Founded in 1987, the Exposition of New Music is a festival of contemporary experimental works, which sees the “exposition” of its title not solely as a presentation, but also as interaction, participation and lively communication with people and the public space.
Since 2012, when the Filharmonie Brno became the festival’s organiser, our programming has followed various threads, based on the spatial arrangements of the city of Brno, and responding to a need to reflect the rich gamut of trends present in contemporary musical productions. Thus, the Exposition has focused on sound installations, noise music and musical interventions into the public space, as well as traditional concert performances. Since 2020, the festival has a new programmer, who proposes an entirely new – his own – perspective on contemporary music.
We would also like to present projects that go beyond music itself or link music with other media new or old, be that in the form of installations, screenings, exhibitions, in situ performances or other.
38th Exposition of New Music
ARS SPECTRUM
3. – 8. 10. 2026
The new edition of the New Music Exhibition, entitled Ars Spectrum, will offer a cross-section of the world of spectral music. The festival will take listeners from its early forms to contemporary experiments with spectral analysis and resynthesis, which today are entering algorithmic composition and improvisation controlled by artificial intelligence. It opens with Faust Romitelli‘s monumental work Index of Metal, which extends spectral principles into audiovisual form. The second evening combines live and mechanical piano in Mark Keprt’s interpretation with compositions by Peter Ablinger, Tristan Murail, and Joshua Fineberg, as well as new compositions, exploring the interaction between man and machine in musical interpretation. The next evening turns to the work of Giacinta Scelsi, an important predecessor of spectralism, whose music was introduced in France by the spectralist group L’Itinéraire. Scelsi’s proto-spectralism will be heard here alongside the latest implementations of spectral analysis and compositional algorithms that will reflect the work of this distinguished author. The fourth evening will feature a solo concert by Karlheinz Essl, an innovator in the field of algorithmic composition, who will offer various forms of electroacoustic work. The festival will culminate in an orchestral evening centered around a new piano concerto by Annesley Black, performed by legendary pianist Nicolas Hodges, followed by Gérard Grisey‘s iconic work Partiels. This concert will combine classical spectral works with the latest compositions and present new possibilities for orchestral instrumentation and instrumental resynthesis.
Upcoming concerts
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