Karlheinz Essl junior

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Karlheinz Essl

Karlheinz Essl junior (born August 15, 1960 in Vienna ) is an Austrian composer , sound artist, electronic performer, music curator and composition professor. He is the eldest son of Karlheinz Essl senior , an entrepreneur and art collector.

Life

After training as a chemist at the HBLVA Vienna XVII (Rosensteingasse), Essl studied musicology and art history at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1989 with a dissertation on "The Synthesis Thinking in Anton Webern ". He also studied composition with Friedrich Cerha , electroacoustic music with Dieter Kaufmann and double bass at the Vienna Music Academy . After completing his studies, he was in contact with Gottfried Michael Koenig in Utrecht. At the invitation of IRCAM (Paris) he lived in Paris between 1991 and 1993 and worked intensively with real-time generated algorithmic composition, which was reflected in the Lexicon Sonata - an infinite composition for computer-controlled piano - which he later published as software. At that time he carried out the performance project Particle Movements in several European cities in collaboration with Harald Naegeli (the "Sprayer of Zurich") . His interest in interdisciplinary projects brought him into contact with the writer Andreas Okopenko and with artists such as Hermann Nitsch and Jonathan Meese , with whom he worked as a composer. From 1990 to 1994 Essl was composer-in-residence at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music.

After dealing with experimental rock music (together with Jack Hauser ), Essl played the double bass in various chamber music and jazz formations until 1983. During his musicology studies he dealt with medieval music and its performance practice. Theoretical and compositional processing of serial approaches, investigations into the formalizability of musical processes (Computer Aided Composition) lead to the development of software "environments" for algorithmic composition . He has written numerous publications on contemporary composition theory.

From 1995 to 2006 Karlheinz Essl taught "Algorithmic Composition" at the Studio for Advanced Music and Media Technology at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz. He has given guest lectures at music and art universities in Graz, Toronto, Copenhagen, Cologne, Stuttgart, Groningen, Antwerp and Vienna. Since autumn 2007 he has been a professor of composition for electroacoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna .

1997 portrait of a composer at the Salzburg Festival in the "next generation" series, 2004 award of the state of Lower Austria for music. From 1994 to 2016 he was music director of the Essl Collection in Klosterneuburg near Vienna.

In addition to instrumental works and compositions with live electronics , Essl also develops real-time compositions, improvisation concepts , sound art , "site" -specific music and room performances as well as internet projects. As a live performer he appears with his self-developed computer-based meta instrument m @ ze ° 2 , occasionally also as an electric guitarist .

Selection of works

  • Helix 1.0 for string quartet (1986)
  • met him pike trousers for large orchestra (1987)
  • Rudiments for 4 spatially distributed small drums (1989)
  • ... et consumimur igni for 3 spatially distributed ensemble groups (1990)
  • In the open! for flute, bass clarinet, violin and violoncello (1991)
  • Renunciation for ensemble and live electronics (1993)
  • Lexicon sonata infinite real-time composition for computer-controlled piano (1992-2010)
  • Déviation for ensemble (1993)
  • absence for violin solo (1996)
  • à trois / seul for string trio (1998)
  • mise en scène for 4 ensemble groups (1998)
  • more or less real-time composition for soloists and electronics (1999–2002)
  • upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned for string quartet (2001)
  • blur for alto flute, violoncello and vibraphone (2003)
  • Faites vos jeux! Chime for spatially distributed trombones and / or cellos (2004)
  • Kalimba for toy piano and CD playback (2005)
  • colorado for saxophone quartet and live electronics (2005–2008)
  • Von Hirschen und Röhren sound installation for Beat Zoderer (2006–2007)
  • 7x7 chimes for 4 identical instruments - versions for clarinets, saxophones, trombones and electric guitars (2006–2009)
  • AIRBORNE permanent sound installation for the Berlin Humboldt University (2006)
  • Cinq for wind quintet (2007)
  • FRÄULEIN ATLANTIS generative sound and video installation for Jonathan Meese (2007)
  • Sequitur cycle for various solo instruments and live electronics (2008)
  • BOCHUMSTEP permanent sound installation for Bochum (2008)
  • while my guitars gently whip for 4 spatially distributed electric guitars (2008/2009)
  • Detune for oboe and large orchestra (2009)
  • Chemi (s) e for electric guitar and 2 ensemble groups (2009)
  • whatever shall be (2010) for toy piano, dreidel and live electronics
  • Hypostasis for 3 percussionists (2010)
  • Deathbed with Cardboard Lids (2011) electronic music to a stage work by Andreas Okopenko
  • juncTions for piano (2 players) and live electronics (2011–2012)
  • under wood for 2 amplified toy pianos (one player) and ensemble (2012)
  • Miles to go for 4 prepared and reinforced toy pianos (2012)
  • Pachinko for toy piano and computer (2013)
  • Herbeck's promise electronic sound composition with the voice of Ernst Herbeck (2014)
  • VIRIBVS VNITIS for harpsichord and toy piano (2014)
  • RESONAVIT for zither, electric violin and vibration loudspeaker (2014)
  • Omnia in omnibus sound / video / performance for the 650th anniversary of the University of Vienna (2014)
  • Autumn's leaving quasi una fantasia for Pipa and live electronics (2015)
  • imagination soundtrack for a paper play by Ulrich Chmel (2015)
  • river_run for Guzheng and Live Electronics (2016)
  • exit * glue for trombone and electric guitar (2016)

CD publications

  • whatever shall be : music for toy instruments and electronics, played by Isabel Ettenauer (Edition Eirelav 2013)
  • Gold.Berg.Werk : Arrangement of the Goldberg Variations for string trio and electronics (Preiser Records 2008)
  • SNDT®X : electronic music # 3 (tlhotra # 23 2008)
  • © RUDE : electronic music # 2 (Lotus Records 2001)
  • m @ ze ° 2 : electronic music # 1 (KHE 1999)
  • Rudiments : Instrumental compositions 1986–1993 (TONOS 1995)

literature

Web links

Commons : Karlheinz Essl junior  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Essl, Karlheinz junior
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian composer, sound artist and electronic performer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna