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

• F.L.U.G. (Frequent Luggage User Gateway) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• M.E.A.L. (Meeting Eva At Lunch) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• B.A.H.N. (Binaural Ambient Head Noise) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• C.H.A.T. (Cryonic Heat at Average Temperature) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• W.O.R.K. (Which Operations Require Knives?) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• W.A.L.K. (What About Luscious Kidneys?) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• D.Y.J.E. (Do-it Yourself Jealous Emperor)- BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• fLOW - generative sound scape generator by Karlheinz Essl
• R.I.D.E. (Rough Interplay between Dream & Ecstasy)- BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl
• L.U.N.Z. (Lazy Unicorns Nibble Zealously) - BINAURAL by Karlheinz Essl