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