New Music By Karlheinz Essl
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Sinopse
Born 1960 in Vienna. Austrian composer, improviser and performer. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna. Besides writing experimental instrumental music, he performs on his own electronic instrument m@ze°2, develops software environments for computer-aided composition and creates generative sound and video environments. Since 2007 professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music in Vienna.Karlheinz Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live electronic musical instrument. The result is exciting and musical. You just won't hear these sounds anywhere else. He performs solo and in duets and trios, responding with sensitivity to fellow musicians, producing fascinating sound transformations, creating spontaneous surprises, and moving quickly from loops to cacophony to tiny clips of vocal sounds to all kinds of textures and ideas. He does all this with his m@ze°2(Modular Algorithmic Zound Environment) performance software. (Joel Chadabe, CDeMusic, Januar 2002)
Episódios
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non Sequitur (2009)- performance for sound sculpture & live-electronics
08/06/2017 Duração: 05minVersion for sound sculpture and live-electronics, performed by Karlheinz Essl. Recorded live at the Technical Museum Vienna, 3 Oct 2009 http://www.essl.at/works/non-sequitur.html „non Sequitur” is a series of pieces for various gadgets (like punch-tape controlled music boxes, kalimbas or sound sculptures) and live-electronics which are side products of Karlheinz Essl's Sequitur cycle. Although the non Sequitur pieces are using a similar software as the Sequitur compositions, they are mainly based on improvisation and can only be played by Karlheinz Essl himself.
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Mozart-Lamento (2015) - electronic sound performance
29/04/2017 Duração: 11minGranular re/de/construction of Mozart's string quintet in G minor (KV 516), written in Max and performed live by Karlheinz Essl on April 29th, 2017 at Studio kHz. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/mozart-lamento.html
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Partikel-Bewegungen (1991/2016) - version for organ and voice
19/04/2017 Duração: 11minVersion for church organ and voice, performed by Wolfgang Kogert and Anna Clare Hauf on April 5th, 2017 at the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna. Diese Musik versteht sich als Reflexion auf die Werke von Harald Naegeli, dem "Sprayer von Zürich". Es gibt in diesem Stück keine Partitur, die einen reproduzierbaren zeitlichen Verlauf festschreibt; die Musiker spielen aus von einander unabhängigen, nicht-synchronisierten Einzelstimmen. Erst durch das bewußte Reagieren auf die Klänge der anderen Instrumente entsteht - unter Berücksichtigung genauer Spielregeln - im Moment der Aufführung die Komposition. Und ebenso wie Naegeli mit an sich bedeutungsfreien "neutralen" Zeichen operiert, habe ich ein Repertoire von Partikel-Klängen entwickelt, die in ihrer reduziertesten Form von den drei Geräuschen abgeleitet sind, die eine Spraydose zu produzieren imstande ist: der kurze Punkt, der lange Strich und schließlich das rhythmische Klackern der im Inneren der Dose befindlichen Kugel. So verwandeln sich die Blasinstrumente gleicher
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FABRIC (2017) - electronic soundtrack for a multi-media performance
01/03/2017 Duração: 14minSoundtrack of a multi-media performance by Karlheinz Essl reflecting the situation of female workers in a textile factory in Vienna in the early 20th century. Die Musik entwickelt sich aus zwei gegensätzlichen Klangmaterialien – einem Nähmaschinengeräusch bzw. Fragmenten aus Schuberts Klavierlied „Gretchen am Spinnrade“ – und steigert sich zu hochenergetischer Klangverdichtung, die als „Wall of Sound” mit voller Härte auf das Publikum trifft. Die Klangebene sowie die ebenfalls von Karlheinz Essl als Algorithmus konzipierten Visuals befinden sich während der Live-Performance in einem ständigen, sich langsam verändernden Transformationsprozess. Dazwischen gibt es lyrische Abschnitte mit Klavierimprovisationen, die - ebenfalls bereits den Keim der Veränderung in sich tragend - sich dramatisch zu neuen Gestalten und Erlebnisqualitäten verdichten. Ganz im Sinne der alchemistischen Transmutation verändern sich auch hier die Substanzen: Der „Fabriksdreck“ und die harte Arbeit der Textilarbeiterinnen verbinden sich
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da braccio (1999/2016)- interactive realtime composition for string sounds and computer
01/02/2017 Duração: 09minPerformed by Karlheinz Essl at Plivka, Kiev (UA) on Nov 19th, 2016 using his MaxMSP-based computer instrument m@ze°2. http://www.essl.at/works/da_braccio.html
