Karlheinz Essl

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Interview with Karlheinz Essl

Singer and musicologist Julieanne Klein (Montréal) in conversation with Karlheinz Essl about his music and artistic ideas.
Published at eContact 12.2 (Montréal 2010)

New Records

OUT OF THE BLUE (2010)

Agnes Heginger (vocals) and Karlheinz Essl (electronics, kalimba) live at the Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg

Released: 31 Mar 2010, XS Records [xs-72]

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FLECHTWERK (2009)

Karlheinz Essl and Matthew Ostrowski (electronics) live at ISSUE Project Room, Brooklyn

Released: 24 Oct 2009, XS Records [xs-68]

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more or less (1999-2007)

Realtime composition for computer-controlled soloists

Ensemble Intègrales & Karlheinz Essl

Released on: Alpenglühen (col legno 2008)

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O rosa bella (1981/1996)

Transcription of a song by John Dunstable (ca. 1420)

Ensemble Recherche

Released on: re_naissance transcriptions (Coviello Classics 2008)

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New Compositions

Sequitur X (2010)

for trombone and live-electronics

Written for Mike Svoboda (Basel)

whatever shall be (2010)

for toy piano, gadgets and live-electronics

Written for Phyllis Chen (New York)

Sequitur XI (2009)

for vibraphone, cymbal and live-electronics

Written for Stephan Froleyks (Münster)

Chemi(s)e (2009)

for electric guitar and two ensemble groups
Commissioned by the Ensemble Reconsil

Written for Stefan Östersjö (Malmö)

New Videos

Lecture on Realtime Composition

Karlheinz Essl talking to music students of the University of Montana

Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg/Vienna

11 Jun 2010

Sequitur XIII

for extended piano and live-electronics

performed by Tzenka Dianova and Karlheinz Essl

Essl Museum Klosterneuburg (A)

9 Jun 2010

whatever shall be

for toy piano, gadgets and live-electronics

performed by Phyllis Chen

New York City (USA)

7 May 2010

Sequitur XI

for vibraphone, cymbal and live-electronics

performed by Stephan Froleyks and Karlheinz Essl

Kunshaus Kloster Gravenhorst (D)

17 Apr 2010

Chemi(s)e

for electric guitar and two ensemble groups

performed by Ensemble Reconsil and Stefan Östersjö (e-git)

Schönberg Center, Vienna (A)

24 Mar 2010

New Sounds

Sequitur XIII (2009)

for extended piano and live-electronics

Déviation (1993)

for two ensemble groups

Sequitur XI (2009)

vibraphone, cymbal and live-electronics

Music Software

Real Time Composition Library (RTC-lib) (1992-2010)

Software library for algorithmic composition with Max/MSP/Jitter

freeware for Mac OS X, Windows XP and Pd

Lexikon-Sonate 3.3 (1992 - 2009)

algorithmic music generator

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 22 Dec 2009 (Universal Binary)

REplay PLAYer 3.2 (2000-2007)

generative sound file shredder

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

shareware - released 23 Aug 2007 (Universal Binary)

FontanaMixer 1.1 (2004-2007)

generative sound environment

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 23 Aug 2007 (Universal Binary)

fLOW 3.4 (1998 - 2007)

ambient soundscape generator

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

shareware - released 19 Jan 2007 (Universal Binary)

WebernUhrWerk 2.2 (2005-2007)

generative music generator

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X) and Intel PCs (Windows XP)

freeware - released 16 Jan 2007 (Universal Binary)

Amazing Maze 2.0 (1993 - 2007)

interactive realtime composition for sampled sound particles

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 14 Jan 2007 (Universal Binary)

more or less 1.3 (1999-2007)

random-generated playing instructions for musical improvisation

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 16 Jan 2007 (Universal Binary)

SEELEWASCHEN 1.2 (2003-2006)

generative sound environment

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 20 Oct 2006 (Universal Binary)

New Recordings

inside/out (2006)

for flute & ive-electronics

Cordula Bösze (flute), Karlheinz Essl (electronics)

CD: entspannte gleichzeitigkeit - released November 2006 (Hammer Records)

Déviation (1993)

for 2 ensemble groups

Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert, dir. Peter Burwik

CD: soundscapes 4 advanced - released December 2005 (Gramola 98783)

Kalimba (2005)

for toy piano and CD playback

Isabel Ettenauer: toy piano

CD: the joy of toy - released November 2005 by Isabel Ettenauer (edition eirelav 001)

New Feature

Digitale Paradiese (2010)

Generative Kompositionen von Karlheinz Essl

Radiosendung von Patrick Hahn

WDR 3 (13 Jan 2010)

New Articles about Karlheinz Essl

Pataphysische Musikmaschinen (2008)

by Florian Cramer

Austellungskatalog Zauberhafte Klangmaschinen (Institut für Medienarchäologie, Hainburg 2008)

Der verlängerte Schreibtisch des Komponisten (2007)

by Andreas Felber

Austellungskatalog PASSION FOR ART (Sammlung Essl: Klosterneuburg 2007)

New Articles by Karlheinz Essl

Der Komponist ist tot - es lebe der Komponist! (2009)

Statement von Karlheinz Essl über die Rolle des Komponisten heutzutage

sine fine... Unendlich Musik (2007)

Karlheinz Essl über Musik, die kein Ende hat

Wandlungen der elektroakustischen Musik (2007)

Karlheinz Essl über Geschichte, Gegenwart und Zukunft der elektroakustischen Musik

Algorithmic Composition (2007)

published in.: Cambridge Companion to Electronic Music, ed. by N. Collins and J. d'Escrivan, Cambridge University Press 2007

New Interviews with Karlheinz Essl

mica-Interview mit Karlheinz Essl (2010)

Im Gespräch mit Heinz Rögl erzählt Karlheinz Essl über seinen musikalischen Werdegang und aktuelle künstlerische Projekte. - Studio kHz, Klosterneuburg 21.07.2010

Algorithmische Komposition und Live-Elektronik (2010)

Karlheinz Essl im Gespräch mit Samuel Gfeller (Bern). - Café Prückel, Wien 15.02.2010

Interview with Karlheinz Essl (2010)

Singer and musicologist Julieanne Klein (Montréal) in conversation with Karlheinz Essl about his music and artistic ideas. Published at eContact 12.2 (Montréal 2010)

WebMusic / web@rt

Karlheinz Essl's Playing Strategies (1998)

A mind-challenging text oracle which generates playing strategies for musical improvisations which should provoke you to overcome your internalized playing behaviour.

Champ d'Action (1998)

An interactice realtime composition for computer-controlled ensemble where musicians are playing from computer screens on which playing instructions are projected on the fly.

MindShipMind (1996-98)

A realtime-generated multimedia Web installation which derived from the interdisciplinary seminar on "Order, Beauty & Complexity" at the Copenhagen MindShip, by Karlheinz Essl and Vibeke Sørensen.

Lexikon-Sonate online... (1997)

2 different versions for the Internet, one implemented in Javascript, the other (interactive) as a CGI-script.

Lexicon-Oracle (1996/97)

An automatic Web oracle which sheds some light onto the mysteries of Lexikon-Sonate. Furthermore, it also plays an instantly generated excerpt of that infinite piano piece. There is also a version available that talks (using computer speech).