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NOTES Vol. 1 and 2
NOTES are field recordings annotated with and sometimes transformed into music. The field recordings have been made over the last few month in two places in Vienna. One place is at home in my bedroom with the window open at night. The other place is the park nearby, also at night. These field recordings are…
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Hearing the Light (EYES CLOSED)
I often think about my music in terms of translation between the senses, using the concept of experiential translation as elaborated by Ricarda Vidal and Madeleine Campbell. (https://experientialtranslation.net/) Sometimes even my artistic process is a process of experiential translation, like in this case between the eye and the ear. HEARING THE LIGHT (EYES CLOSED) is…
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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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Darker Sensations
Lately I have done five new pieces of musique concrète exploring darker sensations. The creative process started with listening as always and field recording. Recordings of birds in the darker regions of the woods, of people in the lokal park at night, of myself walking around in an old church before a concert and recording…
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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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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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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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Album release: Drones for Weekdays
‘Drones for Weekdays’ is released today on Bandcamp and Soundcloud.
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In Times of Crisis (End of 2020 Mix)
The title of my end of the year mix of tracks from releases I purchased on Bandcamp in 2020 and one track off of one of my own releases is borrowed from one of the most beautiful releases on Longform Editions in this year, Carmen Villain’s otherworldly Affection in a Time of Crisis. Although all…
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Verbal score for my drone piece “Ad nihilum”
Try to do nothing Try to not do Try to do not much Try to not play Try to listen only Try to keep listening only Try to not play with the faders Try to leave the sound alone Try to leave the sound alone and listen Try to leave the sound alone to evolve…
