Pentatonic Permutations XV, Sound Installation

On Whit Monday, from 8 p.m. to midnight, the fifteenth installment of Benjamin Heidersberger’s sound installation of algorithmic piano music will take place at St. Elisabeth. It consists of a sequence of piano notes calculated and played live by a computer program. The composition began with the Big Bang 14 billion years ago, continues for another 16 trillion years, and marks every moment in time with a unique sequence of tones. Scales of prime number lengths run against each other in constant phase shifts, causing ever-new melodic and thus narrative fragments to emerge and disappear again. Three hours of this will be performed. The pentatonic scale creates a fundamental harmony rooted in South Indian and Japanese cultural traditions. There is no compositional intention, so the acoustic event initially has no concrete meaning. Listeners can thus surrender to their own associations and move freely within the church to experience themselves, the various sound events, and the space. The church remains open throughout. 


Tickets: Free admission

Organizer: Benjamin Heidersberger in cooperation with Kultur Büro Elisabeth

Further information: https://pentatonic-permutations.de