Meditative last track from my 2004 'solo' CD.

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Under the alias ‘zitegeist’ Daniel Schorno travels the globe performing on eponymous digital and analoge vintage instruments. His musical noosphere is informed by razor edge sound cut & cued and laser fast live sampling re-synthesis of found objects and Crackle Scorpion sculptures. 

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Notable collaborations/collaborators have included (among others) - 

Frances-Marie Uitti, Joel Ryan, Alex Nowitz, Haraldur Karlsson, Pascal Boudreault, Ernest Rombaut, Camille Hesketh, Dirk Haubrich, Yoko Seyama, Frank van de Ven, Takuro Mizuta Lippit, Laurens Tan, Daniel Koppelman, Jason Kahn, Garth Knox, Sonia Cillari, Danil Akimov, StirliTZ/Andrey Kolomytzev, Byungjun Kwon, Netochka Nezvanova, Laetitia Sonami, Francisco Lopez, Yannis Kiriakides, Andy Moore, Jodi Gilbert, Ayelet Harpaz, Wilbert de Joode, Paul Lovens, Christina Viola Oorebeek, Katerina Bakatsaki, Maria-Ines Villasmil, Clarence Barlow, Jon Rose, Anne Laberge, Sabine Vogel,  Michel Waisvisz, Steina Vasulka, Robert van Heumen,  Mark Cognilio, Alan Pelletier, Peter Snow, Stuart Lynch, José Navas, FLAK, Noa Gelber, Estélle Clareton, Richard Siegel, Tony Chong, Allyson Green, Andre Gingras, Kaffe Mathews, Jan St. Werner, Bertram Dhellemmes, Bart van Dongen, Andreas Breitscheid, Saori Kakizawa, Domenico Sciajno, Tina Blain/Bean, Justin Bennett, Renato Maselli, Caja Ludica, Sher Doruff, Nora Heilsmann,  Gil Wasserman, Kalev Tiits, Dan Overholt, Philippe Monvallier, Hans van Koolwijk, Jorgen Brinkman, Hilmar Thordarson, Calliope Tsoupaki, Theo Schepens, Frank Scheffer, Lori Friedman, Mikae Nakajama-Cho, Frank Baldé, Ariella Vidach, Claudio Prati, Adam Linson, Clay Chaplin, Frankie Mann, H.C. Gilje, Kristina Andersen, Pavel Zustiak, Rene Wassenburg, Roland Spekle, Stephanie Samesch, Peter von Salis, Susanna Diaz, Paola Tognazzi, K.K. Null, Tom Demeyer, Bert Bongers, Lex van den Broek, Jo Scherpenisse, James Fulkerson, Yuri Spitsin, Evelien van den Broek, Sabrina Castillo, Wen-Ji Qin, Andrei Smirnov, Marissa Grande, Cléo Palacio-Quintin, Ines Birkhan, Phil Stearn, Jaroslaw Kapuscinski, Johan van Kreij, Illian Gonzales, Claudia Aruello, Roze Heggens, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Xenia Leydel, Marjolein Houweling, Thea Farhadian, Tohar Ben Yehuda, Jonathan Reus, Ana Rewakowicz, David Misumi, Xie YuDan, Felicity Provan, Nora Mulder, André Rangel,  Mark Weistra, Marc Redmeijer, Terence Schreuer, Christop Scherbaum, Andy McDonald Bruce, Ulrich Poehl, Lars Wouters, Mieko Kanno, Nieuw Ensemble, Insomnio Ensemble.


'one - cycle' (2004)

A short minimalist composition in iterative sounds, of both synthetically generated and concrete origins, which became track number two on the ‘solo’ 2004 CD. 

By the middle of the first decade I had invented and built around a dozen ‘personal instruments’, as we used to call them at STEIM, for myself (and others)in both software and as tangible, physical extensions intended for live performance. These later ones I have since termed ‘eponymous instruments’ on the basis of ‘having made them myself’ (literally) and ‘made them my own’ (by developing methods and learning how to play them, subsequently).  

