New Music By Karlheinz Essl

NB: Listen with headphones to experience the immersive surround sound! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in June and August 2018: 1) walking through the Essl Museum 2) two persons marching and running in a reverberant hall 3)a gallery with Rubens paintings at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna 4) walking through the forest of the Thaya National Park.

Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the river Thaya (Czech: "Dyje") in Austria in June and August 2018: 1) Thaya in Liebnitz, 2) Thaya National Park, 3) church bell from Hardegg, 4) water noise of a fish bassin Info: http://www.essl.at/works/HEAD.html

fLOW is an audio computer program running on Apple Macintosh machines. It generates an ever-changing and never repeating soundscape in real time that fills the space with flooding sounds that resemble - metaphorically - the timbres of water, fire, earth, and air. This ambient soundscape generator adjusts itself through various parameters and controllers that are represented in real time on your screen. Download software: http://www.essl.at/software.html

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the Prater, a famous amusement park in Vienna, Austria on Aug 11th, 2018: 1) Achterbahn (outside recording of a rollercoaster) 2) Hochschaubahn (riding on an vintage rollercoaster which is suited for kids) 3) Geisterbahn (a ride on a ghost train) 4) Liliputbahn (a ride on miniature steam locomotive through the park).

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural recordings made at Lunz, Austria on Aug 7th, 2018: 1) hikers escaping an approaching thunderstorm 2) rain and thunder at the courtyard of the castle 3) swimming in the lake, 4) ride on an electric canoe through a narrow water canal. Soundscapes recorded with Sennheiser Ambeo Headset. Generative software written in Max7 with objects from Karlheinz Essl's RTC-lib. © 2018 by Karlheinz Essl

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural recordings from different spots of the Danube Delta in Romania: 1) morning atmosphere near Sulina 2) evening atmosphere near Sulina 3) frog concert with paddle boats in Canal Magearu, 4)birds singing at Lacu Iaco. Soundscapes recorded in May 2018 with Sennheiser Ambeo Headset. Generative software written in Max7 with objects from Karlheinz Essl's RTC-lib. © 2018 by Karlheinz Essl

Radiofeature von Alfred Koch über den Komponisten Karlheinz Essl. Erstsendung: 9 Juni 2006, 22:15 (Ö1 Tonspuren) Der Komponist Karlheinz Essl ist ein Erforscher der Zwischenräume von Klang und Geräusch. Manchmal blubbert, kracht, pfeift und zischt es in seinen Kompositionen wie in einer Küche. 

"Mich haben immer Hintergrundstrukturen von Musik interessiert, ich versuche ein System zu entwickeln, das aus sich selbst heraus Klänge entwickelt", sagt Essl, für den der Zusammenhang zwischen Kochen und Komponieren nicht nur ein metaphorischer ist. 

Für die "Tonspuren" begibt sich der "Komponist am Laptop" in die Küche. Und bereitet, während er über Klangenvironments räsoniert, die um sich selber kreisen, ein frugales Mahl: "eine polyglotte Improvisation mit Fleisch und Gemüse".

Excerpt from Karlheinz Essl's infinite generative sound environment for an art installation by Nagl~Wintersberger at Kunstfabrik Groß Siegharts. Presented during the Viertelfestival 2018 between July 7th and August 5th, 2018.

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural recordings from different spots in the region of Retz, Austria: 1) the main square in the city of Retz 2) Czech people talking in a bar in Šatov 3) birds singing near the river Thaya, 4) a so-called "Kellergasse" in Retz. Soundscapes recorded on June 8th, 2018 with Sennheiser Ambeo Headset. Generative software written in Max7 with objects from Karlheinz Essl's RTC-lib. © 2018 by Karlheinz Essl

Listen with headphones! Binaural sound performance by Karlheinz Essl as a sonic comment to Peter Paul Ruben's painting "Landscape with Thunderstorm" (1620-1636). Broadcasted on May 13th, 2018 at the KUNSTRADIO of the Austrian Radio Ö1. Presentation: Anna Soucek. More information: http://www.essl.at/bibliogr/essl-soucek_kunstradio.html

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece! Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural recordings from different spots in the city of Vienna, Austria: 1) Café Mozart near the Opera 2) reading hall of the Austrian National Library, 3) children’s playground at Draschepark, 4) pond near Gerasdorf with swimmer and kids. Soundscapes recorded between March and April 2018 with Sennheiser Ambeo Headset. Generative software written in Max7 with objects from Karlheinz Essl's RTC-lib. © 2018 by Karlheinz Essl

