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Worlds / Graz – Sound Walks from Browser to Courtyard
Three composers built sound worlds in the browser. At ORF musikprotokoll 2026, visitors walked them in a Graz courtyard – with headphones, a tracking set and no screen.
by Fränk Zimmer
Electronic Music17 min
To Communicate: A Father, a Son and the Radio Waves Between Them
Andrea Gava
Fieldrecording13 min
The Discipline of Not Knowing
Thibault Noirot
Electroacoustic music10 min
The Sound Object — Ambiguity and Presence in the Age of Spatial Sound
Patrick Kizny / Slovox
Composition14 min
It sounds like someone imagining us
Pravina Manoharan
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Worlds / Graz · ORF musikprotokoll 2026
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