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“more mouvements for lachenmann” by xavier le roy is a combination of contemporary music and modern dance, the natural body language of musicians is boosted, the instruments are detached of the players and a new context arises.

today I visited the new peter kogler exhibition at the mumok. the highlight of the show is a video / sound installation in the forth floor, very impressive. on the outside there is also a big video animation with some typical kogler mice which are running in circles – like the visitors in the 6th floor , definitly worth to visit.

after finally finishing sucessfully my mba I´m back in life. so let´s dive again into culture. wien modern is back in town, and I´m a proud owner of two festival passes.

the first event I attended on monday, 27.10.2008. it was part of the Klangforum Wien series of konzerthaus. It took place at Remise, normally this location is a skate park in an old tramway garage. Two wonderfull pieces have been performed by both the telekom austria company brass band and the klangforum ensemble, DROR FILER and MÜLL EA.

On the stage a real MA48 garbage truck had been placed, in the truck the one of the two vocalists was placed. So this is now the time after the implosion of the virtual finance industry the real garbage industry takes over the contemporary music festivals, Mr. Lenin, this is a real revolution

The next event I visited on thursday, 30.10.2008. 4 Hours of short films with Tony Conrad. A lot of very interesting points of views, just to mention some of them:

• a film about feedback of films in films
• a film about how america would be without any influence of Europe called “No Europe”
• and his master piece “Flicker” which founded the structural film movement

Tony introduced his films, and he is indeed like his films, full of humor but not really structured

today I visited the mind expander exhibition which demonstrates the Austrian utopic architect concepts of late 1960ies and early 1970ies. the best known proponents of this movement had bee the early coop himmelblau, valie export, zünd-up and superstudio.

today I visited the wonderful coop himmelblau exhibition “beyond the blue” at the mak, a retrospective of their work of the last 40 years.

“Coop Himmelblau ist keine Farbe, sondern die Idee, Architektur mit Phantasie leicht und veränderbar wie Wolken zu machen.” 1968