ELAK students, class of Thomas Grill — 22.05.19

22, May, 19.30

This evening we present multichannel pieces by students of the university course “Computer Music and Electronic Media” (aka ELAK, class of Thomas Grill) taught at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, Austria:

Fabian Lanzmaier: a bugs dream of heaven (4:39)
Peter Trabitzsch: d…d..p.p (6:32)
Philipp Rabelsberger: Etüde über den schleichenden spirituellen Wahnsinn (4:12)
Johanna Schlömicher: Klangbild (6:12)
Georg Zichy: Stahlrausch (9:06)
Julian Angerer: Is this what you want? (5:17)
Nina Bauer: Samstag (3:12)
Christoph Punzmann: Homo Sapiens (9:00)
Evgeny Ignashev: Ионосфера (8:00)

ELAK is the colloquial abbreviation for the 3-year course for Computer Music and Electronic Media at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.
This course program is a training platform for the artistic employment of experimental approaches to music creation and new technologies. Learning technical and scientific fundamentals (of computer and electroacoustic music, acoustics, psychoacoustics, history, and analysis) as well as creative artistic principles (concept, realisation, and presentation) are primary aims of this program.
Currently, about 25 students are enrolled in the program.

@ Media-Center of The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, nab. Fontanka river, 49 A, St. Petersburg, Russia.
free admission, registration @ Timepad

Program notes:

Fabian Lanzmaier: a bugs dream of heaven,
(4:39) 4 channels

In the composition „a bugs dream of heaven“ Lanzmaier is interested in creating imaginary synthetic spaces. He strives to merge the experience of the natural and the artificial, to confront the listener with ideas of fluid and ambiguous environments. A narrative approach guides the composition throughout three concepts of space.

Peter Trabitzsch: d…d..p.p,
(6:32) 2 channels

A musical interpretation of the nuclear catastrophe in Chernobyl 1986.
The theme surrealism/realism and voice is the basis of this electroacoustic music.

Philipp Rabelsberger: Etüde über den schleichenden spirituellen Wahnsinn,
(4:12) Stereo

No description desired.

Johanna Schlömicher: Klangbild,
(6:12) Stereo

Klangbild is a variation for voices. It is written for one voice, recorded four times. The effects are exactly composed. Words become sounds with the help of grain synthesis. A rhythmically new meaning. It is a musical letter, written to the DADA-Artists.

Georg Zichy: Stahlrausch,
(9:06) Stereo

An atmospheric blend of stainless steel wine barrels and magnetic tape artefacts.

Julian Angerer: Is this what you want?
(5:17) Stereo

“Is this what you want?” is a very fragile composition which combines elements of pop-music and electroacoustic music.

Nina Bauer: Samstag,
(3:12) Stereo

“Samstag” consists of a ground layer, rhythmic impulses given by two phasors and oscillators joining in and fading away at various points of the composition.
As they do so a dramatic structure evolves, slowly shifting our perception of the underlying ground layer.

Christoph Punzmann: Homo Sapiens,
(9:00) 8 channels

A brief soundcollage of earth and its latest human inhabitants.

Evgeny Ignashev: Ионосфера,
(8:00) 8 channels

The piece’s focus lies on the organ’s sounds usually almost unhearable and going unnoticed due to being quite, far from the listener, blurred by the acoustics of the space or considered artefacts accommodating the “proper” sound. The wind from the blower, the tiny nuances and changes on the border between wind and tones, frequency beatings from the stops’ combinations. Electromagnetic sounds and fields recorded with special microphones create the electronic layer of the piece.

@ Media-Center of The New Stage of Alexandrinsky Theatre, nab. Fontanka river, 49 A, St. Petersburg, Russia.