Tracing Vienna’s Schlurfs through the Prater
Vienna Sonic Memories takes you to historical sites in and around Vienna’s Prater. The stations tell stories of jazz, dance and youth counterculture under National Socialist rule: from a manually operated music machine and homemade suitcase gramophones to the Stadionbad swimming pool, the Second Viennese Coffeehouse and the Prater’s amusement rides. Through augmented reality, sound works, literary texts, archival material and eyewitness accounts, vanished meeting places and stories of resistance can be experienced anew in today’s urban space.
Here’s the link to the tour. To experience the objects in augmented reality, open the link at each location using the XR Browser or Google Chrome. You can download these browsers from your app store.
Discover the Vienna Sonic Memories tour
START: Prater Museum, Prater 92, 1020 Vienna
DURATION: approximately 1–3 hours
WHAT YOU NEED: A smartphone; a portable Bluetooth speaker is recommended for listening together.
Featuring works by Grün & gruener.li, Laut Fragen, Electric Indigo, Jopa Jotakin & Eva Grün, Barbara Kadletz, Moritz Nahold & Eva Sommer, Mona Matbou Riahi, Eva Schörkhuber, Anton Tantner, Anna Weidenholzer and other contributors.
In collaboration with Artificial Museum.
Alleycat × Cycle Messenger Championships
Afterwards, an alleycat through Vienna starts at 7:40 pm. This playful scavenger hunt takes you to further places and stories connected to the city’s jazz youth subculture.
VIENNA SONIC MEMORIES – Listening to Traces of History
Ernst Landl & Herbert Mytteis – Kakadu
Ernst Landl mit seinen Solisten – Tanz mit mir!
Evelyn Künneke & Hot Club Vienna – Bei mir bist du schön
The Andrews Sisters – Bei Mir Bist Du Schön
Ella Fitzgerald & Chick Webb – A-Tisket, A-Tasket
Django Reinhardt & Stéphane Grappelli – Minor Swing
Duke Ellington – It Don’t Mean a Thing
Original Dixieland Jass Band – Tiger Rag
Louis Armstrong – St. Louis Blues
Mytteis, Landl & Co. – Tiger Rag
