Werner Raditschnig

Werner Raditschnig (born November 21, 1948 in Villach in Carinthia ) is an Austrian composer and guitarist .

education

Werner Raditschnig studied double bass with H. Bürgschwendtner, guitar with H. Koch and B. Kovats and live electronic composition with Andor Losonczy at the Mozarteum in Salzburg . From 1972 to 1976 he took composition and analysis courses at the international summer courses in Darmstadt and the courses for new music in Cologne.

Artistic activities

From 1971 to 1974 Raditschnig was the artistic director of the “Schallmomente” ensemble, which created his works in the form of collective compositions, improvisations, interactions and sound actions. In 1975 he initiated the group "Guttenberg", which operated Dadaist-musical-political activism together with Erwin Hörl, Gerhard Laber and another musician. From 1975 to 1982 he realized over 20 compositions of electronic music in the electronics studio of the Mozarteum a. a. “Song of the Earth”, “Silent Night”, “No Prisoners”. From 1983 to 1990 he worked with the percussionist Gerhard Laber in the duo "Tauto". In 1989 Werner Radtischnig founded the “Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Neues Musiktheater” together with the director and producer Herbert Gantschacher , from which in 1992 ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater emerged. In 1990 Raditschnig was the initiator and curator of the project “The Power of Sounds” and presented artists such as Gunter Schneider, Josef Klammer, Seppo Gründler, 440 Hertz, Wolfgang Mitterer, Wolfgang Musil and Werner Cee. In 1996 he created the scenic oratorio “The Walls of Jericho” based on sound sculptures by Gunter Demnig , which was premiered in the Collegiate Church in Salzburg. Other venues were Klagenfurt (Künstlerhaus), Český Krumlov (Egon Schiele Center), Cologne ( Domforum des Kölner Domes), Millstatt (International Music Weeks in the Collegiate Church) in a production by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater and in 1999 in Antwerp by Opera Mobile. In 1998, Raditschnig created the musical theater work "19182338 - no connection under this number" for the libretto by Herbert Gantschacher, which together with the musical works "Different Trains" by Steve Reich and "La ville nomade" by Peter Swinnen in Europe in moving trains at railway stations in Belgium (Tongeren, Antwerp, Brussels), Germany (Erfurt, Leipzig, Dresden), the Czech Republic (Praha), Slovakia (Bratislava), Hungary (Budapest) and Austria (Vienna, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt). The themes of this music theater triptych are deportation and the Holocaust. In 2002 he worked at the “Schallortung” festival in Toihaus Salzburg. In 2005 he created the work "Gradation" for trombone and 8-channel electronics, which premiered in the barrage of the Rott power plant.

Raditschnig played at festivals for new music at the Aspects Festival in Salzburg, the Days for New Music in Bozen, the Long Night of New Sounds in Vienna, the New Music Forum Viktring , the Confrontations in Nickelsdorf, the Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, the art associations in Vienna and Klagenfurt and the Brucknerhaus in Linz.

Raditschnig teaches guitar at the music school in Rosenheim in Bavaria and lives and works in Salzburg.

Compositions (selection)

• "Gitarrestück I" 1970
• "Gitarrestück II" 1971
• "Diamonolog" 1972
• "Escape from Algol" 1974
• "Forgive me, but the music ..." 1975
• "Guitar meets Generator" 1976
• "Hitler" 1978
• "Etudes No. 1-3" 1978
• "Kranichsteiner Gesänge" 1979
• "Suite over E" 1981
• "Early to late pieces" 1981
• "The Alm is gone" 1982
• "Gottlieder" 1986
• "The Well" 1998 with Mia Zabelka , Peter Egger, Bertl Mütter, Elfi Aichinger , Gerhard Laber and Susanne Lohmaier
• "Changing colors" 1989
• "The Skull" 1991
• "The Iron Hammer" 1992
• "The Aluphon" 1993
• "The pleasure donation" 1995
• "Merlin" 1995
• "Feldflächen" 1997 with the visual artist Petra Moiser
• "Zones" 1999
• "Eating by Glockenspiel" 2003 with Sina Moser
• "Gradation" 2005
• "Phosphonotop" 2006
• "... et in terra pax" 2008

Music theater (selection)

