Katharina Klement

(с) Caroline Profanter

Katharina Klement born 1963 in Austria, active as composer-performer in the field of composed and improvised, electronic and instrumental music. Numerous cross-connecting projects within the fields of music-text-video. She is particularly interested in the piano and its extended playing techniques. Founder and member of several ensembles for improvised music.
International concerts and performances, most recently in Basel/Gare du Nord, Tamil Nadu/South India, Q02 Brussels, festivals Wien Modern, Elevate Graz, Klangspuren Schwaz, „Zwei Tage Zeit“ Zürich, BIMESP/Sao Paolo, contemporary music festival Florida.
Many recordings including labels gruenrekorder, Ventil records, chmafu nocords, Austrian grammophone.
Collaboration with various ensembles and artists, e.g. ensemble recherche, Klangforum Wien, Ensembles PHACE, Schallfeld, Studio DAN, airborne extended.
Several prizes and awards like „honorary mention“ 2006 ars electronica Linz, federal scholarship composition 2002 und 2011, art prize Austria section music 2013, Gustav Mahler award Austria 2017.
Since 2006 lecturer at the course for electroacoustic and experimental music/University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna.

Baraqel, 6’ / 2020, stereo.

The piece was created as part of the project „Resurrexit – Translocal Monuments“, initiated by „Listening City“ Austria. Based on the fact that architecture is audible, selected spaces were acoustically measured, documented by means of spatial impulse responses. The composition was first created „dry“ in the studio, then the spatial profile of the Zacherlfabrik, a former moth powder factory in Vienna was incorporated.
As if a being were to bump into its corners and walls, move away flying and tumbling, trigger some resonances and make off again – an ephemeral reminder and brief entry into an otherwise inaccessible space.

Wirbel (Vortex), 9’ / version 2021, stereo.

The piece was created in its first version in 2018 on the occasion of a concert in the baroque Kollegienkirche in Salzburg, Austria. It follows the idea of a gradually developing rotating movement, derived from a basic idea of the Baroque, which understands the inflection or fold as an „elastic fold“ that allows a straight line to become a curve with oscillating centres, which finally leads to spirals, turbulences, vortices. The current version was combined with parts from other works, which are mainly characterised by glissandi, stepless up and down movements in the pitch space. A weightless gliding is added to the rotational movements, leaving the impression of being free of gravity.