Karlheinz Essl
Webseite: www.essl.at Ordentliches Mitglied seit 2020 Artist Statement
Karlheinz Essl is an Austrian composer, performer, improviser, software developer, media artist and composition teacher. He studied composition in Vienna with Friedrich Cerha and completed his musicology studies with a doctorate on Anton Webern. Composer-in-residence at the Darmstadt Summer School (1990-94) and at IRCAM in Paris (1991-93). From 1995-2006 he taught algorithmic composition at the Bruckner University in Linz. Since 2007 he has been Professor of Composition and Electroacoustic Music at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna. Between 1992 and 2016 he was music curator at the Essl Museum in Klosterneuburg. His work with computers and a long-term preoccupation with the poetics of serial music have been formative influences on his compositional thinking. During the 1990s he carried out various projects for the Internet and became increasingly involved in improvisation. In 1997 Karlheinz Essl was a featured composer at the Salzburg Festival. In addition to writing instrumental music, Karlheinz Essl also works in the areas of electronic music, interactive real-time compositions and sound installations. He develops software environments for algorithmic composition and live electronics. As a performer and improviser he plays his own computer-based composition environments as well as instruments such as toy piano, electric guitar and analogue synthesizer.
© Helmut Wimmer 2017
Atelier / Werkstatt

Studio kHz Studio kHz © Viktor Brazdil 2020

Studio kHz Studio kHz © Markus Roessle 2011

Studio kHz Studio kHz © Karlheinz Essl 2015
Galerie

exit*glue E-Gitarre & Posaune 2016 © Karlheinz Essl

Segreto Spaziale Violine solo 2003 © Karlheinz Essl

Intervention Orchester 1998 © Karlheinz Essl

7x7 fo(u)r guitars E-Gitarren-Quartett 2009 © Karlheinz Essl

Sequitur XIV Kalimba & Live-Elektronik 2009 © Karlheinz Essl

Partikel-Bewegungen Graphische Partitur 1991 © Karlheinz Essl

con una certa espressione parlante Klavier & Elektronik 1985 © Karlheinz Essl / Gerhard Eckel

elision Ensemble 1997 © Karlheinz Essl

RESONAVIT E-Geige & Zither 2014 © Karlheinz Essl

VIRIBVS VNITIS Toy Piano & Cembalo 2014 © Karlheinz Essl
Videofiles
Lexikon-Sonate / Computerklavier 2:00 2016 © Karlheinz Essl
Trois Cent Drones / Toy Piano & Live-Elektronik 1:59 2021 © Karlheinz Essl / Isabel Ettenauer
Sequitur_caleidoscopia / Viola, Live-Elektronik, Tanz, Video 2:00 2019 © Karlheinz Essl / MONOCOLOR / Andrea Nagl
Wagner Extase / Elektronik 1:59 2013 © Karlheinz Essl / Hannes Mlenek
vingt secondes / Orgel 0:25 2020 © Karlheinz Essl / Wolfgang Kogert
Externe Videos
Karlheinz Essl im Gespräch mit Erwin Uhrmann 10 2022 © Karlheinz Essl
W.A.L.D. - dance/video/sound/performance Karlheinz Essl & Andrea Nagl 16 2022 © Karlheinz Essl
RAUMERKUNDUNG #1 Studierende von Karlheinz Essl performen im Künstlerhaus 5 2021 © Catherine Spet
Soundfiles
FABRIC (excerpt) Soundperformance 9:01 2017 © Karlheinz Essl
river_run / Guzheng & Live-Elektronik 11:56 2016 © Karlheinz Essl / Ming Wang
unbestimmt / Kirchenorgel 7:41 2020 © Karlheinz Essl / Roman Summereder & Hiroe Imaizumi
après l'avant / Elektronik 8:32 2021 © Karlheinz Essl
Father Earth / Soundperformance 8:31 2005 © Karlheinz Essl
Constantia / Kammerorchester 7:06 2019 © Karlheinz Essl / Kyoto Symphony Orchestra
Kalimba / Toy Piano & Elektronik 5:18 2005 © Karlheinz Essl / Isabel Ettenauer
met him pike trousers / Orchester 11:05 1987 © Karlheinz Essl / RSO Wien
Roschitz / Klavier solo 3:14 2019 © Karlheinz Essl / Emanuele Torquati
8:01 2021 © Karlheinz Essl