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(7x7)7 (2006)- generative music mobile for Jürgen Messensee
27/12/2016 Duração: 03minGenerative music mobile, accompanying an art projection by Jürgen Messensee, shown at the Essl Museum (Klosterneuburg/Vienna) in 2006. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/7x7x7.html In his so-called art projection "Portrait E.", the painter Jürgen Messensee conducts an unusual experiment: a photo of a painting is deprived of its resting static state. Its parts slowly begin to shift, turning and interlocking and forming a three-dimensional spatial structure that moves in time. Through this process the iconic object becomes liquid, gaining two further dimensions with the inclusion of spatial depth and the flow of time. This approach is closely connected with my own compositional thinking, since I often start with static sound material (so-called "samples") in my computer-generated realtime compositions but transfer them into fluid processes through specially developed compositional algorithms. Panta Rhei - a sound environment for Jürgen Messensee's installation "Piscina di Venere" - testifies to this. It is the
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Le mystère d'orgue (2003) - sound environment for Hermann Nitsch
27/12/2016 Duração: 03minExcerpt from a generative sound installation for a Hermann Nitsch exhibition at the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg (Austria) in 2003. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/mysteredorgue.html As musical accompaniment for the major Hermann Nitsch retrospective at the Essl Museum, Karlheinz Essl has created a expansive sound installation which has its centre in the Rotunda and, from there, floods the large hall and the galleries with sound. For Nitsch, music has always been an integral element of his Orgien Mysterien Theater, which found its climax in the 6-Day-Play in August 1998. For this meticulously choreographed "Gesamtkunstwerk" the artist composed an original music score which has recently been released on 51 CDs. Sound samples from this recording have been used as basic material for the sound installation Le mystère d'orgue. A specifically developed computer program splits these samples into atoms of sound and re-combines them into ever-new sound shapes in real-time. The resulting sound stream wafts through the
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Stallnichte (2016) - granular re/de/construction of a well-known Christmas carol
20/12/2016 Duração: 06minGranular de/re/construction of a well-known Christmas carol, performed live on 20 Dec 2016 with a computer program written in Max. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/stallnichte.html
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exit*glue (2016) - for trombone & electric guitar
09/12/2016 Duração: 07minLive recording, performed by Juna Winston (trombone) and Coleman Goepfert (electric guitar) at Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten in Graz, Austria on 6 Dec 2016. This composition is a drama in sound, performed by two protagonists – a trombone and an electric guitar – that do not have much in common: a breath-driven brass instrument and an electrified plucked string instrument are probably the most diverse instruments on can think of. Nevertheless, both actors try to develop various strategies to approach each other in an attempt to fuse their specific sound worlds (GLUE), followed by situations where they try to break free, showing their idiosyncratic and individual abilities (EXIT). In this piece, the amplification system of the electric guitar is modified so that its sound characteristics come closer to that of the trombone. Instead of a common guitar amplifier, a device called Talkbox is used: a small stomp-box like device with a built-in amplifier and a small loudspeaker which sends the sound waves through
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Sequitur III (2008) - for violin and live-electronics
22/11/2016 Duração: 07minPerformed by Andrii Pavlov (violin) and Karlheinz Essl (electronics). Recorded live at Plivka, Kiev on Nov 19th, 2016 during Karlheinz Essl’s portrait concert at the festival EM-VISIA. http://www.essl.at/concerts/2016.html#kiev
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Landscapes in Green and White (2016)- free improvisation
01/11/2016 Duração: 10minFree improvisation performed on October 30th, 2016 at the Viiki Church in Helsinki. Feat. Martin Mallaun (zither), Maria Puusaari (violin), Ming Wang (guzheng), Eija Kankaanranta (kantele), Mikko Raasakka (liru) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics).
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river_run (2016) - for guzheng & live-electronics
15/10/2016 Duração: 12minRecorded by Ming Wang (guzheng) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics) at Studio kHz on 29 Sep 2016.
