CRESTRON control interface: Walter Thornton / MOCOM GmbH
Internet programming: Volker Christian (court. of Virtual Feedback)
sound engineers: Karl Petermichl, Christian Sodl
presentation: Reinhard Kager
A vision that has been haunting me since a couple of years:
Music which
composes itself at the moment of its sounding
is not merely a reproduction of a prefabricated notation
is capable of reacting on exterior influences
temporal expansion is infinite
never repeats itself.
The very core of AMAZING MAZE is a computer program which generates an infinite sound composition with the aid of random-controlled algorithms in real time.
user interface of Amazing Maze (1996/97)
During a fruitful and challenging collaboration between different soloists and composers (mainly carried out via the Internet), the initial concept gradually changed: from a hermetic sound installation, the piece developed towards an improvisation environment which is capable of reacting on exterior influences.
During the concert, which is being broadcasted on the radio and on the Internet as well, listeners may influence the musical behavior of this improvisation environment by either dialing a toll-free telephone number:
Tel.: 0660-6953 (only in Austria)
or by clicking on this button
Each call triggers a random-controlled algorithm that determines which musicians play together. The resulting changes in music can immediately be witnessed by listening to the radio or the RealAudio stream.
In order to receive the live-broadcasted audio stream, you must have installed the RealAudio Player.
Click on the icon below to listen to the music...
