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Three world premieres in three days were framed by a landscape opera in three acts. Composition and improvisation, space and sound movement, rhythms and free forms were woven into a tightly-knit experience.

Three thematic strands set the tone at the Ulrichsberg Music Festival. Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg commissioned French double bassist Joëlle Léandre to create CAN YOU EAR ME? This composition for improvising musicians was performed by a predominantly Austrian combo. Day 2 featured OMNIXUS by Ulrichsberg-based Tanja Feichtmair. In a collaboration with three musicians from the San Francisco Bay Area and sound technician Alfred Reiter, her concept of sounds moving in space was made to resound. Rhythms and patterns dominated Day 3, when Six+One painted WEAVING SOUNDS throughout the Leitner linen weaving mill with an improvised work that took the mill’s weaving workshop as its point of departure. The warp and weft rolled on in “For John Cage” by Morton Feldman; in creating this piece, the American composer was inspired by carpet weaving patterns.


WHAT // Festival of jazz, improvised and new music
WHEN // April 30-May 2, 2009
WHERE // Jazzatelier Ulrichsberg

PARTICIPANTS // Peter Ablinger; Lauren Newton & Vladimir Tarasov, Joëlle Léandre & Ensemble; Daunik Lazros Quat Neum Sixx; Tilbury/Léandre/Norton; Tanja Feichtmair, Hugh Livingston, Damon Smith, Scott Looney; Aki Onda & Alan Licht, Peter Evans Quartet; John Tilbury & Darragh Morgan; SIX PLUS ONE; Behaviour Patterns; Frode Gjerstads Circulasione Totale Orchestra