Klangzeit Festival Summer

The programme doesn't follow simple, one-dimensional concepts, but strives to promote discourse between various different media whilst involving the local art scene and the surrounding area in order to encourage a long-term engagement with, and openness and consciousness for culture beyond the mainstream.

Artists from various disciplines and cultural backgrounds are brought together at the Klangzeit Summer. They develop projects together with regional artists such as the local brass band; projects that are presented to the rural and urban audiences who come to the Klanghaus Summer festival. The presentation starts in the afternoon and go on late into the night. The setting enables the audience to enter into conversation and personal exchange with the artists. The gastronomic accompaniment from the region contributes significantly to the aesthetic and authentic atmosphere. The festival is an expression of a shared search for new terrain, which can lead to irritation and throws up new questions, demanding an overhaul of “traditional” approaches, leaving audience and artists with lasting food for thought.

The Klanghaus Untergreith provides an innovative platform for experimental performance art in the region and presents significant cultural work in the countryside, artwork which is usually only seen in cities, involving the rural population in the process. The project brings artists and visitors together in an intimate ambience. International musicians, composers, dancers and sound artists come into contact with the region. The local council, St. Johann im Saggautal, with its schools and brass bands, are actively involved in programming various event.