New Music By Karlheinz Essl
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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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5 Herbeck Befragen (2014)
02/11/2014 Duração: 13minLetzter Teil aus Karlheinz Essl KUNSTRADIO-Stück "Herbeck extended" über den Dichter Ernst Herbeck (1920-1991), der die meiste Zeit seines Lebens im psychiatrischen Krankenhaus Maria Gugging verbrachte. Im Nachlass Ernst Herbeck wurde von der Literaturwissenschaftlerin Gisela Steinlechner einen Fragebogen gefunden, den der Psychiater Leo Navratil aufgesetzt hatte. Die Fragen waren mit Schreibmaschine getippt; darunter hat Herbeck seine Antworten hingekritzelt. - Dieses Frage-und-Antwort Spiel zwischen der Stimmen von Sandra Kreisler und einer Computerstimme namens Leopold ereignet sich vor dem Hintergrund einer sich äußerst langsam bewegenden hochexpressiven Orchestermusik, in der Mozart anklingt, der erklärte Lieblingskomponist Ernst Herbecks. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/herbeck-extended.html
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3 Herbeck Kommentar (2014)
01/11/2014 Duração: 05minDritter Teil aus Karlheinz Essl KUNSTRADIO-Stück "Herbeck extended" über den Dichter Ernst Herbeck (1920-1991), der die meiste Zeit seines Lebens im psychiatrischen Krankenhaus Maria Gugging verbrachte. Ein Kommentar über Karlheinz Essls persönlichen Zugang zu Ernst Herbeck, gelesen von Andreas Wolf. Im Hintergrund wird allmählich Herbecks Gedicht "Das Leben" erahnbar, das im Zentrum des nächsten Abschnitts steht. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/herbeck-extended.html
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WalkürenWalk (excerpt)
26/11/2013 Duração: 04minFor WalkürenWalk, an electronic sound performance for computer and controllers, Essl has chosen a fragment of 30 seconds from Wagner’s “Ride of the Walkyries”, segmented into tiny sound grains which are overlapped and re-combined during the course of a live-performance. These “nano”-particles reveal certain substructures of the music like a view through a microscope. In his adaptation, the music dismisses has lost the monumentality and powerful image of Wagner’s Walkyries, the messengers of death, who retrieved the dead heroes from the battlefields and brought them to Walhall, where they were revitalized for the ultimate battle - the Twilight of the Gods. In the crackling impulse sequences, certain aspects of Wagner’s sound spectrum become evident, although in an alienated manner. But the rhythms skeletonize the energetic momentum and the magnificence of the heroines of death as if the music would rather depict Gustav Mahler’s ghost army in Revelge. It draws the listener’s attention away from the triumphant
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Tristan's Lament (excerpt)
26/11/2013 Duração: 05minTristan’s Lament seems to allude Tristan’s complaint in the third act, when he is sick to death awaiting his beloved and “best doctor”, Isolde. However, Essl has chosen a sequence from the prelude, and by a program written in MaxMSP he moves through the sound in slow motion, back and forth, quicker and slower, until the time flow stops. In every performance, the live improvised reconstruction creates new variations – endless configurations of an endless melody. In Wagner’s prelude, the “awful yearning” implies the longing for love in every person of the play, and it is musicalized in chromatic shifts and the famous Tristan chord, that has broken the traditional tension patterns of tonality. Sighs and suspensions claim for solutions, which Essl denies, again and again turning back, as if the loops of increasing tension could prolong the bittersweet pain of expecting love in missing it. A sudden “forte” dies away, there is no increasing progression towards a climax, no breakthrough into bliss – not even the bl
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WebernSpielWerk (2005) - toy piano and ringmodulator
03/10/2013 Duração: 06minComposed 2005 for the 60th anniversary of Anton Webern's death, performed by Isabel Ettenauer and Karlheinz Essl. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/webernspielwerk.html
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colorado (2005-2008) - for saxophone quartet and live-electronics
09/03/2013 Duração: 13minPerformed by students of Lars Mlekusch and Karlheinz Essl on March 9th, 2013 at the MUK Vienna. Auf einer USA-Reise im Jahr 2005 war der Colorado River für einige Tage unser Wegbegleiter. Sein unbeirrtes Weiterströmen, seine chamäleonartige Farbigkeit und sein ungeheure Kraft (von dem das Grand Canyon ein berührendes Zeugnis ablegt)erschienen mir als naturgewordene Metapher für eine Komposition, die zu jener Zeit in meinem Kopf herankeimte: ein Werk für Saxophonquartett und Live-Elektronik, dem ich den Namen "colorado" gab. Bei der Aufführung des Werkes sitzen die vier Musiker des Quartetts in der Mitte des Saales; vier Lautsprechern umgeben das Publikum. Die Instrumente (Sopran-, Alt-, Tenor- und Baritonsaxophon) werden von Mikrophonen abgenommen, in Echtzeit von einem interaktiv gesteuerten Computerprogramm verarbeitet und über die Lautsprecher ins Auditorium abgestrahlt, das wiederum als Resonanzkörper und Hallraum fungiert. Die Live-Elektronik basiert auf einer Art „Teilchenbeschleuniger“, der die live
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Du bist mir fehl
05/12/2012 Duração: 08minAgnes Heginger's (voice) and Karlheinz Essl's (live-electronics) spontaneous interpretation of a poem by Hermann Niklas. Performed live at the Essl Museum Klosterneuburg (5 Dec 2012). Info: http://www.essl.at/div/outoftheblue.html
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Suspended Suspense (2012) - sound environment for Xenia Hausner
24/10/2012 Duração: 04minSound environment of Xenia Hausner’s room installation „ÜberLeben”, shown at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg (A) in 2012. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/suspended-suspense.html Eigens für die Installation von Xenia Hauser in der Rotunde des Essl Museums hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl sein Sound-Environment „Suspended Suspense” geschaffen, das mit minimalsten Mitteln eine Atmosphäre unerträglicher Spannung zu erzielen sucht. Ein schneidend hoher Ton und ein tiefes Rauschen schwellen unvorhersehbar an und ab und erzeugen dabei eine hypnotische Stimmung.