• “Passagen” new music theater based on texts by Erich Fried and Peter Waterhouse, world premiere in the Szene Salzburg in 1989.
• “Das Sommerhaus” for the staged concert “A Silence Full of Sounds” with deaf actors and a chamber music ensemble, premiered in 1992 at the Akzent Theater in Vienna by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Salzburg, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt and the Dresden State Theater.
• “Almrausch” for the scenic concert “A cow makes moo - Many cows make trouble” for tenor, soprano and chamber music ensemble, first performance in 1993 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Klagenfurt.
• “Blechlied” for the staged concert “OT” for dancers and chamber music ensemble, premiered in 1993 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater and the Ballet Unit Cramp Praha with performances in Klagenfurt.
• “Park Music” and “Arrival Music” for the urban music theater project “Lilli Marilli”, world premiere at the 1994 Danube Festival in Krems an der Donau.
• "Song of Fools - Eight Songs" for the staged concert "The Song of Fools of Europe" by Dževad Karahasan and Herbert Gantschacher, first performance in 1994 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg in 1994 by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Klagenfurt, Prague, Berlin, Leipzig and Hradec Králové.
• “Total communication” for the staged concert “The Other Side of Silence” with the deaf actor Werner Mössler , first performance in 1995 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Klagenfurt and Vienna.
• "The Walls of Jericho" - scenic oratorio with sound sculptures by Gunter Demnig, first performance in 1996 in the Collegiate Church in Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Klagenfurt, Český Krumlov (Egon Schiele Center), Cologne (Domforum des Kölner Doms), Millstatt.
• "Element Luft" for the mystical comedy "The Concert of Birds" by Dževad Karahasan, first performance in 1997 in the Künstlerhaus Salzburg by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Klagenfurt, Odessa, Erfurt.
• “Black-and-white” composition on musical-literary chess, premiered in 1998 at the Danube Festival in Krems an der Donau by ACCUS with performances in Scheibbs, Vienna, St. Pölten, Salzburg, Mürzzuschlag, Erfurt, Ruse.
• "19182338 - no connection under this number" Musical theater work on the triptych "Different Trains" with compositions by Steve Reich and Peter Swinnen, world premiere in 1998 in Tongeren by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater and Opera Mobile with performances in Antwerp, Brussels, Erfurt, Leipzig , Dresden, Praha, Bratislava, Budapest, Vienna, Salzburg, Villach, Klagenfurt.
• “Timetunnel” in “UROBOS: PROJECT TIME” by Dževad Karahasan and Herbert Gantschacher for the international music theater project by ARBOS Society for Music and Theater (Austria), Equipo de Trabajo (Argentina), The Seymour Group (Australia) and Joyce Bee Tuan Kooh (Singapore), first performance 2001 at the Singapore Arts Festival 2001 performances in Hallein (Austria).
• “The Strangers” visual and scenic music (together with Wolfgang Danzmayr) for the comedy of the same name by Dževad Karahasan, premiered in 2001 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Salzburg, Villach, Washington DC
• “Snow and Death” visual and scenic music for the piece by Dževad Karahasan, world premiere in 2002 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Salzburg, Villach, Szczecin, Prishtinë.
• "White snow covers the blush of life" - choreographic concert with sonnets by William Shakespeare, world premiere in 2004 at the Vienna Theater of the Moment by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Salzburg, Villach, Szczecin.
• “Arrival music” for the scenic concert “March 2005” with the Arnoldstein Railway Music Association Trachtenkapelle in the project “War = daDa” by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater, first performance in 2005 Arnoldstein monastery ruins.
• “The goal of the lost” music theater based on the libretto by Herbert Thomas Mandl , world premiere in 2006 on the ruins of the monastery in Arnoldstein by ARBOS - Society for Music and Theater with performances in Villach, Hallein, Salzburg.

Sound carrier (selection)

• "Tauto" 1986 extra plate , EX 67 LP.
• "The Skull" 1992 extra plate, EX 143 CD
• "Der Eisenhammer" 1995 extra plate, EX 214 CD
• "Aluphon" 1995 extra plate, EX 248-2 CD
• "The walls of Jericho" 1995 ARBOS 04, CD
• “The song of the fools of Europe”, 1997 ARBOS 05, CD
• "Black and White", 1999 ACCUS-ORF, CD
• "UROBOS: PROJECT TIME", 2001 Prometheus Sound Arts Singapore, CD
• “The goal of the missing” 2006 ARBOS 10, CD
• "Long live the republic!" 2009 ARBOS 12, CD