Working with artists from the Fine Arts has continually offered interesting other/more ‘organic’ perspectives to my own abstract musical rationale. One particularly fruitful such collaboration has been with Icelandic artist Haraldur Karlsson in ‘EIG’ - 

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'plant - insect - life' (2004)

Soundtrack as part of the soundscape for my kinetic installation “MOBILE FREEDO[O]M - DENKMOBIL ! “ for  ‘werkstadt graz’ / Austria (2005). 

Inspired by the Icelandic modernist poet Steinn Steinarr.
 
" On a burning hot face falls the blue rain from blue-winged days / Into the mind's neutron shoots the night like a tale that is / nameless / And the nakedness of what is /loses the self's nearness into nights and days"


DENKMOBIL (2005)

Unedited field recording Flores / Guatemala (24 Jan. 2000). Sony minidisc recorder & Soundman OKM II binaural microphones.

The unique mix of ambient music, playing from a neighboring roof top bar - aptly named ‘Balcón del Cielo, given it’s magnificent view over lake Petén Itzá, the environmental soundscape from the town square basketball court below and a ‘dusk chorus’ of thousands of exited birds, captured quite beautifully the magic atmosphere of the Guatemalan jungle. 


Balcón Del Cielo (2000)

7minutes From Guernica (2003)

Two sound recordings of a baritone pipe from the ‘Airgame’ quartet project around a unique, purpose built 51-pipe bamboo organ by Hans van Koolwijk, provided the raw musical material for this short composition dating back to 1999. 

This particular ‘Bamboeso Sonore’, which later got somewhat tongue-in-cheek re-christened as ‘Luchtmacht’, or Dutch for ‘Airforce’, was stationed at STEIM in Amsterdam, in what was Steina Vasulka’s old studio, for two years. Various compositions by members of the group were realized there and later taken on tour through the lowlands. The members of the group were Laurens Tan, Klaas Hoek, Alan Laurillard and myself. 

Bari - Tone (1999)

Vocals and text Jodi Gilbert, double bass Wilbert de Joode, live electronics by myself. This song was recorded at STEIM, as part of the preparations for a short ‘RASP/HASP’ concert tour in early 2005. What came out particularly beautiful in this version were the totally improvised, live sampled voice layerings.  


Dogs Ends (2005)

This is a short excerpt from our first New Media Pocket Opera ‘Garden of Dream’ in 2006, presented at the Forum Neues Musiktheater of the Stuttart Opera House. 

The soprano is Camille Hesketh and Ernest Rombaut played oboe and an electronically augmented Piccolo Heckelphone. In the production 3d live-illustration was done by Pascal Boudreault, Frank van de Ven danced, Yoko Seyama took charge of scenography and costume design, while my composer friend Dirk Haubrich provided dramaturgical guidance, next to live video. 

http://www.pocketopera.info/Artists.html

Two further pocket operas complete the ‘Folie à Deux’ trilogy. All are based on the short story by the same name of author Rebecca Brown. The second ‘The Awakening’ was produced for the Dutch/Nederlands KamerOpera Festival (2011). The third is set for development in 2016.

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The project " NMPO " is a practice-based exploration of new interactive audio-visual technologies for opera and music-theatre, investigating the dramaturgical implications of combining the real and virtual within music-based theatre. The project uses live performance, voice-synthesizing and real-time sound and images projection to examine the phenomenon of technologically driven story telling, investigating new methods and means offered by specially developed new performance interfaces / instruments.

The project was part of a collaboration between the STEIM Centre in Amsterdam, the Centre for Research in Opera and Music Theatre at the University of Sussex (CROMT), Forum Neues Musiktheater of Stuttgart Opera and Tempo Reale Studio in Florence, with each centre initially contributing a new piece of work made to the same brief but employing different technologies or programs.

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