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Michael
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tenor- /sopranosaxophone, violin I feedback_saxophone
I soundscapes I instant composition
conductings
musician-composer
at the interface improvised / new music / sound art / noise on saxophone,
violin, radio studio setup, cdsoundscapings, instant composition conductings
for improvising orchestras, works on sound of speech in musical textures
and their structural implications, since 1999 including the phenomenon
of electro-acoustic feedback. Cross collaboration projects in literature
(experimental poetry), dance, performance, installation, film, video.
In 2005 I launched the Vienna Improvisers Orchestra.
Cooperations
with John Edwards, Marc Sanders, Michael Vatcher, Daisuke
Terauchi, Tamaho Miyake, Marcos Baggiani, Hilary Jeffery, Felicity Provan,
William Parker, Denis Charles (t), Irene Schweizer, Peter Kowald (t),
Wilbert de Joode, Peter Jacquemyn, Rozemarie Heggen, Korhan Erel, Joao
Castro Pinto, Meinrad Kneer, Johannes Bauer, Burton Greene, Alan Purves,
Ito Atsuhiro, Ken Okami, Marcos Fernandez, Gail Brand, Lukas Ligeti, Takuji
Kawai, Takumi Ito, Mark Dresser, Phil Durrant, Thierry Ex, Andy Moor,
Ivo Bol, Eric Boeren, Gary Smith, Noel Akchote, Joe Williamson, London
Improvisers Orchestra a.m.o. Instant composition conductings for Orchestra
FOCO (Madrid), O.M.E.GA (Orchestra Espontanea Musica Galicia), V:NM Full
Group, Genetic Choir Amsterdam, FreiHeid Orchester,...
with
authors Gerhard Rühm (*1930, founding member Wiener Gruppe),
Gerhard Jaschke, Petra Ganglbauer, Dieter Sperl, Ilse Kilic, Fritz Widhalm,
Magdalena Knapp-Menzel, Semier Insayif, Peter Waugh, Valeri Scherstjanoi,
Marietta Böning, Birgit Schwaner, Rolf Schwendter, Christine Huber,
Peter Pessl, Lisa Spalt, Wolfgang Helmhardt, Nikolaus Scheibner, Bernhard
Widder, Stefan Alfare, Karin Schöffauer (t),
Dimitrij Prigow (t
doyen of russian conceptual art, Puschkin award winner 1993) and with
translater and publisher of contemporary russian literature Erich Klein
with
dancers Eileen Standley, Lily Kiara and Makiko Ito (Magpie M&D
Company NL); Valeria Primost, Diana Gadish, Marisa Grande and Pere Gay
i Faura (TheMeetingPoint NL); Seiko Karasaki; Eiichi and Sanae; Kenjiru
bien and Pe (Baby-Q Japan)
with
fine artists Marc Adrian (t
pioneer of after wwII generation austrian avantgarde/structural movie
makers, op-art, early experimental poetry on the computer), Lore Heuermann,
Ikko Taniuchi (painting performance), Eugenie Jansen & Albert Ellings
(film), Albert Mayr, hamu ha-al a.o.
with lightdesigner
Ellen Knops
appearances
since 1995 in the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Hungary,
Rumania, Slovenia, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland, France, Great Britain,
Poland, Finland, Liechtenstein, Germany, USA, Japan.
My latest tour to Japan in 2010 included 12 concerts, lecture and workshop
at 9 cities.
festivals
& venues
festival Kaleidophon /A, POL festival neue musik /Frankfurt, festival
artacts /A, Donaufestival /Krems/A, festival Konfrontationen /A, festival
TussenLand /NL, festival Internacional de Improvisación /Madrid,
festival Izzven /Maribor, CMfestival /Japan, radiaXL festival /Lisboa,
cross hearing int. music meeting festiv. /Budapest, Interpenetration festival
/Graz, V:NM festival Graz, festival Ein Kulturschutzgebiet /A, festival
DerivaJazz /teatro ElFerrol/Spain, Grabenfesttage /A, Ernst Schmidt jr.
