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Mutual Aid Orchestra

Performance by Ausländer for WIENWOCHE 2021

Date and time of the performances:


September 15th

First performance 2 pm 

Tickets are already sold out, but you can come to the Zoo on your own.

Second performance 4 pm

Tickets are already sold out, but you can come to the Zoo on your own.


“Mutual Aid Orchestra “ music performance aims to bring compositionally interaction between humans and animals, communicating by reacting to each other's sounds and performing a concert for humans, animals, trees, plants, and all the living organisms residing in Schönbrunn Zoo. Considering sound and music as an interactive method of communication we observe relationships based on the idea of universal language.

Communication between humans and animals comes in many different forms depending on the relationship and the engaging life conditions. Various effects of music therapy on the physiology and psychology of humans have been documented. The effect of music on physiology and behavior has been studied in animals too. Many of these studies claim that even animals are affected by music. 

Music is an artistic expression that modifies ambient surroundings affecting the mood as stress relief, with a history of physical and emotional healing. The effects of the pleasant melodies extract the positive and relaxing mood, joyful atmosphere, and enrichment bounding.

In the tenth edition of the WIENWOCHE festival 2021 “Back to normality” the program pursues the idea of time traveling to the year 2121 in order to look back and question today's concept of “normality” from the perspective of the present, the past, and the future to rethink. 

For this occasion, music performance will happen in the presence of the great apes Orangutans. Orangutans – the person of the forest - are considered to be critically endangered species native to the rainforest of Indonesia and Malaysia. Today, Orangutans are found in the localities of Borneo and Sumatra where they are extremely endangered by the deforestation and habited destruction caused by oil plant cultivation, hunt and illegal trade of the humans. Orangutans are the last surviving species of the subfamily Ponginae - Homini tribe from a Primat family of Humans, Chimpanzees, and Gorillas.

 

Human performers: Ene Si, Kasho Chualan, Marko Marković, Mikal Maldoror, Sofia Labropoulou, Tommy Jirku and guests

Orangutan performers: Vladimir, Sol, Mota, Surya, Sari

Design copyrights © Johanna Marcadé-Mot

Project coordinators: Marko Marković and Mikal Maldoror

Media documentation: Marina Rebhandl / Filmkoop Wien

 

Involved initiatives:

Wienwoche http://www.wienwoche.org/de/1102/festivalprogramm_2021

Schönbrunn Zoo https://www.zoovienna.at/

Ausländer https://www.facebook.com/auslaender.band

LINE IN https://www.facebook.com/vienna.linein

Mutual Aid Orchestra
September 15, 2021
Location
ORANG.ERIE – Tiergarten Schönbrunn, Maxingstraße 13b, 1130 Wien