"Careful with that rifle Eugene"… the aggressive quality, with just a bit of techno beneath the floor, makes this pleasantly different from normal electro-acoustics!

really impressive work!! i love the sounds and the effects with this objects!very beautiful composition!! it is a pleasure for me to make a collaboration together if u wanna! :)

Giving 'turntablism" fresh life! Excellent!

Dedicated to the Japanese POWs interned in Siberia

Composition, performing and recording: Leonid Zvolinsky

Muffled voice (2022) for acoustic guitar and live electronics

Objets de désir illicites (2019-2022)— fixed media
dedicated to Michèle Gagliano
text and voice — Carmen Diez Salvatierra
( based on 28 formes découpées, Les Presses du Réel, 2019 )
instrument recordings — Madison Greenstone, Alexandria Smith & Kathryn Schulmeister

subtitles programming — NI Shan 
see video version on Youtube (with lower quality sound !)

Objets de désir illicites (fixed media - 2019-2022)

The auto-played piano part is created using spectral analysis of the audio track (aircraft noise, explosion and baby crying) from the video of a warplane attacking a house. The original sound was slowed down from 3 seconds to 4 minutes to make everything discernible and then transcribed for piano. The score was not composed or performed by human: the pitches and rhythms correspond  to the original sound. The dynamics and range are have been edited to make everything audible and emphasize important details.

From the second minute the music drastically changes: a child begin to cry after the thunderous explosion. 

The live-electronics part comes from the piano part enriching it with real-time effects.
All the effects are based on sound taken from the piano by the microphone during the performance, and the changes in the electronics are controlled (also without any performer) by a pre-written algorithm.

Machines do not think about war. But there is a human being behind the every instruction.


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Спектральный анализ аудиозаписи видео-кадров (приближение, взрыв и детский плач), на которых запечатлен момент ракетной атаки истребителя на жилой дом на территории Украины, был использован для создания партии автоматического пианино: это буквальная фортепианная транскрипция, замедленная с 3-х секунд исходного звука до 4-х с половиной минут, чтобы сделать все структуры различимыми. При этом ни одна нота не была сочинена или исполнена человеком: звуковысотности и ритмы точно соответствуют исходному звуку, а динамика и диапазон некоторых структур были отредактированы с целью сделать их слышимыми. Со второй минуты композиции музыка сильно меняется: после отгремевшего взрыва в тишине заплакал ребёнок. 

Партия лайв-электроники вытекает из партии фортепиано, дополняя её электронными эффектами в реальном времени. Все эффекты исходят из звука, снятного с рояля микрофоном во время исполнения, а изменения в электронике контроллируются (так же без участия какого-либо исполнителя) заранее написанным алгоритмом.

Машины не думают о войне. Но за каждой инструкцией стоит человек.

Operating Instructions (The Machine Doesn't Think Of War)

Chaos 240 doit aux techniques de programmation avancée sur le logiciel MAX. Mais encore à certains chapitres de « la théorie du Chaos ». Chaos aléatoire plutôt à 240 BPM, une orchestration en spirales pour samplers, suivant les méandres d’algorithmies de nature proliférantes.

Nouvelles Vagues 5 - Chaos 240 (2020, 09'25)

Performed by Wolfgang Kogert on the organ of the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna, Austria. Released on the album ORGANO/LOGICS (col legno 2023) https://essl.at/records/organologics.html
Music on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Anton Webern’s death in Mittersill, 15 September 2005. The transformation of his final twelve-tone series (allegedly noted down on a circular tabletop) into a computer-generated glockenspiel, transcribed for toy piano respectively organ. Score and more: https://essl.at/works/webernspielwerk.html

ORGANO/LOGICS

WebernSpielWerk

WebernSpielWerk (2005/2020) version for organ

Mu-Xuan Lin (林慕萱)：
Double Jeopardy (2014, 12-instrument version)
World premiere performance by ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) at the 2024 Hear Now Festival, Los Angeles, April 26th, 2024.
Conductor: Jerry Hou

Double Jeopardy (2014, 12-instrument version)

First encounter between the organist Jeremy Joseph and the composer Karlheinz Essl on his 0-COAST modular synth on 2 December 2024. We met in St. Ursula, a beautiful baroque church in Vienna which houses three fine organs, one of which - a sublime 7-rank Italian instrument from the 18th century - is used on this track. There were no preconceived musical ideas or any kind of preparatory sketches for the improvisation. It is simply an atmospheric late-night ‘jam session’ recorded in the darkness of the sanctuary. It captures us getting to know each other, finding one another and it illustrates the process of musical consolidation through improvisation.
https://essl.at/div/becoming-one.html

Becoming One (2024) - free improvisation for organ and synthesizer

Après la bataille, for orchestra
Orchestre de Radio France
Pierre Andre Valade, Direction

...après la bataille [for orchestra]

random thoughts bass clarinet/ interactive electronics (Orbits)

rt112725bc

East St.Louis Blues for piano and electronic
A psychoacoustic journey.

Stefano Malferrari, piano

East St.Louis Blues for piano and electronic (2018)

My realisation of four page graphic score by Bob Marsh.
(track graphic is page-one of score)

http://windowdoorriver.bandcamp.com/album/window-door-river-2-3

window/door/river

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