New Music by Karlheinz Essl

About New Music by Karlheinz Essl

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)

Publisher

Karlheinz Essl

Category

music

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

9 Apr 2000

Latest episode

21 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

311 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   21 Sept 2026

   M.O.V.E. (Meet Our Voluptuous Eremit) - BINAURAL

   Binaural production - listen with headphones! Everything's moving. Everything' on the move. Transferring and transmutating: with the bicycle across the Danube, on a motorcycle jumping over the hills, through a private space of a mysterious figure called Miryam van Doren under the guidance of the artist Jack Hauser, and finally a trip back home on the train. This generative soundscape is based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded on 19 September 2026 during a bicycle trip. 1) A cross-Danube ferry ride. 2) Motocross track near Pulkau. 3) A walk through "Wohnung Miryam van Doren" with the artist Jack Hauser, who is preparing a cucumber salad. 4) A train ride back home. Released: 21 September 2026

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   7 Sept 2026

   M.U.N.C. (Merge Universal Natural Colors) - BINAURAL

   Binaural production - listen with headphones! A tribute to Edvard Munch, the inventive Norwegian painter. This generative soundscape is based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes recorded in Oslo, Norway, between 31 August and 1 September 2026: 1) A virtual visit to Munch's villa in Ekely. 2) A museum room displaying Munch's monumental works. 3) People working at the Munch museum's woodcut workshop. 4) The Badstuforening sauna near the museum, where you can swim in the sea.

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   23 Jun 2026

   Zu.Schreibung (2026) for modular electronics, small loudspeakers and acoustic resonators

   Live recording, performed by Karlheinz Essl at Museum Liaunig on June 20th, 2026. https://www.essl.at/works/zuschreibung Using synthesisers he has developed himself, composer Karlheinz Essl explores the sculpture gallery at the Museum Liaunig and the art work by Robert Tauber on display there. Using sounds never heard before, he makes his mark on this gigantic space with its extraordinary acoustics and sets it vibrating. In doing so, the gallery becomes an integral part of a hybrid instrument that combines analogue electronics with acoustic resonators. Instead of the usual mixing desks, amplifiers and loudspeakers, Essl uses equipment stripped down to the bare essentials, with which he embarks on a tentative and exploratory journey through space and time.

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Podcast Authority Score: 32 / 100

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Social presence

0

YouTube

86

Engagement

32

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