Sound Installations  May 18, 2026

Sound Installation: Dorninger at FMR 2026 - Schlossmuseum Linz

LINZ FMR is a biennial festival and format for artistic processes and positions, that reflects the ephemeral nature of our digital and connected present. The ever-advancing digitalization of everyday life implies an intense overlapping and layering of familiar physical, but also finely interwoven digital spaces. LINZ FMR focuses on the shifts, distortions and rifts that arise in this process and presents current artistic positions in this context.

EXHIBITION: Wed, 3 June – Sun, 7 June

FMR 2026

Preview of a work scheduled by Wolfgang Dorninger to open in spring 2027, in cooperation with OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH

Klangfaltungen der Zeiten

Klangfaltungen der Zeiten by Wolfgang Dorninger understands Schlossmuseum Linz as a historical resonance space. Based on the architectural history of the castle and its changing functions over time, the work also makes the history of the city and region audible. Different historical layers— from Roman times through the Renaissance and Baroque periods to modernity — form the starting point for a series of site-specific sound environments in the outdoor areas of the castle.

Historical music, acoustic fragments, and cultural traces are not presented in a documentary manner, but reinterpreted through electronic processing, spatial projection, and sonic layering. The installations combine historical compositions with contemporary sound art, remixes, and sound machines. Architectural passages, courtyards, and transitional spaces become acoustic situations in which history, architecture, and the present overlap.

The preview presented during FMR 26 features first excerpts from the planned full-site installation across the castle grounds, whose complete realization is scheduled for 2027.

Featured sound spaces include the ‘Bruckner Sound Space’ at the Rudolf Gate, with a slowed-down remix incorporating parts of the original score of Anton Bruckner’s ‘Symphony No. 8 in C minor’, and the ‘Renaissance Sound Space’, combining Leonhard Paminger’s psalm setting ‘Domine, ne in furore tuo’ with electronically processed sound structures.

Year: 2021–2027
Material: multi-channel sound installation, electronically processed historical recordings, remixes, spatial audio projection, loudspeaker systems, site-specific acoustic interventions, sound player, speakers
Location: Rudolf Gate / Hofgasse and Schlossmuseum Main Entrance / South Wing

Domine Remix

Bruckner Remix