Klangforum Wien / Kaziboni

With the project »11,000 strings«, the Great Hall itself becomes an instrument. In his composition for 50 pianos, Georg Friedrich Haas creates a radically new listening space that deliberately leaves traditional concert forms behind.

An immersive sound experience by Georg Friedrich Haas
The audience sits in the centre of the hall, surrounded by 50 pianos arranged in a ring around the room. Sound is not created frontally, but moves, layers, circles, condenses and dissolves again. The audience finds itself in the centre of the resonating body of an enormous instrument with 11,000 strings.

Contemporary music as a spatial experience
Listening here becomes a physical experience: vibrations are not only audible but also tangible. Proximity and distance, direction and time change, the ear becomes a sense of orientation and previous listening experiences are radically questioned. Every seat in the room opens up its own perspective on what is happening – No two sounds are the same, no two listening experiences are identical.

Sound art in the Great Hall
»11,000 strings« is less a concert than a collective soundscape, less a performance than a state – an event that liberates the piano from its soloistic tradition and allows it to be experienced anew as an architectural, breathing body of sound.