Sounds flood through the room, drip from the ceiling and evaporate in an eternal cycle. On May 13, 2000, the Minoritenkirche in Krems was transformed into an acoustic water reservoir by a generative sound installation by Karlheinz Essl. The occasion was the last part of the project series "fLOW". Once again Karlheinz Essl invited top-class international instrumentalists, composers and sound artists from a wide variety of musical contexts (ranging from jazz to new music to free improvisation) to be part of a musical work process in continuous flux.
Featuring: Anne LaBerge: flute and electronics, Arne Deforce: cello and electronics, Martin Siewert: electric guitar, lapsteel, devices, Elisabeth Flunger: percussion, Didi Bruckmayer: voice and Karlheinz Essl: computer, soundscape, live electronics, concept

Info

fLOWer #5

fLOWer #4

fLOWer #3

fLOWer

fLOWer #2

fLOWer #1

"The STATION ROSE Jingle 2023 has the title "35.0 back INTO the future infinity". The special thing this time: the tracks were created 60% with AI apps, the rest was created live with analog synthesizers and samplers. In an interview with Anna Soucek, Gary Danner and Elisa Rose talk about their experiences with AI, and about their healthy skepticism towards these technologies, which linguist Noam Chomsky recently described as nothing more than "plagiarism software" which does not create artistic works, but copies and steals them." Anna Soucek/Kunstradio  11.2023

Music: Gary Danner
Words and vocals: Elisa Rose

Originally broadcast on November 26, 2023.
Thanks to Elisabeth Zimmermann/ORF Kunstradio.

35.0 back INTO the future infinity

Station Rose/STR was founded in Vienna, Austria, in 1988 by composer Gary Danner and artist Elisa Rose as an open multimedia lab, after Rose and Danner had graduated from the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. 
As one of the first artist-groups worldwide, Station Rose had used the possibilities of interactive media and especially of the internet in their work. Live AV-performances and lectures in art galleries, universities and museums are equally important as performances at media festivals and in the clubscene.
On from the beginning the activities of STR spanned from art production,  DVD-, CD-, CD ROM- and vinyl productions, research on Virtual Realities (in cooperation with the Austrian Ministry of Science and Research), to lectures and performing in the underground, museums, galleries and the internet <www.stationrose.com>. Equipped with computer, scanner and sampler, and funded by a post-graduate grant, STR was doing field-research in Cairo/Egypt in 1988/89. 
At the end of the eighties, STR started their Gunafa Clubbings in Vienna and Frankfurt, the first online-clubevents worldwide, playing sounds and visuals in realtime. In 1991 they moved to Frankfurt, and went online at the same time. 

2002-2004 Elisa Rose and Gary Danner shared a professorship (Media Production) at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt.

2002-2006 they had a regular TV show at hr-fernsehen/ARD Digital called "Best of Webcasting. 

In 2008 STR celebrated their 20th birthday with the AV media sculpture "LogInCabin" at MAK Vienna and the release of the book "20 Digital Years plus".


Station Rose has released on Gunafa, Sony Music, ZYX Music, Mille Plateaux, Eternity, edition selene, International Deejay Gigolo Records, Crippled Dick Hot Wax, Third Ear, Hatje Cantz, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, comfortzone.

Station Rose audio visual performances have been performed at (selection):
Cyberthon/San Francisco, Ars Electronica, MAK Vienna, Steirischer Herbst, Mousonturm/Frankfurt, Batofar/Paris, in the Techno-Underground in Germany, Transmediale/Berlin, Viper/Basel, Goldfinger/Frankfurt, World Wide Video Festival/Amsterdam, ICA/London, Cimatics/Brussels, Blasthaus/San Francisco, furtherfield/London.

Gary Danner creates Station Rose´s music. He started his career in Vienna in the late seventies, being a prolific member of Vienna´s punk scene with his band The Vogue. They had an Austrian top ten hit in 1980 with "The Frozen Seas of Io". In 1985 Danner acquired a sampling keyboard, and started producing electronic music on from then, which „puts Techno in a sliding scale of forms and responses“ (The WIRE).

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)


New tracks tagged #kunstradio