Ars Electronica Festival 2025 | Sonic Saturday | Digital Music Focus | 05. & 06.09.2025 | Koordination Volkmar Klien & Enrique Mendoza

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 Mendoza (MX) (Spatial Music) | Studiobühne
15:30 – 17:00 Uhr | Film Projection ¡Que Viva México! | Sonic Lab
17:30 – 18:00 Uhr | Mobile Live Electronics Performance Waves (2020/2025 revised version), Lara Stanic (RS/CH) | ABPU Garden
18:00 – 19:00 Uhr | Sensory Code Concert, multichannel media experience | Sonic Lab
20:00 – 21:00 Uhr | Live Post-digital concert - Tangible Music Lab | SonicLab

SA 06.09.2025
11:00 – 14:00 Uhr | Tangible Music Lab Brunch, https://tamlab.kunstuni-linz.at/ | Tabakfabrik Linz
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, Laura Adel (PL) & Enrique Mendoza (MX) (Spatial Music) | Studiobühne
16:00 – 17:00 Uhr | Rehometer Concert curated by C-LAB Taiwan Sound Lab | Sonic Lab
18:00 – 19:00 Uhr | Spatial Concert curated by CMMAS | Sonic Lab
20:00 – 21:30 Uhr | MEDIUM SONORUM Concert | Sonic Lab

Themen: Computermusik, Konzert, Top Events