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After Harnik: a compositional response
The title is deliberately worded ambiguously. On the conventional level of language, ‘After Harnik’ means inspired by a work by Elisabeth Harnik. This work is her spatial composition for choirs and instrumentalists based on texts by Heraclitus and Sappho entitled “in change is rest” (2022-2023), the performance of which at Wien Modern on November 25,…
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Vienna Trilogy
The Vienna Trilogy represents the experience of a world moving towards catastrophe mixed with the experience of starting a new phase of life and moving to a city of mythologized well-being. Accordingly, the three pieces describe a journey from the cheerful feelings of arrival to the confrontation with war, war crimes and trauma while working…
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Birds in glass cabinets tell their dreams of flying
Some years ago I visited the Bird Collection at the Natural History Museum Vienna, which was a surreal experience. It holds more than 130.000 objects: skins, skeletons, eggs, and tissues. More than 10.000 mounted birds form part of the systematic collection. About 25% are permanently on display in the public galleries. My immedeate reaction was…
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Ausgesuchtestenohren X Eszter Ivanova
Of Moods and Beings Update: Permiere on Saturday, March 11, 2023 at 21:00 UTC+1 on YouTube: What is a crocheted bedspread? An object of daily use? A finger exercise? A recycling of wool residues? A meditation exercise? Applied arts? Art? For Eszter Ivanova, crocheting her bedspread was initially not an artistic practice, but rather an…
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New work for Revolve:R, edition four
I composed a soundscape for edition 4 of Sam Treadaway’s and Ricarda Vidal’s ongoing Revolve:R project. It is titeled Determining the Skull (This Is Not a Hunt!) and will be released on a DVD-R containing also the other songs and soundscapes made for the project, which will be published as a limited edition bookwork soon.…
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Upcoming performances of
Sinusoidal Sinusoidal is a minimalist long-form piece based on pure tones, which are enriched then using feedback, filters and spacialization. This piece was designed for live performance on a laptop, which does not have to have a very powerfull processor, because the sine wave generator and the filters do not need an extraordinary amount of…
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Gardening with Jarman
Derek Jarman project is the title of an old entry in one of my notebooks. I made this entry after I had bought Die Skizzenbücher, the German translation of the book presenting parts of Jarman’s legendary notebooks. The entry is about the idea of a sound art piece related to the art and practice of…
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The Dark and the Rugged
New release on Bandcamp The Dark and the Rugged is a longform piece about time and decay, it is a degradation drone. Waves of noise are rising and fading back into silence. Then percussive sounds emerge in irregular patterns as the drone is moving into territories of degradation. Right from the start of the piece…
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dro::ne
New track on Institute For Alien Research’s Assemblage Effects compilation: dro::ne: a dialogue of two contrasting drones interrupting each other and interrupted by fragments of field recordings. What could have been a hypnotic continuous drone is not destroyed but deconstructed.
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New book out now!
My new book [in German] about music aesthetics and the intermediality of music, language and literature is out now as paperback and e-book (pdf-format). It is available form the publisher here: Preview on Google Books: The cover illustration is my graphic score for Amethyst Diffuser (2020).
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A Winter’s Tale
New mix on Mixcloud I’ve done a new mix on Mixcloud with music by the great Nicola Woodham, Christi Denton and Anji Cheung, two tracks from the ongoing Disquiet Junto project by Garde Noisemaker and Noodle Twister together with some tracks and field recordings by myself.
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