festival (experimental film) /A, Haydn in der Wart festival Rotunde Oberwart
/A, Literatur in Grün festival Schloß Deutschkreutz /A, intimacy&distance
festival /A/NL, fluten festival /A, Traumzeitfestival /Duisburg, Jazzfestival
Wiesen /A, Jazzfest Wien
Bimhuis /Amsterdam, MediaHighschool /Bruxelles, Amsterdamse Hogeschool
voor de Kunsten, Zaal 100 /NL, Red Rose Club /London, Bonnington Centre
of Music /London, Loop_line /Tokyo, Uplink_factory /Tokyo, Tokyo Bunka
Kaikan music library, Urbanguild /Kyoto, Guggenheim house /Shioya, Bird
/Hiroshima, Plan U /Hiroshima, Tetra Art Space /Fukuoka, Common Cafe /Osaka,
Etajima Junior HighSchool /Etajima Island/J, Special Colors /Tokyo, Loos
Foundation /Den Haag, Het Bethanienklooster /NL, Trytone/NL, MarciPanis
/NL, Kraakgeluiden&DNK /NL, Badcuyp /NL, Teatr Kana/Szczecin /PL,
Club Mozg /Gdansk/PL, Knitting Factory NY, Goethe Institut /Lisboa, Sala
Nasa /Santiago de Compostela/Spain, Festival Music a Portiers /FR, Dampfzentrale
/CH, Bei den Minoriten /A, Literaturhaus Wien, Künstlerhaus Wien,
Kunsthaus Graz, MAK (Museum of Applied Arts) /Vienna, SchlachthofWels
/A, MuseumsQuartierVienna, University of Applied Arts Vienna, Forum Stadtpark
/A, Ammanstudios /Vienna, Porgy&Bess/A, RabenhofTheater /A, ORF Radiokulturhaus
Wien /A, Palais Epstein /A, Palais Schwarzenberg /A, Stadtinitiative /A,
Alte Schmiede /A, Echoraum /A, Fluc /A, SOHOinOttakring /A, OHO /A, WUK
/A, Spielboden Dornbirn /A, ...
radio-art
series connex
: context
in collaboration with writers in experimental poetry:
experimental poetry and soundscapings various sounds from 15-20 cds on
3 cd-players - radio performances live on air, performances for festivals,
Ö1 Kunstradio,...
since 2007 I worked with poets Petra Ganglbauer, Gerhard Jaschke, Valeri
Scherstjanoi, Ilse Kilic & Fritz Widhalm, Dieter Sperl, Marietta Böning,
Semier Insayif, Peter Pessl, Magdalena Knapp-Menzel, Christine Huber,
Birgit Schwaner, Rolf Schwendter, Lisa Spalt, Erika Kronabitter, Günther Vallaster,
Nikolaus Scheibner a.m.o.
radio-art
series strange aid
Experimental sound series on the phenomena feedback, exploring involving
the feedback as a main focus on a radio-broadcast-mixing desk; live performances
at the broadcasting studio started in 2000, executed with a technical
highly experimental radio-live setup, involving sometimes foreign language
recordings and live readings, 2002-2010
A piece from 'strange aid' was broadcasted on the RADIA radio art network
on free radio stations in Bruxelles, London, Skopje, Praha, Marseille,
Lisbon, Budapest, Berlin, Vienna, New York 2007
within eu-project intimacy & distance performance in Amsterdam, Budapest
and Vienna 2009
A selection of my live improvised jingles for the radio-show connex
since 1999 were presented within upgrade! sofia, a lecture on radio-art
by Wolfgang Kemptner at Goethe Institut, Sofia, Bulgaria 2007
education
2002-2007 . studies on the violin supported
by Bela Mago jr.
