EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE'S BIRDS

Music freely adapted from fragments of Anton Bruckners symphonies by Peter Androsch

This video is part of Peter Androsch's KINEMATOMETAPHORATON
Railways, film, accordion, and Anton Bruckner

Peter Androsch has carved miniatures out of Anton Bruckner's music and recomposed them for the accordion, an instrument that was born at the same time as Bruckner (and grew up with him and is more alive today than ever). Then one wonders why Bruckner composed in the same way that films are made today: cuts, cross-fades, black screens, repetitions. Yes, because film is a child of the railroad, says Christa! All right? And that's why everything comes together in the Kinematometaphoraton: railways, film, accordion, and Anton Bruckner back on earth, as he has been since 1996. Mostly as dead man walking—admittedly, he looks a little strange.

Bruckner knew nothing about Eadweard Muybridge when a small package arrived at his address at Hessgasse 7 in 1886. It came from America! Muybridge was in the audience at the American premiere of Anton Bruckner's 7th Symphony in Chicago. He was so enthusiastic that he sent a series of his wonderful motion studies of birds to Vienna. They were advance copies of the book “Animal in Locomotion,” which was published the following year. Only today does Bruckner know about the adventurous life of Eadweard Muybridge. And the birds fly.

Accordion: Manuela Kloibmüller
Recording, video, editing: Claus Prellinger
Idea, concept, image, music, pitch pipe: Peter Androsch
BMWKMS, Linz, CCP-Studio
© Peter Androsch 2026