I AM ANIMAL

1_ ASCELLA
2_ACHNA

live recorded during the festival artacts 24´in St Johann Austria
composition and interpretation
INGRID SCHMOLINER

mixed and mastered by Markus Wallner

Ingrid Schmoliner's new composition for organ I AM ANIMAL is both fragile and
overwhelming at the same time. This work is large, vast and abysmal. 
It allows the church organ to live and breathe like an independent being. 
I AM ANIMAL, with all its powerful presence and simultaneous fragility, is hard to grasp.
The piece was premiered as part of the artacts ́24 festival in a Tyrolean parish church. It consists of two parts, each about 20 minutes long.
The first part, entitled “Achna”, sets the tone. Open chords that do not
chords, which are not resolved for what feels like an eternity, circle around a voluminous bass.
The simultaneity of high and low frequencies creates beats, which give the piece a subliminal rhythm. 
Sawing intervals testify of the composer's uncompromising approach. The subtle beauty of this music lies in its patina, in the scratching, rustling and hissing of the church organ.
“Ascella”, the second part of I AM ANIMAL, begins with a fluttering arpeggio.
Schmoliner repeats the same figure in stoic uniformity.
Many minutes pass before a higher arpeggio is added almost imperceptibly.
Standing planes push the everlasting tone progressions into the background, where they teeming, overlapping and beginning to take on a life of their own.
Schmoliner skillfully and imperceptibly changes the accentuation while playing the figures offset. After about ten minutes, there is a faltering, a hesitation that finally wiped away by new powerful basses.
I AM ANIMAL is a phenomenal organ work that invites the audience to surrender to the flow of sound. 
Listeners who want to keep a sober distance will fail. 
You surrender, you let yourself go. 
Follow the process

I AM ANIMAL_ Master_ Prelisten

I AM ANIMAL

1_ ASCELLA
2_ACHNA

ive recorded at the festival artacts 24´in St Johann Austria
composition and interpretation
INGRID SCHMOLINER

mixed and mastered by Markus Wallner

I AM ANMIAL  Ascella

I AM ANIMAL

1_ ASCELLA
2_ACHNA

live recorded during the festival artacts 24´in St Johann Austria

composition and interpretation
INGRID SCHMOLINER

mixed and mastered my Markus Wallner

I AM ANIMAL_ Master_ Prelisten

IngridSchmoliner