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Si! (2012) - for tenor tuba and live-electronics
26/09/2012 Duração: 16minPerformed by Karlheinz Siessl (euphonium) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics) at festival Klangspuren (2012). Some years ago I received an e-mail by a tuba player named Karlheinz Siessl who found it funny that our names are so similar: they only differ in the syllable "si". He suggested a collaboration and asked me to write a piece for his instrument. Shortly thereafter I invited him into my studio where we improvised together in order to become acquainted with each other. The result was so enjoyable and promising that I agreed to compose a piece for him. Pondering over the piece, I suddenly found its title – Si! – which means "yes" in Italian and Spanish. By coincidence, this is also the solmization syllable for the note B, the fundamental tone of the tenor tuba I was using. Observing the syllable "si" from various perspectives I decided to emphasize the positive message of this word. A piece of literature came into my mind where the word "yes" is used in a highly musical way: the very end of James Joyce
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Whoever you are
25/03/2012 Duração: 06minAgnes Heginger (voice) and Karlheinz Essl improvising on a poem by Walt Whitman. Performed live at the festival LOISIARTE on March 25th, 2013 in Langenlois, Austria. Info: http://www.essl.at/div/outoftheblue.html
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Rapprochement (1992) - for violin and cello
23/03/2012 Duração: 13minPerformed by Christian Altenburger (violin) and Reinhard Latzko (cello)at festival LOISIARTE, Langenlois (23 Mar 2012). Geige und Cello, als Mitglieder einer Instrumentenfamilie eng verwandt und doch stark voneinander unterschieden, erleben während eines viertelstündigen Dialogs die fortwährende Verwandlung ihrer Identität. Die anfänglich extreme Gegensätzlichkeit zweier individueller Musiksprachen wird zum Ferment eines Ringens um Annäherung. Anstatt sich aber auf halben Wege im Kompromiß zu treffen, versuchen beide Instrumente, Momente des Anderen, Fremden zu übernehmen und ihrer Identität einzuverleiben. Ein Unterfangen, das paradoxerweise oftmals zu weiterer Entfremdung führt. Die Utopie einer völligen Übereinstimmung könnte am Schluß des Stückes erreicht sein, wenn beide Instrumente sich schließlich im Einklang begegnen; ein groß angelegtes Decrescendo aber läßt diese Vereinigung im Bereich des Unhörbaren stattfinden (Karlheinz Essl, 1992). Info: http://www.essl.at/works/rapprochement.html
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JuncTions (2012) - for piano (2 players) and live-electronics
17/02/2012 Duração: 13minjuncTions was inspired by the Toronto-based keyboard collective junctQín. In 2009, junctQín asked me to write a piece for three pianists performing on one piano. Their request triggered several interesting questions for me: What can be achieved on a piano if one person plays the instrument in a traditional way (pressing the keys and pedals) while a second one is playing the inside (with an e-bow and a tone bar, tools more commonly used by guitar players) and a third musician is operating a computer program that creates an immersive maelstrom of sounds by processing the sonorities of the two piano players? The inside and outside sound worlds of the piano confront and connect with each other. For example, connections are intentionally achieved when one player creates a glissando by sliding a piece of metal along the very strings which are excited, hit by the hammers the second player has activated. At first glance the score may look pretty sparse. However, those delicate sound processes that are created by th
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blurred (2011)- for alto flute, cello and vibraphone and live-electronics
01/01/2012 Duração: 15minKarlheinz Essls „blurred“ ist eine sehr geschickt komponierte, zum Teil zart und zerbrechlich wirkende 15-minütige Komposition, die sicher zum Besten gehört, was ich an Musik aus dem 21. Jahrhundert bislang gehört habe. Es ist teilweise wahrhaft atemberaubend, wie der Komponist aus nur drei Instrumenten (Flöte, Vibraphon und Violoncello) sowie Live-Elektronik (die der Komponist bei der Aufnahme selbst bediente) ein vermeintlich „großes“ Ensemble erstehen lässt und wie sich daraus ein Gespinst aus Klängen formt. (Rainer Aschemaier, CD Review 2012) Live recording, performed by exxj (dir. Peter Burwik) and Karlheinz Essl, produced by Karlheinz Essl. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/blurred.html
