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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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Verkündigung (excerpt) - live
Excerpt of a live performance on Wed 12 June 2024 at the Jesuit Church in Vienna during a rehearsal for the world première of "Verkündigung" on June 26th, 2024. Performed on an 0-COAST modular synth played through a BOSE L1 speaker.
https://essl.at/works/verkuendigung.html -
F.E.S.T. (Full Empty Space Theatre) - BINAURAL
Binaural production - listen with headphones!
Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the Volkskundemuseum Vienna (the former Schönborn Palace) on June 4, 2024 during the Vienna Festival project "Haus der Republik":
1) in the garden
2) Cider bar in the courtyard
3) Walking through the exhibition
4) People walking up the main staircase
Released: June 5th, 2024
Info: https://essl.at/works/HEAD.html -
N.O.N.O. (Never Obstruct Nearby Obstacles) - BINAURAL
Binaural production - listen with headphones!
Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) on 24 May 2024 before and during a concert of Luigi Nono's last compositions:
1) setup in the library
2) sound check
3) excerpts from "Lontananza" for violin and tape feat. Youngseo Kim and Karlheinz Essl
4) excerpts from "Hay que caminar soñando" for two violins feat. Youngseo Kim and Reina Yoshioka -
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.