Category: Liner Notes
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The Psychology of Introspection
I did some artistic research on the psychology of Introspection through sound art and music for more than a year now. The results are three pieces, two of them combining generative music, chance operations and field recordings. The third one is a composition using field recordings. The psychology of Introspection is necessarily a psychology of…
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Streetcars do dream-work (new release)
Since I have re-loacated to Vienna in September last year, I used to travel a lot across the town on trams listening to the sounds they produce as they make their ways through the city and the sounds the passengers produce on the trams or their various silences. This is often a weird experience of…
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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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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.
