Spot On MozART is an inter-university, interdisciplinary project, which in the period 2020 - 2023 comprehensively addressed the question: What do you see when you hear? - a visual exploration of hearing and thus a (new) understanding of the music of Wolfgang A. Mozart in the 21st century through the creative use of digital technology.

What happens when we see visualizations of Mozart's music that we would not associate with Mozart at first?

How does this change our perception of the music?

At the interface between art, science and technology, several cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional projects were successfully realized during the project period.

 

Collaborations with TU Wien, Angewandte Wien, HFF Munich, Research Studios Austria and the Salzburg University Conference also led to successful project developments.

Whether a 360° video, short films, a piano-playing robot, interactive musical experiences in container spaces, educational works, a collaboration between Mozarteum students and the Red Bull Media House archive - the list of projects was as diverse as it was extraordinary.

 

In its final year, the project devoted itself entirely to the "Spot On" moment: analog and digital media, festivals, conferences, trade fairs - the "Spot On" moment dealt with the presentation and positioning of the projects in public space. What happens when work and audience meet? A field of experimentation, a challenge and a moment of research.

Depending on the individual project content, the sub-projects were shown individually on various occasions in Austria and abroad, for example at the Avant Première in Berlin, at the film festival on Rathausplatz in Vienna or as part of the Ars Electronica Festival in Linz.

 

This project extends far beyond Salzburg. Perceptions of Berlin at night and a women's prison in Nairobi are part of the visualisations. Both works I would like to present to you. Mozart gives us a different listening experience of the 21st century.

Elisabeth Gutjahr

Mozarteum University