ORF Ö1 Zeit-Ton

Those who cover the contemporary in music never sleep because artists, after all, are often the ones who pick up and reflect on new societal and technological developments. This is precisely what makes reviewing and presenting contemporary music so interesting. One must always be alert. Where is something new emerging? At what point does the new become old? Which political and socio-musical dynamics are at work behind the changes?

Contemporary music as we, the “Zeit-Ton” hosts, conceive it today ranges from symphonic sound masses, broken beats, drones, free jazz, and sound installations of all kinds to strictly woven canonic compositions, to mention just a few examples of the many musical genres we set out to explore every day. We delve into the depths and examine the frayed edges in portraits of artists and labels, spotlighted themes, the midweek magazines, and the presentation of concert recordings and transmissions four times a week from Monday till Thursday for one hour starting at 11:03 p.m. In addition, two to three times a month we have “Zeit-Ton extended”, a three-hour long subprogram series (till 2:00 a.m.), in which we invite our guests to actively participate in the show. Moreover, several times a year we broadcast till the wee hours of the morning with our “Long Nights of New Music”. In all these programmes one of our main aims is always to actively support musicians living in Austria, but also to make connections between the Austrian and the international music scene.

Presented Works 2024

Elisabeth Harnik                      …spirat adhuc amor
Otto Wanke                            Micrographies

Presented Works 2023

Angélica Castelló                   Star Washers
Soyeon  Park                           Melodrama

Presented Works 2022

Tanja Elisa Glinsner              Läuft mein Hirn so viele leere Kreise…

Lorenzo Troiani                       La vita delle conchiglie

Presented Works 2021

Mathias Johannes Schmidhammer – “Es riecht nach Winter…”

Presented Works 2019

Julia Purgina              Akatalepsia

Christoph Renhart    Catalogue des Arts et Métiers

Presented Works 2018

Hannes Kerschbaumer      schraffur

Matthias Kranebitter          pitch study no.1 / contra violin

Judith Unterpertinger        Azadi

Presented Works 2017

Winkler Gerhard E.             Anamorph IX UA (Frostblues zur Winterreise)

Presented Works 2016

Bernd Richard Deutsch       Okeanos. Konzert für Orgel und Orchester

Presented Works 2015

GEDIZLIOGLU Zeynep               Aksak

KLEMENT Katharina                  Drift

SANCHEZ-CHIONG Jorge         Salt Water