South Asia PhoNographic Mornings #14/20
Each Morning of the World #07
Various locations ~ Kerala and Tamil Nadu ~ India
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Karlheinz Essl
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M.A.Y.A. (Moving Around Your Apple)
Generative sound environment with four binaural soundscapes
Part of the work-in-progress H.E.A.D. (Hearing Entirely Articificial Dreams) with site-specific binaural soundscapes compositions, based on artificial head technology ("Kunstkopf-Stereophonie”) which allows the transmission of spatial 3D sound over simple headphones. Each piece of this collection is dedicated to a specific location resp. situation, based on four typical soundscapes that have been found there. Those recordings are mixed algorithmically by a computer program written by Karlheinz Essl which creates an infinite sound process: a dreamlike and surrealistic narration.
Recording device: Sennheiser Ambeo Smart Headset, iPhone 6 with Apogee MetaRecorder
© 2019 by Karlheinz Essl
M.A.Y.A. (Moving Around Your Apple) has been recorded in February 2019 at the following locations in Kerala and Tamil Nadu, South India:
Thanjavur: hotel window
Date: 8 Feb 2019, 7:45am
Location w3w:
w3w.co/unlimited.crossing.again
Varkala: fishermen at the beach
Date: 12 Feb 2019, 7:45am
Location w3w:
w3w.co/resorting.poet.soils
Alleppey: house boat
Date: 14 Feb 2019, 7:45am
Location w3w:
w3w.co/applauds.awards.acquirer
Ooty: garden of Hotel Savoy
Date: 17 Feb 2019, 8am
Location w3w:
w3w.co/jaws.automatic.recoup
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Karlheinz Essl
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Karlheinz Essl (* 1960) is an Austrian composer, performer, sound artist, improviser, and composition teacher.
Essl was born in Vienna. His studies at the University of Music in Vienna included composition (under Friedrich Cerha), electro-acoustic music (under Dieter Kaufmann) and double bass. At the University of Vienna he studied musicology (1989 doctoral thesis on "Das Synthese-Denken bei Anton Webern""). Between 1990-1994 he was composer-in-residence at the Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, while in 1992-93 he worked on a commission at IRCAM in Paris. From 1992 to 2016, he was the music curator of the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg/Vienna. Between 1995–2006 he taught Algorithmic composition at the Studio for Advanced Music & Media Technology at the Bruckner University in Linz, Austria. As of 2007, Essl is professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.
Karlheinz Essl's work with computers (with emphasis on algorithmic composition and generative music) and a prolonged occupation with the poetics of serial music have been a formative influence on his compositional thinking. Besides writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the field of electronic music, interactive realtime compositions and sound installations. Since the early 1990s, he has developed various software environments for realtime composition which he uses himself for his own live performances and also in collaboration with artists from other fields (choreographers, dancers, visual artists and poets).
In 1998, Essl started to develop a computer-based electronic instrument called m@ze°2 which he uses as an improviser in live performances. Since 2008, he is working on a series of compositions for various solo instruments and live electronics named Sequitur. Recently he has written several solo and ensemble pieces for electric guitar and composed a variety of pieces for toy piano.
Since the 1990s, Karlheinz Essl carried out a number of projects for the Internet and became increasingly involved with improvisation. In 1997, Karlheinz Essl was featured at the Salzburg Festival with portrait concerts and sound installations. In 2003, he was artist-in-residence of the festival musik aktuell, and in 2004 he was presented with a series of portrait concerts at the Brucknerhaus Linz. 2008–2009 he was composer-in-residence of the Belgium ensemble Champ d'Action.
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www.essl.at
www.essl.at/works/HEAD.html
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