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VOICES Festival: TOWER OF BABEL Klangforum Wien
October 14 2023 @ 19:00 - 22:45
Huge shadows lie over the many scenes of new music in the region of the former Soviet Union, which is once again the scene of violent geopolitical conflicts. The lively exchange of leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialogue has fallen silent. Music is once again in danger of being reduced to national self-assertion and the propaganda shield of supposed superiority. With the multi-part concert and discourse project "THE TOWER OF BABEL", Klangforum Wien designs a programme which brings together uncompromising artistic positions from Armenia, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, and Ukraine. Alternating between concert and conversation, the project explores the new in music of today's post-Soviet societies.
Like a "Tower of Babel," the project is meant to stand out from this currently so battered cultural landscape: polyphonic, still utopian, and shining as both a refuge and a vantage point.