Ein Individuum am Rande - untrennbar mit der Gesellschaft verbunden und doch abseits, verunsichert und einsam, Schritt für Schritt immer weiter in Verzweiflung und Wahnsinn stolpernd...

Mit Textfragmenten aus der Erzählung "Lenz" von Georg Büchner

Stimme: Ludwig Klossek
Produktion: Reinhard Karger


An outsider individual - entangled irreversibly with society and yet far off, insecure and lonely, stumbling step by step towards desperation and madness...

With text fragments from the novel "Lenz" by Georg Büchner

Voice: Ludwig Klossek
Production: Reinhard Karger

abseits

Alphabet 87, a piece of mine for 11 virtual violins, written for Morton Feldman after his death in 1987.
Usually, it is performed in a complex spacial situation with many speakers, but I also imagine it to be a nice soundtrack for video or film, so if you have an idea, go ahead!

May 2012 Reinhard Karger 

Alphabet 87 (for Morton Feldman)

Reinhard Karger, composer and director

born 5-3-1953 in Tübingen (Germany)

Studies in composition, electronic music and theatre with
Erhard Karkoschka (Musikhochschule Stuttgart), 
Gottfried Michael Koenig(Instituut voor Sonologie Utrecht),
Morton Subotnick (California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles)
and Brian Ferneyhough (Musikhochschule Freiburg)

Main fields of activity: 
Compositions for chamber ensembles and all kinds of vocal settings,
multimedia concert and theatre projects in the field of language - voice - scenical display.


From 2005 to 2008 professor for contemporary music and music theatre at the University in Kassel (Germany),
since 2008 professor for composition with emphasis on new media at the
University for Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, from 2011 to 2013 head of the 
Institute of Composition and Electroacoustics. 


abseits

Reinhard Karger

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