Released: 30 Sep 2024
Performed and recorded live at BMCA Storage Vienna on Jun 24, 2024
Their musical interaction is improvisational, involving both direct communication between the musicians and interaction with their electronic devices. Music is understood as a constantly transforming movement that constantly produces new emergent situations. Essl and Döbereiner listen and interact in fundamentally contingent situations where chance is welcomed as a ferment of emergence. Their music integrates noise, intermodulation, and chaotic systems to create an immersive, multi-layered, and dynamic soundscape in which the boundaries between the performers and their instruments are blurred: two individuals become one.
Live performance at BMCA Storage Vienna
24 June, 2024
His music has been performed by numerous ensembles and soloists in Europe, and he has published his scholarly work in journals such as Computer Music Journal, Organised Sound, and Contemporary Music Review. He has taught at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, the Universität der Künste Berlin, and the FU Berlin, and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in New Music at the University of Huddersfield and at the Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics Graz.
Luc Döbereiner, 2022
Karlheinz Essl (b. 1960) is an Austrian composer, performer, improviser, software developer, media artist and composition teacher. He studied composition in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha and completed his musicology studies with a doctorate on Anton Webern. Composer-in-residence at the Darmstadt Summer School (1990-94) and at IRCAM in Paris (1991-93). From 1995-2006 he taught algorithmic composition at the Bruckner University in Linz. Since 2007 he has been a Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Between 1992 and 2016 he was music curator at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg.
His work with computers and a long-term preoccupation with the poetics of serial music have been formative influences on his compositional thinking. During the 1990s he carried out various projects for the Internet and became increasingly involved in improvisation. In 1997 Karlheinz Essl was a featured composer at the Salzburg Festival.
In addition to writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the areas of electronic music, interactive real-time compositions and sound installations. He develops software environments for algorithmic composition and live electronics.
As a performer and improviser he plays his own computer-based composition environments as well as instruments such as toy piano, electric guitar and analogue synthesizers.
Karlheinz Essl, 2021
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