New Music By Karlheinz Essl

Excerpt of a generative sound environment for an exhibition of contemporary Aboriginal Art, shown at the Austrian Essl Museum (Klosterneuburg 2004). This piece is based on field recordings of an Aboriginal painting performance and original sounds from the Australian bush. A computer program written in Max splits the sound material into tiny grains that are re-combined by generative composition algorithms into a continuous flow of sound. Although the time structure of the original sound is completely unravelled by this process, its unique aura is preserved. And yet, this aura is no longer rigidly tied to a particular object, but has turned into a free-flowing entity that can become part of the most diverse new combinations: alchemy of sound...