Category: Liner Notes
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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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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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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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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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Liner notes for the radically minimalist piece Patterns
Patterns is a minimalist piece for one sample and electronics. The sole sound material is a sample of one bell, which I stroke twice. This pattern of two bell strikes and two silences of different length is looped throughout the 30 minute piece. The regular pattern is manipulated first with different delays and the three…
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