18.11.2020, 8 pm — video stream
Ö1 radio station recording 23.11.2020 11 pm — during the radio series Zeit-Ton

From the resonance pitch of the earth’s surface (7.8 Hz), to a washing machine’s tumbling phase (42 Hz), to a house fly’s wing beat (200 Hz), to the common European concert pitch (443 Hz), and the nasty dentist’s drill (3 500 Hz), to a mosquito alarm (17 000–20 000 Hz) – this year’s award winner Matthias Kranebitter has developed, in accordance with the festival’s theme, his new Encyclopaedia of pitch and deviation.

Even if we sadly have to skip the traditional reception for the award ceremony this year – we are being generous with the premieres, still. Klangforum Wien is giving the first performance of Friedrich Cerha’s long-awaited Mikrogramme. Johannes Kalitzke is personally conducting the premiere of his eventful film score without a film, based on Werckmeister Harmonies, Béla Tarr’s dark parable for a humanity that wasn’t made for harmony after all.