Synopsis:

A working day comes to an end, people rush to the tram. An autumn day in the outskirts of Vienna. The rhythm of traffic and the many voices that dominate the urban space. Nothing unusual. Or is it? A table tennis game without players. A flautist in a dark underpass, fighting against the traffic noise. City dwellers dance through the room. A trumpet appears from the bushes in a park and a saxophone approaches the unknown observer. Distant sounds of a recorder. The young people answer “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great”). Images freeze, the music demands our full attention. The city noises disappear, the sound space is opened up. Musicians come closer and condense the soundscape around us. Transforming sounds, people and animals become instruments, instruments become park residents. Irritating, a dream? But then the image takes over and assures us that everything was just an illusion. A market in the morning, the stalls are opening, there is a lot of activity. And yet, suddenly castanets!? They give us an idea that shared reality is a thing...

Duration: 24 Minutes 24 Seconds

Genres: Documentary, Experimental, Music, Performance, City Soundscapes

Format: RED, DCI scope, 4K

Screening Format: DCP, ProRes 422 or other digital formats

Sound: 5.1

Credits:

MOVIE

Melanie Hollaus - director & cut

Christoph Lammerhuber - camera

Joseph Nikolussi – sound

MUSICAL EXCERPTS

Nik Hummer - overtourism rev a (2020)

Daniel Riegler - Observer l'observateur (2022)

Michael Tiefenbacher - Agrajag (2022)

Dominik Fuss - Solo (2022)

Julius Eastman - Femenine (1974)

Carola Bauckholt – Doppelbelichtung (2016)

André Jolivet – Aux funérailles du chef – pour obtenir la protection de son âme. (from 5 Incantations pour flûte seul, 1936)

Philipp Kienberger - concrete (2022)

SOUND DESIGN

Daniel Riegler - editing

Werner Angerer - mix & mastering

STUDIO DAN & GUESTS (on and off screen)

Sophia Goidinger-Koch, Gunde Jäch-Micko, Marianna Oczkowska, Jacobo Hernández – violin

Martina Bischof, Flora Geißelbrecht – viola

Maiken Beer, Cornelia Burghardt – cello

Philipp Kienberger, Manu Mayr – double bass

Thomas Frey – flute

Christine Gnigler – recorder

Clemens Salesny, Florian Fennes, Jacob Gnigler – saxophone

Theresa Dinkhauser – clarinet

Daniel Riegler, Phil Yaeger – trombone

Dominik Fuss, Franz Hautzinger, Spiros Laskaridis – trumpet

Michael Tiefenbacher – Fender Rhodes

Hubert Bründlmayer, Raphael Meinhart – drums, percussion

Margit Schoberleitner – timpani, cymbals

Friederike von Krosigk – castanets

Martin Siewert – guitar electronics

Chiara Aprea, Alberto Cissello, Lena Schattenberg - dance

Eva-Maria Schaller - choreography, dance

Werner Angerer, Joachim Zach - live sound

PRODUCTION (on site)

Alexander Forstner

Julian Klusacek

Marco Rainer

Verena Landl

Moni Mayr

PRODUCTION (movie)

Studio Dan - Verein für Neue Musik

Sidonie Forstreiter - funding

Daniel Riegler - executive producer

SUPPORTED BY

MA7, BMKOES, SKE/AUME