Vienna Improvisers Orchestra: The Living Score

The Vienna Improvisers Orchestra focuses on conducted instant composition, a specific form of experimental composition and complex improvised music. Within an oscillating process musicians and conductor create ad hoc compositions mediated by a vocabulary of hand-sign conducting. The VIO is Austria’s first orchestra dedicated to this method. Performing in ever changing line-ups the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra unifies singers and musicians out of acoustic and electro-acoustic improvised music, contemporary composed music, jazz and eminent new music ensembles such as Tonkünstler NÖ, Klangforum Wien or ensemble xx. jahrhundert. VIO was launched by Michael Fischer in 2004.