New Music by Karlheinz Essl

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Ein Portrait der Landschaft am ehem. Eisernen Vorhang in der Gegend von Retz, einem hübschen Städtchen im Weinviertel. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundscapes aufgenomme...

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Ein Portrait des Wiener Praters mit seinen Attraktionen wie der Hochschaubahn, der Geisterbahn, der Lilliputbahn und der Achterbahn. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundsca...

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Ein Portrait der Donau an ihrer Mündung, dem fantastischen Donaudelta in Rumänien. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundscapes aufgenommen, die sich auf einen konkreten Ort...

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Hommage à Anton Webern, aufgenommen in Mittersill, wo der Komponist 1945 von einem amerikanischen GI in vermeintlicher Notwehr erschossen wurde. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz E...

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Ein Portrait des Flusses Thaya (tschechisch: Dyje), der die Grenze zwischen dem Waldviertel und Südmähren bildet. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundscapes aufgenommen, di...

Binaural production - listen with headphones to enjoy the 3D sound! Soundscape by Karlheinz Essl, poem by Erwin Uhrmann. A track from the audio book K.O.P.F. (Limbus 2021). https://essl.at/kopf/ Ein Portrait von Lunz und dem gleichnamigen See bei Gewitter. Mittels Kunstkopf-Stereophonie hat der Komponist Karlheinz Essl Soundscapes aufgenommen, die sich auf einen konkreten Ort oder eine besondere S...

TAU is a 14-part ensemble piece for flute, clarinet, french horn, accordion, violoncello and voice. It was developed collaboratively by the composers Karlheinz Essl, Tanja Elisa Glinsner, Jakob Gruchmann-Bernau and Till Alexander Körber during the COVID pandemic 2020/2021. TAU XII was written by Karlheinz Essl and had its premier on Sep 18th, 2021 at the seminar church of Tanzenberg/Plešivec (Cari...

Interactive and immersive environment in 3D sound, to be listened with headphones! Commissioned by the festival Musikprotokoll (Graz 2021) for the project "tingles & clicks". Demo version (Teaser). https://www.essl.at/works/the-other-day.html This piece was written during the COVID_19 lockdown. Trapped in my house for weeks, I felt an urgent need to break out of my den and explore unknown areas of...

In memory of 9/11 which happened exactly 20 years ago. Binaural production - listen with headphones! Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded on Sep 11th, 2021 in Salzburg, Austria: 1) the arrival hall of the railway station Salzburg 2) a rehearsal of a mass at the Cathedrale of Salzburg 3) on the stairs between the cathedrale and the...

Performed by Isabel Ettenauer on a Michelsonne toy piano on July 24th, 2021 at Kulturbrücke Fratres. Score and more: https://www.essl.at/works/webernspielwerk.html On September 15, 1945, Anton Webern was shot by an American occupation soldier in alleged self-defense in Mittersill, where he had taken refuge from the approaching Red Army. Thus ended the life of one of the most influential composers...

F.R.E.I. (Freedom Requires Enormous Intellect) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl

Performed and recorded on 10 Mar 2019 by Karlheinz Essl at Studio kHz using a virtual Steinway D grand piano and a Max patch.

Karlheinz Essl's latest composition for toy piano performed by Isabel Ettenauer (Michelsonne toy piano) and Karlheinz Essl (live-electronics)on July 24th, 2021 at the festival Kulturbrücke Fratres. This composition is an transformation of the original piano piece Trois cent notes where the resonances of the sympathetic strings of the grand piano are simulated by electronic means. By this, the toy...

Binaural recording - listen with headphones! Part of the work-in-progress H.E.A.D. Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded in spring 2021 at various creeks in Lower Austria and processed with MaxMSP: 1) Krumpenwasser ("Gießgang") inside the Stockerauer Au 2) an artificial creek ("Fischwanderhilfe") at the Danube power plant Greifenst...

Deploração was written in autumn 2020 for the concert project "Lamenti" by the newly founded guitar duo santorsa~pereyra. It was premiered on Mar 26th, 2021 at "Schwere Reiter" in Munich. The piece is not a duo in the conventional sense. The instruments neither engage in a musical dialogue nor accompany each other. Instead, the two guitars together form a meta-instrument. On it, two musicians play...

Binaural recording - listen with headphones! Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes with animals, recorded between 2019-2021 at various locations in Austria: 1) pigsty in Carinthia 2) pasture with Angus cattle near Raabs/Thaya 3) pond with bathing dogs at the Prater, Vienna 4) a toddler feeding sheep, goats, and a goose in an animal enclosure...

SATOR is an interactive live-electronic extension of my organ piece "tenet opera rotas", based on a computer program written in MaxMSP. It was composed right after the studio recording of the former piece at the request of Pier Damiano Peretti. By using real-time sound processing on the spectral domain, the acoustic organ is transformed into an electroacoustic hyper-instrument which expands itself...

Binaural production - listen with headphones! Live-electronic sound performance based on a computer program written in MaxMSP. Recorded live at Studio kHz on 22 Feb 2021. No edits, no overdubs. Info: https://www.essl.at/works/apres-lavant.html

A palindromic organ piece by Karlheinz Essl in memory of Anton Webern and the 75th anniversary of his tragic death on September 15th, 1945. Recorded with Pier Damiano Peretti at Heillersaal of the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna on 17 Feb 2021. Edited and mastered by Karlheinz Essl. https://www.essl.at/works/tenet-opera-rotas.html

300 notes in 4 minutes, the most recent toy piano composition by Karlheinz Essl. Score available for free: www.essl.at Although notated solely in quavers, the tempo encompasses a wide range from very slow to extremely fast. Starting with a speed of MM = 50, it gradually accelerates to MM = 400 which equals three “time octaves”, speaking with Karlheinz Stockhausen (cf. his famous article ...how tim...

Binaural recording - listen with headphones! Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded between 2018-2020 in different forest in Europe, Africa, and Asia: 1) bamboo grove at Mt. Inari near Kyoto, Japan with Swiss hikers passing by 2) stereophonic water lapping at Levada do Carniçal, Madeira 3) within a dried up corn field near Lake Wört...

Binaural recording - listen with headphones! Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded on May 1st, 2019 in Cluj, Romania: 1) inside Biserica Franciscană, a catholic church at the historical center 2) inside Catedrala Mitropolitană, an orthodox temple 3) next to the old city wall 4) families with kids at Parcul Central Simion Bărnutju

Binaural recording: listen with headphones! Generative soundscape based on a two-dimensional random walk between four binaural soundscapes, recorded between 2019 and 2020 during rehearsals with Karlheinz Essl in Vienna, Austria: 1) dress rehearsal of the Arditti Quartet performing Essl's 3rd string quartet at the Mozartsaal of Konzerthaus Vienna 2) setting up the space for a concert of Essl's comp...

Performed by the Arditti Quartet on Nov 1st, 2001 at Konzerthaus Vienna during the festival Wien modern. Binaural recording - listen with headphones! http://www.essl.at/works/upward.html In his story "Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius", Argentinean writer Jorge Luis Borges tells of a fictional culture whose language has no nouns at all: "There is no word that corresponds to the word 'moon', but there is...

Comment on the Wienerlied "Herrgott aus Sta" by Karl Hodina, performed by Konstantin Reymaier at the new Giant Organ of St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna on Sep 27th, 2020. - Binaural recording: listen with headphones! Score and more: https://www.essl.at/works/herrgott.html