University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna

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Artacho, Adrian

Segura Sogorb, Miguel

Báez, Víctor

Bulatova, Sofya

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Sounds of Now Vienna 2025 grew from a simple idea: when composers with different backgrounds, practices, and aesthetics share the same space, Vienna becomes less a backdrop and more a point of convergence. The festival’s second edition was conceived as a place where contrasting approaches could be argued, tried, and—crucially—heard. In collaboration with colleagues across mdw1 and beyond, we designed a format that braided together teaching, rehearsal, and performance so that each strand informed the others in real time. The proceedings you are about to read document this encounter from multiple angles. They include reflections by faculty and guests, project notes from participating composers, and materials that trace the arc from first idea to public sounding. No single perspective is privileged here: technique sits next to intuition; notation is tested against practice; and aesthetics meet the realities of instruments and rooms. What holds these pages together is not a house style but a shared commitment to craft, curiosity, and dialogue. If the first edition announced an ambition, this one insists on a method: open lessons, open rehearsals, and open ears. By placing composers alongside performers throughout, we encouraged a culture in which questions were asked publicly, and answers were provisional—carried forward to the next session, the next rehearsal, the next piece. In doing so, Sounds of Now Vienna continued to define itself not as a single viewpoint but as a forum in which many can meet, compare, and transform their work. The texts that follow are therefore both record and invitation: a record of a fortnight in which diverse musical languages coexisted productively, and an invitation to extend the conversation—to read across approaches, to listen across traditions, and to imagine what these plural futures might sound like on the next page, in the next hall, and in the years to come.

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Artacho, Adrián; Segura-Sogorb, Miguel; Báez, Víctor; Bulatova Sofya: SONV Proceedings 2025. https://doi.org/10.21939/sonv-2025

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