Radio live performance by Karlheinz Essl at ORF Kunstradio, Vienna on 25 Feb 2001, preceded by an interview with Susanna Niedermayr. http://www.essl.at/works/replay.html REplay PLAYer is Karlheinz Essl’s contribution to the Kunstradio Series RE-PLAY UPDATE. Karlheinz Essl approached the exemplary selection of sound material presented in in the exhibition "RE-PLAY Beginning of International Media Art in Austria” with reference to their compositional usability. A special characteristic of the software developed for the project REplay PLAYer is that the supplied sound examples will be sampled, fragmented, and newly arranged according to a given score during the live-performance. Karlheinz Essl performance his piece with m@ze°2, a real-time composition and improvisation tool, that is likewise computer-based and that the artist himself developed in 1996. With his project REplay PLAYer, Karlheinz Essl is following his vision once again of a Music "that is composed, as if from itself (auto-poetic), in the moment o

NB: Listen with headphones to enjoy the immersive sound of this piece. Generative soundscape based on a random walk between four binaural recordings from different spots in the city of Graz, Austria: 1) farmers market near the Opera, 2) street crossing at the Stadtpark with cars, motorbikes and bicycles, 3) trams, busses and passengers at Jakominiplatz, 4) birds and a creek in the park of the Music University with a distant vibraphone. Soundscapes recorded on April 19th, 2018 with Sennheiser Ambeo Headset. Generative software written in Max7 with objects from my RTC-lib. © 2018 by Karlheinz Essl

Excerpt from the generative sound installation SEELEWASCHEN, a multi-channel sound environment for a light installation by Rainer Gottemeier for the Donaufestival 2004. Info: http://www.essl.at/works/seelewaschen.html

OUT OF THE BLUE Agnes Heginger: voice Karlheinz Essl: electronics This live recording is based on spontaneous improvisations performed by OUT OF THE BLUE at the Danube Festival on Aug 6th, 2017. The live-electronics are based on pre-recorded sound samples which are processed in realtime by computer algorithms, developed by composer Karlheinz Essl. Agnes Heginger’s magnificent voice freely meanders through a maze of texts by German and Austrian poets like Ingeborg Bachmann, Joachim Ringelnatz and Christine Nöstlinger. The result is an hermetic, megalithic, cathartic, and evocative sound experience. Released on 22 Aug 2017 by Nachtstück Records.

Performed at MUMOK (Vienna) on Jan 21st, 2018. Bulenda Felicia, Krenn Elisabeth, Reis Pedro, Wurzer Edeltraud: clarinets Four clarinets are positioned in the corner points of a virtual square around the audience. The score is organized in a sort of chess board with 7x7 fields. Each field contains a musical phrase which duration is left to the discretion of the player. After finishing a phrase, the player makes a pause of an undefined length. Then he proceeds to the next motif and so on. Each musician begins in one of the four corner fields of the grid. The entrance of the players is staggered. Player 1 starts with his phrase. When the maximum of the crescendo is reached, the second player enters, then the third and finally the forth. Each player takes an individual path through the grid following the directions of the respective arrows. Each path describes a spiral that finally ends in the center field...

Sound performance for the painting "Thunderstorm with Philemon and Baucis" (1625)by Peter Paul Rubens. Commissioned by Jacqueline Kornmüller for the theatre project GANYMED NATURE, performed at Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna. "In seiner Komposition Some Way Up erforscht der Komponist Karlheinz Essl die "Gewitterlandschaft"" von Peter Paul Rubens. Vor dem Werk wird er spontan wie ein Wettermacher immer neue Stürme entfesseln, Regenmassen niederprasseln lassen und elektronische Regenbögen erschaffen." (Jacqueline Kornmüller) Info: http://www.essl.at/works/some-way-up.html

Sound environment for the photo exhibition "The Last Day" by Helmut Wimmer, shown at the Kunsthistorische Museum Vienna between March and December 2018. Composed and produced by Karlheinz Essl at Studio kHz http://www.essl.at/works/wheres-the-rainbow.html

OUT OF THE BLUE Agnes Heginger: voice Karlheinz Essl: electronics This live recording is based on spontaneous improvisations performed by OUT OF THE BLUE at the Danube Festival on Aug 6th, 2017. The live-electronics are based on pre-recorded sound samples which are processed in realtime by computer algorithms, developed by composer Karlheinz Essl. Agnes Heginger’s magnificent voice freely meanders through a maze of texts by German and Austrian poets like Ingeborg Bachmann, Joachim Ringelnatz and Christine Nöstlinger. The result is an hermetic, megalithic, cathartic, and evocative sound experience. Released on 22 Aug 2017 by Nachtstück Records.

Generative sound environment for three speakers attached to moving sculptures for a dance/performance by Nagl ~ Wintersberger. Written in MaxMSP. Bass clarinet: Georg Riedl