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Part of the „Women Composers Portrait“ series of the Music Collection of the Austrian National Library: Gris sur bleu I (2013), …dans le silence… (2022), Nu bleu (2015), C´est un ordre d´amour (2022) with Kaoko Amano (soprano), Eric Lamb (flutes), Igor Gross (percussion), Johanna Lacroix-Handschuh (violin), framed by a conversation with Music Collection director Dr. Benedikt Lodes.

On 8 May 2022 the final concert of Trio Amos took place at MUWA Graz. The programme set music of the 15th century against works by Klaus Lang, with the composer himself playing the harmonium. Part of this programme can be heard on the CD „Teheran Dust“ and in the Ö1 Zeit-Ton broadcast of 24 July 2022.

Premiere of „Illuminations“ by Tamara Friedl for choir, flute, cello and percussion, at the Imago Dei festival.

The project „Rooms of Consciousness“ by Tanja Brüggemann and Sylvie Lacroix took place on 26 January at Brick-5. Through artistic spaces — music, visuals, architecture — the evening explored the rooms of our consciousness.

Visuals by Conny Zenk created virtual spaces as moving black-and-white plays of light projected onto translucent fabrics hung in the room and onto the performers. The musicians — Tanja Brüggemann (prepared piano), Sylvie Lacroix (flute), Karlheinz Essl (electronic sounds), Johann Leutgeb (voice) — brought their personal musical spaces to life and extended them through physical movement. Christina Bauer (sound direction) ensured a finely balanced distribution of the sonic events.

What emerged was a single body of art, developing and moving through subtle communication; strong, poetic moments of catharsis arose during the performance. The success of this experiment calls for a sequel.

Stuart Saunders Smith (1948, USA) — „a liturgy of the hours“ (2012). Austrian premiere on 19 September 2018 at the Konzilsgedächtnis-Kirche in Vienna. One hour of music for solo flute.

„my life a mere breath… the first is breath… the last is breath… …in between we continue, breath, in our moments, in this, our moment… while darkness is my companion, I work the earth of the heart.“

Stuart Saunders Smith (born 1948 in Portland, Maine) is one of the leading composers of his generation and a pioneer of the confessional music movement — an intense compositional focus that reveals the most personal aspects of one's life, in the belief that the revelations of the particular speak to the universal.

… a collection of works for flute and electronics, written for Sylvie Lacroix and created in close collaboration with the composers.

Minoriten Graz, 25 May 2014, with Kaori Nishii (piano), Lukas Schiske (percussion), Sylvie Lacroix (flutes). Crippled Symmetry — a 90-minute piece for flutes, piano, celesta, glockenspiel and vibraphone.

In Feldman's music silence plays a prominent role, thanks to the hushed volume and the intervals between sounds. In Crippled Symmetry Feldman builds on repetitive motifs, knotting and weaving his sounds the way Anatolian nomads make their carpets; from those carpets he borrowed the concept of imperfect or 'crippled' symmetry. Listening to his work is a strange but overwhelming experience — an aural analogue to Mark Rothko's pulsating colour fields.

A collaborative composition project about nature, art and artificiality — with field recordings from Burgenland, flute sounds indoors and outdoors and their processing in the studio — with Alexander Stankovski, Sylvie Lacroix and Florian Bogner.

These projects examine natural and synthetic or manipulated sounds from various perspectives; the natural and the artificially created phenomenon are granted equal standing. In „Landschaft mit Flöte“ (Landscape with flute) real places contrast with artificially created spaces, when „photo-realistic“ material — a kind of acoustic survey of the environment penetrated by ambient noises — and solo flute playing are transformed through electroacoustic processing.

As different as the artificial world of virtuoso flute music and the sounds of the ocean might at first seem, they merge as breath and murmur in a zone between worlds: where borders become blurred, it is no longer possible to tell what is natural and what is artificial. (Text: Daniel Ender, translation: Friedericke Kuksar)

Private recording by Sylvie Lacroix.