Residencia: Volkmar Klien [Austria] 21/09-25/10/2026

During my residency at CMMAS I will be working on a new composition for ensemble and electronics. The working title for this composition is 'Viena Pantanal'.

'Viena Pantanal' will be a work for an ensemble of five musicians and electronics. The electronic part of the composition will contain fixed media elements as well as live electronics to be performed by the musicians of the ensemble themselves.

Volkmar Klien

Growing up in Vienna Volkmar Klien (*1971, Hollabrunn, A) spent his childhood engulfed in the city’s rich musical life with all its glorious traditions and engrained rituals. Working from this background Volkmar Klien today strives to extend traditional practices of composing, producing and listening far beyond the established settings of concert music. He works in various areas of the audible and occasionally inaudible arts navigating the manifold links in-between the different modes of human perception, the spheres of presentation and the roles these play in the communal generation of meaning.