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BWV 1007a (1986) - for cello solo
21/09/2016 Duração: 04minRe-synthesis of Johann Sebastian Bach's Suite for Violoncello in G major, BWV 1007 using Markov chains. Recorded by Ivan Turkalj at Elak Vienna on 7 Oct 2013. Gemeinsam mit Gerhard Eckel entwickelte ich 1986 das Computerprogramm AFFE, das die Zeichenfolge eines Textes als Matrix von Übergangswahrscheinlichkeiten (nach Andrej Markov) analysiert. Aufgrund dieser statistischen Beschreibung können neue Varianten des Ausgangsmaterials gewonnen werden, die je nach Wahl der Zeichentiefe mehr oder weniger stark vom Original abweichen. Zunächst experimentierten wir mit literarischen Texten und generierten groteske, surrealistisch anmutende Gedichte. Dann kam mir die Idee, dieses Verfahren an Kompositionen zu erproben. Wie nahmen uns Johann Sebastian Bachs Suite für Violoncello in G-Dur (BWV 1007) vor, eine im Wesentlichen einstimmige Melodie in zumeist durchgehender Sechzehntelbewegung, die zunächst als Zeichenfolge codiert werden musste, bevor der Algorithmus damit gefüttert wurde. Das Resultat der Resynthese - rüc
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STERN (2013) - for electric violin with transducer and grand piano
17/09/2016 Duração: 04minIn this piece, the resonance board of a grand piano is used as a loudspeaker for an electric violin; an instrument which cannot be heard without amplification. By placing a special vibration speaker ("transducer") onto the sound board of the grand piano, the playing of the electric violin is projected inside the piano. Its "sympathetic strings" are used for unusual sonic effects by taking advantage of various resonance phenomenons which the pianist controls by slowly depressing and releasing the sustain and sostenuto pedals. By utilizing a so-called E-Bow on the piano, artificial resonances on a specific pitch can be generated. Here, the piano becomes a sort of acoustic sound processor for the electric violin. A highly interesting hybrid between violin and piano is constructed which bridges the gap between these very different instruments with their great tradition in music history. Both instruments are "morphed" into a single one for two players, capable of unfolding an enormous expressive power. STERN is
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Imagination: Schlussbild
11/08/2016 Duração: 02minDas gesamte Geschehen über werden wir von einem sich ständig bewegenden Zeiger einer Uhr begleitet. Symbol der Beständigkeit in diesen sich andauernd verändernden Bilder und andererseits aber auch stets vorantreibender Motor der Veränderungen. (Ulrich Chmel)
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Imagination: The Black Hat (nach Katz)
11/08/2016 Duração: 06minAus dem Dunkel der Bühne erscheinen die Umrisse eines eleganten großen Damenhutes. Die Dame fügt sich erst später in das Bild, in welchem wir The Black Hat von Alex Katz zu erkennen glauben. Doch die Farben sind dem Prozess der Veränderung unterworfen. Letztlich entweicht auch der Kopf der eleganten Dame um abschließend, der Schwerkraft trotzend, kopfüber zu entfliehen.(Ulrich Chmel)
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Imagination: Komposition mit Rot (nach Mondrian)
11/08/2016 Duração: 05minPiet Mondrians Komposition mit Rot hat unsere Alltagswelt sehr populär auf Gebrauchsund Einrichtungsgegenständen erreicht. In imagination erleben wir nicht nur die Konstruktion dieser Komposition. Mit einer plötzlichen Intervention wird das streng formale Bild aufgelöst und zum Verschwinden gebracht. (Ulrich Chmel)
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Imagination: Der Mann mit dem Hut (nach Magritte)
11/08/2016 Duração: 05minBildzitate aus dem berühmten "Mann mit dem Hut" von René Magritte erinnern uns zunächst an dieses Kunstwerk. Seine Einzelteile werden zum Ganzen zusammen geführt, jedoch aber sehr bald wieder dekonstruiert. Dennoch bleibt die wesentliche Aussage des Bildes zunächst erhalten, um sich letzten Endes dann doch wieder aufzulösen. (Ulrich Chmel)
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Imagination: Nana (nach Saint Phalle)
11/08/2016 Duração: 05min"Alle Macht den Nanas" proklamierte Niki de Saint Phalle. Zahlreiche Nanas bevölkern heutzutage Ausstellungen und Skulpturenparks auf der ganzen Welt. Eine feuerrote NANA erscheint auf unserer Bühne gleitend, fliegend und tanzend, sich ständig verändernd. (Ulrich Chmel)
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Imagination: Bildriss (nach Magreiter)
11/08/2016 Duração: 05minHelmut Magreiters philosophische Bilder führen oftmals zur Erkenntnis, dass sich alles zum Nichts hin bewegt. Mit dem Werk “Bildriss“ wird Kommen und Vergehen, bis zur blitzartigen Auflösung in der Farbe Weiß imaginiert. (Ulrich Chmel)