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

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

I have been playing the supernova II by novation since 2000 mostly as often as I can.  I have worked with the presets reprogramming over 1/2 of the over 500 presets .. each preset has 8 patches .. each patch has almost an endless set of settings that can be adjusted during play or set and saved into their own settings. there are 10 sets of 128 patches to be added to each of the 4 sets of 128 performance settings 8 at a time. I get better and better every year.

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)
