This is a new recording of a piece I wrote originally in 2020, for the wonderful Duo HEDDA (Sophia Goidinger-Koch, violin, Klaus Haidl, guitar). The piece was then premiered only via stream (because of COVID-19) and has since been performed mostly without any live audience, leading to the concert of January 17th, 2025 to be one of the first concerts with an actual, live, in-place audience. It was a very rewarding, lovely experience, and the piece did seem to have resonated with some of the audience members quite a bit. The performers of this concert were again Sophia Goidinger-Koch and Klaus Haidl / HEDDA.

Earlier, I wrote about the music:

The piece is a delicate interplay of small and fragile sounds, perhaps like the dance of particles or a microscopical impression of supersensitive nervous textures. It is an attempt to approach the idea, semantics and the metaphorical surroundings of "intimacy", but in a somewhat sophisticated, subtle, and - necessarily - mediated way. The two instruments mostly act as one sound-body, complementing, reciprocating, or mirroring their respective gestures and fragments. This happens in several axes of reflection: mostly, the reactions are immediate, or in very close timely range, but there are larger distances, too large, in fact, to be perceived directly, where this happens, too. Furthermore, these axes have more dimensions than just the direct imitation - they might be harmonically linked, or linked in a transposed sense, or even connected via a transformative device (which sometimes is necessary simply because of the difference of the two instruments). 

It is a very soft, very tender piece in many ways, it seems, the two instruments orbit around this idea of "intimacy", and this in itself is very intimate playing, and yet there is, in all their being connected, always an unsurmountable difference, the very threshold separating us from each other, too.

With this, I leave you to, hopefully, enjoy it!

studies in intimacy II the deep mirror (17-01-2025, HEDDA)

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I am a Vienna-based composer, improviser and musician. Mostly contemporary / new music, with an emphasis on socials space(s) and agencies emerging from artistic practice. Maybe consequently, I am also very interested in making music and sound for theatre and/or theatrical pieces, or other ways of working with music and sound beyond the finite space of concert practice.  

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Freelance composer, sound artist, improviser and musician * Dad of two (2020, 2023) * Co-founder and long-time chairman of Ensemble Platypus (2006-2019) * Member of makemake produktionen (2011-2017) * As of 2019 holder of a doctoral degree (Dr.artium)* Educator at MDW / Vienna (2023)

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