Los Modulinos (Karlheinz Essl & Otto Wanke) approaches modular improvisation as translation, where feedback becomes grammar and machines learn how to speak back. A review by Serge Bulat. Running Present – A Contemporary Log is a collection of reviews, descriptions and resonances … read more »
Although sound installations in Austria are rather sparse, the scene rather small, electronic music plays an important role in the 21st Century. And this both in the fields of experimental music and “traditional” electronic or electro-acoustic compositions. Although it took quite some … read more »
It has hardly ever been so easy to secure music and thus repeatedly play the same material the same way. These possibilities of contemporary music reproduction are exactly what Karlheinz Essl defies. This inherent feature demonstrated ever so often in his improvisational … read more »