Stefan Fraunberger

Quellgeister is the name of the musical cycle that the Austrian composer and artist Stefan Fraunberger has been developing for 25 years - all on dilapidated pipe organs in the abandoned fortress churches of Transylvania. Once built by ethnic Germans who fled the country during communist rule, the ritual machines were abandoned to the wilderness like stranded spaceships. On their corroded stop actions and with their perforated bellows, Fraunberger plays music that is as much about material transformation as it is about the collapse of opposites in our dawning epoch. After the crash is before the round of blissful spirits: Kuruzenaufstand, the fourth part of the Quellgeister cycle, will be premiered at the donaufestival.

Sponsored by SKE Fonds and Stadt Wien Kultur.

Team:

Elisabeth Handl: Production
Alexandrina Hristov: Voice
Andreas Fraunberger: KI Engineer 
Patrick Schabus: Video Master