Paul  Etheredge's Album

Total War [original instrumental]

Purchase eBook and music at: https://seanharold.bandcamp.com
Ondes Martenot performed by Suzanne Farrin

Kinderstück is a multidisciplinary children's book which combines visual art, text, and music. This video is only the score and music, not the illustrations or text.

At the heart of Kinderstück is a children's story about loneliness and coping with loss. Presented as a six-part poem, the narrative follows a girl who hates noise but loves her mother's voice. When the girl loses her mother's song, she must find a new way forward.

Each stanza of the tale is accompanied by a full page illustration by Yoko Furusho. Alive with texture, Furusho's whimsical but heartfelt illustrations perfectly complement the earnest nature of both the poem and the music.

Musically, Kinderstück is based on Anton Webern's short piano piece of the same name. As the title implies, Webern's piece was written for children to perform. This short, aphoristic piece was composed using Webern's familiar 12-tone style, but as with many of Webern's works from this period, there is a clarity and succinctness which set it apart from the dodecaphonic works of his contemporaries.

Sean Harold's Kinderstück, written for ondes Martenot and electronics, deconstructs and re-imagines Webern's composition. Harold's piece is no longer intended for a child to perform. Instead, it's written as if remembered by a child. Half dream-like, half in awe, the new composition reflects a child's love and the unique struggle of being confronted with loss at a young age.

Kinderstück

Performed by Wolfgang Kogert on the organ of the Hofburgkapelle in Vienna, Austria. Released on the album ORGANO/LOGICS (col legno 2023) https://essl.at/records/organologics.html
Music on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of Anton Webern’s death in Mittersill, 15 September 2005. The transformation of his final twelve-tone series (allegedly noted down on a circular tabletop) into a computer-generated glockenspiel, transcribed for toy piano respectively organ. Score and more: https://essl.at/works/webernspielwerk.html

ORGANO/LOGICS

WebernSpielWerk

WebernSpielWerk (2005/2020) version for organ

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/

Hommage à Anton Webern, aufgenommen in Mittersill, wo der Komponist 1945 von einem amerikanischen GI in vermeintlicher Notwehr erschossen wurde.

Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundscapes aufgenommen, die sich auf einen konkreten Ort oder eine besondere Situation beziehen. Erwin Uhrmann hat zu diesen Klangstücken lyrische Texte verfasst und selbst eingesprochen. Die Titel bezeichnen den Ort und sind gleichzeitig Akronyme, die die Fantasie des Zuhörers herausfordern. Durch den 3D-Sound werden sie unmittelbar erfahrbar.

K.O.P.F. - Kartografisch Orientierte Passagen Fragmente

S.I.L.L.

S.I.L.L. (Sounds Intercept Little Lovers) - BINAURAL

Ice Cube Isomorphic Partitioning [original instrumental]

Dr. Dre Invariants [original instrumental]

2Pac Hexachordal Levels [original instrumental]

Sergei Eisenstein [original instrumental]

Third-Stream Twitch [original instrumental]

Anxiety-Ridden Mayhem [original instrumental]

Sears [original instrumental]

Bookstop [original instrumental]

Thermophobia [original instrumental]

Colored Fleas [original instrumental]

MFOM Program 770: The Art of Anahid Ajemian

The Art of Fudge [original instrumental]

Sean Harold loves the X-Files. Some of his favorite episodes are (in no particular order): Bad Blood, Jose Chung’s From Outer Space, Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose, and Monday. He really hopes they make another movie or even just bring the series back, but only if Monica Reyes isn’t in it. She was just awful.


NOTE: This bio was written before the return was announced. As such, I'm taking full credit for the X-Files coming back. You're welcome.

Other Minds is dedicated to the encouragement and propagation of contemporary music in all its forms.

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Other Minds, a private not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization based in San Francisco, is dedicated to the encouragement and propagation of contemporary music in all its forms. Projects include the annual Other Minds Music Festival, Other Minds Records, Other Minds New Music Séance Concerts, “Music From Other Minds” on KALW 91.7-FM, and the History of New Music Preservation Project, making content from the Other Minds Archive available for free on the web at radiOM.org.

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)


Solo artist.  Song and dance man.  Folk.  Blues.  Contact:  desertersongs@yahoo.com Film critic at https://paulydeathwish.com/

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