by a shared desire to explore complex ecological interrelationships through art and to make them emotionally accessible through music, Flora Geißelbrecht, Anna Koch, Ralph Mothwurf, David Six and Simon Zöchbauer founded the Ensemble SOIL. Since 2024, the ensemble has been dedicated to the theme of soil and the biosphere in general. A central impulse for this thematic focus emerged from discussions with the biologist Suzanne Kapelari from the University of Innsbruck, which opened up new perspectives on the connection between scientific research and artistic practice. Since then, the musicians have been working intensively on the conceptual and practical realisation of the project of the same name, SOIL. Starting from the soil as a complex, living system, they translate ecological interrelationships, scientific findings and questions concerning the relationship between humans and nature into contemporary music, performative and intermedial formats.

Kuratiert von Aleksandra Bajde und Birgit Huebener im Rahmen von Composing Futures: Creative Impact on Eco-Social Transformation
Produktion Culture and Sustainability Lab und mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Stadt Wien Kultur
Koproduktion IGNM Sektion Österreich
Kooperation Wien Modern