Karlheinz Essl

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Portrait Karlheinz Essl

Doris Weberberger about the composer, performer, music curator and composition teacher Karlheinz Essl

Music Austria, 11 Jan 2012

New Compositions

juncTions (2011-2012)

for grand piano (two players) and live-electronics

Premier: 17 Feb 2012, Toronto (CAN)

LABoratorio (2010/2011)

cross-media performance for viola, percussions, live-electronics, dancers and video

Premier: 3 Sep 2011, Festival Música y Escena, México City (MX)

Sterbebett mit Pappendeckeln (2010-2011)

electronic live-music for a theater piece by Andreas Okopenko

Premier: 27 May 2011, Theater Spielraum, Vienna (A)

blurred (2007/2011)

for alto flute, vibraphone, cello and live-electronics

Premier: 28 Feb 2011, 3raum-Theater, Vienna (A)

Recent Videos

LABoratorio

cross-media performance for viola, percussions, live-electronics, dancers and video

performed by Alexander Bruck (viola), Iván Manzanilla (percussion), Karlheinz Essl (electronics), Nadia Lartigue & Iván Ontiveros (dance)

Festival Música y Escena, México City (MX)

3 Sep 2011

Hypostasis

for three percussionists

performed by Studio Percussion graz

Minoritensaal, Graz (A)

19 Jun 2011

blurred

for alto flute, cello, vibraphone and live-electronics

Ensemble XX. Jahrhundert, Dir. Peter Burwik

3raum-Theater, Vienna (A)

28 Feb 2011

Sequitur X

for trombone and live-electronics

performed by Mike Svoboda and Karlheinz Essl

ZKM, Karlsruhe (D)

27 Nov 2010

7x7 fo(u)r trombones

for 4 trombones

performed by Trombone Attraction

Musikverein, Vienna (A)

16 Nov 2010

upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned

3rd string quartet

performed by the Hugo Wolf Quartet

Hofburgkapelle, Vienna (A)

20 Oct 2010

Recent Records

Proper Ties (2010)

generative sound environment for a cross-media installation

Released: 10 Jan 2011 (artquarterly Edition: Vienna 2010)

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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 Sounds

...wird sichtbar am Horizont (1996)

spatially distributed ensemble

Zungenreden (1990)

radiophonic piece

Proper Ties (2010)

generative sound environment

Sequitur X (2010)

for trombone and live-electronics

Sequitur III (2008)

for electric violin and live-electronics

Entsagung (1991-93)

for ensemble and live-electronics

Free Ringtones

derived from Karlheinz Essl's electronic compositions

Music Software

FontanaMixer 2.0 (2004-2012)

generative sound environment

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 3 Feb 2012 (Universal Binary)

WebernUhrWerk 2.3 (2005-2011)

generative music generator

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

freeware - released 12 Jan 2011 (Universal Binary)

Lexikon-Sonate 4.0.1 (1992 - 2010)

algorithmic music generator

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

freeware - released 5 Dec 2010 (Universal Binary)

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

REplay PLAYer 3.2 (2000-2007)

generative sound file shredder

for Apple Macintosh computers (Mac OS X)

shareware - 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)

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 Feature

Lautstrom #18: Karlheinz Essl (2011)

Karlheinz Essl interviewed by Jeremy Woodruff about his recent interdisciplinary sound works in collaboration with other artists

reboot.fm (Berlin, 12 Dec 2011)

Digitale Paradiese (2010)

Generative Kompositionen von Karlheinz Essl

Radiosendung von Patrick Hahn

WDR 3 (13 Jan 2010)

New Articles about Karlheinz Essl

Endloser Klangprozess (2011)

by Tobias Fischer

BEAT - Magazin für Musik, Produktion und DJ-ing (Kiel 2011), p. 40-41.

Digitale Dialektik (2011)

by Elisa Holz

update 2.11, Donau-Universität Krems (München 2011)

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

Gibt es sie noch: "die" Musik? (2011)

Karlheinz Essl im Gespräch mit Reinhard Kapp (Wien)

in: ANKLAENGE 2010 (Wiener Jahrbuch für Musikwissenschaft): Gibt es sie noch: "die" Musik? Vorüberlegungen zu einer Allgemeinen Musiklehre, hrsg. von Marie-Agnes Dittrich und Reinhard Kapp, Mille Tre: Wien 2011, p. 89-108. - ISBN: 978-3-900198-25-1

Intuition, Automation, Entscheidung. Der Komponist im Prozess algorithmischer Komposition (2011)

Karlheinz Essl im Gespräch mit Jonas Förster (Essen). - Telefoninterview, Klosterneuburg 29.11.2010

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).