piano piece
piano piece (2006)Starting from nothing except the idea of the sound of the instrument, and the possibility of anything.From this starting point, then tracing a path through this limitless field of constant possibility.Focusing on the present. Every …
duos
Since their formation in 1998 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses for New Music, duo Contour have commissioned and performed over 40 new pieces by composers from Asia, Europe, New Zealand, Switzerland and the United States. Their collaborative work has c…
im sefinental
Stefan Thut 'Aussen raum' (2008). Manfred Werder '2008(3)' (2008). A field recording near a river divided in two parts.
two . too (for erwin-josef speckmann)
two . too (for erwin-josef speckmann) two: two, who are at one with anotherzwei, die sich einig sind too: two, who are at one with another (twice)zwei, die sich einig sind (zweimal) text: “as the full moon rises / the swan sings / in sleep / on…
Selected Works 1982-1992
A fascinating, often dizzying insight to the primitive industrial minimalism of Italian siblings Giancarlo and Roberto Drago aka The Tapes, sourced from original tapes and pressed to vinyl for the first time ever. This set surveys a blind spot in mos…
Singulacra
Bristol, England-based sound artist and producer Sophia Loizou presents Singulacra, the follow-up to her 2014 debut, Chrysalis, which is itself a staggering exploration of the conflict between nature and technology and the space between natural and s…
Zauberberg
**restocked** "A few years ago, an idea germinated while readingThe Magic Mountain (Der Zauberberg) by Thomas Mann. An idea not driven by the narrativity of the book, but by the traces and the aura invoked in it. That was it: an audible aural journey…
II (Machinery)
Going is a double duo: 2 drums, 2 keys. They bring fat groovy beats, warm and distorted rhodes, mixed with dirty organ sounds and silly 80’s synths. Odd rhythms and polyrhythms go hand in hand with free improvisations and loose compositions.313 ha…
Exercise 15
"Exercise 15" was made out of and invites transformations or transcriptions. It's for piano or ad hoc instrumental arrangement. Its material is from a 1920s song "Union Maid" (as I found it in Edith Fowke and Joe Glazer's collection "Songs of Work a…
string quartets
Material can be anonymous. Consider, for example, the middle voices in medieval hymn books: unadorned, not artful, a simple handiwork, a leisurely alternation of single notes. It might be a scale, or, beyond music, the stones of a wall, not artfully …
abregistrieren
“select a sound of one or three tones within the range of an octave distribute the pitches between the keyboards (use each pitch only once) select 3 – 31 stops from principals, flutes and reeds and distribute them evenly between the keyboards (do…
Solo pieces
music that allows sounds to sound: to die away, completely, into silence sounds thought from their end: not moving forward, but drawing back. this creates space, expanse, a delicate serenity: silence - and what it shelters - becomes audible. th…
blue/dense
this piece uses 17 tones in whole-numbered proportions to a virtual fundamental of G'' (25Hz). the piece is a kind of analysis of the overtone region from the fifth to seventh partials and the corresponding regions one and two octaves above (10th t…
ein(e) ausfuhrende(r) seiten 218 - 226
I try to imagine the sound of the world, the silences and sounds of this recording, and the noise of the playback equipment meeting without differentiation, indeed indistinguishably. Whatever differentiation there is moves within the narrow, utterly …
phontaine
this cd is not conceived just to be listened to. supplemented with a simple "score", it may induce a "performance at home". you are invited to experience with your ears, eyes, body and mind, the space of your everyday life, your home, "colored" a l…
cello piece
I like that which is the extremely refined sound of a note made by an instrument. I find the sound of a note to be a very extraordinary, elusive and indefinable experience. I like the sound of one note next to another, or at the same time as another.…
STIMMEN
voices what is music made of? of voices. and what is a voice? a sequence of sounds and silences, with its own consistency. perfectly self-contained: each voice voicing a world. and what is a world? a proportion: a specific distribution of move…
musik fur orgel und eine(n) tonsetzer(in)
what do you do, if you work with just intonation and wish to write a piece for organ? you have to deal with the relation between equally tempered and over- or undertonal (just) intonation. 2001 i had several opportunities to make a study of some wond…
for seven players
Seven (1988), 15 similar events (2002) Let’s assume, that art music as a field of creative cognitive activity is interrelated with the scientific paradigm and that its structure, therefore, at least partially reflects the contemporary way of lookin…