Karlheinz Essl

Born 1960 in Vienna. Austrian composer, improviser and performer. He studied composition with Friedrich Cerha and musicology in Vienna. Besides writing experimental instrumental music, he performs on his own electronic instrument m@ze°2, develops software environments for computer-aided composition and creates generative sound and video environments. Since 2007 professor of composition for electro-acoustic and experimental music at the University of Music in Vienna.

Karlheinz Essl performs on a laptop computer that he has transformed into a live electronic musical instrument. The result is exciting and musical. You just won't hear these sounds anywhere else. He performs solo and in duets and trios, responding with sensitivity to fellow musicians, producing fascinating sound transformations, creating spontaneous surprises, and moving quickly from loops to cacophony to tiny clips of vocal sounds to all kinds of textures and ideas. He does all this with his m@ze°2(Modular Algorithmic Zound Environment) performance software. (Joel Chadabe, CDeMusic, Januar 2002)

Karlheinz Essl’s tracks

• T.I.E.R. (Talkative Improvisation Ends Roughly)– BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• SATOR (Sound Answer To Original Request) for organ and live-electronics (2021) by Karlheinz Essl
• après l'avant (2021) - live-electronic sound performance - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• tenet opera rotas (2020) - palindrome for organ by Karlheinz Essl
• Trois cent notes (2019) - for toy piano by Karlheinz Essl
• W.A.L.D. (We All Live Dutifully)- BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• C.L.U.J. (Creatures Like Unexplored Jungles) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• P.R.O.B. (Performing Relatively Organized Bells) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• upward, behind the onstreaming it mooned (2001) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• HerrGott! (2019) for organ solo - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl