Mozarteum joins a European test of the remote orchestra

Salzburg has entered a European experiment in whether a large ensemble can rehearse and perform as one body while its musicians remain in different cities. The EU-supported Europasinfonie plans to connect twelve locations with real-time audio and video; the Mozarteum Lab Choir is one of the Austrian participants.

The engineering problem is not ordinary streaming. For players to respond musically, the round-trip delay has to stay around 35 milliseconds. The project is preparing a first public production for 2027.

For Austria's electronic scene, the important part is the infrastructure. Low-latency systems can also serve live electronics, distributed improvisation and cross-border teaching. Salzburg now has a place inside that practical test.