Karlheinz Essl

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Calender 2025

Concerts / Performances / Lectures


Porgy & Bess | Hamburg | Seoul | Eckernförde | Brussels | Brno | Los Modulinos | Colorado | Salzburg | Im Erdkern | Abschiedskonzert | Klagenfurt | Gasometer | Schoenberg Center | Washington | Milano | Café Korb | Alte Schmiede | Braga | Wortwerft | PEEK | Papiertheater | non/toy piano weekend | next...



M!NDF*KC
experimental free improvisations

Mon, 6 Jan 2027, 19:00
Vienna, Porgy & Bess (A)
In der Strengen Kammer: Lost &amp Found curated by Peter Herbert
Edward Reardon: grand piano with live-electronics
Herbert Lacina: 7-string bass
Karlheinz Essl: MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synth, no-input mixer



Bricolage (2024)
for toy piano, screwdriver and live-electronics
Tue, 7 Jan 2025, 19:00
Hamburg, Kunstforum GEDOK (D)
anGEDOKt
Daria-Karmina Iossifova: toy piano & live-electronics


Sequitur III (2008)
for violin and live-electronics
Tue, 14 Jan 2025
Seoul, Ilshin Hall (KOR)
Violin Spectrum - Austria
Subin Hwang: violin
Se-Min Son: live-electronics



Bricolage (2024)
for toy piano, screwdriver and live-electronics
Fri, 24 Jan 2025, 20:00
Eckernförde, St. Nicolai Kirche (D)
Neue Musik Eckernförde: "laissez vibrere"
Daria-Karmina Iossifova: toy piano & live-electronics


Prends le Fa (2019)
for piano solo
Fri, 31 Jan 2025, 20:00
Brussels, La Tricoterie (B)
LOOP 14: Solo Recital Thérèse Malengreau
Thérèse Malengreau: piano


Portrait Karlheinz Essl @ Brno

Divadlo na Orlí
6 February, 2025

KHE-SoundChain2025


SoundChain

Von Hirschen und Röhren (2006-2025) - 10'
8-channel sound performance
Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics and 8-channel sound projection

FABRIC (2017) - 15'
fixed media with sound and visuals
Karlheinz Essl: 8-channel sound projection

Bricolage (2024) - 10'
for toy piano, screwdriver and live-electronics
Karlheinz Essl: toy piano & live-electronics
Otto Wanke: 8-channel sound projection

réflexions résonantes (2024) - 5'
stop-motion film by Hervé Bacquet with sound by Karlheinz Essl
Karlheinz Essl: 8-channel sound projection

mælstrøm (2024) - 10'
sound performance for granular and modular synth
Karlheinz Essl: computer & 0-COAST modular synth ´
Otto Wanke: 8-channel sound projection

Los Modulinos - 20'
free improvisation on analog modular electronics
Karlheinz Essl: modular electronics
Otto Wanke: modular electronics



Los Modulinos
free improvisation for two electronic musicians with modular electronics

Tue, 11 Feb 2025, 19:30
Vienna, BMCA Storage (A)
Karlheinz Essl: modular electronics
Otto Wanke: modular electronics



Bricolage
for toy piano, screwdriver and live-electronics

Wed, 26 Mar 2025, 12:00 and 15:00 - USA premiere
Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art (USA)
Songs of Innocence: Music for Toy Piano
Joel Bacon: toy piano & live-electronics


Trois Cent Drones (2021)
for toy piano and live-electronics

Wed, 26 Mar 2025, 12:00 and 15:00 - USA premiere
Fort Collins, Colorado State University, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art (USA)
Songs of Innocence: Music for Toy Piano
Joel Bacon: toy piano & live-electronics


trans-Art #3
sound/painting performance

Thu, 10 Apr 2025, 19:30
Salzburg-Wals, Atelier Astrid Rieder (A)
trans-Art Performance
Karlheinz Essl: modular analog electronics
Astrid Rieder: live painting


Im Erdkern
Instant Poetry / Realtime Composition

Tue, 29 Apr 2025, 19:30
Vienna, BMCA Storage (A)
Karlheinz Essl: sound / electronics
Erwin Uhrmann: poetry / voice

Im Erdkern - Karlheinz Essl & Erwin Uhrmann

Anmeldung unbedingt erforderlich!



Constantia (2019)
for chamber orchestra

Mon, 5 May 2025, 19:00 - Austrian premiere
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (A)
Klangtheater @ Future Art Lab
IKT // NEW SOUNDS
Platypus Ensemble, dir. Jaime Wolfson


Bricolage (2024)
for toy piano, screwdriver and live-electronics

Mon, 5 May 2025, 19:00 - Austrian premiere
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (A)
Klangtheater @ Future Art Lab
IKT // NEW SOUNDS
Karlheinz Essl: toy piano & live-electronics


Coastline_mdw (2025)
sound performance for modular synth

Mon, 5 May 2025, 19:00 - World premiere
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (A)
Klangtheater @ Future Art Lab
IKT // NEW SOUNDS
Karlheinz Essl: MakeNoise 0-COAST


more or less (1999-2020)
realtime composition for computer-controlled soloists

Tue, 6 May 2025, 19:30
Klagenfurt, Konzerthaus Blauer Saal (A)
BRANDneu
Max Brand Ensemble
Thomas Frey: Flöte
Gregor Narnhofer: Klarinette, Bassklarinette
Hannes Enzlberger: Kontrabass
Tim Reinhardt: Schlagzeug
Richard Graf: E-Gitarre