since 1999 . studies on electroacoustic and
acoustic phenomena of the feedback
2001 . .... . .workshop
with Eddie Prevost, London
1997 . ....... didactic seminar with Barry
Harrys, New York
1996 ... ..... masterclass at Stroudsbourg
University, Pennsylvania
1994-1995 .studies in classical composition
at the Academy of Music&Performing Arts, Vienna
1990 ........ .masters
in music (Jazzsaxophone) at the Prayner-Conservatoire, Vienna
1968-1979 .piano lessons
lectures
2011 ..........workshops
for choir, Brunnenpassage /Vienna and for the genetic choir, Amsterdam
2010
..........workshop for improvising
orchestra with 60 students, Seiwa College, Nishinomya /Japan
2010 ..........workshop
for choir and improvising orchestra, Artacts festival, St.Johann i Tirol
/A
2010 ..........lecture
on improvisation, Etajima junior high school, Etajima island /Japan
2009 ..........workshop
for instant composition conducting, Bruckner Improvisations Tage, Bruckner
Universität Linz
2009 ..........workshop
with Orquesta de musica espontanea Galicia, Conservatorio Superior de
Música Vigo /Spain
2008 ..........workshop
within EU-project MELT (Migration in Europe & Local Tradition) at
Festival Interetnic, Shigishoara/Rum
2007 ..........lecture
on "history of european improvised music", workshop and improvised
orchestra conduction
..................at CM Festival, Shiga/Japan
..................workshop on improvised
music, at special colors, Tokyo
2004.......... lecture and conduction on
the topic "architecture and music",.Liechtenstein
College for Architecture, Vaduz
2003......... .lecturer for Jeunesse Musical
Austria on improvisation and ensemble music,
................. guestlecturer for improvisation
and ensemble music for baroquerecorders, Musikschule Eisenstadt
since 2002 . lectures on improvised music
for children and amateurs
2000-2006 .lecturer at the Gustav Mahler
Conservatoire, Vienna, saxophone
since 1996 . lecturer at Amateurs Highschool
Vienna, saxophone, ensemble and classical Big Band
1992-2000 .lecturer at the Prayner Conservatoire,
Vienna, saxophone
Member of Grazer Autorinnen
Autoren Vereinigung (GAV)
Founding member of the non-commercial community-radiostation, Orange
94.0 FM, Vienna
other productions
With Elisabeth Asenbaum: compositions and video performance
for experimental
video 'CHANNEL AFTER B', 'Tricky Women' festival 2003
Musician,
actor, co-work out in concept for
sound poetry theater
performance 'THINK RED-WORK BLACK-LIVE GREEN', Stadttheater
Rabenhof, Vienna 2002
Member
of the artist group Performing Resistance: collective works on concepts
and texts for performances and interventions in public spaces, commenting
the inauguration of the extreme right wing party in the austrian government,
2000-2001
Soundperformances
for temporary
objectinstallations by W. Semmelrock:
"the living cube - on tour" in front of Museum Leopold, Vienna
2002
"the living bedroom" at Studio Lindengasse, Vienna 2002
"the pneumatic showroom and the living cube" at MAK-Museum of
applied Arts, Vienna 2001
"the living cube" at Palais Epstein, Vienna 2001
Live-soundtrack
for the experimental film "An den Quellen der Sehnsucht" by
avantgarde filmmaker Marc Adrian (pioneer of after ww II generation austrian
avantgarde/structural movie makers, op-art, early experimental poetry
on the computer) at the "Ernst Schmidt jr. festival '99", Vienna
1999
Concerts, compositions, arrangements and recordings for and with Jazz-
and other ensembles 1988 - 1995
'Chworost' suite for chamber music ensemble, composition by order: Grabenfesttage
1995, conducted by Christoph Cech
'Vom Berg piece for string trio derived from compositional ideas of Alban
Berg for a CD recording 1993, played by members of the Klangforum Wien
set Henrik Ibsens drama "Peer Gynt" to music for solosaxophone
and voice: Stadtinitiative 1993
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