Bad Goisern

Notre Dame is called the soul of Paris. For a whole country this church is a place of identification. As a result of the tragic fire in 2019, its bells have fallen silent.However, these bells were not damaged by the fire and silently and secretly "listen" to the sounds of the city around Notre Dame. Silent Echoes: Notre Dame is a continuously live-streamed sound sculpture that makes audible the simple physical fact that these bells are constantly ringing in secret. U.S. sound artist Bill
Fontana is expanding his artistic project for the 2024 Capital of Culture in a collaboration with the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the IRCAM Research Institute for Acoustics based there, the Upper Austrian KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024, the Ars Electronica Festival and the Goiserer Musiktage to create a "dialogue" between the ice caves on the Dachstein and Paris. The sound of the melting glacier and the resonance of the bells of Notre Dame become a duet that tells of a European cultural monument that has almost disappeared and a natural world that is equally threatened by disappearance. Bill Fontana describes this extended version, in which the sounds of the glacier are "played back" live to Paris, as an artistic statement on the consequences of climate change.

The Parzival Dome in the ice caves of the Dachstein is a place that carries an "inestimable secret", as it is called in the sense of Anton Bruckner's composition Locus iste: a secret that asks us humans the question of how we want to live with nature in the future. In addition, OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024, in cooperation with the Goiserer Musiktage, will award a composition commission to young composers on this theme. The work will be premiered as part of the European Capital of Culture 2024 at the Goiserer Musiktage on the glass fountain in the ice cave.

Date details:
- from September 2024 until the end of the season: Sound installation and live concerts
- September 4: Special performance with live broadcast for Bruckner's birthday
- until the end of the season: Guided tours of the sound installation in the ice cave

A project of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut 2024 in cooperation with IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024, Ars Electronica Festival, Goiserer Musiktage, Kunstradio Ö1. thanks to: OÖ Seilbahnholding GmbH, Planai-Hochwurzen Bahnen GmbH

Admission free!

Accessibility:
Tourism Association Dachstein Inneres Salzkammergut

A project of the European Capital of Culture Bad Ischl-Salzkammergut 2024 in cooperation with IRCAM, Centre Pompidou, OÖ KulturEXPO Anton Bruckner 2024, Ars Electronica Festival, Goiserer Musiktage, Kunstradio Ö1. thanks to: OÖ Seilbahnholding GmbH, Planai-Hochwurzen Bahnen GmbH

International Master Classes Bad Goisern

Bill Fontana | Artist

Wolfgang Schlag | Curator

Peter Brugger | Co-Curator, Project Manager Goiserer Musiktage

Christian Haselmayr | Program Director Music, Youth, Community Building