KLANGFORUM WIEN: TOWER OF BABEL
GESCHLIFFENE GRENZEN

Program

• Film: »Der Mann mit der Kamera (1929, Ausschnitte) - Dziga Vertov Regie - 6'
• Hovik Sardaryan: ... and the Sun was Green ... (2025 UA) - 24'
• Film: Der Mann mit der Kamera (1929, Ausschnitt) - Dziga Vertov Regie - 2'
• Alexander Khubeev: Garmonbozia (2025 EA) - 14'
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• Film: Kino-Pravda N.1 (1922, Ausschnitt) - Dziga Vertov Regie - 2'
• Anna Korsun: Vivrisses (2025 EA) - 14'
• Film: Glumovs Tagebuch (1923, Ausschnitt) Sergej Eisenstein Regie - 5'
• Marina Khorkova: SchwebeLieder »Исчезнопенье« (2025 UA) - 17'
• Koka Nikoladze: Masterpiece (2025 EA) - 10'

Cast

• Klangforum Wien
• Vimbayi Kaziboni: Leitung

Dark shadows lie over the diverse scenes of contemporary music within the post-Soviet territory, where violent geopolitical conflicts have been taking place for years. The dialogue between composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv, which was once taken for granted, has come to a standstill. Music is once again in danger of being reduced to national self-aggrandising and to a propaganda shield for supposed superiority. With its large-scale project The Tower of Babel, Klangforum Wien wants to make a contribution to the resistance against such instrumentalisation. Part three of this survey of a map of the new in music in the post-Soviet space presents five very different composers from Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia and Russia. The works of this great evening are linked by the film pioneer Dziga Vertov.

Kuratiert vom Klangforum Wien
Filmausschnitte aus der Sammlung des Österreichischen Filmmuseums
Produktion Wiener Konzerthaus, Klangforum Wien und Wien Modern
Im Rahmen des Projekts Tower of Babel
In Kooperation und mit Unterstützung von AFF Projects