Trois Cent Drones (2021)
for toy piano and live-electronics

Wed, 7 May 2025, 18:00
mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (A)
Klangtheater @ Future Art Lab
IKT // NEW SOUNDS
Luca Lavuri: toy piano
Karlheinz Essl: live-electronics


more or less (1999-2020)
realtime composition for computer-controlled soloists

Fri, 9 May 2025, 19:30
Wien, Spielraum Gasometer B (A)
Jam Music Lab
Max Brand Ensemble
Thomas Frey: Flöte
Gregor Narnhofer: Klarinette, Bassklarinette
Hannes Enzlberger: Kontrabass
Tim Reinhardt: Schlagzeug
Richard Graf: E-Gitarre


Prends le Fa (2019)
for piano solo
Mon, 13 May 2025, 18:30
Vienna, Schönberg Center (A)
Forum Neue Musik: Studierende von Jan Satler (mdw)
Anastasiia Skovliuk: piano


Sequitur XI (2010)
for vibraphone and live-electronics

Sun, 18 May 2025, 7:30pm
Western Washington University, College of Fine and Performing Arts (USA)
Solo Recital Iván Manzanilla
Iván Manzanilla: vibraphone, cymbals and live-electronics


Portrait Karlheinz Essl @ Milano

Conservatorio di Milano
27 May, 2025

KHE-Seeber_2024


Concert

après l'avant (2021-2025) - 8'
sound performance with organ sounds in a virtual space
Karlheinz Essl: computer & controllers

FABRIC (2017) - 15'
sound performance based on Schubert and Klimt
Karlheinz Essl: computer & controllers

mælstrøm (2024) - 10'
sound performance with granular synthesis
Karlheinz Essl: computer & controllers

Coastlines (2022 ff.) - 15'
sound performance with modular synthesizer
Karlheinz Essl: 0-COAST modular synth


Blind Gig
free improvisation performance

Wed, 4 Jun 2025, 19:30
Vienna, Café Korb (A)
The SFIEMA Improvised Music Club
Mia Zabelka: violin, voice, electronics
Karlheinz Essl: modular synthesizer, no-input mixer


on common ground (2020)
for cello and piano

Fri, 6 Jun 2025, 19:00
Vienna, Alte Schmiede (A)
Duo Beinhauer & Lorenz
Matthias Lorenz: cello
Miroslav Beinhauer: piano

Live Stream - scheduled for Jun 6, 2025



7x7 - fo(u)r saxophones (2006)
musical mobile for 4 saxophones

Wed, 11 Jun 2025, 5pm
Braga, GNRation blackbox (PT)
7x7 fo(u)r saxophones
música contemporânea u.minho @ gnration
Beatriz Rolo, Francisco Oliveira, Beatriz Alves, Gabriel Dias: saxophones
dir. Pedro Junqueira Maia


Zunächst an jedem Ort – dann fort. Hermann geht die Wortwerft baden
Performance von vier Künstlern als Live-Hörspiel

Tue, 16 Jun 2025, 19:00
St. Pölten, Freiraum (A)
Hermann Niklas: instant poetry
Erwin Uhrmann: instant poetry
Karlheinz Essl: Modular-Synthesizer
Lorenz Seidler: lyrische Handlungsanweisungen

Hermann Niklas, Lyriker und Veranstalter von Literaturprojekten, löst nach zwanzigjährigem Bestehen die Wortwerft auf. Das geschieht in einer literarischen Pilgerreise zu Fuß vom Vereinssitz in Wien bis zum Erlaufsee. Am Weg werden Spuren der Wortwerft hinterlassen in Form von Sätzen und Gedichten aus vergangenen Projekten, Kolleg*innen und Zuhörer*innen steigen entlang der Mariazellerbahn ein bzw. aus und gehen ein Stück des letzten Weges mit. Drei persönliche Abende werden mit Erwin Uhrmann und Karlheinz Essl, Victoria Coeln und Josef Wagner, Maria Seisenbacher und Yvo Kaufmann gestaltet, die vor, während oder nach der Wortwerftzeit für Hermann Niklas wichtige Begleiter*innen waren. Zusätzlich wird die Reise mit einem partizipativen „postkartengedichtgeflecht“ von eSeL (Lorenz Seidler) unterstützt. Am Ende schließlich wird es am Erlaufsee zu einem letzten Wortwerft-Happening kommen. Und es wird gebadet!


Inventing and Performing Live-Electronics
lecture/recital

Wed, 2 Jul 2025
University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Klangtheater (A)
Final Symposium of the FWF-PEEK Project Études for Live-Electronics
Karlheinz Essl: talk and live performance


imagination (2015)
Musik für ein Papiertheater von Ulrich Chmel

Son, 19 Oct 2025
Vienna, N.N. (A)
Ulrich Chmel's Papiertheater


TUMP (The Ultimate Melodica Piece) (2025)
for melodica and live-electronics

Nov 2025 - world premiere
Hamburg (D)
Non-Piano/Toy Piano Weekend
N.N.: melodica & live-electronics



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Updated: 20 Apr 2025

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