Fixed-media composition based on John 1, 1-5 using (mostly) computer-generated voices in 24 different languages with 12 male and 12 female speakers, processed by a computer program written in MaxMSP.

https://www.essl.at/works/erat-Verbum.html

Released: 22 Apr 2022

erat Verbum

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erat Verbum (2020-2022) - multilingual electronic composition

Andacht is a 10 minute fixed media piece commissioned by the Institute for Art in Public Space Graz as part of the Sonic Transitions program at the Elevate Festival 2022, played in the Graz Mausoleum.

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Andacht

performed by Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart
Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista (Onsernone), 30 June 2023

This piece is the third and the last piece of my Wittgenstein cycle and also an homage to Solage to express my fumeusement**
for his Rondeaux ‘’fumeux fume par fumee’’. 

The idea behind the polytext use is based on how much each text can be perceived 
as explanatory, commentary and complementary in relation with each other. 
As a composer I consider myself very lucky because the self-contained and self-explanatory qualities of each text
make it possible for me to stay silent whereof I can't speak as Witgenstein suggest in his famous sentence.

**fumeusement: with sadness, with grief, quarreling, with haziness, intangibility,
 tendency to rise, shifts in shape, easily wafted or dissipated  with the heat that fum produces, just like the fumeurs.

fumeux fume par fumèe, a whole world of fume (2023) for five voices

All the sounds in this piece has been recorded 
Please use headphones ;)

Last Man

Free improvisation on a MakeNoise 0-COAST modular synthesizer connected to a Doepfer ring modulator with two MATH function generators and a MakeNoise WobbleBug using frequency, amplitude and ring modulation. Performed live at Studio kHz on Jan 16, 2024.

Coastlines

Coastline #58

Coastline #58 (Grain Harvest) - modular synth performance

An excerpt from a concert at ICST, ZHdK, in September 2023.

ICST Concert 2023-09-19 (Concert) Excerpt

An excerpt from the general rehearsal for a concert at ICST, ZHdK, in September 2023.

ICST Concert 2023-09-19 (General) Excerpt

A new addition to my no-input mixer project that I started in 2023. Performed live with a MACKIE 802 mixing desk on Feb 8th, 2024 at Studio kHz. No edits, no overdubs.
https://www.essl.at/works/studies-NIM.html

Studies for No-Input Mixer

Study for No-Input Mixer #8

Study for No-Input Mixer #8 (2024) - Blacksmith

Ben Meerwein
excerpt of the music for "O" 
dance piece created with Ilaria Bagarolo, Giorgio Lombardo and Lara di Bello
premiered in munich 2023 at Schwerer Reiter 
artist in residence @ Tanztendenz München

O (excerpt)

i made a personal computer voice in macos sonoma.
to do this you have to repeat 150 sentences into the microphone. i only babbled into the microphone and did not really repeat the example sentences that the ai needs for training. that is the result. it sounds like speech but you can understand nothing at all.

babbel 1

Binaural production - listen with headphones!
Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw) on 24 May 2024 before and during a concert of Luigi Nono's last compositions:
1) setup in the library
2) sound check
3) excerpts from "Lontananza" for violin and tape feat. Youngseo Kim and Karlheinz Essl
4) excerpts from "Hay que caminar soñando" for two violins feat. Youngseo Kim and Reina Yoshioka

H.E.A.D.

N.O.N.O.

N.O.N.O. (Never Obstruct Nearby Obstacles) - BINAURAL

Born 1960 in Vienna. Austrian composer, improviser and performer. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna. Besides writing experimental instrumental music, he performs on his own electronic instrument m@ze°2, develops software environments for computer-aided composition and creates generative sound and video environments. Since 2007 professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music in Vienna.

Karlheinz Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live electronic musical instrument. The result is exciting and musical. You just won't hear these sounds anywhere else. He performs solo and in duets and trios, responding with sensitivity to fellow musicians, producing fascinating sound transformations, creating spontaneous surprises, and moving quickly from loops to cacophony to tiny clips of vocal sounds to all kinds of textures and ideas. He does all this with his m@ze°2(Modular Algorithmic Zound Environment) performance software. (Joel Chadabe, CDeMusic, Januar 2002)


erat Verbum (2020-2022) - multilingual electronic composition

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