291 episódios
New Music by Karlheinz Essl 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)
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Coastline #67a (Joystick Fun) - modular synth performance
Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synthesizer controlled by a Doepfer A-174-4 joystick. Performed live at Studio kHz on May 9th, 2024. No edits, no overdubs, no MIDI, no sequencer, no arpeggiator - just manual control in real time!
https://www.essl.at/works/coastlines.html -
S.A.X.O. (Silence Any Xenophobic Operation) - BINAURAL
Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Dresden (Germany) in April 2024:
1) People inside the Frauenkirche
2) Café Algarotti of the famous Gemäldegalerie
3) The main station of Dresden
4) At the Albertinum art museum where refugees meet and kids play table tennis
Released: April 24, 2024
Info: https://essl.at/works/HEAD.html -
mælstrøm (2024) - sound performance for granular and modular synth
The Maelstrom is a gigantic vortex in the North Sea, described by Edgar Allan Poe in his short story "A Descent into the Maelstrom" (published in 1841). Its power is so great that it can suck in even large ships and crush them to pulp.
For my piece, I constructed a kind of Maelstrom mechanism with Granular Synthesis, written in MaxMSP. It pulverizes sounds and recombines them into new sonic structures that can be controlled during a live performance. The underlying sound material comes from an improvisation on my MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synth, which is also used as a sound device in this piece.
https://essl.at/works/maelstrom.html
The premiere took place on March 22, 2024 during my portrait concert at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey, performed by myself. -
M.O.N.T. (Madeirans Obviously Need Thrills) - BINAURAL
Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Monte (Madeira) on February 20th, 2024:
1) Kids playing Futebol
2) Monte Toboggan sleigh ride
3) Japanese pond in the Monte Palace Tropical Garden
4) Gardener at work in the park
Info: https://essl.at/works/HEAD.html -
Coastline #62 (Desert Storm) - modular synth performance
Free improvisation on a Make Noise 0-coast analog synth, patched as a generative non-linear system. No edits, no overdubs, no MIDI, no sequencer, no arpeggiator - only manual control in real time!
Recorded live at Studio kHz on 7 Mar 2024 in preparation to my solo performance at Alte Schmiede the next day. -
Coastline #59 (The Tempest) - modular synth performance
Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST. Performed live at Studio kHz on Feb 27, 2024. No MIDI, no sequencer, no overdubs, no edits.
Part of the work-in-progress "Coastlines" (2020 ff.):
https://essl.at/works/coastlines.html