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Lautstrom: Portrait Karlheinz Essl (2011)
12/12/2011 Duração: 59minJeremy Woodruff interviews Karlheinz Essl about his recent interdisciplinary sound works in collaboration with other artists including his sound installation on the grounds of the Humboldt University science campus in Berlin-Adlershof with Stefan Krüskemper. Produced for the Berlin-based web radio "Lautstrom" in 2011. http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/essl-woodruff.html
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Auf Reisen
01/10/2011 Duração: 04minFree improvised interpretation of Agnes Heginger's poem "Auf Reisen" by the improvisation duo OUT OF THE BLUE with Agnes Heginger (voice) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics). Performed live at Klangturm St. Pölten on 1 Oct 2011. http://www.essl.at/div/outoftheblue.html
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Sequitur VI (2008) - for trumpet and live-electronics
23/09/2011 Duração: 06minPerformed by Amy Horvey (trumpet) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics)at the Concordia University, Montreal on 23 Sep 2011. Sequitur is a series of 14 compositions for various solo instruments and live-electronics written for outstanding soloists. Somehow it can be seen as a reference to Luciano Berio's famous Sequenze cycle of solo pieces which focus on specific playing techniques of the respective instrument. Essl's Sequitur cycle includes pieces for orchestral instruments like flute and violin, but also for voice, electric guitar, toy piano or kalimba. All Sequitur composition use a software written in MaxMSP which creates an electronic accompaniment from the instrument’s live input; the player is confronted with his own playing, and this creates a situation like moving in a house of mirrors where the identities becomes blurred. The Sequitur software generates a complex canon on the fly, the temporal structure and density of which being controlled by random operations. This yields different results ev
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Silben im Oleander
26/06/2011 Duração: 09minFree improvisation based on Ingeborg Bachmann's poem "Silben im Oleander", performed live at Atelier Johann Feilacher (26 Jun 2011).
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OUT OF THE BLUE: Einzelhaft
20/05/2011 Duração: 05minFree improvisation on the lyrics of Falco's "Einzelhaft" by Agnes Heginger (vocals) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics, performed live at Walzengravieranstalt Guntramsdorf on May 20th, 2011. http://www.essl.at/div/outoftheblue.html
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Proper Ties (2010)- generative sound environment for an exhibition by Guido Kucsko
01/01/2011 Duração: 10minA generative sound environment for the art installation DOUBLE COATED IP CAPSULE by Guido Kucsko, presented at the Kunstforum Bank Austria (Vienna) in January 2011. Noises from our surrounding environment, bodies and machines are algorithmically morphed with the chant of a female, extracted from Karlheinz Essl's composition Sequitur IX for mezzo soprano and live-electronics. http://www.essl.at/works/proper-ties.html
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Sequitur X (2010) - for trombone and live-electronics
27/11/2010 Duração: 12minAufgenommen am 27. November 2010 im ZKM_Kubus in Karlsruhe (D) mit Mike Svoboda (Posaune) und Karlheinz Essl (Live-Elektronik). Seit 2008 arbeitet Karlheinz Essl an dem 14-teiligen Zyklus „Sequitur“ für unterschiedlichste Soloinstrumente und Live-Elektronik, der an die berühmten „Sequenze“ von Luciano Berio anknüpft. Hatte dieser einst prototypische Solostücke geschaffen, in denen die jeweiligen Instrumente mit all ihren klanglichen Finessen virtuos in Szene gesetzt werden, so geht es Essl um die Erweiterung dieses Ansatzes unter Einbeziehung der Live-Elektronik: Ein penibel auskomponierter und live gespielter Solopart wird via Mikrophon in ein eigens dafür geschaffenes Computerprogramm eingespeist, das daraus in Echtzeit einen elektronisches Klang-Environment generiert. Diese „Begleitung“ wird ausschließlich vom Input des Soloinstruments bestimmt, das mit sich selbst in vielfache Beziehung tritt. Wie in einem Spiegelkabinett lösen sich die ursprünglichen Identitäten auf und erzeugen ein komplexes Beziehungs