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Album release: Drones for Weekdays
‘Drones for Weekdays’ is released today on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
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ORA ET SPIRA
A performance by Kinga Tóth and Ausgesuchtestenohren with students of the sound art workshop Sounds of Isolation ORA ET SPIRA is a noise-prayer-performance by renowned Hungarian artist Kinga Tóth and Ausgesuchtestenohren (Karl Katschthaler) which premiered at MODEM, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Arts in Debrecen, Hungary on December 2, 2021. Our performance took place in…
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Sounds of Isolation (2021-2022)
Sounds of Isolation is a sound installation, which will be the result of a collaborative artistic project, exploring some social and emotional aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pandemic related lockdowns. In a face-to-face workshop for students, who in their majority are not professional musicians or students of music, at the University of Debrecen…
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An exceptional new album by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall
The pandemic and the necessity of social distancing have created specific creative situations in the past years and many interesting musical projects and collaborations have been seen the light of the day since. By far the most interesting result of distanced collaboration is the new album by Mia Zabelka and Glen Hall with the at…
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Recommendations for Bandcamp Friday
Do you need some recommendations for Bandcamp tomorrow, August 6? I have some for you: The first one is from Krakenkraft from Germany, two anthologies of some of his contributions to the Disquiet Junto project, a collaborative composition project, where Each Thursday in the Disquiet Junto group, a new compositional challenge is set before the…
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Oscillation Studies #6
In case of Oscillation Studies #6 the music preceded the graphic score. The 30 minute piece is an improvisation on Erica Synths Pico System III patched together with Bastl Kastel and on the very simple Distant Voices Theremin. In the graphic score I tried to represent the musical development of the piece which begins with…
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Oscillation Studies
Oscillation Studies is an ongoing series of graphic scores and related performances on small synthesizers with limited possibilities.
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Sound Mining (generatively and intentionally)
Recently I started to deal with generative music, or rather to integrate a generative element into my music. Such elements have existed in many of my pieces before, but they have never been systematic. In contrast, such a generative element, specifically a patch on a small modular system, which generates sound events of different quality…
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Sarah and Marja in Conversation
On March 2 I attended a webinar of the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter on Zoom: Sarah Hennies + Marja Ahti: Artist to Artist Talk. Originally I intended to write about this conversation between the two eminent composers, but then I got caught on two statements, one by Sarah Hennies and one by Marja Ahti…
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Music inspired by science
My new album Transition States is an album exploring several scientific principles and forces important in chemistry and biology by means of music. The core principles used as compositional tools are transition and equilibrium, i.e. dynamics and stasis. The music of the album is oscillating between these opposite principles until it gradually finds a rest…
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Wasted Sounds for Irmag
Liner notes for my sound art piece for the installation of Kinga Toth in Debrecen For her installation Irmag in Debrecen multi-disciplinary artist Kinga Toth built a work of art out of unnecessary things and waste materials she collected from the citizens of the town. These materials range from plastic bottles and other plastic waste…
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Misappreciations in music criticism 1: Pharoah Sanders: Love Will Find a Way
At the end of her Late Junction episode on January 1, New Year, New Horizons, dedicated to “sounds of hope and kindness”, the wonderful Jennifer Lucy Allan played Pharoah Sanders’s Love Will Find a Way in its epic entirety of 14 minutes, because she “absolutely refuse[d] to cut this”. She also said that Love Will…
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