David Wagner on Tour

It is certainly one of the most dynamic projects of the OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024. The musician and composer David Wagner gets on his bike and visits the inhabitants of Bruckner streets, alleys, paths and squares throughout Upper Austria to make music with them. There he collects sound donations of short motifs from the 9 Bruckner symphonies on video and creates a 9-minute music film from them.

From Linz, David Wagner will undertake seven extensive tours in April and May 2024, and – like Anton Bruckner once did – completely non-motorized, equipped with a helmet camera and field microphone. The approximately 60 streets and squares in Upper Austria named after Bruckner are supplemented by locations such as the Bruckner Birthplace, the Anton Bruckner Private University, the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in the Musiktheater am Volksgarten and others, so that in the end exactly 72 musical stations are involved.

Some of the fellow musicians were found in advance and provided with simple sheet music. In the summer, the collected material will be underlaid with a sound carpet in the recording studio and edited into a 9-minute film in the film studio, in which all the residents of the Upper Austrian Bruckner addresses involved can be seen and heard making music.