In our program Far Fetched Stories we investigate narrative aspects and story-telling in current contemporary music. 

Elena Rykova’s piece 101% mind uploading thrives from a strong performative aspect, and allows the audience to experience a surgical procedure on some kind of extraterrestrial being, with unexpected acoustic results.

Christof Ressi’s orgy of samples all tuned to the same a’ concert pitch creates stories through out musical histroy and styles.

In Matthias Kranebitter’s 28 auditory scenes for investigating cocktail party deafness a fictive machine listening system is tested in an ironical way by instrumental, electronic and concrete recorded sounds, and developes its own poetic ideas through its disability of separating sound sources.

Georgia Koumara’s This is my χάπι:) face deals with the complexity of human brain and human existence, and confronts us with a dense accumulation of sounds and energy.

Flying xylophones, burning violinists, and saxophones in parachutes are all parts of Oyvind Torvund’s Plans for Future Ensemble Pieces and will be visually sketched and musically presented in his piece.

Francois Sarhan’s Log Book is a musical diary, a humorous collection of everyday life stories, the poetics of the small - his children singing, people screaming in the subway, advertisements and weather reports, or fascinating encounters with bicycle sellers.