“Silence ceased to be silent long ago. It is crowded now. Full of ideas, sentimentality, and reminiscences” Peter Ablinger.

New music ensemble “Scalp” returns with their first concert of 2026, presenting the music of the late Peter Ablinger, alongside two responsive works by director Louis Wishart and ensemble member Isabella Rahme. The colour white aurally and visually translates to all frequencies present at once. All possible realities are present in a single soul, and all possible positions in a single particle. Using walls of white noise allows time itself to become a colour, according to Ablinger, where aural illusion becomes the melody, and hearing becomes the work. Ablinger’s work “Instrumente und Rauschen” limits the audibility of its 7-piece instrumentation to 24 short panels of white noise, reducing the overall sound to a wall of white noise with extremely faint glimmers of instrumental tones and phrases. Wishart responds to this in his work “No Death”,  exploring the threshold of mimed performance to sounded performance, drawing from Irish Folk melody tradition as a vehicle to source discrete motion from all possible realities. Rahme responds in her work “Cloud of Possibilities”, using a graphic score to explore the effects of perception of a particle and its position, recognising an object as the result of all possible motions and positions.

Program:

"Instrumente und Rauschen" (1995/96) - Peter Ablinger

"No Death" (2026)* - Louis Wishart

"Cloud of Possibilities" (2026)* - Isabella Rahme

*World Premiere

Ensemble:

Louis Wishart - Piano

Uma Volkmer - Trumpet and Melodica

Gabriella Hill - Clarinet and Tenor Saxophone

Sierra Sharman - Viola

Leo Apollonov - Violoncello and Keyboard

Isabella Rahme - Harp and Voice

Hayley Chan - Percussion.

Poster designed by Lucy Hackett and Louis Wishart (using artworks by Peter Ablinger - available at https://ablinger.mur.at)