PARADE is music on the move in public space, a very special listening experience and entertainment in the best sense of the word. It is free sound which is sometimes isolated and sometimes comes together. There is no chaos but there are also no borders within which Parade operates. The musicians come with their own ideas of movement in space. The audience will find itself in new roles: taken by surprise, encircled, involved.

 

What will the antelope horns and percussion instruments of the Tonga sound like when they encounter Austrian brass music or the zumari horns from Zanzibar? How will the alphorns from Switzerland and the moving balaphones from West Africa respond to the master drums from the foothills of the Himalayas? How does the residential area of solarCity or a machinery hall echo the sounds from different directions, how the docks in the harbour or the battlements on Pöstlingberg?

 

This is not about remote places of origin or exotic extravagance. What matters is the commingling of and the synergies created by fascinating worlds of sound: welcome to new sounds and new acoustic experiences, free of barriers.