Enormous shadows are looming over the various New Music scenes of the post-Soviet territories, which have once again become the site of violent, geopolitical conflict. The fluidity of a perfectly natural dialogue between leading composers and performers between Tbilisi and Minsk, Yerevan and Moscow, Tashkent and Kyiv has come to a standstill, the dialogue has ceased. Once more, music runs the risk of being reduced to national self-assertion and to a propaganda shield of supposed superiority. Resistance against such instrumentalization is called for. With its multi-part project “The Tower of Babel”, Klangforum Wien wants to contribute to these efforts. It draws up a map of the New in music in today's post-Soviet space, which naturally presents artistically uncompromising positions from Estonia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. Like a "Tower of Babel", the project is intended to rise above the cultural landscape, currently suffering such terrible deprivation: radiant with polyphony, utopian as ever, providing both a sanctuary and a vantage point.

CONCERT 1
Alexey Sysoev (Russia) Col Pugno
Age Veeroos (Estonia) ich sehe Federn wachsen im Sand der Wüsten
Jamilia Jazylbekova (Kazakhstan)
Les illusions de l'âme

PANEL 1:
19:45—20:15 | Saal

CONCERT 2
Anna Korsun (Ukraine) UCHТ
Asia Ahmetjanova (Latvia) Beth
Aram Hovhannisyan (Armenia)
Strophes-Segments

PANEL 2:
21:15—21:45 | Saal

CONCERT 3
Dariya Maminova (Russia)
I don't know whether 
the Earth is spinning or not...
Valery Voronov (Belarus)
Gigantomania for tamtam solo
Alexander Khubeev (Russia)
The Codex of Thoughtcrimes

Performers:
Klangforum Wien
Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Dariya Maminova, voice
Markus Deuter, oboe
Michele Marelli, clarinet
Anders Nyqvist, trumpet
Krassimir Sterev, accordion
Björn Wilker, percussion

Conductors: Vitali Alekseenok, 
Peter Rundel