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WASSERGROTTE . SCHLOSS NEUGEBÄUDE . Otmar-Brix-Gasse 1 . 1100 WIEN
8pm

The oldest preserved artificial grotto in the German-speaking world. An emperor riding a boat in the basement of his building. Burning exotic animals. A never contemporary pleasure palace. A decaying castle. A former powder store for the military. And a former production site for tank engines. Sounds grottesk?

The evening of improvisation in the so-called water grotto on May 17 could also be like … The Viennese ensemble CALL OUR SHIFTS – this time with Elisabeth Kelvin, Gloria Damijan, Herbert Lacina, Lukas Thöni, Bernd Oberlinninger and Michael Franz Woels – will “become porous” with guests from various disciplines like Baurjan Aralov, Patrik Huber, Robert Jolly, Maria Morschitzky and Rebekka Pichler. An incredibly grottesk evening of regeneration with musical miniatures, certainly without the presence of the mini water grotto monster Axolotl.

Porosity in improvised music – an equally dimensionless experience: CALL OUR SHIFTS will use musical miniatures to acoustically trace this process of “becoming porous” (Büscher, Krasny, Ortmann) in a huge, artificial cavity, an imperial cave formerly planned as a water grotto in Schloss Neugebäude in Simmering – together with their illustrious guests. The result, a sophisticated, interdisciplinary, performative sound product, will probably be grottesk.