"sechs uhr laeuten" is a radio piece. It tells of the sounding world of my childhood.
How sounds led me through the day, accompanied my growing up, and made me happy or afraid of what I heard.

I lived with my grandmother for the first 9 years of my childhood. Her " beim sechse leiten bist daham" stands for a warm-hearted woman.
It stands for a living environment in which, for example, the church bells' sound helped organize social life within a radius of kilometers. 
For me, it was a world in which everything had its sound: every activity on the farm and every aspect of social interaction in daily life.
The seasons, carnival, May, the church holidays, the school break, making coffee, and making cider, everything sounds and has its sound. Birds are not just birds. It is the bullfinch, the goldfinch, the red crossbill, the blackbird, the nightingale...
The people sound different, the academics different from the craftsmen, the harvest workers from various regions bring their dialects in summer. ....
In June 2007, I was in Sibiu, doing a piece for the cultural capital program.
We lived on the outskirts of the city. Then, half-past four in the morning, the rooster started doing their thing one after the other. This aural experience immediately took me back to my childhood.
For this piece, I remember specifically. Trace the sounds of my childhood, search for them and invent the untraceable.
6 e leuten is a sound narration in 40 sound stories. The formal arc is a year....it begins in May and ends again in May.
credits :
composed and produced from autumn 2007 to spring 2008 by sam auinger 
recording assistance: daniel schaeffler

hans peter falkner....steirische ziehharmonika
markus binder...voice in farmer's calendar (june)
augustinus kropfreiter...bruckner organ/ st.florian

thanks to: maria wiesinger, fritz knogler, johann lehermayr, fam. lumetsberger, dany scheffler, Orf archiv landesstudio oberoesterreich and its director michael huemer.

" sechs uhr laeuten" by sam auinger 2008
Is a commissioned composition for deutschland radio 
editor: goetz naleppa

6e  Laeuten

GG_frankfurt by sam auinger was composed and performed on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of GrünGürtel Frankfurt in 2016. 
sam auinger: field recordings, electronics;
hannes strobl: electro bass and electro double bass.

GG_frankfurt

KLANGJUWEL Mariendom Part A (2020)
Part A: Four percussionists measure, rhythmize, and fill the sizeable neo-Gothic church space with noise. 
Performers: Sofia Garzotto, Airi Kitamura, Elliott Gaston-Ross and Sebastian Wielandt. 

"Ever since I have known the St. Mary's Cathedral, I have been fascinated by its atmosphere of power, architectural form, proportion, and tonal expression"(Sam Auinger)
 
The piece was composed by Sam Auinger for Klangwolke 20 Sounding Linz  (artistic direction: Gitti Vasicek, Wolfgang Dorninger, Sam Auinger and Peter Androsch).
photo: Violette Wakolbinger  drummer: Airi Kitamura

KLANGJUWEL Mariendom is a three-part performance piece for two voices, the Rudiger organ, and four small drums (snares). It has a duration of about 15 minutes. On September 12, it was performed during the Linzer Klangwolke 20 Sounding Linz between 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. three times, with the participation of: 
Nicole Lubinger (soprano) and Florence Losseau (mezzo-soprano) | voices
Wolfgang Kreuzhuber | Organ
Sofia Garzotto, Airi Kitamura, Elliott Gaston-Ross and Sebastian Wielandt | Snare Drums
 
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The three parts are:
Part A: Four percussionists* measure, rhythmize, and noise the church with their drum beats.
Part B: Two singers slowly conquer and occupy the large room/space, with their voices moving towards a particular place.
Part C: The Rudiger organ investigates the room in its musical dimensions, from vibrating loud to almost imperceptibly quiet. The organ play ends with an improvisation on a Keplerian planetary theme.

KLANGJUWEL Mariendom Part A

Semana Santa (Easter) procession. An exceptional rhythm that focuses on slow progress is implemented magnificently. This specific beat helps carry out all duties like carrying heavy statues and big crosses.