TODAYS PROGRAM
ICE X MDW: COMPOSING WHILE BLACK, VIENNA EDITION
Exhibition
DER BLÖDE DRITTE MITTWOCH
Music Theater
UNSUK CHIN: ALICE IN WONDERLAND
Concert, Performance
KATHARINA KLEMENT, ISABELLE DUTHOIT + SABINE MAIER:
CHAOUM [KɑOƱM]Concert
GAGOKBOUNCE: ONE BY ONE
With around a month of events at countless locations all over the city, Wien Modern is the biggest festival for contemporary arts music in Austria and one of the biggest of its kind worldwide. It was founded in 1988 at the initiative of Claudio Abbado, conductor and the general music director of the city of Vienna at the time. Since then, it takes place every year in November in Vienna.
Exactly what is to be expected from "contemporary arts music" and from a festival with the name "Wien Modern", which is at odds with all the clichés of Vienna?